Why Michael Saylor’s next Bitcoin buy could signal BTC’s $80K bottom

Metaplanet now holds nearly 87% of Bitcoin owned by Japan’s publicly listed companies. Japan is advancing stablecoins and tokenized bonds through new financial infrastructure initiatives. Simon Gerovich says Bitcoin will anchor future digital-native capital markets globally. Bitcoin Standard is gaining traction in Japan as Metaplanet expands its treasury strategy around the digital asset.  Metaplanet CEO […] The post Metaplanet Bets Big on Bitcoin as Japan Advances Digital Capital Markets appeared first on Live Bitcoin News.

Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich acknowledged that preferred shares unveiled in November have yet to be issued.

Physicist Giovanni Santostasi says Bitcoin’s long-term price trajectory is not best understood as an S-curve, speculative bubble, or simple exponential trend, but as a power law similar to patterns found in cities, biology and other natural systems. Speaking with Nathalie Brunell on the May 12 episode of the Coin Stories podcast, the director of the Scientific Bitcoin Institute argued that Bitcoin’s historical data points to roughly $1 million per coin in about eight years and $10 million in roughly 20 years. Santostasi explained his Bitcoin Power Law thesis in detail. His core claim is that Bitcoin’s price has followed a nonlinear mathematical relationship with time since the network’s early trading history. In his formulation, Bitcoin’s price is proportional to time raised to a power of roughly 5.8 to 5.9, often rounded to six. That exponent, he said, is not just a curve-fitting artifact but a “fingerprint” of the system. “With bitcoin we found a similar relationship where the price

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Charles Schwab started allowing select users to trade Bitcoin and Ethereum directly alongside their other investments.

Bitcoin slipped further below the $80,000 mark as US PPI data compounded the inflation problem from the US-Iran war and associated high oil prices.

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