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what's bitcoin?

Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency operating on a proof-of-work blockchain, enabling peer-to-peer transactions without intermediaries. Created by Satoshi Nakamoto, it emphasizes security, transparency, and censorship resistance for global financial sovereignty. The network supports growing DeFi integrations, fostering innovation in payments and asset tokenization.

Snapshot

Bitcoin has high prediction market fees, institutional accumulation, upcoming regulation, and holder losses.

7MIN ago
ONCHAIN METRICS

Generates more fees on Polymarket's 5-minute prediction markets than all other non-BTC crypto markets combined.

28MIN ago
WHALE ACTIVITY

Saylor's STRC accumulated 6,400 BTC on April 14, 2026.

42MIN ago
ONCHAIN METRICS

fell more than 10% in a single day on 2026-01-31 during a peak volatility event in Q1 2026

54MIN ago
REGULATORY

U.S. Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott stated that Bitcoin market structure legislation is scheduled for completion in summer 2026.

1H ago
ONCHAIN METRICS

Short-term holders' supply in loss has reached 5 million BTC, while long-term holders' supply in loss is approximately 4.6 million BTC.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Open Interest surpassed $26 billion on April 14, 2026, increasing 59% over a 7-week period and reaching its highest level since late January 2026.

2H ago
MARKET ACTIVITY

Bitcoin ETFs recorded $1.1 billion in net inflows.

PARTNERSHIP

Selected as collateral asset custodied by BitGo Bank & Trust for IXS institutional product suite, enabling institutions to unlock USD liquidity against BTC and deploy into tokenized RWAs while maintaining bitcoin exposure.

PARTNERSHIP

River launched a "Banking with Bitcoin" service that enables users to earn 3.3% on cash deposits paid in bitcoin, receive payments in bitcoin with zero fees, pay bills using cash or bitcoin with zero fees, and buy bitcoin in-app.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Bitcoin mining energy mix reaches approximately 59% renewable energy sources.

3H ago
MARKET ACTIVITY

Goldman Sachs filed for an ETF that invests in other bitcoin ETFs.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Morgan Stanley launched a Bitcoin ETF product with ticker $MSBT approximately one week before April 14, 2026.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Over $1 trillion in Bitcoin is held without generating yield.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Bitcoin exchange reserves hit a 7-year low, with coins leaving exchanges rather than going in.

REGULATORY

The SEC confirmed that DeFi front-ends do not need to register as broker-dealers.

REGULATORY

A new bill introduced this week would make stablecoin transactions completely tax-free starting January 1, 2026.

WHALE ACTIVITY

Germany no longer holds any Bitcoin in its reserves.

WHALE ACTIVITY

Strategy (STRC) holds 780,897 BTC; acquired 4,477 BTC on April 14th, 2026, based on $520M trading volume, representing 23.7 times the daily supply of newly mined bitcoin.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Goldman Sachs filed with the SEC for a Bitcoin Premium Income ETF, expanding its institutional covered call income fund strategy to bitcoin, launching 2026.

VISIBILITY EVENT

Next Fed Chair Kevin Warsh disclosed BTC investment in Lightning platform 'Flashnet'.

VISIBILITY EVENT

Published working Bitcoin Script that moves coins quantum-safely on mainnet without softforks or new opcodes, using five opcodes and GPU search; hosts Twitter space April 15, 2026 3:00 PM CET discussing quantum-safe approaches.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Drives 77% of turnover in Polymarket's fast crypto markets based on seven months of on-chain data.

WHALE ACTIVITY

MicroStrategy (STRC) acquired 17,500 BTC April 13-14, 2026, and $1 billion April 12-13, 2026. Allocates $1 billion weekly.

4H ago
WHALE ACTIVITY

A whale holding a 1,031 BTC ($78M) short position on Hyperliquid faces liquidation at $76,420.83, with total losses of $42.39M on the platform.

WHALE ACTIVITY

A whale faces liquidation if bitcoin price increases by 1% and has lost over $67,000,000 in the past 3 months as of April 2026.

WHALE ACTIVITY

Long-term holders increased their net position by 116,400 BTC over a 30-day period.

TECH EVENT

Bitcoin Core v31 release is imminent.

WHALE ACTIVITY

A whale/institution transferred 670 cbBTC (worth $50.11 million) to Coinbase on 2026-04-14, reducing their position acquired in early February 2025 at an average cost of $73,837 per BTC with a profit of $1.1 million on this portion.

WHALE ACTIVITY

A whale/institution currently holds 3,000 cbBTC (worth $226 million) and 138,000 ETH (worth $330 million), totaling $556 million in holdings as of 2026-04-14.

5H ago
ONCHAIN METRICS

Settles $52 billion in value daily, exceeding Visa's $41 billion daily settlement volume.

WHALE ACTIVITY

Elon Musk and Kimbal Musk collectively hold 23,000 BTC worth over $1.7 billion according to their father's statement.

WHALE ACTIVITY

Marathon sold approximately 15,000 BTC from its corporate treasury holdings.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Bitcoin options Delta Skew reached 13.32.

6H ago
ONCHAIN METRICS

Prints its 3rd consecutive weekly green candle as of April 14, 2026, a streak not seen since July 2025.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Tether launched self-custodial wallet supporting Bitcoin (mainnet, Lightning, Spark), USD₮, USA₮, XAU₮, featuring username transfers, a unified QR system, and transaction fees as low as $0.00001 for remittance users.

MARKET ACTIVITY

wBTC is supported as collateral on SparkLend.

7H ago
RISK ALERT

Suffered $9.5M stolen from 50+ victims between April 7-13, 2026 through a fake Ledger app scam that targeted Bitcoin along with EVM, Tron, Solana, and Ripple assets.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Increased 17% in value since the beginning of the US-Iran war, outperforming stocks.

WHALE ACTIVITY

A whale exchanged 24,564 ETH for 784.7 BTC (worth $58.38 million) at an ETH/BTC ratio of 0.0319 on April 14, 2026.

ONCHAIN METRICS

30-day average funding rates in Binance's BTCUSDT perpetual market have been negative for 46 consecutive days as of 2026-04-14, matching the duration of the streak from November 11 to December 26, 2022.

8H ago
MARKET ACTIVITY

Included as one of 8 major chains in Nansen's NX8 tokenized L1 index, weighted by market cap with a maximum 20% cap per asset, rebalancing quarterly and reviewed semi-annually.

WHALE ACTIVITY

A trader holds a short position of $25M in BTC (and ETH combined).

WHALE ACTIVITY

A Matrixport-linked whale closed long positions on 700 BTC worth $52M and 6,000 ETH worth $14.34M, realizing $5.8M in profit.

9H ago
TOKEN ECONOMICS

Reached 50% complete, with 104,969 blocks remaining until April 14, 2028. Current block reward 3.125 BTC, decreasing to 1.5625 BTC at block 1,050,000, reducing daily mining from 450 BTC to 225 BTC.

WHALE ACTIVITY

A major Hyperliquid trader closed long positions of 1,050 BTC and 6,000 ETH within a 30-minute period on April 14, 2026, realizing $7.76 million in profit, while maintaining an open long position of 114,000 ETH valued at $272 million with unrealized gains of $34.4 million.

10H ago
VISIBILITY EVENT

Morgan Stanley, a $10 trillion banking institution, began promoting Bitcoin and crypto on their homepage.

WHALE ACTIVITY

UK politician Nigel Farage purchased £2M in Bitcoin on behalf of Stack BTC on April 13, 2026, becoming the first sitting MP and party leader in history to publicly buy Bitcoin.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Recorded a negative net flow of $118 million in ETF products since the start of 2026, representing a -0.2% outflow against total AUM of $56.59 billion.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Binance Open Interest plunges while spot trading drives price rally, indicating significantly reduced leverage in the market.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Reached $76,070 on April 14, 2026, highest since early February 2026. Caused $446.47M short liquidations out of $548.6M total crypto liquidations, driven by US inflation data.

12H ago
WHALE ACTIVITY

Whale inflows to exchanges have dropped sharply over the past weeks.

13H ago
MARKET ACTIVITY

Added as a quote currency for Canton (CC) trading pairs on Upbit's KRW, BTC, and USDT markets, with trading commencing on 2026-04-14 at 16:00 KST.

ONCHAIN METRICS

CME Bitcoin futures open interest dropped to $8.4 billion, a 14-month low.

14H ago
WHALE ACTIVITY

BlackRock holds 790,808 BTC valued at over $55 billion via its IBIT ETF, accumulating 14,950 BTC with $1 billion in inflows during Q1 2026.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Bhutan's bitcoin mining operations have ceased with no inflows over $100,000 recorded in over a year as of April 2026.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Can now be used as collateral for trading stock CFDs on Bybit, which launched 44 new stock CFD listings including BlackRock's spot Bitcoin ETF (IBIT), ASTS, PSX, MANU, XLE, LIT, and URA.

15H ago
WHALE ACTIVITY

Broke above $76,000 and MicroStrategy's average buy price on April 14, 2026. 58bro.eth opened 175 BTC ($13M) short on Hyperliquid.

18H ago
REGULATORY

CLARITY Act, for US crypto legal framework, targets Senate vote early May 2026. Earn cap on BTC removed week of April 14, 2026.

WHALE ACTIVITY

Posted net outflow of 3,539 BTC ($266.15M) from Bitcoin ETFs on April 14, 2026, including $229.2M from Fidelity's ETF. Over 7 days, ETFs had net inflow of 508 BTC ($38.22M).

19H ago
MARKET ACTIVITY

Hit US spot Bitcoin ETFs with $291M net outflow on April 13, 2026, including Fidelity's FBTC $229.22M outflow.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Traded $3.4 billion in volume through Paradigm block trades during the week of April 7-13, 2026, representing 89% of Paradigm's total volume for that period.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Ark's Bitcoin ETF experienced a net outflow of $62.9 million on April 13, 2026.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Projects $2.8 billion in forced Bitcoin and altcoin selling by April 15, 2026 tax deadline, as US investors liquidate for 2025 capital gains taxes.

WHALE ACTIVITY

Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) experienced an outflow of 38.2 million USD on April 13, 2026.

20H ago
FINANCIAL EVENT

Bitwise Bitcoin ETF receives inflow of $11.9 million, with 10% of profits allocated to Bitcoin developers.

WHALE ACTIVITY

Accumulated 71,090 BTC ($2.5B) on April 13, 2026, within 30 minutes by Binance (29,344 BTC), Coinbase (20,756 BTC), Kraken (8,611 BTC), Wintermute (7,188 BTC), and Bybit (5,191 BTC).

MARKET ACTIVITY

BTC open interest increased by $1.96B, an 8.98% rise.

WHALE ACTIVITY

A single BTC/USDT position worth $12.41M was liquidated on Aster exchange.

21H ago
TECH EVENT

Citrea mainnet launched as a programmable layer for Bitcoin, introducing cBTC (trust-minimized BTC) and ctUSD (native Bitcoin stablecoin).

VISIBILITY EVENT

Featured in a $5k trading sprint event on Cube Exchange running from 2026-04-13 21:00 UTC to 2026-04-14 21:00 UTC.

22H ago
WHALE ACTIVITY

Michael Saylor purchased 11,326 BTC worth $830M on 2026-04-13 in a single day, representing over 25 days of new Bitcoin supply.

WHALE ACTIVITY

Strategy's Bitcoin portfolio returned to profitability above Michael Saylor's average purchase price of $75,577 as of April 14, 2026, after accumulating 7,200 BTC ($527.7M) by April 13, 2026, bringing total holdings to 780,897 BTC.

23H ago
WHALE ACTIVITY

Whales holding between 1,000-10,000 BTC accumulated 27,652 BTC on April 12, 2026, equivalent to over $2 billion, bringing their total holdings to over 4.25 million BTC (21.3% of supply), the highest level since mid-February 2026.

MARKET ACTIVITY

BOB Gateway increased its maximum swap size to 2 BTC per swap.

1D ago
ONCHAIN METRICS

Electricity cost for mining drops to $46,000.

OPINION SPECULATION

Analyst Eric Jackson presents a price target of $50 million per bitcoin by 2041.

MARKET ACTIVITY

CME dropped Bitcoin futures volume to a 14-month low as of April 2026.

WHALE ACTIVITY

Bhutan sold approximately 70% of its Bitcoin holdings, reducing from 13,000 BTC in late 2024 to 3,774 BTC by April 2026 through OKX and Galaxy Digital over 18 months.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Exchange inflows fell to levels last seen in 2020.

WHALE ACTIVITY

Four public companies collectively increased their Bitcoin holdings by 11,928 BTC, valued at approximately $862 million, during the week of April 6-12, 2026.

REGULATORY

Accepted as payment for oil by Iran, changing Iran's global trade policy.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Reached $74 billion in assets held in Bitcoin ETFs under Coinbase custody, representing over 80% of total Bitcoin ETF assets.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Binance holds 619,136 BTC in reserves as of April 2026, covering 618,951 BTC in user balances with a 100.03% reserve ratio according to their Proof of Reserves report.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Became the #1 venue for BTC spot trading on Base in 2025.

VISIBILITY EVENT

The world's largest Bitcoin conference is scheduled to take place in Las Vegas on 2026-04-27.

PARTNERSHIP

Partnered with Alpen Labs to integrate their chain into SQD's Data Lake and indexing tools for Bitcoin-focused builders.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Liquidated $50M in shorts over a 4-hour period on April 13, 2026, following a 3% price increase, as hourly imbalance reached 10,860%.

WHALE ACTIVITY

Capital B acquired 37 BTC, increasing their total holdings to 2,925 BTC.

WHALE ACTIVITY

$STRC acquired approximately 3,300 BTC on April 13, 2026, with record $1.1 billion trading volume at prices above $100 par.

RISK ALERT

Bithumb mistakenly transferred $42 billion in Bitcoin, exposing weak internal controls at the exchange.

WHALE ACTIVITY

Strategy (ticker STRC) purchased 1,133 BTC on April 13, 2026.

WHALE ACTIVITY

Strategy (MSTR) raised $120 million to buy bitcoin in the first hour of trading on April 13, 2026.

WHALE ACTIVITY

Top 100 public companies accumulated a net 21,128 Bitcoin in the week ending April 13, 2026, bringing their total holdings to 1.2 million BTC.

WHALE ACTIVITY

SpaceX joined the top 100 public companies holding Bitcoin as of April 13, 2026, as its IPO is underway.

TECH EVENT

Mainnet support for running a full validating node on Android phones via Floresta + Utreexo (without storing the full blockchain) is scheduled to launch soon.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Reached $74,500 on April 14, 2026.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Short-term put options in the 62-70k strike price range were purchased during European trading hours.

WHALE ACTIVITY

MicroStrategy (MSTR) purchased 13,927 BTC for $1B (avg $71,902) April 6-12, 2026, funded by STRC issuance, and 6,487 BTC for ~$500M on April 13, 2026. Holds 780,897 BTC (avg cost $75,577), projected to reach 1M BTC by November 2026.

WHALE ACTIVITY

Morgan Stanley launched MSBT spot ETF, accumulated 960 BTC in 4 days by April 13, 2026, recording $6.28M net inflow on that day.

WHALE ACTIVITY

MSTR accumulated 108,397 BTC in 2026 year-to-date as of April 12, more than twice the 46,625 BTC mined during the same period.