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.
Bitcoin has high prediction market fees, institutional accumulation, upcoming regulation, and holder losses.
Generates more fees on Polymarket's 5-minute prediction markets than all other non-BTC crypto markets combined.
Saylor's STRC accumulated 6,400 BTC on April 14, 2026.
fell more than 10% in a single day on 2026-01-31 during a peak volatility event in Q1 2026
U.S. Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott stated that Bitcoin market structure legislation is scheduled for completion in summer 2026.
Short-term holders' supply in loss has reached 5 million BTC, while long-term holders' supply in loss is approximately 4.6 million BTC.
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.
Bitcoin ETFs recorded $1.1 billion in net inflows.
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.
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.
Bitcoin mining energy mix reaches approximately 59% renewable energy sources.
Goldman Sachs filed for an ETF that invests in other bitcoin ETFs.
Morgan Stanley launched a Bitcoin ETF product with ticker $MSBT approximately one week before April 14, 2026.
Over $1 trillion in Bitcoin is held without generating yield.
Bitcoin exchange reserves hit a 7-year low, with coins leaving exchanges rather than going in.
The SEC confirmed that DeFi front-ends do not need to register as broker-dealers.
A new bill introduced this week would make stablecoin transactions completely tax-free starting January 1, 2026.
Germany no longer holds any Bitcoin in its reserves.
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.
Goldman Sachs filed with the SEC for a Bitcoin Premium Income ETF, expanding its institutional covered call income fund strategy to bitcoin, launching 2026.
Next Fed Chair Kevin Warsh disclosed BTC investment in Lightning platform 'Flashnet'.
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.
Drives 77% of turnover in Polymarket's fast crypto markets based on seven months of on-chain data.
MicroStrategy (STRC) acquired 17,500 BTC April 13-14, 2026, and $1 billion April 12-13, 2026. Allocates $1 billion weekly.
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.
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.
Long-term holders increased their net position by 116,400 BTC over a 30-day period.
Bitcoin Core v31 release is imminent.
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.
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.
Settles $52 billion in value daily, exceeding Visa's $41 billion daily settlement volume.
Elon Musk and Kimbal Musk collectively hold 23,000 BTC worth over $1.7 billion according to their father's statement.
Marathon sold approximately 15,000 BTC from its corporate treasury holdings.
Bitcoin options Delta Skew reached 13.32.
Prints its 3rd consecutive weekly green candle as of April 14, 2026, a streak not seen since July 2025.
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.
wBTC is supported as collateral on SparkLend.
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.
Increased 17% in value since the beginning of the US-Iran war, outperforming stocks.
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.
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.
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.
A trader holds a short position of $25M in BTC (and ETH combined).
A Matrixport-linked whale closed long positions on 700 BTC worth $52M and 6,000 ETH worth $14.34M, realizing $5.8M in profit.
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.
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.
Morgan Stanley, a $10 trillion banking institution, began promoting Bitcoin and crypto on their homepage.
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.
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.
Binance Open Interest plunges while spot trading drives price rally, indicating significantly reduced leverage in the market.
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.
Whale inflows to exchanges have dropped sharply over the past weeks.
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.
CME Bitcoin futures open interest dropped to $8.4 billion, a 14-month low.
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.
Bhutan's bitcoin mining operations have ceased with no inflows over $100,000 recorded in over a year as of April 2026.
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.
Broke above $76,000 and MicroStrategy's average buy price on April 14, 2026. 58bro.eth opened 175 BTC ($13M) short on Hyperliquid.
CLARITY Act, for US crypto legal framework, targets Senate vote early May 2026. Earn cap on BTC removed week of April 14, 2026.
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).
Hit US spot Bitcoin ETFs with $291M net outflow on April 13, 2026, including Fidelity's FBTC $229.22M outflow.
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.
Ark's Bitcoin ETF experienced a net outflow of $62.9 million on April 13, 2026.
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.
Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) experienced an outflow of 38.2 million USD on April 13, 2026.
Bitwise Bitcoin ETF receives inflow of $11.9 million, with 10% of profits allocated to Bitcoin developers.
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).
BTC open interest increased by $1.96B, an 8.98% rise.
A single BTC/USDT position worth $12.41M was liquidated on Aster exchange.
Citrea mainnet launched as a programmable layer for Bitcoin, introducing cBTC (trust-minimized BTC) and ctUSD (native Bitcoin stablecoin).
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.
Michael Saylor purchased 11,326 BTC worth $830M on 2026-04-13 in a single day, representing over 25 days of new Bitcoin supply.
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.
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.
BOB Gateway increased its maximum swap size to 2 BTC per swap.
Electricity cost for mining drops to $46,000.
Analyst Eric Jackson presents a price target of $50 million per bitcoin by 2041.
CME dropped Bitcoin futures volume to a 14-month low as of April 2026.
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.
Exchange inflows fell to levels last seen in 2020.
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.
Accepted as payment for oil by Iran, changing Iran's global trade policy.
Reached $74 billion in assets held in Bitcoin ETFs under Coinbase custody, representing over 80% of total Bitcoin ETF assets.
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.
Became the #1 venue for BTC spot trading on Base in 2025.
The world's largest Bitcoin conference is scheduled to take place in Las Vegas on 2026-04-27.
Partnered with Alpen Labs to integrate their chain into SQD's Data Lake and indexing tools for Bitcoin-focused builders.
Liquidated $50M in shorts over a 4-hour period on April 13, 2026, following a 3% price increase, as hourly imbalance reached 10,860%.
Capital B acquired 37 BTC, increasing their total holdings to 2,925 BTC.
$STRC acquired approximately 3,300 BTC on April 13, 2026, with record $1.1 billion trading volume at prices above $100 par.
Bithumb mistakenly transferred $42 billion in Bitcoin, exposing weak internal controls at the exchange.
Strategy (ticker STRC) purchased 1,133 BTC on April 13, 2026.
Strategy (MSTR) raised $120 million to buy bitcoin in the first hour of trading on April 13, 2026.
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.
SpaceX joined the top 100 public companies holding Bitcoin as of April 13, 2026, as its IPO is underway.
Mainnet support for running a full validating node on Android phones via Floresta + Utreexo (without storing the full blockchain) is scheduled to launch soon.
Reached $74,500 on April 14, 2026.
Short-term put options in the 62-70k strike price range were purchased during European trading hours.
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.
Morgan Stanley launched MSBT spot ETF, accumulated 960 BTC in 4 days by April 13, 2026, recording $6.28M net inflow on that day.
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.