Jake Simmons

Articles by Jake Simmons

BlockTower’s Ari Paul: Bitcoin May Never Hit Another All-Time High

Crypto February 12, 2026

BlockTower Capital CIO and co-founder Ari Paul laid out a starkly bifurcated view of the Bitcoin and crypto market on X late Monday, arguing the current drawdown could either mark a permanent peak inοΏ½...

Bitcoin Chart Screams 2022 Bear Market, Until You Notice What’s Missing

Crypto February 12, 2026

Bitcoins latest drawdown from its all-time high is being compared to 2022 across crypto Twitter (the similarities are obvious), but some technicians argue the similarity is mostly superficial. In a sοΏ½...

How Much Bitcoin Is Quantum-Vulnerable? Researcher Says 6.9 Million BTC

Crypto February 12, 2026

Project 11 CEO Alex Pruden is challenging a CoinShares estimate that only 10,200 bitcoin sit in genuinely quantum-vulnerable legacy addresses, arguing instead that roughly 6.9 million BTC could be exοΏ½...

Cardano Founder Reveals Leios Solves The Blockchain Trilemma

Crypto February 11, 2026

Cardano is preparing a layer-1 upgrade it says will push mainnet throughput from roughly 1015 transactions per second to hundreds, while keeping the networks decentralization and security profile intοΏ½...

Dogecoin Bear Market Almost Over? Crypto Analyst Weighs In

Crypto February 11, 2026

Dogecoins drawdown may be closer to its late-stage capitulation phase than a clean bottom, according to crypto YouTuber VisionPulsed, who argued in a Feb. 8 video that lingering bullishness across CrοΏ½...

Ripple Joins Top 10 Global Private Companies With A $50B Valuation

Crypto February 11, 2026

Ripple has been slotted into the global top 10 of the most valuable private companies at an estimated $50 billion valuation, according to a widely shared unicorn companies table circulating on X. ThοΏ½...

What Went Wrong With Crypto? A Postmortem

Crypto February 7, 2026

Cryptos latest drawdown hit the majors in size: bitcoin fell about 8.1% over the past 24 hours and is down roughly 29.5% over the past 30 days, while Ether dropped about 9.4% on the day and about 41.οΏ½...

PlanB Lays Out Four Bitcoin Bear-Market Scenarios

Crypto February 6, 2026

PlanB, the pseudonymous analyst behind the stock-to-flow model, says bitcoins drawdown has left markets staring at four plausible bear-market paths, ranging from a classic 80% drawdown to the possibiοΏ½...

Bitcoin Quantum Panic Flares As Nic Carter And Developer Matt Corallo Clash

Crypto February 5, 2026

A fresh bout of quantum panic broke out across Bitcoin X on Tuesday after Castle Islands Nic Carter and longtime Bitcoin developer Matt Corallo sparred over whether the ecosystem is treating post-quaοΏ½...

β€˜Sell Gold, Buy Bitcoin’: Cathie Wood Makes The Rotation Call

Crypto February 5, 2026

ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood said she would make a shift from gold into Bitcoin after golds run left the metal looking extended on a key liquidity-adjusted measure, arguing that bitcoins supply dynamicοΏ½...