Larry Fink, the CEO of Blackrock, once called Bitcoin a tool for criminals. Today he calls it an alternative. The markets, he says, taught him to re-examine his assumptions.
Kosta Gushterov
Journalist
Kosta has reported on cryptocurrency markets and blockchain infrastructure since 2020, bringing over six years of hands-on experience in the crypto industry built through daily tracking of markets, trends, and emerging blockchain developments. Specializing in Bitcoin on-chain analysis, institutional ETF flows, and digital asset price action, his work at Coindoo has been cited by other news agencies and consistently covers market developments with a focus on data-driven reporting across Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and XRP. Over the years, Kosta has contributed to multiple crypto media outlets in different regions, authoring over 6,000 articles across the sector. His reporting spans cryptocurrency markets and the broader fintech industry, tracking not only price action but also the technological and regulatory forces shaping the ecosystem. To support his analysis, Kosta actively leverages on-chain data and metrics from leading platforms such as Santiment, Glassnode, and CryptoQuant, enabling deeper, evidence-based market insights. He believes in the power of transparency and the data that underpins the blockchain ecosystem. His academic background in Marketing Management from Denmark further complements his analytical approach, adding a strong understanding of communication strategy and content positioning to his work.
Latest articles by Kosta Gushterov
XRP is compressing into a critical technical zone while its order book is the thinnest it has been in six years.
The week of May 18-22 produced a clear directional split across US crypto spot ETFs. Bitcoin and Ethereum saw consistent daily outflows across all five sessions.
Solana is testing important resistance level while the volume data raises a specific question about whether the move has the conviction to hold it.
Fannie Mae now lets home buyers pledge Bitcoin instead of selling it. The mechanism is simpler than it sounds. Who it actually helps is a narrower group than advertised.
Ethereum's supply structure has rarely looked more favorable on-chain. Staked ETH is at an all-time high, Binance depositors are quiet, and Realized Cap is rising, but the the price is 5.5% down for the week.
XRP is trading at $1.32 at the time of writing, having broken below the Fibonacci 0.786 level at $1.3335 and entered the grey retracement zone between 0.786 and the full retracement at $1.2779.
Bitcoin is trading at $74,526 on the daily chart as of May 23, having broken below the SMA50 and approaching its next identifiable structural support in the current decline.
Bitcoin is trading at $75,834 on the 1H chart as of May 22, with all three moving averages declining above current price and an RSI reading of 24.67 placing the hourly momentum in deeply oversold territory.
Solana is trading at $86 on the daily chart as of May 22, sitting just below the Fibonacci 0.5 retracement level of the April-to-May rally while four separate technical conditions converge at the same price zone.
In an appearance on the New Era Finance Podcast hosted by Michaël van de Poppe, Sergey Nazarov, co-founder of Chainlink, was asked how he keeps his mental state alive during the demanding periods of building a protocol.
South Korea's National Assembly Committee on Finance and Economic Planning is reviewing a public petition with over 52,000 signatures demanding the complete repeal of the planned 22% cryptocurrency gains tax.
