Michael Saylor appeared on CNBC to discuss Bitcoin's position in the current cycle, Strategy's digital credit product STRC, and a long-term price target that reframes every other number he offered in the interview.
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.
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Peter Schiff laid out the structural case against Michael Saylor's Strategy, arguing that the company's Bitcoin treasury model meets the definition of a Ponzi scheme regardless of how openly Saylor describes it.
The Federal Reserve released a formal proposal on May 20, 2026 establishing limited payment accounts for eligible non-bank financial firms, including crypto and fintech companies, giving them direct connectivity to key payment infrastructure under a defined set of constraints.
Three forces are compressing UNI supply from different directions at the same price level, and none of them appeared by coincidence.
Ethereum broke a triangle, flushed leveraged longs, and failed to recover. One analyst calls it a breakdown. Another calls it the entry.
XRP is trading at $1.37 on the 1-hour chart, losing 6% for the week, while two separate on-chain readings published within hours of each other describe the same week differently.
Ethereum is trading at $2,114 sitting $18 below the SMA50 at $2,132.11 while the Exchange Supply Ratio on Binance remains near its highest level since early February.
BNB Chain has released its BSC Post-Quantum Cryptography Migration Report, documenting a successful test of post-quantum cryptographic primitives while acknowledging that cross-region throughput fell by approximately 40% and that network and data-layer scaling remain unsolved before production deployment.
Total crypto futures volume came in at $5.0T in April 2026, marking the lowest monthly reading since October 2024 and a 9.6% decline from March's $5.5T.
Bitcoin trades at $77,043 on the daily chart as of May 19, halting a decline at the SMA50 and the lower boundary of the ascending channel that has contained price since the March lows.
The tokenized ETF market has 651 products, $441.9 million in market cap, and Ethereum holding nearly three quarters of that. Against a $20 trillion global ETF industry, those numbers tell two stories simultaneously.
