One Step Back, Two Steps Forward
This Week in Bitcoin · 
Markets are stumbling, Bitcoin is under pressure, and the AI bubble might be popping. But beneath the chaos, something more substantial is forming.
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• S&P 500 ekes out gain on Wednesday, ending four-day run of losses (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/25/stock-market-today-live-updates.html)
• M2 Money Supply Rises (https://x.com/zerohedge/status/1894483878489837907)
• Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value (https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-ceo-admits-ai-generating-123059075.html)
• Analyst says Microsoft is cutting AI data center spending, which may have led to market sell-off (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/24/a-microsoft-analyst-report-by-td-cowen-raised-concerns-about-the-ai-trade-and-helped-cause-fridays-market-sell-off.html)
• How to Prevent the Next $1.5B Bybit Hack: A Strategic Approach to Solving Blind Signing | Blockaid Blog (https://www.blockaid.io/blog/how-to-prevent-the-next-15b-bybit-hack-a-strategic-approach-to-solving-blind-signing)
• Did liquidity in crypto just dry up? (https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/1894218914923417964)
• Apollo Investments worried about downside risks to economy, notes that every 1 federal employee may actually be 3 jobs because of 2 contractors. (https://x.com/SullyCNBC/status/1893299923283546339)
• Apollo Global Management - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Global_Management)
• Egg prices could increase by 41.1% in 2025 amid bird flu, egg shortages (https://www.axios.com/2025/02/26/bird-flu-egg-prices-growing-shortages-eggs)
• U.S. Marshals Service, Managing Billions of Seized Assets, Can't Say How Much Crypto It Holds (https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/02/20/u-s-marshals-service-managing-seized-assets-can-t-say-how-much-crypto-it-holds)
• Polymarket | Will Trump create Bitcoin reserve in first 1… (https://polymarket.com/event/will-trump-create-a-national-bitcoin-reserve-in-his-first-100-days?tid=1740593285996)
• BitKey Inheritance is live. Here’s how it works. (https://bitkey.build/inheritance-is-live-heres-how-it-works/)
• The ‘Bitcoin’ Senator To Chair First Digital Asset Hearing Wednesday (https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbrett/2025/02/23/the-bitcoin-senator-to-chair-first-digital-asset-hearing-wednesday/)
• My bill to allow South Dakota to invest in Bitcoin died 9-3 in committee this morning. We will be back next year." (https://x.com/ManhartLogan/status/1894089957301453186)
• Local news station KXAN covers the Texas Bitcoin Reserve bill (https://x.com/BitcoinNewsCom/status/1894443833758191806)
• Yes, Montana's Bitcoin reserve bill was rejected… (https://x.com/Crypto_Mags/status/1894050837602681042)