The FOUR BIGGEST DEVELOPMENTS in Bitcoin right now!

Published April 8, 2026

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    The four biggest developments in Bitcoin
    are happening right now. The first is
    the Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Exchange
    Traded Fund ETF launches today. That is
    right now. Uh it launched this morning.
    It has the lowest expense ratio of any
    of the Bitcoin ETFs. So the others are
    about 0.25% about one quarter of 1%.
    Morgan Stanley came in and radically
    undercut all of those other Bitcoin ETFs
    with an expense ratio of 0.14%.
    That is
    14 hundredths of 1% just above onetenth
    of 1%. I guess one one and a quarter or
    one and point4 whatever tenth of 1%. A
    tiny tiny tiny expense fee. Uh so that’s
    a huge deal that will probably result in
    prices coming down for the other Bitcoin
    ETFs. But the much bigger reason is
    because Morgan Stanley is the first bank
    that has launched its own Bitcoin ETF.
    Uh the others are all run by big
    brokerage houses uh and wealth managers
    like Black Rockck and Fidelity. Morgan
    Stanley is actually a bank. So their
    demand from their high net worth
    customers is so high they’re launching
    their own Bitcoin ETFs so that they
    don’t have to steer people to Black
    Rockck or Fidelity or any of the other
    Bitcoin ETFs. They will have their own
    Bitcoin ETFs. So that is a huge deal. So
    that is number one huge deal launches
    this morning. Second huge deal, Blocks
    Square, the Square payment terminals,
    which are run by a company called Block,
    which was founded by Jack Dorsey and run
    by Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter.
    He sold uh Twitter to Elon Musk, and he
    kept his payments company, which is
    called Block, although their payment
    terminals are called Square. They also
    make the Cash App uh mobile app, and
    they also make Bit Key, my favorite way
    to keep Bitcoin for the long term. All
    of that is one company. This month, the
    month of April, Block is flipping on
    Bitcoin payments for all 4 million of
    the payment terminals that run the
    Square payment terminals in the United
    States. So throughout this month in
    waves, they are turning on the ability
    to pay with Bitcoin in 4 million payment
    terminals. That means 4 million
    companies that previously did not accept
    Bitcoin as a point of sale ability to
    pay are going to accept it
    automatically. They don’t actually have
    to do anything. automatically their
    payment terminal is enabled uh unless
    they voluntarily opt out which means the
    you know 99.9% of them are all going to
    just automatically switch on in waves
    throughout this month. So within the
    next month or so you will be able to buy
    with Bitcoin anywhere that has a Square
    payment terminal which is 4 million
    businesses in the United States. That is
    number two. Number one Morgan Stanley
    ETF launches today. Number two, the uh
    Bitcoin exchange traded fund rolls out.
    Sorry, uh the Square payment terminal,
    Bitcoin ability to accept payment rolls
    out over the course of this month. Uh
    number three, later this month or next
    month, the Clarity Act will hopefully
    pass in Congress. It’s getting very,
    very close. The Clarity Act will provide
    regulatory clarity around all
    cryptocurrency and digital assets. Now,
    Bitcoin itself has a lot of clarity
    already, so it doesn’t really need the
    Clarity Act. But most people on Wall
    Street and in Washington don’t know
    that. Most large companies are like,
    “Bitcoin’s still scary. It’s not
    regulated.” Technically, that’s not
    true. A bunch of different regulatory
    agencies have all issued guidance on
    Bitcoin. So, in total, there is
    regulatory clarity, but there’s not
    regulatory clarity under a single law in
    Congress. That will change later this
    month or next month with the Clarity Act
    which is working businesses and a lot of
    uh Wall Street from adopting Bitcoin. Uh
    third uh fourth. So that’s number three.
    Number four, STRC called Stretch uh
    which is a preferred dividend paying
    stock from Micro Strategy now called
    Strategy that is launching or it’s not
    launching it has been launched for
    months now but it is live and actively
    buying Bitcoin. So, typically after the
    15th of each month and uh you know
    there’s a there’s a time lag between
    then and when it starts uh stockpiling a
    bunch of Bitcoin because of the way when
    the timing of dividend payouts and all
    that that is live. So, if you’re curious
    um I think it’s strc.live
    I think is the website. Anyway, strc I
    think it’s strc.live. Anyway, you can
    watch it actively accumulating Bitcoin.
    But anyway, that is live and actively
    accumulating Bitcoin this morning. Uh,
    as of this morning, it just today it had
    bought like 700 Bitcoin or something
    like that, which is, you know,
    substantial amounts of money. Um,
    anyway, so all of those things are live.
    All of those things are going. There are
    numerous positive uh news headlines
    related to Bitcoin all over the place.
    Uh, the price is still as of now 70,000
    or so, 71,000, 70,000. Um, we are still
    in a Bitcoin bare market. The nature of
    a Bitcoin bare market is oftentimes
    positive news does not move the price.
    So in a in a bull market where the price
    is going up, negative news does not seem
    to affect the price. It just keeps going
    up regardless. Well, in a bare market
    where the price is grinding sideways,
    oftentimes positive news does not affect
    the price, but it builds up, right? It’s
    like a coiled spring. So as as positive
    news accumulates, at some point the
    energy is unleashed as that market
    demand forces the price higher. So, all
    of these positive news uh elements,
    regardless of whether they have a
    near-term positive price, will have a
    very significant long-term impact on the

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