On February 17, 2026, trader Willy Woo said on X that Bitcoin may need 15 to 20 years to be embraced as "better gold," noting it still trades as a risk-on, emerging asset. He partly agreed with Bob Loukas on Bitcoin's design advantages, while Robert Kiyosaki the same day warned of an imminent crash and cited holding BTC, ETH, silver and gold.

Shiba Inu ambassador Shytoshi Kusama said on Feb. 17, 2026 he will stream during a solar eclipse to outline a "new system" and revisit details Friday, with YouTube and X carrying replays. Earlier, SHIB marketing lead Lucie described a standalone Human Legacy AI platform, built over six months with 100,000+ lines of code, capped at 114,000 lifetime users and citing an internal $2M valuation.

An on-chain analytics report indicates that Bitcoin's MVRV ratio has dropped to around 1.1, signaling that the asset is edging toward an undervalued zone. At the same time, Bitcoin has recovered to the $66,970 area after a 2.45% rise over the last 24 hours, while Binance has completed converting its $1 billion SAFU fund fully into Bitcoin.

SBI VC Trade, a subsidiary of Japan's SBI Group, will begin a fresh crypto lending round at 20:00 local time on February 12, 2026. According to the company's tweet, seven assets are accepted via staking: BTC, BCH, XRP, DOGE, XLM, DAI and ZPG, with lenders earning regular "rental fee" payouts.

On February 3, Dogecoin co-creator Billy Markus criticized Michael Saylor's recent comment describing Bitcoin's sharp price swings as "Satoshi's gift". Markus responded with a sarcastic post on X as Bitcoin dropped from $90,000 to an intra-day low of $73,000, while Saylor's firm Strategy continued to add BTC on the dip. Earlier, Saylor disclosed Strategy's latest 855 BTC purchase for about $75.3 million, bringing its holdings to 713,502 BTC.

According to Shibburn data, the Shiba Inu community destroyed a total of 4,804,534 SHIB in the last 24 hours, pushing the daily burn rate up by 380.45% across five transactions. Over the same period, SHIB fell from $0.00000783 to $0.00000646, then recovered about 4% to $0.00000671 while a Shiba Inu executive on X said they were not worried about Bitcoin’s sharp move below $80,000.

On January 30, 2026, Binance CEO Richard Teng endorsed the company's open letter addressing market volatility and service standards. The letter outlined plans to convert the $1 billion SAFU, currently in stablecoins, into Bitcoin over the next thirty days and to top the fund back up if its value falls to $800 million.

Samson Mow, CEO of JAN3 and long‑time Bitcoin advocate, has aligned himself with an X user's forecast of an "Omega candle" that could raise BTC by $100,000. He maintains a longer‑term view that Bitcoin can reach $1,000,000, while author Robert Kiyosaki recently said selling part of his Bitcoin and gold holdings to buy a house was a big mistake and continues using real estate income to accumulate crypto.

On January 22, 2026 at WEF Davos, former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao outlined three priorities for crypto: state-level asset tokenization, crypto as an invisible payments rail, and AI agents transacting natively with digital assets. He also said exchanges and stablecoins have proven at scale and forecast declining reliance on physical banks over the next decade.