Bitcoin rose above $70,000 today for the first time since early February, extending a rebound that is starting to look less like a brief relief rally and more like a market trying to reverse momentum after months of heavy selling. CryptoSlate data showed Bitcoin gaining over 7% on the day, lifting the flagship digital asset […]
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Tether has landed a Big Four accounting firm’s name on a reserve report tied to its US strategy. On Feb. 27, Deloitte issued an independent accountant’s report on Anchorage Digital Bank’s “USAT Reserve Report,” an attestation covering USAT, a US dollar token issued by Anchorage Digital Bank, National Association, in collaboration with Tether. The development […]
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Brent crude oil is trading like a geopolitical asset again, and that is forcing Bitcoin back into a macro test it has not fully resolved. For a third straight session, oil climbed as the widening US-Israel conflict with Iran revived fears of disruption in the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow maritime chokepoint that handles roughly […]
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Bitcoin traded through a familiar sequence after U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran: a fast weekend drop, a rebound that started before traditional markets reopened, and then a cleaner weekday repricing once U.S.-linked liquidity came back online. The operation was a major escalation, and cross-market positioning followed the script: energy higher, equity futures lower, and […]
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The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Bitcoin price opened US trading session strongly with a 3% surge above $68,000, according to CryptoSlate's data. This marked a significant difference to its first response, which looked nothing like a clean safe-haven trade following the latest Middle East tensions. When headlines hit over the weekend about US strikes on Iran, the flagship digital asset […]
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Bitcoin rises over 6% on the U.S. open as CME premium spikes, and liquidations don’t explain it Bitcoin jumped over 6% to threaten $70,000 during Monday’s U.S. market open even as the broader macro environment appears risk-off. Oil ripped higher on Middle East escalation risk, equities opened sharply lower, and the dollar held firm. The […]
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U.S. M2 hit a record $22.4T in January, why Bitcoin hasn’t followed, and what could change next U.S. broad money supply (M2) reached a record $22.442 trillion in January 2026. That put M2 up $922.4 billion (+4.29%) from January 2025, setting a new high for a metric that often anchors “liquidity up, risk up” narratives. […]
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Bitcoin held near $66,000 on Sunday, March 1, after a weekend geopolitical shock tied to U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, setting up Monday’s U.S. reopen as the first major liquidity and spot ETF flow test of the rebound. The diplomatic alarm bell rang alongside the price rebound. At an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting, […]
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Bitcoin defends $64K after U.S., Israel strikes on Iran as ETF flows return to center stage Bitcoin traded through a weekend macro shock after U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran sparked regional retaliation. The largest price swings occurred during low-liquidity hours, leaving spot BTC back near the mid-$64,000 area. The move reinforced a pattern that […]
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President Donald Trump has pulled the United States into military action against Iran, and the first consequence for crypto markets was another wave of selling rather than a rush into Bitcoin as a haven. According to CryptoSlate’s data, BTC price dumped around 7%, erasing some of its weeklong gains to trade as low as $63,000 […]
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The US Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs under IEEPA on Feb. 20, and markets immediately inherited a large cash flow question. The amount at stake was more than $175 billion in tariff collections that could be subject to refunds, with the Court offering no step-by-step plan for how refunds should be […]
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The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Bitcoin has rebounded from an early-February slide that briefly pushed it to $60,000 and produced its most oversold signal on record, easing some of the pressure that has weighed on crypto markets. According to CryptoSlate's data, the flagship digital asset has steadied in recent days and briefly approached the $70,000 mark before settling around $67,300 […]
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Bitcoin’s rally is riding record $1.279 trillion margin debt, and the unwind could arrive without warning Bitcoin’s next phase is being shaped by a record build in U.S. market leverage, recession-leaning survey data and an expanding Treasury buyback program that is aimed at bond-market plumbing rather than monetary easing. Those inputs show up across FINRA’s […]
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Derive said options positioning and easing downside skew show traders cautiously preparing for a potential bitcoin recovery.
Nvidia printed a monster quarter, with $68.1 billion in revenue and its Data Center business alone delivering $62.3 billion. The company is expected to have roughly $78 billion in revenue next quarter. The crypto angle is mechanical, not mystical: Bitcoin has been behaving like a leveraged expression of tech risk appetite, so when AI “risk-on” […]
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The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
The US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve could lose nearly 30% of its holdings in a single legal move, even if the government does not sell a single coin. Last year, President Donald Trump signed an executive order creating a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. The order directed the Treasury Department to consolidate government-held BTC into a reserve account […]
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Bitcoin spent the last two days sliding down familiar shelves, and the order book kept printing lower bids as liquidity thinned. However, by Wednesday afternoon, the price traded back toward $65,000 after sweeping the low $63,000s, with the last 24 hours spanning roughly $62,800 to $66,200. The bounce depicts a market that hit the air […]
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Bitcoin spent the last two days sliding down familiar shelves, and the order book kept printing lower bids as liquidity thinned. However, by Wednesday afternoon, the price traded back toward $65,000 after sweeping the low $63,000s, with the last 24 hours spanning roughly $62,800 to $66,200. The bounce depicts a market that hit the air […]
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Bitcoin is entering a period where macro sequencing matters more than narrative. Equity markets are trading near record valuations, real yields remain elevated, and credit markets are expanding into increasingly opaque corners of the financial system. None of these conditions guarantees an imminent break. But together they form the backdrop for what could become a […]
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The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
XRP is entering a stretch where on-chain cost basis, leverage, and flow data may matter more than broad market narratives. The token is approaching a critical point after a sharp rise in realized losses, with on-chain activity showing investors moving coins below their purchase prices. That is a classic capitulation signal. It often appears near […]
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A $7.8 trillion cash pile sits in US money market funds, earning, rolling, waiting. The Federal Reserve began this easing cycle on Sept 18, 2024, and it's now been 522 days since that first cut. Looking at historical market movements, we're entering a window whereby funds have typically started to rotate back into riskier assets. […]
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The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Nearly $360 million in crypto long positions were liquidated in an hour, according to Coinglass' heatmap based on available data.
Bank of America's latest market call reads less like a typical bear forecast and more like a structural warning about what happens when markets stop paying premium multiples, even if profits keep growing. The firm argues that the S&P 500 remains “statistically expensive” on 18 of 20 valuation metrics, with four near-record highs, and expects […]
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Bitcoin trades sideways as Trump cites Trade Act for 15% tariffs after Supreme Court limits IEEPA authority, and the market starts watching the 150-day clock It is one of those rare weekend sessions where the chart barely moves… yet it still feels like something is about to snap. Bitcoin is hovering around $68,000, chopping inside […]
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Bitcoin is trading like a rates product now because real yields are the new “gravity” Earlier this month, we saw the macro picture shift in a very real and tangible way. The record of last year's job level changed significantly, and markets treated that update as fresh information to trade on. Two days later, inflation […]
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