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breakingJun 15, 2026, 1:00 PM GMT+2

Armstrong says Bitcoin bottomed at $60,000. Brandt says a 15% drop is still coming.

The Coinbase CEO and a veteran trader looked at the same bounce this morning and reached opposite conclusions. One of them will be wrong before September.

Liv Bergman·2min·🚨👀📊

breakingJun 15, 2026, 11:40 AM GMT+2

Bitcoin just made mining 10% easier. Two cuts this big in 2026 mean a large chunk of miners have gone offline.

The difficulty algorithm is doing exactly what it was built to do. The question is how many miners it's adjusting around.

Dev Patel·1min·🐻👀💀

breakingJun 15, 2026, 9:39 AM GMT+2

Bitcoin hit $65,844 after the Iran deal. Friday is the real test.

Oil fell, stocks jumped, and crypto caught the same bid, but two failed ceasefire rallies are still fresh.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚨👀📊

breakingJun 15, 2026, 8:57 AM GMT+2

XRP broke above $1.18. The ETF money is finally showing up.

The move is still technical, but the support behind it is cash, exchange outflows, and whales adding size.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚀🐂👀

breakingJun 13, 2026, 5:32 PM GMT+2

Bittensor's TAO jumped 23% in 24 hours. The catalyst is still missing.

The tape moved first, and the story has not caught up yet.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚨👀📊

breakingJun 13, 2026, 1:32 PM GMT+2

BlackRock led $85.85M into U.S. Bitcoin funds on June 12. The rebound is real, for now.

All 12 funds reportedly avoided outflows, but IBIT still took most of the day's fresh cash.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚀🐂👀

briefJun 13, 2026, 1:33 AM GMT+2

Blockworks bought Messari for a reported $10M. Crypto data is now for machines.

The deal is less about owning another research brand and more about owning the API layer everyone else has to query.

Dev Patel·2min·📊👀🧠

breakingJun 12, 2026, 12:03 PM GMT+2

BlackRock filed for a bitcoin income ETF with a 0.65% fee. The fight starts before launch.

BITA turns IBIT from a spot bitcoin product into raw material for income, and BlackRock is already pricing like it wants the category.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚨👀📊

breakingJun 11, 2026, 5:03 PM GMT+2

Nakamoto sold about 600 Bitcoin to repay Kraken. The buyback is the real signal.

Debt got paid down, but not cleared. The cleaner headline is the $25 million buyback, not the remaining Kraken loan.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚨👀📊

breakingJun 11, 2026, 1:33 PM GMT+2

BlackRock filed another bitcoin income fund update. Rivals now have a fee problem.

BITA is BlackRock's attempt to turn IBIT's scale into monthly option income before smaller funds own the category.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚀🐂👀

briefJun 10, 2026, 11:03 PM GMT+2

Arthur Hayes says Bitcoin needs an AI crash. Bulls are rooting for the wrong bubble.

Hayes' setup is not a normal liquidity bull case. It says crypto only gets paid after AI gives money back.

Lucia Moreno·2min·🐻👀💀

briefJun 10, 2026, 10:04 PM GMT+2

Centrifuge just hit $1.6B in TVL. On-chain private credit now looks big enough for institutions.

The jump may be real demand or one large pool moving, but either way private credit is no longer a small RWA demo.

Lucia Moreno·2min·📊👀🧠

briefJun 10, 2026, 9:18 PM GMT+2

Anthropic reportedly filed for a fall IPO. Bitcoin is still moving with AI stocks.

A new AI-lab listing would give traders one more ticker to sell when the Nasdaq trade gets hit.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚨👀📊

briefJun 10, 2026, 9:14 PM GMT+2

Bitcoin’s CPI bounce faded fast. Core inflation is the only number traders trust.

The market looked past a hot headline CPI print because core inflation stayed contained. Then geopolitics reminded everyone how thin that bid was.

Lucia Moreno·2min·📊👀🧠

breakingJun 5, 2026, 12:04 AM GMT+2

Bitcoin fell to $61,556 today. The fear index just hit 12, the lowest since the FTX collapse.

The Rainbow Chart's 'Fire Sale' band just got breached. That hasn't happened since November 2022.

Liv Bergman·2min·🚨👀📊

breakingJun 1, 2026, 8:10 AM GMT+2

Bitcoin ETFs just set a 10-session outflow record. Wall Street picked AI, and $2.97B left.

Bitcoin ETFs posted outflows for two straight weeks while equities hit records on AI. The split from the usual risk-on trade is the real story.

Liv Bergman·1min·🐻👀💀

breakingMay 29, 2026, 9:35 AM GMT+2

XLM gained 23.8% today with no named catalyst. That is the catch.

Stellar is trending globally with no announcement attached. A move this size without a story is either the preview or the mistake.

Liv Bergman·2min·🚨👀📊

breakingMay 28, 2026, 8:37 AM GMT+2

BlackRock's IBIT lost $528 million on Wednesday. It came within $500,000 of the largest single-day outflow on record.

Two weeks of losses just crossed $2 billion across all U.S. spot bitcoin funds. The question now is whether Wednesday's near-record pull signals a sustained exit or a one-off.

Liv Bergman·2min·🐻👀💀

breakingMay 25, 2026, 8:38 AM GMT+2

SEC approved QBTC, Nasdaq's Bitcoin index options product. It cannot trade until the CFTC signs off.

QBTC would let retail traders hedge a single bitcoin at a time. The question is whether the CFTC cooperates.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚨👀📊

breakingMay 23, 2026, 11:06 AM GMT+2

Bitcoin fell to $74,300 this morning. Nearly $1 billion in leveraged longs got wiped.

This is a liquidation story. The leverage was stacked, and one geopolitical headline was enough to force it out.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚨👀📊

breakingMay 22, 2026, 8:07 AM GMT+2

Congress just filed a Bitcoin reserve bill with a 20-year hold. Executive orders are officially the warm-up act.

ARMA would put seized Bitcoin on a statutory 20-year lock inside the Treasury. The executive-order era now has a congressional challenger.

Lucia Moreno·2min·🚨👀📊

breakingMay 21, 2026, 8:06 AM GMT+2

Nakamoto announced a 1-for-40 reverse split. The Nasdaq listing is officially on the line.

Nakamoto's bitcoin treasury stock hit Nasdaq's price floor. Now it needs a 1-for-40 split just to keep the listing.

Liv Bergman·1min·🐻👀💀

breakingMay 20, 2026, 8:08 AM GMT+2

Truth Social just pulled its crypto ETF bids. Yorkville is calling it a regulatory pivot, not a retreat.

Three Truth Social crypto ETF registrations are gone. Whether the pivot is real depends on what Yorkville files next.

Liv Bergman·2min·🚨👀📊

breakingMay 19, 2026, 8:07 AM GMT+2

AI Financial's WLFI treasury fell to $706M. The tokens are locked, and the company may not survive the year.

A $1.46B WLFI bet is worth less than half now. The company that made it can't sell a single token.

Liv Bergman·1min·🐻👀💀

breakingMay 18, 2026, 2:34 PM GMT+2

KuCoin just lost 18.1% of its TVL in 24 hours. The exchange hasn't said anything.

DeFiLlama shows $2.8 billion in KuCoin right now. No explanation from the exchange, and that silence is the story.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚨👀📊

briefMay 17, 2026, 12:43 PM GMT+2

Italy's largest bank more than doubled its crypto book to $235M in Q1. Bitcoin was just the entry point.

Fideuram's 13F shows ETH and XRP alongside Bitcoin in an Italian private bank's crypto book. The Bitcoin-only institutional thesis is officially giving way.

Lucia Moreno·2min·🚀🐂👀

breakingMay 16, 2026, 10:36 AM GMT+2

Crypto longs lost $552 million overnight as bitcoin fell toward $78,000. Shorts lost just $28 million.

The long-to-short liquidation split was 20-to-1. Longs were crowded and they paid for it.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚨👀📊

breakingMay 15, 2026, 8:09 AM GMT+2

Senate Banking passed the CLARITY Act. Bitcoin and XRP are already pricing in the next vote.

The CLARITY Act just cleared its biggest Senate hurdle. The market is already treating the floor vote like a given.

Lucia Moreno·1min·🚀🐂👀

breakingMay 14, 2026, 8:08 AM GMT+2

Senate confirmed Kevin Warsh as Fed chair 54-45. The rate-cut bet just got a new face.

One Democrat crossed the aisle. Warsh inherits White House rate-cut pressure and a crypto bill season already in motion.

Lucia Moreno·2min·🚨👀📊

breakingMay 13, 2026, 8:08 AM GMT+2

Bitcoin dipped to $79,879 on the CPI print. $706M in fund inflows last week says the buyers were already there.

April CPI came in hot at 3.8% and gave bears a clean entry. The $857.9M that flowed into digital asset funds the week before explains why nobody took it.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚀🐂👀

breakingMay 12, 2026, 8:07 AM GMT+2

Ripple Prime raised $200M for institutional lending. XRP still can't break $1.50.

Ripple Prime just raised $200 million to lend to institutional clients. XRP's tape didn't move with the headline.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚨👀📊

briefMay 8, 2026, 11:44 AM GMT+2

Tether proposed combining Twenty One Capital, Strike, and a miner. The float model is officially no longer the whole plan.

This is no longer a bitcoin treasury play. Tether is proposing to own the coins, the infrastructure that produces them, and the payment rails.

Lucia Moreno·2min·📊👀🧠

breakingMay 8, 2026, 9:04 AM GMT+2

Bitcoin's 67-day negative funding streak is a 10-year record. The squeeze level is $83,200.

Per K33 Research, bitcoin's perp market has been net short for 67 consecutive days. The 10-year record in negative funding has a named exit: $83,200.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚨👀📊

breakingMay 7, 2026, 6:04 PM GMT+2

Gemini Olympus gets CFTC clearinghouse license. Kalshi has a funded rival.

Gemini just cleared its second CFTC hurdle in five months. Kalshi and Polymarket are now competing against an exchange with a full regulatory stack.

Liv Bergman·2min·🚀🐂👀

briefMay 6, 2026, 10:37 PM GMT+2

Paul Tudor Jones just reframed the bitcoin pitch: equity risk, not just debasement.

Jones's pitch for bitcoin isn't just about what central banks do to money. It's about what overvalued U.S. equities do to the federal budget when they correct.

Lucia Moreno·2min·📊👀🧠

breakingMay 6, 2026, 9:35 PM GMT+2

Fed's 8-4 hold is less a decision than a stalemate.

The rate didn't move. The committee did. Four dissenters split in opposite directions, and that tells you more about where rates go next than the hold itself.

Lucia Moreno·1min·🚨👀📊

breakingMay 6, 2026, 8:33 PM GMT+2

OKX lists OpenAI and SpaceX pre-IPO perps. Most users are locked out.

OKX just offered price exposure to the hottest private companies in tech. The exclusion list covers most of the world.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚨👀📊

briefMay 4, 2026, 1:30 AM GMT+2

Sui testnet-v1.71.0 is a cleanup pass. Indexer teams have one config trap to dodge.

The real action in v1.71.0 isn't for users. Operators running stale indexer configs will hit a hard parse failure when this lands on mainnet.

Dev Patel·2min·📊👀🧠

breakingMay 3, 2026, 5:35 PM GMT+2

Robinhood crypto revenue fell 47% in Q1. Event contracts covered the gap.

Prediction markets did in one quarter what crypto trading took years to build inside Robinhood's revenue mix.

Liv Bergman·2min·📊👀🧠

breakingMay 3, 2026, 2:10 PM GMT+2

Galaxy's $216M Q1 loss hides a $49M digital assets gross profit.

The headline number is a balance-sheet markdown. The trading desk made money.

Liv Bergman·2min·🚨👀📊

breakingMay 3, 2026, 10:04 AM GMT+2

SBI Holdings submits Bitbank acquisition intent. Japan's crypto consolidation isn't done.

SBI absorbed Bitpoint in April, is eyeing Coinhako in Singapore, and now wants Bitbank. The independent Japanese exchange is becoming an endangered species.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚨👀📊

briefMay 2, 2026, 8:37 PM GMT+2

Visa's stablecoin settlement spans nine chains now. Liquidity is the new moat.

Stablecoin settlement used to be about which issuer you trusted. Visa just made it about which chain has the deepest pool.

Lucia Moreno·2min·📊👀🧠

briefMay 2, 2026, 5:42 PM GMT+2

MEGA's $507M debut ended down 21%. Now MegaETH has to prove the throughput.

A $507M launch-day volume and a 21% price decline are not contradictions. One is traders cycling positions across 38 markets; the other is the first honest read on whether 100k TPS is an actual moat.

Dev Patel·2min·📊👀🧠

breakingMay 2, 2026, 1:35 PM GMT+2

Ethereum Foundation sold another 10,000 ETH to BitMine. Three OTC deals, two months.

Three consecutive block sales to the same mining firm. That pattern has a name, and it isn't ad hoc treasury management.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚨👀📊

briefMay 2, 2026, 1:07 PM GMT+2

Tether reports $1.04B Q1 profit. The Treasury-float moat keeps holding.

The yield-bearing stablecoin threat is real. Tether just showed it has the buffer to outlast the near-term challenge.

Lucia Moreno·2min·📊👀🧠

briefMay 2, 2026, 8:12 AM GMT+2

Exodus Pay goes live in all 50 states as trading revenue craters.

Payments is the right pivot for a wallet company whose trading revenue is compressing. But Exodus's card-infrastructure layer is still in UK receivership, not cleanly in the company's hands.

Lucia Moreno·2min·📊👀🧠

breakingMay 2, 2026, 8:05 AM GMT+2

Riot posts $33.2M in data center revenue. AMD's Rockdale bet just doubled.

Bitcoin mining revenue fell year over year and a new data center line appeared for the first time. Those two sentences are the Riot thesis now.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚀🐂👀

breakingMay 1, 2026, 11:35 PM GMT+2

Ethereum Foundation sold another 10,000 ETH OTC. That's 20,000 in one week.

Two OTC blocks, same buyer, one week apart. The Ethereum Foundation's selling now has a tempo.

Liv Bergman·1min·🚨👀📊

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The stream

Armstrong says Bitcoin bottomed at $60,000. Brandt says a 15% drop is still coming.

Bitcoin just made mining 10% easier. Two cuts this big in 2026 mean a large chunk of miners have gone offline.

Bitcoin hit $65,844 after the Iran deal. Friday is the real test.

XRP broke above $1.18. The ETF money is finally showing up.

Bittensor's TAO jumped 23% in 24 hours. The catalyst is still missing.

BlackRock led $85.85M into U.S. Bitcoin funds on June 12. The rebound is real, for now.

Blockworks bought Messari for a reported $10M. Crypto data is now for machines.

BlackRock filed for a bitcoin income ETF with a 0.65% fee. The fight starts before launch.

Nakamoto sold about 600 Bitcoin to repay Kraken. The buyback is the real signal.

BlackRock filed another bitcoin income fund update. Rivals now have a fee problem.

Arthur Hayes says Bitcoin needs an AI crash. Bulls are rooting for the wrong bubble.

Centrifuge just hit $1.6B in TVL. On-chain private credit now looks big enough for institutions.

Anthropic reportedly filed for a fall IPO. Bitcoin is still moving with AI stocks.

Bitcoin’s CPI bounce faded fast. Core inflation is the only number traders trust.

Bitcoin fell to $61,556 today. The fear index just hit 12, the lowest since the FTX collapse.

Bitcoin ETFs just set a 10-session outflow record. Wall Street picked AI, and $2.97B left.

XLM gained 23.8% today with no named catalyst. That is the catch.

BlackRock's IBIT lost $528 million on Wednesday. It came within $500,000 of the largest single-day outflow on record.

SEC approved QBTC, Nasdaq's Bitcoin index options product. It cannot trade until the CFTC signs off.

Bitcoin fell to $74,300 this morning. Nearly $1 billion in leveraged longs got wiped.

Congress just filed a Bitcoin reserve bill with a 20-year hold. Executive orders are officially the warm-up act.

Nakamoto announced a 1-for-40 reverse split. The Nasdaq listing is officially on the line.

Truth Social just pulled its crypto ETF bids. Yorkville is calling it a regulatory pivot, not a retreat.

AI Financial's WLFI treasury fell to $706M. The tokens are locked, and the company may not survive the year.

KuCoin just lost 18.1% of its TVL in 24 hours. The exchange hasn't said anything.

Italy's largest bank more than doubled its crypto book to $235M in Q1. Bitcoin was just the entry point.

Crypto longs lost $552 million overnight as bitcoin fell toward $78,000. Shorts lost just $28 million.

Senate Banking passed the CLARITY Act. Bitcoin and XRP are already pricing in the next vote.

Senate confirmed Kevin Warsh as Fed chair 54-45. The rate-cut bet just got a new face.

Bitcoin dipped to $79,879 on the CPI print. $706M in fund inflows last week says the buyers were already there.

Ripple Prime raised $200M for institutional lending. XRP still can't break $1.50.

Tether proposed combining Twenty One Capital, Strike, and a miner. The float model is officially no longer the whole plan.

Bitcoin's 67-day negative funding streak is a 10-year record. The squeeze level is $83,200.

Gemini Olympus gets CFTC clearinghouse license. Kalshi has a funded rival.

Paul Tudor Jones just reframed the bitcoin pitch: equity risk, not just debasement.

Fed's 8-4 hold is less a decision than a stalemate.

OKX lists OpenAI and SpaceX pre-IPO perps. Most users are locked out.

Sui testnet-v1.71.0 is a cleanup pass. Indexer teams have one config trap to dodge.

Robinhood crypto revenue fell 47% in Q1. Event contracts covered the gap.

Galaxy's $216M Q1 loss hides a $49M digital assets gross profit.

SBI Holdings submits Bitbank acquisition intent. Japan's crypto consolidation isn't done.

Visa's stablecoin settlement spans nine chains now. Liquidity is the new moat.

MEGA's $507M debut ended down 21%. Now MegaETH has to prove the throughput.

Ethereum Foundation sold another 10,000 ETH to BitMine. Three OTC deals, two months.

Tether reports $1.04B Q1 profit. The Treasury-float moat keeps holding.

Exodus Pay goes live in all 50 states as trading revenue craters.

Riot posts $33.2M in data center revenue. AMD's Rockdale bet just doubled.

Ethereum Foundation sold another 10,000 ETH OTC. That's 20,000 in one week.

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The stream

Armstrong says Bitcoin bottomed at $60,000. Brandt says a 15% drop is still coming.

Bitcoin just made mining 10% easier. Two cuts this big in 2026 mean a large chunk of miners have gone offline.

Bitcoin hit $65,844 after the Iran deal. Friday is the real test.

XRP broke above $1.18. The ETF money is finally showing up.

Bittensor's TAO jumped 23% in 24 hours. The catalyst is still missing.

BlackRock led $85.85M into U.S. Bitcoin funds on June 12. The rebound is real, for now.

Blockworks bought Messari for a reported $10M. Crypto data is now for machines.

BlackRock filed for a bitcoin income ETF with a 0.65% fee. The fight starts before launch.

Nakamoto sold about 600 Bitcoin to repay Kraken. The buyback is the real signal.

BlackRock filed another bitcoin income fund update. Rivals now have a fee problem.

Arthur Hayes says Bitcoin needs an AI crash. Bulls are rooting for the wrong bubble.

Centrifuge just hit $1.6B in TVL. On-chain private credit now looks big enough for institutions.

Anthropic reportedly filed for a fall IPO. Bitcoin is still moving with AI stocks.

Bitcoin’s CPI bounce faded fast. Core inflation is the only number traders trust.

Bitcoin fell to $61,556 today. The fear index just hit 12, the lowest since the FTX collapse.

Bitcoin ETFs just set a 10-session outflow record. Wall Street picked AI, and $2.97B left.

XLM gained 23.8% today with no named catalyst. That is the catch.

BlackRock's IBIT lost $528 million on Wednesday. It came within $500,000 of the largest single-day outflow on record.

SEC approved QBTC, Nasdaq's Bitcoin index options product. It cannot trade until the CFTC signs off.

Bitcoin fell to $74,300 this morning. Nearly $1 billion in leveraged longs got wiped.

Congress just filed a Bitcoin reserve bill with a 20-year hold. Executive orders are officially the warm-up act.

Nakamoto announced a 1-for-40 reverse split. The Nasdaq listing is officially on the line.

Truth Social just pulled its crypto ETF bids. Yorkville is calling it a regulatory pivot, not a retreat.

AI Financial's WLFI treasury fell to $706M. The tokens are locked, and the company may not survive the year.

KuCoin just lost 18.1% of its TVL in 24 hours. The exchange hasn't said anything.

Italy's largest bank more than doubled its crypto book to $235M in Q1. Bitcoin was just the entry point.

Crypto longs lost $552 million overnight as bitcoin fell toward $78,000. Shorts lost just $28 million.

Senate Banking passed the CLARITY Act. Bitcoin and XRP are already pricing in the next vote.

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