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MSTR short squeeze chances shift as traders bet $5B against MSTR while Strategy returns 11% yield

Institutional interest in Strategy’s (formerly MicroStrategy) preferred securities is building at a time when the company’s common stock, MSTR, remains one of the market’s most-watched bearish trades tied to Bitcoin. The clearest signal came this...

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Circle’s $461M payout shows who captures USDC yield — and it’s not Circle

Circle’s fourth quarter earnings tell a story the company would prefer investors understand through the lens of growth: USDC circulation climbed 72% year-over-year to $75.3 billion, reserve income surged 69%, and adjusted EBITDA quintupled. However,...

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Notice Bitcoin selling off at market open? Jane Street is taking the blame, but the data points elsewhere

Bitcoin’s rebound toward $70,000 over the last 24 hours has revived a familiar debate in crypto markets: whether Wall Street firms operating within the spot exchange-traded fund (ETF) ecosystem have gained too much influence over...

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200 insider trading probes opened on Kalshi and one quiet change could remake prediction markets overnight

Prediction markets promised something elegant: put money behind beliefs, and the price converges on reality. The wisdom of crowds, sharpened by skin in the game. No pollsters, no pundits, just probabilities inching toward truth as...

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Ethereum’s liquidity crunch is deepening as ETFs dump $3B and the Foundation locks up 70,000 ETH

Ethereum is getting two headline signals at once, and they point in different directions. On-chain trackers have flagged a burst of ETH sales linked to Vitalik Buterin, the network’s most recognizable figure. At nearly the...

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Bitcoin on course for record fifth straight monthly loss as $4.5B ETF outflows put $58,000 in sight

Bitcoin is heading toward an uncomfortable milestone, a potential fifth consecutive monthly decline if February closes in the red, and the setup is starting to look less like a crypto-specific drawdown and more like a...

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Bitcoin defends $61k as spot ETF flows swing — if we lose this floor and $56k opens fast

Bitcoin spent the last two days sliding down a familiar set of shelves, and the order book kept printing lower bids as liquidity thinned. By Tuesday morning, it sat at $63,214, a level that places...

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Bitcoin enters a high-risk window as credit stress builds beneath a record 206% stock bubble

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...

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Bitcoin miners sell 5,359 BTC as winter power costs bite and their $7.4 billion treasury starts shrinking fast

Public Bitcoin miners collectively held 115,335 BTC as of Feb. 20, worth roughly $7.4 billion at the recent price, but that treasury dropped 4.44% month-over-month, the first sustained contraction since miners began stockpiling coins as...

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Crypto traders are chasing 10x leverage in the US while Europe tightens the screws behind the scenes

Two regulators converged on the same market from opposite directions in February 2026. The European Securities and Markets Authority warned that derivatives marketed as “perpetual futures” or “perpetual contracts” tied to Bitcoin and Ethereum likely...

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If Bitcoin bulls can hold $65,000 it could be the market bottom, yet hedgers are panic buying protection

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...

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Largest US Bitcoin miner dumps entire BTC stash as margin pressure intensifies

Bitdeer, the largest Bitcoin mining company by hashrate, wiped its BTC ledger clean this week. Its corporate Bitcoin treasury now shows 0 BTC as the company sold 189.8 newly mined BTC and pulled 943.1 BTC...

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Bitcoin rebounds after $100B tariff whiplash — but $60k options price target hints at bigger risk

Bitcoin’s weekend selloff led to about $100 billion in crypto market value losses during the reporting period and was triggered by a sudden burst of tariff policy uncertainty. Over the last 24 hours, BTC price...

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Bitcoin can rebound fast and hard as $7.7T in “sidelined funds” enter new opportunity window

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....

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Brazil cuts Bitcoin miner import duty to zero and companies may plug them into stranded solar next

On Feb. 20, Brazil’s foreign trade council published a technical resolution reducing import duties to zero for a narrow class of hardware: SHA256 Bitcoin miners exceeding 200 terahashes per second with energy efficiency below 20...

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A coordinated attack caused the USD1 peg wobble but one exchange holds 93% supply

World Liberty Financial’s stablecoin slipped to $0.994 on Feb. 23, a 0.6% deviation that lasted minutes before recovering. For a token backed one-to-one by dollars and government money market funds, with over $5 billion in...

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XRP ETF inflows collapse 93% as price capitulates, will this cause a reset or repair phase?

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...

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Vitalik selling Ethereum grabs attention — but this liquidity shift matters more

Ethereum is getting two headline signals at once, and they point in different directions. On-chain trackers have flagged a burst of ETH sales linked to Vitalik Buterin, the network’s most recognizable figure. At nearly the...

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