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Bitcoin faces fresh headwinds as China’s Kimi beats Claude, GPT in coding benchmark  CoinDeskChina’s Moonshot AI Releases Model to Challenge Top U.S. Systems  WSJChina's Moonshot AI claims Kimi K3 can rival OpenAI and Anthropic  BBCChina just erased America's AI lead  AxiosKimi's open model K3 nears GPT-5.6 Sol and Fable 5 while signaling the end of super cheap Chinese AI  the-decoder.com

Bitcoin faces fresh headwinds as China’s Kimi beats Claude, GPT in coding benchmark  CoinDeskChina’s Moonshot AI Releases Model to Challenge Top U.S. Systems  WSJChina's Moonshot AI claims Kimi K3 can rival OpenAI and Anthropic  BBCChina just erased America's AI lead  AxiosKimi's open model K3 nears GPT-5.6 Sol and Fable 5 while signaling the end of super cheap Chinese AI  the-decoder.com

arXiv:2607.07414v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Address clustering is an important technique in blockchain forensics, widely employed by law enforcement to trace illicit crypto asset flows. The multi-input heuristic (MIH), which clusters addresses potentially associated with the same entity, is the most widely used. Yet, despite its broad adoption, the MIH has rarely been evaluated against reliable ground truth data. We implement a reusable evaluation framework covering nine established metrics and apply it to ground truth address-to-entity mappings obtained directly from European crypto asset service providers under legally mandated reporting obligations. When evaluation is restricted to reported addresses, the MIH appears strong at dataset level: we observe no mergers between reported services and recover same-service address pairs with recall $0.71$. However, this result is driven by one large service and ignores unlabeled addresses absorbed into full clusters. Metrics that assess

arXiv:2607.06784v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the era of digital revolution many contemporary events that changed the world were shaped through the internet. Nowadays, the emergence of internet of things (IoT), combining physical objects with virtual networks is expected to have even more influence. This new 'decentralised' structure in the world raises questions such as power, governance and the notion of democracy online. The aim of this paper is to investigate these notions. We have taken the examples of Bitcoin and Wikipedia and examined their decision-making process. Our analysis has found some inconsistencies in their policies, that are in contradiction with democracy and consensus principles of governance. Starting from our findings, we present further improvements that can be used to achieve more democracy and equity in the digital context.

arXiv:2607.03646v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bitcoin (BTC) wealth distribution is often studied with macro indicators like wallet balances, prices, network activity, fees, and hashrate. This letter proposes a "Crypto-Microeconomic Observability Framework" to examine micro-level Bitcoin wealth disparities across five labeled agent classes: Service, Abuse, Malware, Individuals, and Benign. Using descriptive, inequality, and longitudinal concentration metrics, we show that Bitcoin wealth is highly concentrated across major classes, consistent with a persistent "Whale-Effect". Service entities hold the largest share of observed BTC (75.15%), while Abuse controls a disproportionately large share relative to its entity count (24.26% of BTC vs. 3.53% of entities). Individuals, Abuse, and Service show near-maximal within-class inequality (e.g., Gini = 0.9993 for Individuals), and time-series analysis indicates these patterns persist. Overall, Bitcoin wealth among labeled economic agents

arXiv:2607.03646v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Bitcoin (BTC) wealth distribution is often studied with macro indicators like wallet balances, prices, network activity, fees, and hashrate. This letter proposes a "Crypto-Microeconomic Observability Framework" to examine micro-level Bitcoin wealth disparities across five labeled agent classes: Service, Abuse, Malware, Individuals, and Benign. Using descriptive, inequality, and longitudinal concentration metrics, we show that Bitcoin wealth is highly concentrated across major classes, consistent with a persistent "Whale-Effect". Service entities hold the largest share of observed BTC (75.15%), while Abuse controls a disproportionately large share relative to its entity count (24.26% of BTC vs. 3.53% of entities). Individuals, Abuse, and Service show near-maximal within-class inequality (e.g., Gini = 0.9993 for Individuals), and time-series analysis indicates these patterns persist. Overall, Bitcoin wealth among labeled economic agents

One month that shook the market: Saylor's struggles over bitcoin strategy yields big losses  CoinDeskMichael Saylor’s New MSTR Playbook Is Already Costing Investors: 17% of Bitcoin Sale Capacity Gone  Yahoo FinanceOne Great Chart: Why Investors Care About Strategy’s Math Trap  WSJStrategy sheds $216 million in Bitcoin in crypto hoarder’s largest sale ever  FortuneDow Jones Top Financial Services Headlines at 11 AM ET: Strategy Logs $8.3 Billion Loss as It Sells Off Bitcoin | Michael ...  Moomoo

One month that shook the market: Saylor's struggles over bitcoin strategy yields big losses  CoinDeskMichael Saylor’s New MSTR Playbook Is Already Costing Investors: 17% of Bitcoin Sale Capacity Gone  Yahoo FinanceOne Great Chart: Why Investors Care About Strategy’s Math Trap  WSJStrategy sheds $216 million in Bitcoin in crypto hoarder’s largest sale ever  FortuneDow Jones Top Financial Services Headlines at 11 AM ET: Strategy Logs $8.3 Billion Loss as It Sells Off Bitcoin | Michael ...  Moomoo

Live updates: Bitcoin slips after Strategy sells 3,588 BTC for $216 million  CoinDeskMichael Saylor’s New MSTR Playbook Is Already Costing Investors: 17% of Bitcoin Sale Capacity Gone  Yahoo FinanceOne Great Chart: Why Investors Care About Strategy’s Math Trap  WSJDow Jones Top Financial Services Headlines at 11 AM ET: Strategy Logs $8.3 Billion Loss as It Sells Off Bitcoin | Michael ...  MoomooStrategy Announces Digital Credit Capital Framework, USD Reserve Policy, STRC Dividend Policy, Digital Credit and MSTR Repurchase Authorizations, and BTC Monetization Program  Strategy

Live updates: Bitcoin slips after Strategy sells 3,588 BTC for $216 million  CoinDeskMichael Saylor’s New MSTR Playbook Is Already Costing Investors: 17% of Bitcoin Sale Capacity Gone  Yahoo FinanceOne Great Chart: Why Investors Care About Strategy’s Math Trap  WSJDow Jones Top Financial Services Headlines at 11 AM ET: Strategy Logs $8.3 Billion Loss as It Sells Off Bitcoin | Michael ...  MoomooStrategy Announces Digital Credit Capital Framework, USD Reserve Policy, STRC Dividend Policy, Digital Credit and MSTR Repurchase Authorizations, and BTC Monetization Program  Strategy

Ross Gerber Says Trump's $1 Billion Crypto Windfall Is Why 'Bitcoin Went Down and Isn't Going Anywhere'  Yahoo FinanceDoes Trump Worry About Conflicts of Interest? ‘I Found Out That Nobody Cared.’  The New York TimesFormer ethics lawyer says Trump's crypto poses 'clear conflict of interest'  NPRTrump’s wealth grew on a scale without modern presidential precedent  The Washington PostTrump's $2B income in 2025 raises fresh questions about profiting off presidency  PBS

Ross Gerber Says Trump's $1 Billion Crypto Windfall Is Why 'Bitcoin Went Down and Isn't Going Anywhere'  Yahoo FinanceDoes Trump Worry About Conflicts of Interest? ‘I Found Out That Nobody Cared.’  The New York TimesFormer ethics lawyer says Trump's crypto poses 'clear conflict of interest'  NPRTrump’s wealth grew on a scale without modern presidential precedent  The Washington PostTrump's $2B income in 2025 raises fresh questions about profiting off presidency  PBS

arXiv:2607.00772v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a longitudinal measurement study on the adoption of detectable, second-generation anonymisation protocols in the Bitcoin network, including CoinJoin, CoinSwap, CoinShuffle and Stealth Addresses. By implementing and refining a suite of heuristic filters, we identify over 5.94 million CoinJoin and 23.3 million CoinSwap transactions. Besides, the use of CoinShuffle was unexpectedly found to be closely aligned with the Wasabi wallet operation period. Our analysis reveals consistently low adoption rates, with these protocols constituting less than 1% of network transactions, and a sharp decline in detectable usage following key regulatory events. Furthermore, we find no evidence of standardised Stealth Address adoption, indicating a failure to converge on a common privacy standard. This study provides a comprehensive picture of a niche ecosystem whose on-chain visibility has been largely suppressed, strongly suggesting the

Outright shorting bitcoin or high-beta crypto equities after a steep decline carries immense tail risk.

Researchers reveal that we waste a huge amount of energy on redundant bitcoin mining operations — where different miners try to grab the same bitcoin.

Strategy’s Turnaround Plan Includes Stock Buyback, Bitcoin Sales and More Reserves  WSJStrategy Announces Digital Credit Capital Framework, USD Reserve Policy, STRC Dividend Policy, Digital Credit and MSTR Repurchase Authorizations, and BTC Monetization Program  StrategyStrategy Abandons ‘Never Sell Bitcoin’ Mantra in Bid to Outlast Crypto Winter  WSJMicroStrategy Stops Just Hoarding Bitcoin — Now It Will Manage It Like Smart Money  Yahoo FinanceStrategy Just Unveiled a Financial Overhaul: Bitcoin Sales, Dividends, and Stock Buybacks  Barron's

Strategy’s Turnaround Plan Includes Stock Buyback, Bitcoin Sales and More Reserves  WSJStrategy Announces Digital Credit Capital Framework, USD Reserve Policy, STRC Dividend Policy, Digital Credit and MSTR Repurchase Authorizations, and BTC Monetization Program  StrategyStrategy Abandons ‘Never Sell Bitcoin’ Mantra in Bid to Outlast Crypto Winter  WSJMicroStrategy Stops Just Hoarding Bitcoin — Now It Will Manage It Like Smart Money  Yahoo FinanceStrategy Just Unveiled a Financial Overhaul: Bitcoin Sales, Dividends, and Stock Buybacks  Barron's

Strategy Says It May Sell Up to $1.25 Billion of Bitcoin  Bloomberg.comStrategy’s Turnaround Plan Includes Stock Buyback, Bitcoin Sales and More Reserves  WSJStrategy Announces Digital Credit Capital Framework, USD Reserve Policy, STRC Dividend Policy, Digital Credit and MSTR Repurchase Authorizations, and BTC Monetization Program  StrategyStrategy authorizes bitcoin sales under new monetization framework  CoinDeskStrategy pauses bitcoin buys, establishes $1B digital credit repurchase program as USD reserve tops $2.5B  The Block

Strategy Says It May Sell Up to $1.25 Billion of Bitcoin  Bloomberg.comStrategy’s Turnaround Plan Includes Stock Buyback, Bitcoin Sales and More Reserves  WSJStrategy Announces Digital Credit Capital Framework, USD Reserve Policy, STRC Dividend Policy, Digital Credit and MSTR Repurchase Authorizations, and BTC Monetization Program  StrategyStrategy authorizes bitcoin sales under new monetization framework  CoinDeskStrategy pauses bitcoin buys, establishes $1B digital credit repurchase program as USD reserve tops $2.5B  The Block

Jeremy Grantham renewed his long-running criticism of bitcoin, predicting it will gradually fade into irrelevance over decades.

Jeremy Grantham renewed his long-running criticism of bitcoin, predicting it will gradually fade into irrelevance over decades.

Options traders are treating this break like it could be the tip of an iceberg. 

Bitcoin, now in the eighth month of its bear market, dropped to an October 2024 low amid a pullback in tech stocks.

Bitcoin, now in the eighth month of its bear market, dropped to an October 2024 low amid a pullback in tech stocks.

BTC analysis: SpaceX’s $600 billion plunge erased nearly half of bitcoin’s market cap in three days  CoinDeskGlobal tech sell-off intensifies, led by SpaceX slide  NBC NewsMorning Bid: SpaceXhaust  ReutersSpaceX stock down again, shaving off some IPO gains; confirms debt offering  Yahoo FinanceSpaceX Falls for Third Day, Erases $600 Billion in Market Value  Bloomberg

BTC analysis: SpaceX’s $600 billion plunge erased nearly half of bitcoin’s market cap in three days  CoinDeskGlobal tech sell-off intensifies, led by SpaceX slide  NBC NewsMorning Bid: SpaceXhaust  ReutersSpaceX stock down again, shaving off some IPO gains; confirms debt offering  Yahoo FinanceSpaceX Falls for Third Day, Erases $600 Billion in Market Value  Bloomberg

CoinDesk’s president of indices and data has a message for investors: Don’t count out bitcoin.

arXiv:2606.19517v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The digitization of financial markets has produced two classes of platforms that price, in principle, the same state - contingent payoffs: centralized crypto-option exchanges and blockchain-based prediction markets. This paper provides the first option-implied benchmark test of prediction-market pricing for cryptocurrency threshold contracts. For each hour in a matched sample, we compare the Polymarket Yes price with the discounted risk-neutral binary value implied by a listed Binance call option on the same underlying, strike, and maturity, and study the gap between them. In the main September 2023 Bitcoin contract, the mean pricing gap equals 5.6 percentage points across 214 hourly observations (t = 6.46, p

Live updates: Bitcoin bottom signal flashes as holders absorbed 125,000 BTC in June  CoinDeskFed Chair Warsh expected to withhold 'dot' from central bank's interest rate outlook  CNBCThe Fed’s new era begins. Here’s what it means for your money  CNNTrump Picked Warsh to Cut Rates. His Committee Is Talking About Hikes.  WSJInflation and Kevin Warsh take center stage at the Federal Reserve’s interest rate meeting  NBC News

Live updates: Bitcoin bottom signal flashes as holders absorbed 125,000 BTC in June  CoinDeskFed Chair Warsh expected to withhold 'dot' from central bank's interest rate outlook  CNBCThe Fed’s new era begins. Here’s what it means for your money  CNNTrump Picked Warsh to Cut Rates. His Committee Is Talking About Hikes.  WSJInflation and Kevin Warsh take center stage at the Federal Reserve’s interest rate meeting  NBC News

Many advisors and money-managers invested in index funds who will soon be owners of Elon Musk's astronomic ambitions

Bitcoin rises after Bank of Japan hikes interest rates to a 31-year high  CoinDeskJapan raises interest rate to highest for 31 years  BBCBank of Japan raises rates to 1%, highest since 1995  qz.comDollar steady, no respite for yen after BOJ hikes rates as expected  Yahoo FinanceJapan Raises Rates to 31-Year High to Ward Off War Inflation  The New York Times

Bitcoin rises after Bank of Japan hikes interest rates to a 31-year high  CoinDeskJapan raises interest rate to highest for 31 years  BBCBank of Japan raises rates to 1%, highest since 1995  qz.comDollar steady, no respite for yen after BOJ hikes rates as expected  Yahoo FinanceJapan Raises Rates to 31-Year High to Ward Off War Inflation  The New York Times

The same blockchain technology that fascinates researchers studying distributed systems and powers experiments in everything from supply-chain tracking

arXiv:2606.14484v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantum computing poses a real, broad-based, but bounded and substantially mitigable threat to Bitcoin and Ethereum. We separate the two quantum algorithms that public discussion routinely conflates: Shor's algorithm breaks the elliptic-curve signatures (ECDSA over secp256k1, BLS over BLS12-381) that authorize spending, whereas Grover's algorithm does not meaningfully threaten proof-of-work mining, which is protected by a merely quadratic speedup, fault-tolerant per-operation costs, a square-root parallelization wall, and difficulty adjustment. Folding hardware scaling, the falling resource requirement, a fault-tolerance readiness lag, and expert surveys into a single Monte-Carlo forecast yields a wide, bimodal arrival distribution for a cryptographically relevant quantum computer: about a one-in-six chance by 2035, near 30% by 2040, and about 60% by 2050. Exposure is concentrated and mostly migratable: of Bitcoin's roughly six million

The cryptocurrency's latest selloff is forcing investors to revisit what role, if any, bitcoin should play in a portfolio.

The crypto market has thousands of coins. Most of them receive little sustained attention among non-stablecoin crypto assets. 5

arXiv:2606.12887v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bitcoin's Lightning Network (LN) can be exploited as a covert, low-cost command-and-control (C&C) channel for botnets, as demonstrated by the LNBot and D-LNBot designs. However, both remain proof-of-concept prototypes evaluated only through simulation, leaving key questions about real-world topology formation, propagation complexity, and resilience to takedowns unanswered. We present LNTest, the first reusable testbed for LN-based botnets, built from Core Lightning nodes containerized with Docker over a shared Bitcoin Core regtest chain. LNTest supports three overlay topology modes (a deterministic chain, autonomous peer discovery, and user-supplied graphs), enabling controlled experiments across different botnet structures. Using LNTest, we report three main findings. First, D-LNBot's autonomous formation protocol does not produce the uniform chain from its design; instead, it creates a clustered chain in which cliques are linked by

Precious metals were firmly in negative territory, as fears about inflation and the Federal Reserve's interest rate path weighed on investor sentiment.

The year has been a rocky one for the flagship cryptocurrency, but traders aren't backing away from the space.

Одна транзакция в сети Bitcoin сопровождается выбросами примерно 486 кг углекислого газа, тогда как в сети Ethereum этот показатель составляет лишь тысячные доли килограмма, говорится в исследовании Люцернского университета и Swiss Economics.

Одна транзакция в сети Bitcoin сопровождается выбросами примерно 486 кг углекислого газа, тогда как в сети Ethereum этот показатель составляет лишь тысячные доли килограмма, говорится в исследовании Люцернского университета и Swiss Economics.

arXiv:2606.06860v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bitcoin is permissionless and does not rely on any central administrator, which gives it strong censorship resistance. At the same time, it is important to incentivize miners to behave in ways that align with the interests of the system as a whole. This paper asks whether miners are individually incentivized to propagate blocks, one of the most fundamental processes in Bitcoin. Miners collectively maintain the blockchain by generating blocks and disseminating them across the network. If miners have an incentive not to propagate some blocks, this would indicate a fundamental flaw in Bitcoin's incentive design. Although prior work has studied how propagation delays affect forks and mining rewards, it has not fully characterized miners' incentives to improve block propagation under different tie-breaking rules. To address this gap, we derive analytical reward expressions for each tie-breaking rule based on a blockchain network model that

Korea's major cryptocurrency exchanges have paid out billions of won in compensation for hacking incidents and system failures in recent years, data showed Sunday, with Bithumb reimbursing users about 2.5 billion won ($1.6 million) following the erroneous distribution of 620,000 bitcoins earlier this year. According to data submitted by the Financial Supervisory Service and major cryptocurrency exchanges to Rep. Lee Hun-seung of the main opposition People Power Party, one of the costliest incidents involved Bithumb, following an accidental bitcoin crediting incident in February. An employee mistakenly entered bitcoin instead of Korean won when processing rewards for a promotional event, resulting in the erroneous distribution of about 620,000 bitcoins to 249 users. The error triggered sharp price distortions, prompting Bithumb to compensate affected users. In a separate case, Upbit paid about 790 million won in compensation following a security breach in November 2025. Upbit said

As bitcoin dropped to its lowest price since 2024, investors flock to a new type of crypto investment linked to the hyperliquid platforms, HYPE ETFs.

WASHINGTON — Bitcoin dropped below $60,000 on Friday, its lowest level since October 2024, just before Donald Trump's election, which propelled it to a record high. The currency fell by about 6 percent around 1615 GMT, to $59.7709, before paring its losses slightly. The election of Trump, a staunch advocate of cryptocurrencies, to the White House for a second term in November 2024 sparked a wave of enthusiasm in the sector, sending the price of bitcoin soaring to nearly $110,000. The current dip has been caused by factors including one corporate selloff, according to Emma Bernuau, a consultant at Eurosagency. A surprise sale by Strategy one of bitcoin's most prominent corporate holders — rattled confidence. The firm revealed it had sold 32 BTC from its reserves, the first such disposal in several years. "Although the amount was minimal, the symbolic — significance is considerable," Bernuau said. "The market had generally considered that Strategy had no intention of selling its bitcoin

Bitcoin loses $60,000, falls to weakest price since October 2024  CoinDeskBitcoin cracks $60,000, sinking to lowest level since October 2024  CNBCBitcoin's star fades, as investors flock to lustre of AI and megacap IPOs  ReutersBitcoin price crash reveals a surprisingly positive future outcome  Yahoo FinanceBitcoin’s sagging price has crypto bears taking a victory lap. Why it’s too soon to count it out.  MarketWatch

Bitcoin loses $60,000, falls to weakest price since October 2024  CoinDeskBitcoin cracks $60,000, sinking to lowest level since October 2024  CNBCBitcoin's star fades, as investors flock to lustre of AI and megacap IPOs  ReutersBitcoin price crash reveals a surprisingly positive future outcome  Yahoo FinanceBitcoin’s sagging price has crypto bears taking a victory lap. Why it’s too soon to count it out.  MarketWatch

WASHINGTON — Bitcoin dropped below $60,000 on Friday, its lowest level since October 2024, just before Donald Trump's election, which propelled it to a record high. The currency fell by about 6 percent around 1615 GMT, to $59.7709, before paring its losses slightly. The election of Trump, a staunch advocate of cryptocurrencies, to the White House for a second term in November 2024 sparked a wave of enthusiasm in the sector, sending the price of bitcoin soaring to nearly $110,000. The current dip has ben caused by factors including one corporate selloff, according to Emma Bernuau, a consultant at Eurosagency. A surprise sale by Strategy one of bitcoin's most prominent corporate holders — rattled confidence. The firm revealed it had sold 32 BTC from its reserves, the first such disposal in several years. "Although the amount was minimal, the symbolic — significance is considerable," Bernuau said. "The market had generally considered that Strategy had no intention of selling its bitcoin

Bitcoin Falls Below $60,000 for First Time Since 2024 Trump Win  Yahoo FinanceBitcoin cracks $60,000, sinking to lowest level since October 2024  CNBCBitcoin is suffering from an ‘attention’ deficit, as momentum traders have moved on  MarketWatchBitcoin's star fades, as investors flock to lustre of AI and megacap IPOs  ReutersBitcoin price crash reveals a surprisingly positive future outcome  Yahoo Finance

Bitcoin Falls Below $60,000 for First Time Since 2024 Trump Win  Yahoo FinanceBitcoin cracks $60,000, sinking to lowest level since October 2024  CNBCBitcoin is suffering from an ‘attention’ deficit, as momentum traders have moved on  MarketWatchBitcoin's star fades, as investors flock to lustre of AI and megacap IPOs  ReutersBitcoin price crash reveals a surprisingly positive future outcome  Yahoo Finance

Bitcoin's star fades, as investors flock to lustre of AI and megacap IPOs  ReutersBitcoin cracks $60,000, sinking to lowest level since October 2024  CNBCBitcoin Drops Under $60,000—A First Since Late 2024  ForbesBitcoin price crash reveals a surprisingly positive future outcome  Yahoo FinanceBitcoin’s sagging price has crypto bears taking a victory lap. Why it’s too soon to count it out.  MarketWatch

Bitcoin's star fades, as investors flock to lustre of AI and megacap IPOs  ReutersBitcoin cracks $60,000, sinking to lowest level since October 2024  CNBCBitcoin Drops Under $60,000—A First Since Late 2024  ForbesBitcoin price crash reveals a surprisingly positive future outcome  Yahoo FinanceBitcoin’s sagging price has crypto bears taking a victory lap. Why it’s too soon to count it out.  MarketWatch

Flows around Strategy (MSTR) and the company's variable-rate preferred stock STRC are turning bearish this week.

Bitcoin Falls Below $60,000 for First Time Since 2024 Trump Win  Bloomberg.comBitcoin cracks $60,000, sinking to lowest level since October 2024  CNBCBitcoin Drops Under $60,000—A First Since Late 2024  ForbesBitcoin’s sagging price has crypto bears taking a victory lap. Why it’s too soon to count it out.  MarketWatchBitcoin's star fades, as investors flock to lustre of AI and megacap IPOs  Reuters

Bitcoin Falls Below $60,000 for First Time Since 2024 Trump Win  Bloomberg.comBitcoin cracks $60,000, sinking to lowest level since October 2024  CNBCBitcoin Drops Under $60,000—A First Since Late 2024  ForbesBitcoin’s sagging price has crypto bears taking a victory lap. Why it’s too soon to count it out.  MarketWatchBitcoin's star fades, as investors flock to lustre of AI and megacap IPOs  Reuters

Bitcoin plunges to near $62,000 as the AI trade unwinds, HYPE falls 14%  CoinDeskBitcoin cracks $60,000, sinking to lowest level since October 2024  CNBCBitcoin’s sagging price has crypto bears taking a victory lap. Why it’s too soon to count it out.  MarketWatchBitcoin's star fades, as investors flock to lustre of AI and megacap IPOs  ReutersBitcoin is down horrendous  Morning Brew

Bitcoin plunges to near $62,000 as the AI trade unwinds, HYPE falls 14%  CoinDeskBitcoin cracks $60,000, sinking to lowest level since October 2024  CNBCBitcoin’s sagging price has crypto bears taking a victory lap. Why it’s too soon to count it out.  MarketWatchBitcoin's star fades, as investors flock to lustre of AI and megacap IPOs  ReutersBitcoin is down horrendous  Morning Brew

WASHINGTON — Bitcoin dropped below $60,000 on Friday, its lowest level since October 2024, just before Donald Trump's election, which propelled it to a record high. The currency fell by about 6 percent around 1615 GMT, to $59.7709, before paring its losses slightly. The election of Trump, a staunch advocate of cryptocurrencies, to the White House for a second term in November 2024 sparked a wave of enthusiasm in the sector, sending the price of bitcoin soaring to nearly $110,000. The current dip has ben caused by factors including one corporate selloff, according to Emma Bernuau, a consultant at Eurosagency. A surprise sale by Strategy one of bitcoin's most prominent corporate holders — rattled confidence. The firm revealed it had sold 32 BTC from its reserves, the first such disposal in several years. "Although the amount was minimal, the symbolic — significance is considerable," Bernuau said. "The market had generally considered that Strategy had no intention of selling its bitcoin

Bitcoin is down horrendous  Morning BrewBitcoin caps a dismal week as price wallows 50% below its all-time high  CNBCBitcoin's star fades, as investors flock to lustre of AI and megacap IPOs  ReutersEther and Privacy Coins Lead Latest Losses as Crypto Plummets  Bloomberg.comBitcoin and Ethereum Head Toward 52-Week Lows. Cryptocurrencies Hit a Brick Wall.  Barron's

Bitcoin is down horrendous  Morning BrewBitcoin caps a dismal week as price wallows 50% below its all-time high  CNBCBitcoin's star fades, as investors flock to lustre of AI and megacap IPOs  ReutersEther and Privacy Coins Lead Latest Losses as Crypto Plummets  Bloomberg.comBitcoin and Ethereum Head Toward 52-Week Lows. Cryptocurrencies Hit a Brick Wall.  Barron's

Live updates: bitcoin falls below $62,000 ahead of jobs data as Zcash bug rocks crypto  CoinDeskBitcoin caps a dismal week as price wallows 50% below its all-time high  CNBCBitcoin's star fades, as investors flock to lustre of AI and megacap IPOs  ReutersEther and Privacy Coins Lead Latest Losses as Crypto Plummets  Bloomberg.comBitcoin's Price Is Back Near Its 2026 Low. Here's How Rough This Week Has Been for Crypto.  Investopedia

Live updates: bitcoin falls below $62,000 ahead of jobs data as Zcash bug rocks crypto  CoinDeskBitcoin caps a dismal week as price wallows 50% below its all-time high  CNBCBitcoin's star fades, as investors flock to lustre of AI and megacap IPOs  ReutersEther and Privacy Coins Lead Latest Losses as Crypto Plummets  Bloomberg.comBitcoin's Price Is Back Near Its 2026 Low. Here's How Rough This Week Has Been for Crypto.  Investopedia

Crypto's worst week since July 2024 deepens as bitcoin, ether near critical price levels  CoinDeskBitcoin caps a dismal week as price wallows 50% below its all-time high  CNBCBitcoin's star fades, as investors flock to lustre of AI and megacap IPOs  ReutersEther and Privacy Coins Lead Latest Losses as Crypto Plummets  BloombergBitcoin's Price Is Back Near Its 2026 Low. Here's How Rough This Week Has Been for Crypto.  Investopedia

Crypto's worst week since July 2024 deepens as bitcoin, ether near critical price levels  CoinDeskBitcoin caps a dismal week as price wallows 50% below its all-time high  CNBCBitcoin's star fades, as investors flock to lustre of AI and megacap IPOs  ReutersEther and Privacy Coins Lead Latest Losses as Crypto Plummets  BloombergBitcoin's Price Is Back Near Its 2026 Low. Here's How Rough This Week Has Been for Crypto.  Investopedia

A rebound in the digital currency, or characteristic dip-buying by investors, is yet to take place.

arXiv:2606.05503v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bitcoin's block reward is scheduled to decline to zero, raising concerns about whether the network can remain secure once miners rely solely on transaction fees. This paper seeks to identify the conditions under which large-scale and persistent deviation from honest mining can arise. We analyze and compare the payoffs of honest and deviating miners in a sequential decision model, and identify a deviation threshold $G_t$ at which honest mining ceases to be privately optimal. Around the 2024 Bitcoin halving, we show that current mining behavior does not exhibit large-scale or structural deviation. However, when the block reward is removed, the $G_t$ criterion implies that deviation can arise even with a very small fraction of transaction fees. Finally, we evaluate three protocol-level mechanisms: Base Fee, Fee Floor, and an adaptive maximum block size rule, and show that their combination raises the deviation threshold and mitigates

Bitcoin Falls to Pre-Iran Conflict Low as Crypto Slide Extends  Bloomberg.comBitcoin is weathering its ugliest week in months as narrative fades and liquidity rotates  CNBCStrategy's Michael Saylor Blames 'Capital Rotation' Into AI as Bitcoin Dives 13%  Yahoo FinanceBitcoin’s sagging price has crypto bears taking a victory lap. Why it’s too soon to count it out.  MarketWatchBitcoin tumbles after Strategy sale unnerves crypto traders  Financial Times

Bitcoin Falls to Pre-Iran Conflict Low as Crypto Slide Extends  Bloomberg.comBitcoin is weathering its ugliest week in months as narrative fades and liquidity rotates  CNBCStrategy's Michael Saylor Blames 'Capital Rotation' Into AI as Bitcoin Dives 13%  Yahoo FinanceBitcoin’s sagging price has crypto bears taking a victory lap. Why it’s too soon to count it out.  MarketWatchBitcoin tumbles after Strategy sale unnerves crypto traders  Financial Times

Bitcoin is getting pummeled to kick off June as the market loses its dominant narrative and liquidity continues to rotate into other assets.

Bitcoin is getting pummeled to kick off June as the market loses its dominant narrative and liquidity continues to rotate into other assets.

In the past two days, bitcoin's highest conviction holders have sold about $2.4 billion in bitcoin.

In the past two days, bitcoin's highest conviction holders have sold about $2.4 billion in bitcoin.

The cryptocurrency is likely to break below its lows hit in early February, traders on prediction market Kalshi believe.

Bitcoin hasn't had this cold a winter in seven years.

Bitcoin continues to decline as stocks hit record highs, with investors also eyeing big IPOs.

Stock Market Today: Dow, S&P 500 set to extend longest win streaks of the year, while Nasdaq wavers; Alphabet, Microsoft slide; Bitcoin below $68,000  MarketWatchDow jumps more than 200 points, S&P 500 posts first close above 7,600: Live updates  CNBCDow, S&P 500 end at fresh records and extend their longest winning streaks of the year  MarketWatchWall St muted as AI zeal is held in check by Middle East tensions  ReutersU.S. Markets Closed Up Tuesday; Marvell Technology Led Increases  Barron's

Stock Market Today: Dow, S&P 500 set to extend longest win streaks of the year, while Nasdaq wavers; Alphabet, Microsoft slide; Bitcoin below $68,000  MarketWatchDow jumps more than 200 points, S&P 500 posts first close above 7,600: Live updates  CNBCDow, S&P 500 end at fresh records and extend their longest winning streaks of the year  MarketWatchWall St muted as AI zeal is held in check by Middle East tensions  ReutersU.S. Markets Closed Up Tuesday; Marvell Technology Led Increases  Barron's

Bitcoin on Tuesday fell below $70,000 for the first time since April amid deteriorating market sentiment.

Bitcoin on Tuesday fell below $70,000 for the first time since April amid deteriorating market sentiment.

Kriptobazarda "Bitcoin"in qiyməti 7 aprel 2026-dan sonra ilk dəfə 70 min dollardan aşağı düşüb. Day.Az Milli.Az-a istinadən xəbər verir ki, "Binance" platformasında aktivin dəyəri Bakı vaxtı ilə 10:56-da 4.46% azalaraq 69 788 dollar olub.

arXiv:2606.02528v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models now power robo-advisors and trading agents, yet whether they carry built-in biases toward specific assets is largely untested. We ask three questions: do LLMs systematically prefer certain financial instruments; can an internal representation with causal leverage over those preferences be identified; and does that representation affect downstream financial decisions? We develop a three-level audit protocol and apply it to Bitcoin. First, a behavioral audit of eight frontier LLMs shows that Bitcoin's ranking among money-like instruments is frame-dependent: models place it around rank 5 of 8 as "reliable money" but near the top under crisis and autonomous-agent frames, and an attribute-swap experiment confirms rankings track functional properties, not names. Second, we open a model's internals: a search across thousands of sparse-autoencoder features in Gemma 3 identifies a dominant Bitcoin-selective feature.

arXiv:2606.00071v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bitcoin price prediction has attracted hundreds of academic papers and continuous social media debate, yet the field lacks consensus on even basic questions: can any model beat a naive "today's price" baseline at horizons of one to six months? We survey the peer-reviewed landscape, categorize papers by evaluation methodology, and contrast academic findings with informal but substantive discourse on X/Twitter. The picture that emerges is sobering. At short-to-medium horizons, no peer-reviewed study has shown robust superiority over the naive baseline across multiple market regimes. Daily predictability is real but does not extend to hourly or monthly horizons, and may not survive transaction costs. The stock-to-flow model has failed formal out-of-sample testing, and Metcalfe's Law valuations have been challenged as spurious. The Bitcoin price power law, while empirically compelling, has not been subjected to formal distributional tests.

arXiv:2606.00060v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper investigates whether machine learning forecasts of hourly BTC-USDT returns can be converted into economically meaningful trading performance after transaction costs. Using approximately 70,000 hourly observations from 2018-2026, XGBoost, LSTM, and iTransformer are evaluated in a 27-fold walk-forward protocol. All three models produce positive gross trading performance in selected configurations, but naive sign-based strategies fail once transaction costs of ten basis points are imposed. A cost-aware execution filter, which prevents trades only when the forecast magnitude exceeds a transaction-cost-based threshold, sharply reduces turnover and restores profitability in selected configurations. The strongest long-only XGBoost strategy produces annualised returns above 65% with a Sharpe ratio above one. Additional tests show that technical indicators improve performance in selected cases, EGARCH-derived features do not provide

arXiv:2606.02528v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models now power robo-advisors and trading agents, yet whether they carry built-in biases toward specific assets is largely untested. We ask three questions: do LLMs systematically prefer certain financial instruments; can an internal representation with causal leverage over those preferences be identified; and does that representation affect downstream financial decisions? We develop a three-level audit protocol and apply it to Bitcoin. First, a behavioral audit of eight frontier LLMs shows that Bitcoin's ranking among money-like instruments is frame-dependent: models place it around rank 5 of 8 as "reliable money" but near the top under crisis and autonomous-agent frames, and an attribute-swap experiment confirms rankings track functional properties, not names. Second, we open a model's internals: a search across thousands of sparse-autoencoder features in Gemma 3 identifies a dominant Bitcoin-selective feature.

arXiv:2606.00587v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large, fast-controllable loads such as Bitcoin mining facilities are increasingly viewed as potential sources of flexibility in modern power systems, yet the conditions under which this flexibility is realized remain incompletely understood. Using the Texas power market as an empirical setting, we examine how Bitcoin-mining load responds to two distinct electricity-sector cost channels: contemporaneous wholesale electricity prices and incentives created by coincident-peak-based transmission charges. We find that mining load responds to both cost channels in a manner consistent with miners operating around a breakeven point. At the aggregate level, we observe that mining load decreases as electricity-sector costs rise, but the strength of this response depends on hashprice, a measure of expected mining revenue from the crypto-financial sector. When hashprice is higher, aggregate load responsiveness is weaker. This mechanism is

arXiv:2606.00071v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Bitcoin price prediction has attracted hundreds of academic papers and continuous social media debate, yet the field lacks consensus on even basic questions: can any model beat a naive "today's price" baseline at horizons of one to six months? We survey the peer-reviewed landscape, categorize papers by evaluation methodology, and contrast academic findings with informal but substantive discourse on X/Twitter. The picture that emerges is sobering. At short-to-medium horizons, no peer-reviewed study has shown robust superiority over the naive baseline across multiple market regimes. Daily predictability is real but does not extend to hourly or monthly horizons, and may not survive transaction costs. The stock-to-flow model has failed formal out-of-sample testing, and Metcalfe's Law valuations have been challenged as spurious. The Bitcoin price power law, while empirically compelling, has not been subjected to formal distributional tests.

arXiv:2606.00060v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper investigates whether machine learning forecasts of hourly BTC-USDT returns can be converted into economically meaningful trading performance after transaction costs. Using approximately 70,000 hourly observations from 2018-2026, XGBoost, LSTM, and iTransformer are evaluated in a 27-fold walk-forward protocol. All three models produce positive gross trading performance in selected configurations, but naive sign-based strategies fail once transaction costs of ten basis points are imposed. A cost-aware execution filter, which prevents trades only when the forecast magnitude exceeds a transaction-cost-based threshold, sharply reduces turnover and restores profitability in selected configurations. The strongest long-only XGBoost strategy produces annualised returns above 65% with a Sharpe ratio above one. Additional tests show that technical indicators improve performance in selected cases, EGARCH-derived features do not provide

Michael Saylor's Strategy sold bitcoin for the second time ever as geopolitical uncertainty continues to weigh on the cryptocurrency's price.

Michael Saylor's Strategy sold bitcoin for the second time ever as geopolitical uncertainty continues to weigh on the cryptocurrency's price.

Even if you’ve never bought any cryptocurrency, like columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, your money may be affected by Bitcoin’s fate – which is uncertain, as quantum computing advances are threatening to make the encryption protecting it useless

arXiv:2605.29309v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper estimates the carry embedded in listed IBIT options and compares it with the carry embedded in matched CME bitcoin futures. Put-call parity recovers an implied forward on the ETF; BlackRock's daily holdings file maps each ETF share into bitcoin units; and CME futures prices and BRRNY, a U.S. close bitcoin reference rate, provide the corresponding futures-market carry. The difference in carry implied by these two products is consistent with frictions that limit cross-margining between spot bitcoin or ETF exposure and CME futures. In the selected-strike IBIT sample of 386 date-bucket observations, the mean wedge is 2.58 percent and the median wedge is 2.52 percent, both measured in annual percentage points. The result is consistent with segmented collateral and margin systems limiting arbitrage between regulated bitcoin-exposure venues.

Son 24 saat ərzində qlobal kriptovalyuta bazarının kapitallaşması 0,97% artaraq 2,48 trilyon ABŞ dollarına çatıb. Day.Az xəbər verir ki, ən böyük kriptovalyuta olan Bitcoin 0,76% bahalaşaraq 73 710 ABŞ dollarına yüksəlib, Ethereum 2 016 ABŞ dolları, BNB isə 637 ABŞ dolları olub.

Is the ‘debasement trade’ dead? Outflows from gold and bitcoin ETFs suggest investors are moving on  MarketWatchBitcoin's (BTC) run against gold is breaking. What next?  CoinDeskINSTITUTIONAL | Gold and Metals ETFs See Billions in Recent Inflows While Crypto ETFs See Similar Volume Outflows  BitKEWhy BTC gold ratio breakdown signals shifting asset dominance  KuCoinCRYPTO KING MUNTAJUL(@CRYPTO-KING008c1c5c4907)'s insights  Binance

Is the ‘debasement trade’ dead? Outflows from gold and bitcoin ETFs suggest investors are moving on  MarketWatchBitcoin's (BTC) run against gold is breaking. What next?  CoinDeskINSTITUTIONAL | Gold and Metals ETFs See Billions in Recent Inflows While Crypto ETFs See Similar Volume Outflows  BitKEWhy BTC gold ratio breakdown signals shifting asset dominance  KuCoinCRYPTO KING MUNTAJUL(@CRYPTO-KING008c1c5c4907)'s insights  Binance

Bitcoin price updates: BTC slips back near $75,000 as investors turn elsewhere for gains  CoinDeskSK Hynix joins Micron in $1 trillion club as AI memory chip rally accelerates  Yahoo FinanceMorning Bid: Out of the blue chips  ReutersA rival joins Micron in the $1 trillion club as one bank argues AI is actually underhyped  MarketWatchSK Hynix hits $1 trillion valuation as AI boom lifts South Korean chip stocks  CNBC

Bitcoin price updates: BTC slips back near $75,000 as investors turn elsewhere for gains  CoinDeskSK Hynix joins Micron in $1 trillion club as AI memory chip rally accelerates  Yahoo FinanceMorning Bid: Out of the blue chips  ReutersA rival joins Micron in the $1 trillion club as one bank argues AI is actually underhyped  MarketWatchSK Hynix hits $1 trillion valuation as AI boom lifts South Korean chip stocks  CNBC

Live markets: Bitcoin continues holding pattern near $77,000 ahead of Kevin Warsh taking over at Fed  CoinDeskTrump Picked Warsh to Cut Rates. Markets Are Bracing for the Opposite.  WSJTrump wants new Fed chair to be 'totally independent'  BBCKevin Warsh sworn in as Fed chair at pivotal moment for US economy  CNNTrump to Fed chair Warsh: "Don't look at me, don't look at anybody"  Axios

Live markets: Bitcoin continues holding pattern near $77,000 ahead of Kevin Warsh taking over at Fed  CoinDeskTrump Picked Warsh to Cut Rates. Markets Are Bracing for the Opposite.  WSJTrump wants new Fed chair to be 'totally independent'  BBCKevin Warsh sworn in as Fed chair at pivotal moment for US economy  CNNTrump to Fed chair Warsh: "Don't look at me, don't look at anybody"  Axios

Bitkoinin qiyməti son 24 saatda 0,38% azalaraq 77 532,99 ABŞ dolları olub. Day.Az xəbər verir ki, Ethereumun qiyməti 0,47% geriləyərək 2 129,13 dollara düşüb. BNB isə 0,72% bahalaşaraq 657,53 dollara yüksəlib. Digər iri kriptovalyutalarda qarışıq dinamika müşahidə olunub.