The Bitcoin bounce to $85,000 on Feb. 28 had traders hopeful that a bottom was in could be in peril after BTC (BTC) struggled to secure a higher high candlestick for the daily close. Data from TRDR.io shows Bitcoin received a strong spot bid at Coinbase as the price fell to a 2025 low at…
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A crypto trader and marketing executive who correctly predicted FTX’s collapse said FTX creditor repayments coming a little over two years after the incident is a “win” — all things considered. “I thought it would take longer, just because there’s so many jurisdictional issues, you’re working with so many different governments, different levels of enforcement,…
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The Bitcoin sell-off, which dominated a majority of the weak, appears to be easing off, with BTC price making a recovery back in the $80,000 range to reach an intra-day high at $85,120. Some traders believe that Bitcoin (BTC) was overdue for a bounce, given how deeply oversold some of its technical indicators had become.…
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States are likely to adopt Bitcoin (BTC) reserves before the US federal government does, Senator Cynthia Lummis reportedly said on Feb. 28 during the Bitcoin Investor Week conference in New York. “My bets are that you’ll see a state have a Bitcoin strategic reserve before the federal government,” Lummis said, according to a Bloomberg report. …
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Financial markets are sending mixed signals as uncertainty reaches new highs. On Feb. 25, the US debt ceiling was raised from $36.1 trillion to $40.1 trillion, marking another massive expansion in government borrowing. Following a historical pattern, the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield reacted to the news by dropping from 4.4% to 4.29%. While this may…
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Tether’s competitors are exerting increasingly more pressure to push the world’s largest stablecoin issuer out of the crypto market, including political pressure aimed at reducing the firm’s leading market share. In the wider crypto markets, analysts are suggesting that most cryptocurrencies won’t see a widespread “altcoin season” rally in 2025, and only select tokens with…
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US Securities and Exchange Commission Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw issued a dissenting opinion on the SEC’s recent stance that memecoins are not securities. According to the commissioner’s Feb. 27 statement, memecoins could satisfy the Howey test’s condition of profiting from the managerial efforts of others due to the coordination between developer teams and promoters. The commissioner…
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Bitcoin (BTC) price dropped 21.3% between Feb. 21 and Feb. 28, retesting the $78,300 level for the first time since November 2024. The correction led to over $1.6 billion in leveraged long (buy) liquidations, adding to market volatility as exchanges forcefully sold contracts. The $21,210 decline marked the largest seven-day drop in Bitcoin’s history. Despite…
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Bitcoin (BTC) dropped close to $78,000 on Feb. 28, but lower levels attracted solid buying by the bulls. CryptoQuant founder and CEO Ki Young Ju said in a post on X that selling after a 30% correction could be a “noob” mistake as Bitcoin rose to a new all-time high after falling 53% in 2021.…
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Since reaching all-time highs on Jan. 20, Bitcoin’s price has been suppressed by hedge funds exploiting a low-risk yield trade involving spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and CME futures, signaling once again that institutional adoption of crypto assets isn’t a one-way street. This is the general takeaway of analyst Kyle Chassé, who dissected the latest Bitcoin…
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