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Bitcoin price falls below $60K as hot U.S. jobs report crushes rate cut hopes

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Bitcoin price has fallen below $60,000 after a stronger-than-expected U.S. jobs report prompted traders to scale back expectations for Federal Reserve rate cuts and price in a higher probability of policy tightening later this year. Summary Bitcoin fell below $60,000 after a stronger-than-expected U.S. jobs report reduced expectations for Fed rate cuts and increased odds of rate hikes later this year. More than $1.7 billion in crypto positions were liquidated as leveraged traders rushed to exit after BTC lost a key support level. Despite the selloff, spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded…

Bitcoin Critic Peter Schiff Predicts USDT Will Eclipse BTC

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Bitcoin dropped to around $61,500 in recent days, its weakest level in roughly four months, and Peter Schiff wasted no time connecting that slide to a broader argument he has been making about stablecoins. Related Reading A Stablecoin On The Move Tether’s USDT has already climbed to a market capitalization of nearly $188 billion, according to data from DeFiLlama, closing the gap with Ethereum to just under $26 billion. Schiff, the economist and longtime Bitcoin critic, says the numbers point to an inevitable outcome. “The market cap of Tether will…

Bitcoin Bears Boost Shorts, Will Bulls Liquidate Them And Reverse BTC Price?

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Key takeaways: Over-leveraged Bitcoin short positions between $63,000 and $66,000 have created a potential $2.6 billion squeeze trap for bears. Negative perpetual funding rates indicate that bulls have fully deleveraged, significantly reducing downside risk. The Bitcoin (BTC) crash to $61,100 on Friday wiped out $335 million in leveraged long positions. However, after a 21% decline in Bitcoin’s price, bulls might have set a perfect trap as negative market sentiment intensified. Bearish positions built up heavily between $63,000 and $66,000, setting the stage for a potential $2.6 billion short squeeze. Estimated…

Bitcoin Slides Below $60K as Traders Trigger $1.57B Liquidation Wave Across Crypto

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Key Takeaways Bitcoin plunged below $60,000 on Friday, June 5, 2026, a sharp 4% decline in just 24 hours. The flash crash triggered $1.57 billion in leveraged liquidations across the broader crypto market. Michael Saylor outlined 4 core ideologies to navigate bitcoin’s structural transition into a global asset. Liquidations Pass the Billion-Dollar Mark Bitcoin plunged below $60,000 on Friday amid a market-wide sell-off that shaved approximately $200 billion from the crypto economy. According to Bitstamp data, the cryptocurrency nosedived to $59,743, briefly widening its losses since June 1 to more…

Kraken Opens SpaceX IPO Access Through xStocks Platform

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Crypto exchange Kraken is giving customers access to the upcoming SpaceX initial public offering through xStocks, a tokenized equities platform, highlighting the growing convergence between crypto infrastructure and traditional capital markets. Kraken announced Friday that SpaceX will be the first public offering available through xStocks IPO Access, which allows eligible users to participate in the offering through tokenized equity instruments. To participate, users must have a verified Kraken account on the Kraken mobile app and submit an application for IPO access. The offering is not available through Kraken Pro or…

Crypto Tax in Illinois FY2027 Budget is One Step Away from Becoming Law

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Some digital asset industry advocates are pushing back against a provision in a $56 billion state budget passed by the Illinois General Assembly on Monday, due to its impact on crypto users.  In a Senate bill included as part of the Illinois state budget for the fiscal year 2027, lawmakers proposed a 0.2% tax on crypto transactions, to be imposed by the “digital asset broker making or effectuating the sale of the digital asset business activity.” The 1624-page bill, part of the revenue and tax package to fund the state’s…

Are Institutions Crashing The Bitcoin Price On Purpose? Here’s What People Are Saying

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Crypto pundit Ash Crypto has drawn attention to speculations about how institutions could be crashing the Bitcoin price on purpose. This comes as the Bitcoin ETFs continue to record massive outflows, which have caused this latest decline for the leading crypto.  Pundit Highlights Speculations Of Institutions Purposely Crashing Bitcoin Price In an X post, Ash Crypto claimed there were rumors that institutions are purposely crashing the Bitcoin price so they can buy at lower prices before the Clarity Act is signed into law. The pundit noted that a similar pattern…

Strategy’s Bitcoin Sale Shakes Treasury Trade Assumptions

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Strategy’s sale of 32 Bitcoin shouldn’t have mattered. The company still holds hundreds of thousands of BTC, and the transaction barely moved the needle on its balance sheet. Yet the market reaction was swift, exposing how much of the Bitcoin treasury trade had been built on a simple assumption: companies buy Bitcoin… and they never sell it. Elsewhere in crypto this week, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon escalated his fight against the industry’s preferred market structure bill and a French Bitcoin treasury company pushed the limits of capital formation by asking…

Bitcoin faces a new test as Saylor calls for ideological balance

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Michael Saylor has urged Bitcoin supporters to balance purity, adoption, innovation, and stability as the asset trades near its weakest levels in almost two years. Summary Michael Saylor said Bitcoin’s future depends on balancing competing ideologies, not choosing one camp. Saylor named Maximalists, Capitalists, Technologists, and Fundamentalists as key groups in Bitcoin’s growth. Strategy’s sale of 32 BTC raised concerns despite its holdings of more than 844,700 BTC. Saylor, writing in a Friday post on X, said Bitcoin’s future should not depend on one dominant ideology. The Strategy chairman said…

Pump.fun Bounty Platform Pays Users for Bizarre Memecoin Stunts

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Solana-based memecoin launchpad Pump.fun introduced a new open bounty platform where users have posted crypto rewards for bizarre promotional tasks, such as tattooing the ticker symbols of memecoins, quitting their current job live on camera or skydiving into a World Cup match. Pump.fun introduced the new platform on Thursday, positioning it as an open marketplace to “complete bounties for ANY task and leverage the power of humans & money across the globe.” The submissions are reviewed by Pump.fun while funds are in escrow. If accepted, the bounty is paid out…