Bitcoin Falls Back to $76,000 as Iran Shuts the Strait of Hormuz Again Less Than 24 Hours After Opening It
The biggest short squeeze of 2026 lasted about one day. On Friday April 17, Bitcoin surged to $78,000 after Iran's...
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Bitcoin Breaks $77,000 and Strategy Is Finally Back in Profit on 780,897 BTC
The ceiling that rejected Bitcoin four times in 2026 finally broke. Bitcoin surged past $77,000 on Friday April 18, hitting...
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Bitcoin Surges Past $77,000 as Iran Reopens the Strait of Hormuz
Bitcoin blew through $77,000 on Friday morning after Iran declared the Strait of Hormuz fully open to all commercial shipping...
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Bitcoin’s Quantum Debate Has Arrived: Should 5.6 Million BTC Be Frozen to Stop Hackers?
Bitcoin has spent 16 years operating on one foundational promise: if you hold the private key, you control the coins....
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Goldman Sachs Files for a Bitcoin Premium Income ETF: Wall Street’s “Boomer Candy” Has Arrived
Goldman Sachs filed a preliminary prospectus with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on April 14 for a Goldman Sachs...
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Trump Orders US Navy Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz: What It Means for Bitcoin
The geopolitical situation surrounding the US-Iran conflict entered its most dangerous phase yet on Sunday April 13, when President Donald...
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Morgan Stanley Launches MSBT: The First Bitcoin ETF From a Major US Bank
Wall Street has officially joined the Bitcoin ETF race, not as a distributor of someone else's product, but as...
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Iran Is Charging Bitcoin Tolls for Strait of Hormuz Passage
A waterway that carries roughly 20% of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas supply has just become the site...
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Strategy Posts $14.5B Unrealised Loss in Q1 2026 and Keeps Buying Bitcoin
Most companies facing a $14.5 billion paper loss would issue a cautious statement, reassure investors, and quietly scale back the...
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Bitcoin Breaks $72,000 as Iran Ceasefire Triggers $595M Short Squeeze
Weeks of bearish positioning were wiped out in two hours on Tuesday night. President Donald Trump announced a two-week ceasefire...
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