Bitcoin-Led 'Crypto Winter' Is Thawing, Bitwise's Matt Hougan Says

Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) may be approaching the end of its current "crypto winter," according to Matt Hougan, chief investment officer at Bitwise ***** et Management, who says the market is likely closer to a recovery phase than another downturn.
In an Apr. 10 interview with Cointelegraph, Hougan said the broader four-year crypto cycle remains intact and could be entering a bottoming phase around mid-April.
He pointed to seasonal tax-related selling pressure in the United States as a possible factor contributing to recent wea

Bitcoin Price Surges Above $70,000. Ethereum, XRP Jump as Cryptos Rally on Iran Hope.

April 08, 2026, 2:52 am EDT
The price of Bitcoin
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+3.96%
and other cryptocurrencies was rising sharply Wednesday amid relief after the U.S. and Iran agreed a 14-day cease-fire pending negotiations to secure a permanent peace deal.
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Bitcoin on the brink of its longest losing streak on record

Bitcoin (BTC-USD) hovered around $67,200 on Tuesday, on the brink of either snapping a five-month losing streak or extending losses for the longest period in the token's history.
"BTC has never recorded 6 consecutive monthly declines in its 17-year history," Compass Point ***** yst Ed Engel wrote.
After declining for five straight months from October to February, bitcoin was trading within 1% of February's $67,000 closing price, the ***** yst noted.
Bitcoin has shown more resilience than equities as the S&P 500 (^GSPC) has decli

Altcap just crossed $1.4T. BTC’s slice shrinking.

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Bitcoin ETFs Buy 63,000 BTC In 30 Days As Retail Panic Selling Persists

On‑chain trackers showed GameStop’s $324 million worth of bitcoin leaving its wallets for Coinbase. Many ****** umed a full‑blown dump, but...
On-chain ****** ytics firm CryptoQuant has pointed out how Bitcoin has tended to revisit or stay below the Realized Price in...
Bitcoin price failed to stay above $70,500 and declined further. BTC is now consolidating below $70,500 and might continue to...

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Bitcoin Rangebound At $70K While Macro Cracks Deepen – Why ***** yst Says It’s Too Early To Call A Bot...

The new Binance guidelines for market makers requires them to disclose information such as their identity and contract terms. Binance...
Bitcoin has clawed its way back toward $70,000 after a sharp slide to roughly $67,000, but Glassnode says the rebound...
Crypto exchange Bitrue made a bold claim Tuesday: XRP is trading at a fraction of where it belongs. With the...

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Bitcoin Rallies After Iran Strikes but Safe Haven Role Unproven

Bitcoin is beating gold during the Iran war, but its dependence on liquidity cycles keeps the safe haven narrative in question.
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Before the Iran war broke out, Bitcoin spent months trading sideways while gold rallied to record levels.
At the time, gold was seen as the go-to safe haven; inflation concerns remained persistent and geopolitical tensions continued to build, while Bitcoin
BTC
$70,714
failed to live up to that role.
Nearly a month after the US and Israel launched the first strik

Bitcoin To Rally 250% This Year? Crypto Founder’s Bullish Prediction Shows New ATHs

Chainlink is showing signs of weakness after a bearish shift in momentum, with sellers gaining the upper hand in the...
Bitcoin’s fear gauge plunged back into “Extreme Fear” on Wednesday — the same day traders flooded social media with bullish...
Data shows the Bitcoin Coinbase Premium Gap has been positive for the past 25 days, a sign that could point...

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Gold, silver, bitcoin crash as safe-haven **** er fades following Fed decision

Gold plummeted as much as 6% on Thursday, with the precious metal acting like anything but a safe-haven **** et as the Middle East conflict escalates.
Investors went risk-off as the prospects of higher inflation lowered the chances investors are placing on Fed rate cuts.
Gold futures (GC=F) fell to around $4,600 per ounce, while the broader metals complex was also hammered, with silver (SI=F) and copper (HG=F) dropping 13% and 5%, respectively. Even "digital gold" was battered, with bitcoin (BTC-USD) dropping b

Better Buy: Bitcoin or AI?

Over the past six months, there has been a stampede of money out of Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and into artificial intelligence (AI). Most notably, publicly traded Bitcoin mining companies are winding down their crypto mining operations, selling off their Bitcoin, and using that money to make a high-profile pivot into AI computing.
But is AI really a better long-term investment than Bitcoin? Let's take a closer look.
Will AI create the world's first trillionaire? Our team just released a report on the one little-known company, called an "Indispensable Monopoly" provi

Bitcoin Risks Drop To $52,000, Veteran ***** yst Aksel Kibar Says

Major Wall Street investors poured $500 million into Ripple in 2025 — a figure that reflects just how embedded XRP...
A key price level is giving Bitcoin trouble — and on-chain data may explain why. Related Reading: XRP Moves Into...
Strategy, formerly MicroStrategy, has crossed the 760,000 Bitcoin threshold with its latest purchase, bringing its total holdings to 761,068 BTC...

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Bitcoin Price Prediction: We Asked ChatGPT What Bitcoin Will Be Worth by 31 December 2026

Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) is trading around $73,500 after one of its roughest stretches since the 2022 crash. The cryptocurrency hit $126,000 in October 2025 and started 2026 above $90,000. Then lost a third of its value in the **** e of roughly three months after the U.S. and Israel struck Iran and risk **** ets sold off across the board.
We gave ChatGPT the full picture—current Bitcoin price, ETF flows, the Fed’s rate stance, oil prices, the halving, and the extreme fear reading—and asked one question:

Veteran financier urges 20% crypto allocation as Bitcoin holds near $71K

Bitcoin (BTC) is holding steady near $71,288 after the Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged.
While the decision was widely expected, the confirmation removes a key layer of uncertainty for markets. For crypto, that clarity is often enough to spark renewed optimism.
And some **** ysts believe this moment could mark a turning point.
Related: Bitcoin and XRP could potentially be included in 401(k) plans
The Federal Reserve’s decision to hold rates steady signals a continuation of the current policy stance, wi

Assessing MicroStrategy (MSTR) Valuation After Its Largest 2026 Bitcoin Purchase

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Strategy (MSTR) just reported its largest Bitcoin purchase of 2026, adding 22,337 BTC funded mainly through STRC preferred shares and equity, a move that underlines its role in institutional Bitcoin demand.
See our latest **** ysis for Strategy.
That record BTC purchase lands at a time when the share price has climbed 12.25% over the past month but is still showing a 4.38% decline year to date,

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This Week Could Be The Most Volatile For Bitcoin In 2026, Top Expert Warns

A single on-chain indicator has quietly called every major Bitcoin cycle bottom for the past decade, and it is now...
The wallet sat quiet for almost two years. No trades, no movement — just billions of Shiba Inu tokens parked...
A crypto ******* yst has identified an eight-year convergence pattern on the Ethereum (ETH)-Bitcoin (BTC) trading pair chart, suggesting it could...

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Strategy Bitcoin Bet Grows With Preferred Stock As Valuation Gap Widens

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Strategy Inc. (NasdaqGS:MSTR) acquired more than 22,000 BTC in a single week, its largest Bitcoin purchase of the year.
The company funded the move primarily through preferred stock and common equity, using high yielding, variable rate preferred shares (STRC).
This latest purchase lifts Strategy's total Bitcoin holdings above 761,000 BTC and puts it close to potentially surpassing BlackRock as the larges

Do Bitcoin Halvings Matter Anymore If Strategy's STRC Exists?

Strategy bought seven weeks of new Bitcoin supply in one week, boosting the case for a $400,000 BTC price target if this pace continues.
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Michael Saylor’s Strategy is using its preferred stock, STRC, to buy Bitcoin
BTC
$74,000
at an accelerating pace. But can this create a more powerful supply shock than the halving?
Key takeaway:
Strategy raised $1.18 billion via MSTR shares to fund Bitcoin purchases last week.

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Others look for something complex.

Meanwhile: Fed cut just happened. BTC dominance slipping. Altcoin Season Index climbing.

You either understand why $COIN is major - or you’ll watch it happen.

Michael Saylor defends bitcoin's plunge by comparing it to Apple's 'valley of...

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Bitcoin Hashrate Recovery Signals Next Rally, Expert Says

The recent Bitcoin (BTC) price performance may appear subdued, with the leading crypto currently trading below the $65,000 level and...
A potential final sell-off in Bitcoin is back in focus after market ****** yst Aaron Dishner warned that the ****** et appears...
Bitcoin flipped a small but notable technical switch this week when the Coinbase premium moved back above zero, ending a...

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Want to Make $15,000 With XRP or Bitcoin? Do These 3 Things.

If you want to grow a stake of $5,000 in either Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) or XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) into a hearty sum of $15,000, you'll need to master your investing process as well as your own psychology. Those two pieces of the puzzle are just as important as the performance of the ******* ets.
Here are three things to do that'll increase your odds dramatically.
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Bitcoin’s ’Oldest’ 2009 Whale Sells $1.24B BTC as Price Falls Below $65,000 — Wh...

Key Takeaways
One of Bitcoin’s earliest and largest holders has reportedly sold $1.24 billion in BTC.
Santiment data shows wallets holding 10–10,000 BTC now control a nine-month low 68.04%.
Bitcoin’s decline below $65,000 and continued distribution by whales have deepened concerns.
One of Bitcoin’s earliest and largest holders has liquidated his entire stake, according to online reports.

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Why Michael Saylor Doesn’t See Quantum Computing as Bitcoin’s Top Security Threa...

Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) co-founder and executive chairman Michael Saylor said he does not believe quantum computing represents Bitcoin’s (BTC) greatest security threat at the moment.
This statement comes as the quantum computing narrative continues to be a focus of debate among crypto circles. Some argue that it has already started to impact Bitcoin’s valuation and institutional exposure.
During an appearance on Natalie Brunell’s Coin Stories podcast, Saylor weighed in on growing concerns over qu

Expert Crypto Trader Predicts The Exact Year Bitcoin Will Reach $250,000

Crypto ******* yst Kamran has raised the possibility of a 443% Dogecoin rally, providing a bullish outlook for the meme coin....
Bitcoin futures positioning among non-commercial traders is swinging sharply toward net long exposure, a move technical ******* yst Tom McClellan (editor...
Bitcoin price failed to stay above $68,000 and dipped sharply. BTC is now consolidating losses and might struggle to recover...

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Polymarket Shows 75% Odds of Bitcoin Dropping Below $55K – What Traders Need to ...

Traders on prediction market Polymarket are pricing in a 75% chance that Bitcoin (BTC) will plunge below $55,000, signaling a sharp shift 18% overnight rise in bearish sentiment as the ****** et struggles to hold the $65,000 support level.
Source: Polymarket
This quantified bearish data arrives as Bitcoin struggles to remain the 14th biggest ****** et in global market cap rankings.
The pessimistic outlook follows a difficult weekend where Bitcoin’s market capitalization fell to $1.31 trillion, dropping br

Bitcoin Falls Below $65,000 in Latest Bout of Tariff Uncertainty

Bitcoin briefly slid below $65,000 on Monday for the second time this month, roiled by uncertainty over the status of US tariffs.

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Michael Burry Says He 'Slept' on Bitcoin After Early 2013 Buying Opportunity

On Sunday, Michael Burry used an X post to lay out what he described as 26 years of major market calls. That self-audit arrives as Bitcoin lacks utility remains central to his current framework, with Burry arguing the token has not proven durable as a hedge against currency debasement.
In the post, Burry shared about his missed opportunity with crypto, writing that he considered buying Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) in 2013 after meeting a friend at Lightspeed but did not follow through.
Burry also shared that he was shor

BTC Price ******* ysis All But Guarantees Bitcoin Higher by Early 2027

Bitcoin past performance gave 88% odds of higher prices by early 2027, the latest in a series of new bullish BTC price predictions.
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Bitcoin
BTC
$67,389
at $122,000 in ten months could be an “average return” if history repeats itself.
Key points:
An “informal” Bitcoin price metric gives 88% odds of BTC/USD trading higher by early 2027.

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