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BREAKING: Bitcoin falls back below $63,000 as Iran-Israel trade strikes and Korean stocks crash

Bitcoin got its bounce…

After pushing toward $63.8K late Sunday, BTC was back around $63K by this afternoon.

The good news is that it’s still holding above $60K.

But the weight pressing on that level is starting to feel heavier.

The latest hit came from macro. (surprise surprise…)

Iran and Israel traded fresh strikes, oil jumped more than 3%, and stocks across Korea and Japan sold off while Treasury yields stayed uncomfortable.

That’s the kind of setup where investors trim risk first and ask questions later.

Crypto has its own problems too.

Spot Bitcoin ETFs continue to bleed, with around $1.72B in net outflows last week.

The ETF story isn't broken, but the biggest institutional wrapper clearly isn't absorbing stress the way bulls had hoped for in a time like this.

NYDIG's Greg Cipolaro says there's no single clean cause here.

He points to capital rotating into AI, traders positioning for big tech IPOs, lingering quantum and security worries, sanctions tied to Iranian crypto flows, and Strategy's recent Bitcoin sale.

That last one stings the most, because Strategy used to be the simple confidence anchor.

Saylor buys, Strategy stacks, and the market treats it as persistent demand.

Now it's messier.

The company sold 32 BTC to help cover preferred-stock obligations, tiny against its 843,706 BTC stack, but the symbolism landed at the worst possible moment.

However…

Saylor is already hinting at another buy.

If it lands below Strategy's roughly $75.7K average cost, the read flips constructive: the largest corporate buyer adding while everyone else flinches.

That's the real test.

Bitcoin doesn't need perfect conditions today. It just needs the low $60Ks to hold long enough for buyers to prove this is a shakeout, not the start of another leg down. 🚀

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When a Stanford PhD mathematician calls the bottom in 7 words, people pay attention.

207,000 of them, to be exact.

Fred Krueger is a former Wall Street prop trader and author of "Bitcoin One Million: The Final Chapter of Fiat." He's been one of the most consistently right voices through this entire drawdown.

The context makes the call even bolder. Bitcoin has now been grinding through an 8-month correction since October's high of $126k. MSTR has been hammered alongside it, with critics circling Saylor's every move.

And Krueger is calling the bottom on both. Publicly.

No charts. No thesis thread. Just conviction from a man who has done the math.

Book it. 📕

Let’s kick off the week with a look at the Bitcoin HODL Waves - one of the clearest snapshots of market conviction.

Each coloured band represents the percentage of Bitcoin that last moved within a specific time frame.

The cooler the colour, the older the coins - with purple showing Bitcoin that hasn’t moved in 10+ years.

Today we’ll be focusing on long-term holders (LTHs) - defined as coins held for more than six months.

Here’s how the Bitcoin supply breakdown looks today compared to five weeks ago:

TL;DR: 79.24% of all Bitcoin has not moved in over six months. 🔒

Up from 78.37% two weeks ago. Only a 0.87% gain… but the direction is what counts.

Last period the 6-12 month band exploded as drawdown buyers crossed the six-month mark. This time it cooled slightly - 18.04% down to 17.93%.

That's not selling. Those coins aged forward… straight into the 1-2 year band, which gained more than any other cohort (12.04% to 12.69%).

Almost everything else nudged up too. The 2-3, 3-5, 5-7 and 7-10 year bands all ticked higher, and the 10+ year base crept to 17.57%. After last period's surge, the easy move was to give some back. None of it did.

Nearly 4 in 5 Bitcoin now sit dormant for six months or longer - just shy of 80%. The volatility keeps coming… and the coins keep settling into stronger hands. 💎

Frontier AI Models Can Find Crypto’s Biggest Bugs. Experts Warn the Industry Isn’t Ready. The Zcash vulnerability found with Claude Opus 4.8 turned a patched protocol bug into a bigger warning about AI-assisted crypto security review.

Abra’s Bill Barhydt says Wall Street’s next crypto bet is tokenization. Abra’s CEO argues tokenized yield and onchain lending are becoming a more important institutional story than day-to-day BTC price action.

What happens to Bitcoin if the Nasdaq falls further? Bitcoin’s weekend rebound kept the 200-week moving-average support conversation alive while Nasdaq weakness threatens another risk-asset pullback.

NY judge stays lawsuit seeking ownership of nearly 40,000 bitcoin wallets. A New York court paused a lawsuit trying to claim dormant BTC wallets, with a July hearing now set on whether an adversarial amicus brief can enter the case.

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Trivia Answer: The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks 🥳

Satoshi embedded that headline in Bitcoin's first block. It timestamped the launch and gave Bitcoin a pointed backdrop: a new money system arriving during the banking-crisis bailout era.

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