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BREAKING: Bitcoin holds above $70,000, but future direction hinges on Iran-U.S. 'talks'

The whipsaw continues…

On Saturday night, Trump gave Iran a 48-hour ultimatum: reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face strikes on its power plants.

Markets tanked. Bitcoin dropped to $67,850. Nearly $800 million in crypto positions were liquidated.

By Monday morning, the tone had completely flipped.

Trump announced a five-day pause on strikes, citing "productive conversations" about a potential end to hostilities.

But…

Iran denied any talks took place. Markets bounced anyway.

Bitcoin climbed back above $70,600 - up over 4% on the day. ETH jumped 5% to $2,180. SOL and DOGE each gained around 5%.

Oil reversed hard, with WTI plunging over 10% before settling around $93. Gold bounced from $4,101 to $4,413.

The market is trading headlines now. Every 24 hours brings a different reality.

But here's what's happening underneath the noise.

The biggest institutional buyers haven't stopped. Not even close.

Strategy unveiled a $44 billion equity plan on Monday to fund future Bitcoin purchases. The company now holds 762,099 BTC - worth over $54 billion - despite sitting on a $3.3 billion unrealized loss at an average cost of $75,694. They bought another 1,031 BTC last week.

On the Ethereum side, BitMine crossed $10 billion in ETH holdings after buying another 65,341 ETH last week. The company holds 4.66 million tokens - roughly 3.8% of total supply - and is sitting on approximately $7 billion in unrealized losses.

BitMine Chairman Tom Lee believes the market is nearing a bottom.

Both companies are deep underwater. Both are still buying. That tells you something about their conviction.

Wintermute's Jasper de Maere said the next five days are everything.

If oil stabilises and Strait of Hormuz shipping resumes, Bitcoin could retest $74,000–$76,000. If talks collapse, expect a slide back toward the mid-$60,000s.

For now, the bounce is holding. But it's built on a five-day window that could close at any moment. 🚀

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That's the call from Taiki Maeda, and if you know his track record, it's worth paying attention to.

Maeda is the CEO of HFA Research, founder of the Humble Farmer Army (one of the largest DeFi communities in crypto), and host of the Crypto Market Wizards podcast.

He's one of the few content creators who has never run an ad on his channel, never done a paid promotion, and never used a referral link. He's also the same guy who called the October 2025 top when everyone was positioned for a Q4 alt season.

He got clowned for it at the time. Then the market dropped 50%.

Now he's using the exact same framework, and it's telling him the opposite: Bitcoin has bottomed and he's been aggressively buying.

His framework is simple. 3 questions:

In October, everyone was leveraged long and positioned for alt season. There was no one left to buy. The marginal sellers were everywhere. The setup was fragile.

Today? It's the mirror image.

Fund managers Maeda talks to are over 60% cash. The crypto tourists are gone. Sentiment is at extreme fear. Everyone is waiting for "one more leg lower" and a Q4 bottom. The market is positioned lighter than it's been in years.

But here's his key insight: for a Q4 bottom to actually happen, you'd need a massive capitulation event. If everyone is already sitting in cash waiting for it, where does that selling pressure come from?

And then there's the marginal buyer that changes everything: Saylor and Stretch.

Strategy's new fixed income product, STRC, pays 11.5% monthly yield. Every dollar that flows into Stretch goes directly into buying Bitcoin. Every single dollar. And it's accelerating. Two weeks ago, $377 million in Bitcoin purchased via Stretch. Last week, $1.18 billion.

Strategy has over $2 billion in reserves, enough to cover 28.5 months of dividend payments. And each dollar of Stretch issued translates to roughly $2 to $3 of Bitcoin being purchased.

Maeda's framing of it is brilliant: Stretch is essentially a fixed-rate perpetual long on Bitcoin.

Instead of paying variable funding rates that swing from -30% to +100%, Saylor locked in a fixed 11.5% cost to lever long Bitcoin. Indefinitely.

And the demand is growing. Volume is increasing. Volatility around the product is decreasing. Trust is building.

If Stretch reaches escape velocity, that's hundreds of millions to billions in Bitcoin being bought every single week.

Maeda's point: everyone talks about what happens when Saylor blows up. Nobody asks what happens if Saylor makes it.

And if he makes it? That's structural Bitcoin demand for the foreseeable future. At the bottom. With leverage. While everyone else is sitting in cash.

As Maeda put it: the riskiest time in markets is when people tell you it's not risky. And the least risky time? When everyone is telling you things are about to blow up.

Right now, everyone is telling you things are about to blow up. 🌾

Make that four!

Last week, Digital Asset Funds saw inflows for the fourth week in a row of $230 million.

Let’s break it down.

Bitcoin dominated the flows last week with $219.2 million.

Solana also saw $17 million in inflows, its 7th straight week which now totals $136 million.

Whilst Ethereum saw $27.5 million in outflows.

And here’s something we don’t see often…

All regional exchanges saw net inflows or the week.

The US led with inflows of $153.6 million.

Germany, Switzerland, and Canada followed with inflows of $30.2 million, $27.5 million and $9.3 million respectively.

$230 million is still positive, but it's a clear slowdown from previous weeks. And the intra-week picture tells you exactly why.

The first two days saw $635 million pour in. Then the Fed spoke - and $405 million walked straight back out.

By Friday, the bleeding had slowed, but the damage was done.

The surface narrative blames the Iran conflict. But the timing points at the FOMC.

Markets interpreted Wednesday's meeting as a hawkish pause, and flows reacted instantly.

Still - four consecutive weeks of net inflows during a period of geopolitical stress and central bank uncertainty isn't nothing. The direction is right. The conviction just isn't full-throttle yet.

And until the Fed gives a clearer signal, expect flows to stay choppy. 📊

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink sees tokenization making investing with your phone as easy as payments. Fink's comments come as Congress and regulators explore how tokenization — using blockchain technology — could improve markets.

Michael Saylor's Strategy (MSTR) renews $42 billion BTC buying plans. Expanded share issuance plans and new Wall Street partners boost capital raising firepower.

SEC Sends Proposed Crypto Interpretation to White House for Review. With US policymakers reportedly moving forward on a crypto market structure in Congress, the SEC continues to advance its interpretation of crypto regulation.

Will MrBeast Push Crypto on Kids? Senator Warren Raises Alarm Over Banking App. Sen. Elizabeth Warren urged MrBeast to move cautiously as his firm considers integrating crypto into a newly acquired mobile banking app.

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Trivia Answer: The hypothetical event where Ethereum's market cap surpasses Bitcoin's 🥳

The Flippening has been a talking point since 2017 and refers to Ethereum potentially overtaking Bitcoin as the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalisation. It hasn't happened yet. At its closest point during the 2017 bull run, ETH reached roughly 83% of Bitcoin's market cap, but has since fallen well below that ratio.

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