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Bitcoin surges past $70,000 again while triggering $273M in short liquidations, as journalists keep trying to attribute Bitcoin's price movements to one thing or another.

Club Orange, a social app that connects Bitcoiners with each other, hits 5M internal zaps, another name for lightning transactions made using their wallet.

SBI Crypto, a Japan-based bitcoin mining pool operator, announces plans to wind down its mining pool business by end of July 2026, encouraging customers to extract data and settle outstanding matters before closure.

Bitcoin has shifted from reacting to Federal Reserve policy to pricing it in advance, driven by institutional flows through spot ETFs approved in January 2024, according to Binance Research.

Cathie Wood, CEO of Ark Invest, says Bitcoin's 47% pullback is a 'victory' because prior cycles saw 85% to 95% crashes, suggesting the smaller drawdown signals a maturing, institutionally adopted asset.

Japan's rising government bond yields are forcing institutions to sell risk assets and repatriate capital, draining global liquidity and stalling BTC's price rally, according to XWIN Research.

Michael Saylor, co-founder of Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy, signals a return to weekly BTC buying after a rare pause.

Five on-chain and sentiment indicators show that bitcoin's demand structure is thinning despite record institutional buying.

Bitcoin outperforms gold and the S&P 500 in the 60 days following major global crises, according to study by Mercado Bitcoin.

Bloomberg analyst James Seyffart says Bitcoin exchange-traded funds will surpass gold ETFs in total assets under management, citing BTC's multiple investment use cases.

Bitcoin retail inflows on Binance hit a 9-year low of 332 BTC per month, according to analyst Darkfost.

Bitcoin's consolidation below $70,000 signals no clear direction, but the longer it lasts, the stronger the eventual breakout will be, according to analyst Michael van de Poppe.

Panel of Bitcoiners on BTC Sessions' podcast debates whether Tether CEO Paulo Ardoino is a genuine Bitcoin freedom advocate or a Trojan horse for technocratic control, weighing the stablecoin giant's open-source contributions against its surveillance risks and growing US regulatory entanglements (Apr 3 | 18:04 min watch).

Rearden, a Bitcoin developer, in an appearance on Marty Bent's TFTC podcast, argues that none of the three key evidentiary standards for a genuine quantum threat to Bitcoin have been met, cautioning that protocol changes based on unproven claims would expose the network to social engineering attacks (Apr 5 | 1:30 min watch).

Lyn Alden, general partner at Ego Death Capital, in an appearance on Peter McCormack's podcast, argues that Bitcoin's layered architecture enables its base layer to match FedWire's annual transaction volume, positioning the network as a viable replacement for centralized monetary systems handling quadrillions in high-value settlements yearly (Apr 4 | 1:23 min watch).

Samson Mow, Bitcoin advocate and CEO of JAN3, dismisses quantum computing threats to Bitcoin as 'nothing burger' FUD driven by VC incentives, pointing out that such a machine only exists in theory and that nothing significant has been achieved in the domain (Apr 4 | 1:22 min watch).

Paco, a Bitcoin vlogger, in an interview with Metamick, co-founder of Geyser, shares firsthand accounts of the El Salvador's dramatic safety improvements and its complex Bitcoin adoption landscape (Apr 3 | 1:30 min watch).

Hector Alvero, COO of Rhino Bitcoin, argues that Square's opt-out Lightning payment rollout auto-enabling BTC acceptance for millions of US merchants with instant USD settlement, 0% fees through 2026, and $2,500 annual savings per $100K in sales, will accelerate Bitcoin circular economies at the grassroots level (Apr 3 | 1:02 min watch).

The Bitcoin Fix argues that $38.8T in US sovereign debt is colliding with AI-driven deflation, forcing governments to print money that erodes savings, and positions bitcoin as the only sound money escape from this systemic breakdown (Apr 4 | 8:56 min watch).