Crypto analyst Bee has outlined three Bitcoin rules that provide insights into when the bear market is likely to end. This comes as BTC struggles again to hold above the psychological $80,000, with experts predicting another imminent decline.
Metaplanet loss hit $725 million in Q1 2026, driven entirely by a $737 million non-cash Bitcoin writedown. Tokyo-listed Metaplanet (TSE: 3350) reported a net loss of ¥114.5 billion ($725.
On Wednesday, bitcoin briefly plunged below $79,000 for the first time since May 4 as investors digested the latest producer price index data, which showed a sharp acceleration in wholesale inflation.
Metaplanet posts a $725M Q1 net loss as bitcoin markdowns offset strong revenue and operating profit growth.
Stacks published a whitepaper proposing a self-custodial Bitcoin staking mechanism that generates native BTC yield without bridges or wrappers. The protocol extends the Proof-of-Transfer mechanism in place since 2021, which has already distributed over 4,200 BTC in rewards to participants.
Capital inflows and spot demand improve, yet overhead supply near $86K keeps the recovery from confirming a full bull trend.
Sovereign curves are back near old stress zones while Hormuz inflation risk keeps central banks boxed in.
A bitcoin holder known on X as @cprkrn recovered approximately 5 BTC, valued between $400,000 and $500,000, from a wallet he had been locked out of for more than 11 years, crediting Anthropic's Claude AI with solving a technical problem that had resisted every other attempt.
Bitcoin's pullback is expected to find support near $79,000, but every recovery attempt is likely to be sold into.
Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) remains structurally bullish after reclaiming a key monthly average, according to a prominent technical analyst. Market Structure Matters Most In a detailed X post on May 13, pseudonymous analyst Scient said the monthly 50 moving average (MA) holding as support was the first major trigger that flipped his macro-outlook bullish, prompting spot Bitcoin accumulation around $68,000 before turning fully bullish near $72,000.
Bitcoin's recent price behavior has been everything the bulls hoped for, and that may be precisely the problem. Since bottoming out around $63,000 in early April, Bitcoin has posted a sequence of higher highs and higher lows and has now reclaimed $80,000.
The crypto market is in turmoil as Bitcoin and Ethereum lose critical support levels. What triggered the sudden price collapse?