After a brief relief in March, miner distress was back as BTC struggled above $65K.
Coinglass' Bitcoin liquidation map shows a $1.143b long wall below $65k and a $754m short pocket above $68k, turning a small move into a potential $1.9b forced‑flow event. Longs face a $1.
Analysts warn BTC could drop to $10K as Trump's Iran speech triggers global risk-off reaction.
Riot Platforms (NASDAQ: RIOT) has offloaded 3,778 Bitcoin during the first three months of 2026, securing an average net sale price of $76,626 per coin and generating roughly $289.5 million in proceeds.
Bitcoin is going through a phase of tension that increasingly resembles the beginning of a true bear market. Several on-chain indicators show that the market is approaching areas historically associated with cycle lows.
Google's March 30 whitepaper rattled the crypto market but reframed a question the industry has been asking wrong for years. The research from Google's Quantum AI team found that cracking Bitcoin's elliptic curve cryptography could require fewer than 500,000 physical qubits – a 20-fold reduction from previous estimates.
Bitcoin (BTC) saw a modest uptick on April 3, at one point trading above $67,200 with a noticeable surge in daily funding rates, which shot up more than 300%.
Riot Sells 3,778 BTC in Q1 as Miner Strategy Shifts
Crypto markets saw a sharp 'leverage flush' over the past 24 hours, with roughly $185 million in forced liquidations hitting derivatives traders even as spot prices held firm—suggesting the day's key story was risk being taken off the table, not a decisive shift in direction. Liquidations were concentrated in the two bellwether assets, highlighting a broader cooling in 'risk appetite' rather than an altcoin-specific shock.
Younger investors are approaching financial markets with a perspective that sharply differs from previous generations. For Gen Z, volatility in assets like Bitcoin is not a deterrent but a deliberate element of their investment strategy. Digital assets are increasingly integrated into portfolios as tools for diversification rather than purely speculative bets.
ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood said that Bitcoin as a "proven" asset would no longer experience drawdowns of 85% or more from all-time highs.
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