🚨 INSIGHT: $BTC consolidates near $100K. Analysts say the bottoming phase has started, with selling drying up and a recovery possibly around the corner.

💡 #Bitcoin will hold above $100,000 today? 🤔

🚨UPDATE: Crypto sleuth @zachxbt says he’s working on a tool to auto-block AI engagement farm accounts. Targeting bots from platforms like Kait0, WallChain, Ga1xe, and Layer3, after @jconorgrogan warned that “80% of Twitter comments are now AI-generated.”

⚡️UPDATE: Zcash $ZEC jumps ~23%, crossing a $10B market cap. And leading the privacy coin rally across the market.

🇰🇿 NEW: Kazakhstan is establishing a national crypto fund of up to $1 billion using seized assets. The fund aims to boost the country’s digital finance sector and strengthen its crypto infrastructure.

🇺🇸LATEST: President Trump says Nancy Pelosi "illegally made a fotune in the stock market" and "ripped off the American public."

🚨UPDATE: Bitcoin Fear & Greed Index drops to 24, Fear 😨 Market sentiment turns cautious!

🇺🇸 JUST IN: White House Advisor Hassett says the U.S. economy will recover once the government reopens. Signaling confidence that shutdown impacts could reverse quickly.

🚨NEW: Cathie Wood has revised her $BTC price target to $1.2 million by 2030, citing the rapid growth of stablecoins as a key factor reshaping digital asset demand. ARK Invest still sees $BTC as a “global monetary network,” but with tempered upside amid evolving crypto dynamics.

🚨JUST IN: Bloomberg’s Eric Balchunas reports that Bitwise has filed an 8(a) form for its Spot Dogecoin ETF, an automatic effectiveness application with U.S. exchanges. If the SEC doesn’t act within 20 days, the $DOGE ETF will be automatically approved for listing.

🇺🇸LATEST: Steak ’n Shake reports an 11% jump in sales after introducing $BTC payments. Highlighting growing consumer demand for crypto-friendly businesses.

🚨UPDATE: Coinbase Europe will pay a €21.5M fine to Ireland’s central bank over transaction monitoring errors in 2021–2022. The issue stemmed from coding bugs that caused missed screenings on some transactions. Coinbase later re-reviewed the data, filing 2,700 suspicious transaction reports worth €13M, and says the errors were fixed within weeks.

🚨BREAKING: A co-founder of crypto mixer Samourai Wallet sentenced to five years in prison for money laundering, marking one of the toughest rulings yet against crypto anonymization tools. Prosecutors said the platform processed hundreds of millions in illicit funds, highlighting regulators’ growing crackdown on privacy mixers.

🚨 MAJOR MOVE: @solana, @FireblocksHQ, @monad, @0xPolygon, @StellarOrg, @ton_blockchain, and @Mysten_Labs (Sui) have teamed up to launch the Blockchain Payments Consortium. A new alliance to advance real-world payments and interoperability across chains.

🚨LATEST: Circle just minted 1.25 billion $USDC on Solana in the past 24 hours. One of the largest single-day mints this year.

🇺🇸 JUST IN: NY Fed President John Williams says the Fed could soon start expanding its securities holdings, per WSJ.

🚨JUST IN: Michael Saylor’s STRATEGY has upsized its Stream $STRE Perpetual Preferred Stock offering from €350M to €620M. With proceeds set to be used to buy more $BTC.

🚨JUST IN: $BTC HAS DROPPED BELOW $100K.

🚨UPDATE: Trader 0xc2a3, known for a legendary 14-win streak before losing over $30M, is back! Opening a 10x short on 4,400 $ZEC ($2.73M). Liquidation price: $727.45. A high-stakes comeback or another costly gamble?