Strategy (MSTR) Surges 12% As Bitcoin Regains $60,000

Shares of Strategy Inc. climbed 14% at times on Monday to roughly $94, their best single-day gain in weeks, after the bitcoin treasury company unveiled a sweeping capital overhaul.

The move marks a significant shift for the company once synonymous with an unrelenting bitcoin accumulation strategy. Strategy’s board approved a new Digital Credit Capital Framework that authorizes up to $1.25 billion in bitcoin sales to fund a newly created U.S. dollar reserve, cover preferred dividend obligations, and service debt. 

The company also authorized $1 billion in common stock buybacks and $1 billion in repurchases of its preferred securities.

The company raised the dividend rate on…

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JPMorgan Backs U.S. Crypto Bill, Senate Eyes August Deadline

JPMorgan threw its support behind federal digital asset legislation Monday, but the bank’s message to Congress was as much a caution as an endorsement: get the framework right, or risk recreating the financial vulnerabilities regulation was designed to prevent.

In a joint op-ed, Umar Farooq, global co-head of JPMorgan Payments, and Peter Muriungi, CEO of Digital Assets and Blockchain Solutions, argued that the United States has a genuine opportunity to lead in digital finance — provided lawmakers pair regulatory clarity with durable safeguards. 

The piece arrived as the Senate race to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act before its August recess, with negotiators…

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Fidelity Outlines 5 Factors That Could End The Bitcoin And Crypto Winter

Bitcoin is trading below $60,000 as of late June 2026, roughly 53% off its October 2025 all-time high above $126,200. A short-lived rally from March to May gave bulls a brief reason for optimism, but prices have since retreated. 

According to a new report from Fidelity, the current downturn has the hallmarks of a crypto winter — and history points to five factors that could bring it to an end.

Fidelity notes that bitcoin has formed bull market tops and bottoms at roughly four-year intervals since 2011. With the last bear market bottom arriving in November 2022, the pattern suggests a potential floor around November 2026 — if the cycle holds. The debate over whether…

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Clarity Act Enters Critical Two-Week Window As Senate Heads Into Recess

The Senate has left Washington for the July 4 recess, and the fate of the Clarity Act, the most sweeping digital asset market structure legislation Congress has ever attempted, now rests on negotiations happening out of public view, according to reporting from Crypto in America.

Senators return July 13. From that point, the window to pass the bill before August recess is narrow, and the remaining obstacles are substantial. 

Senate Majority Leader John Thune has signaled he wants to use the week of July 13 for the National Defense Authorization Act, the must-pass defense bill. That would push Clarity Act floor consideration to late July or the first week of August, the final…

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2007–2009—The Global Financial Crisis And The Birth Of Bitcoin

On January 1, 2000, the world was supposed to end. As the date changed and the next millennium rolled in, computer systems programmed in the 1960s and 1970s were expected to crash. Storage space was very expensive back then. As a result, programmers often saved space by recording years with only two digits instead of four, omitting the century. Once the century changed, the logic would be lost, and systems would malfunction.

Massive IT projects were launched to fix the problem and prevent looming disasters, like nuclear power plants exploding. Alongside a booming tech industry, an even more booming survival industry emerged. Guidebooks were published on how to survive the impending…

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Strive (ASST) Holds 19,864 BTC With No New Purchases Last Week, Balance Sheet Hits $141.7M Cash

Strive, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASST) filed an 8-K with the SEC on June 29, 2026, disclosing its latest balance sheet snapshot: 19,864 in Bitcoin, $141.7 million in cash, and a $37.7 million fair-value position in Strategy’s Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Stretch Preferred Stock (STRC). The company made no Bitcoin purchases in the most recent reporting week.

The filing, signed by CEO Matthew Cole, covers the period ending June 26, 2026. Cash declined $2.8 million from $144.5 million on June 18, while the STRC position shed $7.1 million in fair value despite the share count holding at 505,000. 

Bitcoin held remained flat at 19,864 BTC — the seventh-largest corporate Bitcoin holding…

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Strategy (MSTR) Raises STRC Dividend, Authorizes $2B In Buybacks, And Unlocks Further Bitcoin Sales

Strategy Inc. (Nasdaq: MSTR), the world’s largest bitcoin treasury company, announced a sweeping capital management overhaul earlier today, introducing what it calls a Digital Credit Capital Framework. The announcement sent MSTR shares up 6% in pre-market trading and pushed bitcoin above $60,000.

The framework has five parts: a board-approved USD reserve policy, a dividend rate increase on one class of preferred stock, a $1 billion buyback program for digital credit securities, a $1 billion buyback program for common stock, and a bitcoin monetization program that authorizes the sale of BTC to fund company obligations.

Strategy’s bulked up USD Reserve

At the center of the framework…

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Galaxy Research Cuts CLARITY Act Passage Odds To 50-50 As Senate Clock Runs Out

Galaxy Digital’s research arm has cut its estimate of the CLARITY Act becoming law in 2026 to 50-50, down from 60% just three weeks ago, citing a Senate floor calendar that grows shorter each week and a bill that still lacks a merged text, a scheduled vote, or public commitment from leadership.

The downgrade, published by Galaxy researcher Alex Thorn, is a calendar story more than a substance story. The bill itself — the CLARITY Act, short for the Digital Asset Market Structure and Investor Protection Act — cleared the Senate Banking Committee 15-9 on May 14 and has sat on the Senate Legislative Calendar as item No. 423 ever since. No floor date has been set. No motion to…

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Bitcoin Will ‘Dwindle Away With A Whimper’

Legendary investor Jeremy Grantham — co-founder of asset management firm GMO and one of Wall Street’s most prominent bubble-spotters — came at Bitcoin again on Friday, calling the asset a “useless, speculative mechanism” destined for slow decline into irrelevance.

Speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box, Grantham predicted that Bitcoin will “dwindle away, I suspect — not with a bang, but a whimper.” He said he has never owned Bitcoin and believes it will fall to zero, not through a sudden crash but through a gradual erosion of interest over years and decades.

“All Bitcoin does is allow fraudsters to move money around,” he said.

Grantham pointed to Bitcoin’s instability as…

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