Anthony Pompliano Says Ignore Screeching Bears That Declare Bitcoin Dead Every 4 Years: ‘They Are Wrong E

‘Careful Who You Listen To’

Pompliano expressed frustration on X about how some bears start “screeching” every four years that Bitcoin is going to zero.

“They are wrong every time. Careful who you listen to,” Pompliano advised investors.

Bitcoin’s ‘Obituaries’

In fact, Schiff tops the list, having declared Bitcoin “dead” as many as 22 times.

The latest obituary came on April 9, when Steve Keen—the Australian economist who accurately predicted the 2008 meltdown—predicted Bitcoin to go to zero.

Chart analysis indicates that obituary counts tend to spike during bear markets, with notably higher numbers in 2022 and during the current market cycle, showing acceleration…

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Bitcoin Price Plunges Below $62,000, Erasing Months Of Gains

Bitcoin price has tumbled to its lowest level in months Wednesday night, crashing below $62,000 and wiping out a sharp intraday loss of more than $5,300  — a decline of nearly 8% in 24 hours — as a perfect storm of institutional exodus, leverage liquidations, geopolitical fear, and a symbolic but jarring sale by Michael Saylor’s Strategy converged to shatter market confidence.

At approximately 10:00 PM EDT, Bitcoin price was changing hands at $61,463.22, down from a 24-hour high of $67,416.50 and dangerously close to the psychologically critical $60,000 floor. The selloff erased weeks of tentative recovery and put the world’s largest cryptocurrency nearly 51% below its…

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North Korea’s Hackers Have Moved Beyond Brute Force, Says FBI Veteran: Kim Jong Un’s Crypto Attackers Now

North Korea’s state-backed hackers have an “aggressive, relentless” knack for finding and exploiting vulnerabilities, making them more dangerous than other groups, a former FBI agent told Benzinga.

Social Engineering Hacks?

North Korean hackers pose an existential threat to cryptocurrency ecosystems, having stolen over $2 billion worth of assets in 2025 alone. Things have worsened in 2026, with April recording the highest number of cryptocurrency hacking incidents on record.

The U.S. government claims that the illegal proceeds from the thefts are used to fund North Korea’s weapons and missile program.

Stephanie Talamantez, who spent more than 20 years with the FBI and now serves as…

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Blockchains Threaten Wall Street’s Fee Machine, Not Its Technology

Franklin Templeton CEO Jenny Johnson has a straightforward explanation for why major financial institutions have been slow to embrace public blockchains: the technology destroys their fee-based revenue streams.

Speaking at the Proof of Talk summit in Paris, Johnson — who oversees $1.74 trillion in assets at Franklin Templeton — told a panel audience that the resistance from traditional financial players is not about technology skepticism.

It is about protecting the business model. Banks and intermediaries that collect transaction fees at every step of the settlement process stand to lose that income the moment a smart contract can handle the same function at a fraction of the cost.

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Bitcoin Price Crashes To Precarious Position Near $65,000 As Momentum Rotates Into AI, IPOs

Bitcoin price is holding a risky position near $65,000 Wednesday, down roughly 12% over the past seven days and trading at its lowest level since February as a broad rotation out of crypto into competing speculative trades chips away at the foundation of its recent bull run. 

The world’s largest cryptocurrency touched a bitcoin price of $65,158 earlier in the session before a partial recovery, but analysts and strategists say the weakness runs deeper than any single catalyst.

The most popular explanation — that Strategy’s (MSTR) first bitcoin sale in four years triggered the slide — is being challenged by a growing chorus of market voices. 

Charles Schwab director…

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Bitcoin Is In ‘Purge Mode’, Bloomberg’s McGlone Warns: Next Stop—$50,000

Bitcoin in “Purge Mode“

Speaking in a CoinTelegraph interview on June 2, McGlone argued Bitcoin remains stuck in a broader “purge mode,” with the next major support zone likely around $50,000 before potentially falling toward $10,000 longer term.

Why McGlone Is Worried

McGlone pointed to several macro indicators that he believes signal elevated systemic risk:

U.S. stock market capitalization-to-GDP ratio reaching the highest level since 1928

Gold volatility surging above S&P 500 volatility

Bitcoin-to-gold ratio weakening sharply

Crypto persistently underperforming equities

He described Bitcoin as one of his “favorite leading indicators” for broader market stress since its…

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Blockware Appoints Megan Brooks-Anderson As Chief Executive Officer

HOUSTON, Texas – June 3, 2026 – Blockware, a vertically integrated infrastructure platform spanning AI/HPC compute, Bitcoin mining, data center hosting, and marketplace liquidity, has named Megan Brooks-Anderson as its new Chief Executive Officer. The appointment follows the board’s removal of Mason Jappa from the role.

Brooks-Anderson comes to the CEO seat after serving as Blockware’s Chief Strategy Officer, and is one of the architects of the very direction she’s now been tapped to execute. She brings more than 20 years of experience across Bitcoin mining, public and private company operations, risk management, M&A, and internal controls. Before Blockware, COO at Riot…

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Bitcoin Falls To $65,000s As Ethereum, XRP, Dogecoin Drop Up To 4% In Crypto Meltdown

Bitcoin dropped towards $65,000 on Wednesday as crypto markets face a wave of ETF outflows, more than $1 billion in liquidations, and worsening fear sentiment.

Notable Statistics:

Coinglass data shows 202,991 traders were liquidated in the past 24 hours for $ $1.14 billion.       

SoSoValue data shows net outflows of $519.2 million from spot Bitcoin ETFs on Tuesday. Spot Ethereum ETFs saw net outflows of $90.2 million.

In the past 24 hours, top gainers include Worldcoin, Ethena and Audiera.

Notable Developments:

Trader Notes:

Trader Cryptollica explained that Bitcoin’s monthly Bollinger Band Width has dropped to its lowest level ever, signaling extreme market compression and…

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Scott Bessent Says Bitcoin Reserve Moving At Deliberate Speed As ‘Big Announcement’ Remains Elusive

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Senate lawmakers Wednesday that the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve is moving forward and pressed them to pass the CLARITY Act before summer recess.

Bessent Wants CLARITY Act Done This Summer

Speaking at a Senate Finance Committee hearing on the 2027 budget, Bessent urged lawmakers to get behind the CLARITY Act and push it across the finish line before August.

The House passed the bill last year, but lawmakers have stalled it in the Senate over stablecoin yield provisions, software developer protections, and conflicts of interest related to President Trump’s crypto ventures.

“It’s very necessary to bring U.S. best practices onshore, and we work tirelessly…

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The Canary In The Coal Mine

State regulators have been quietly banning Bitcoin ATMs. An entire subsection of the Bitcoin ecosystem is being deemed illegal and shut down. And since there’s not much of a cross-section between people who are chronically online and cash bitcoin buyers, it’s not getting a lot of attention. But the Bitcoin ATM ecosystem represents $3.63 billion, with a B, dollars going into bitcoin every year, and that’s just in the United States. 

Beyond the financials, Bitcoin ATMs are vital to maintaining self-sovereignty in the system. A Bitcoin ATM enables something no other service in the financial industry can: it lets you walk up with cash, no bank account, no credit check, no exchange…

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