Bitcoin Price Crashes To Two-Week Low Near $66,000

Bitcoin price fell below $66,500 on Friday, hitting its lowest level in more than two weeks as a wave of long liquidations and mounting macroeconomic stress weighed on the crypto market..

Data shows nearly $300 million in long positions were liquidated over the past 24 hours, according to Bitcoin Magazine Pro data, compared with roughly $50 million in short liquidations, pointing to an unwind of crowded bullish positioning in crypto futures. The imbalance reflects a market that had leaned heavily long and is now adjusting as sentiment shifts.

The bitcoin price selloff coincided with a broader risk-off move across global markets. Nasdaq 100 futures have fallen about 10% from their…

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Coinbase Shares Slide As Crypto Market Faces Broad Sell-Off

Bitcoin Leads Market LowerMacro Pressures Weigh on SentimentInnovation Amid Volatility

This allows borrowers to use Bitcoin or USDC as collateral for Fannie Mae-eligible mortgages. “Token-backed mortgages are a major first step,” said Max Branzburg, Coinbase Head of Consumer Products.

Regulatory Shifts on Horizon

CFTC Chairman Mike Selig expects to approve crypto perpetual futures within weeks. This aims to bring offshore trading volume back to U.S. markets. Coinbase currently utilizes 50-year contracts as a workaround for these products.

COIN Stock Price Activity: Coinbase Global shares were down 3.44% at $167.41 during premarket trading on Friday, according to Benzinga Pro data.

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Maxine Waters Seeks Clarity On Kansas City Fed’s Approval Giving This Crypto Exchange Access To ‘Critical’ Financial Infrastructure

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) sought further information on Thursday on the decision to grant cryptocurrency exchange Kraken access to Federal Reserve services.

Waters Says Approval Lacks Transparency

Waters, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Financial Services, penned a letter to Jeff Schmid, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, requesting details about the bank’s recent approval of a “limited purpose account” for Kraken.

This approval—the first in U.S. history for a cryptocurrency company—gives Kraken direct access to Fedwire, the core payment infrastructure used by thousands of U.S. banks and credit unions.

Waters expressed her…

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Stock Market Today: S&P 500, Nasdaq Futures Drop As Trump Pushes Iran Deal Deadline—Unity Software, Oracle, SoFi Technologies In Focus

U.S. stock futures fell on Friday following Thursday’s sharp sell-off. Futures of the major benchmark indices were lower.

Tehran, however, reportedly rejected a 15-point U.S. proposal conveyed through Pakistan, with a senior Iranian official telling Reuters that senior officials and a representative of the supreme leader found it served only American and Israeli interests.

Meanwhile, the 10-year Treasury bond yielded 4.45%, and the two-year bond was at 4.00%. The CME Group’s FedWatch tool’s projections show markets pricing a 93.8% likelihood of the Federal Reserve leaving the current interest rates unchanged in its April meeting.

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Bitcoin Setting Up For A Sell Signal, Says Legendary Trader, But Where Exactly Is The Bottom?

Veteran trader and chartist Peter Brandt flagged a pattern on Thursday signaling weakening bullish momentum for Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC).

Another Wave Of Selling?

Brandt, a technical analyst with nearly 50 years of experience, highlighted a rising wedge formation—a bearish technical analysis pattern that signals a potential reversal of an uptrend.

The pattern is characterized by price converging between two upward-sloping trendlines. As the price forms higher highs and higher lows, the narrowing pattern signals fading bullish momentum.

Key Support At Risk

Widely followed cryptocurrency commentator Michaël van de Poppe flagged something similar, pointing to Bitcoin’s ascending…

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Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Dogecoin Fall Amid Trump’s ‘Get Serious’ Warning To Iran: Analytics Firm Sees Strong ‘Buy Signal’ Following Bearish Chatter

Leading cryptocurrencies edged lower alongside stocks on Thursday as President Donald Trump’s warning cast a shadow on Iran negotiations.

Crypto Slide As Leveraged Longs Get Liquidated

Bitcoin dipped to $68,100, with trading volume increasing 10% from the previous day. Ethereum also sank below $2,100, while XRP and Dogecoin recorded steeper declines.

Over $330 million in cryptocurrency positions were liquidated in the past 24 hours, with $293 million in bullish long positions alone erased,  according to Coinglass data.

Notably, nearly $500 million in Bitcoin shorts on Binance risked liquidation if the apex cryptocurrency rebounds to $71,000

Open interest in Bitcoin futures fell 0.37% in…

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Simon Gerovich Confirmed As A Bitcoin 2026 Speaker

Simon Gerovich has been officially confirmed as a speaker at Bitcoin 2026. As Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed Metaplanet, he has helped transform the once struggling hospitality company into one of the largest corporate Bitcoin holders in the world. Now, Gerovich arrives in Las Vegas as one of the most closely watched figures in institutional Bitcoin adoption outside of the United States.

Metaplanet closed 2025 with 35,102 BTC, making it the fourth-largest public corporate Bitcoin holder globally. The company has outlined aggressive accumulation targets, aiming to reach 100,000 BTC by the end of 2026 and 210,000 BTC — approximately 1% of Bitcoin’s total…

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Google Moves Up Quantum Encryption Deadline To 2029: What Does It Mean For Bitcoin?

Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) on Tuesday set a 2029 deadline for migrating its entire infrastructure to post-quantum cryptography, warning that quantum frontiers “may be closer than they appear.”

The target is more aggressive than the U.S. federal government’s 2035 mandate and the NSA’s 2031 deadline, and it may carry serious implications for Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC).

Google’s VP of Security Engineering Heather Adkins and Senior Staff Cryptography Engineer Sophie Schmieg cited faster-than-expected progress in quantum hardware, error correction, and factoring resource estimates.

Two Threats, One Deadline

Google flagged two distinct risks.

The first is already happening:…

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St. Cloud Financial Credit Union Surpasses 10 Bitcoin In Member Custody Pilot

St. Cloud Financial Credit Union (SCFCU) has surpassed 10 bitcoin held on behalf of its members through its newly launched CU-Digital Asset Vault™, signaling early demand for community-based bitcoin custody solutions.

The credit union told Bitcoin Magazine that it is now safeguarding more than 12.6 BTC, along with smaller amounts of ether and USDC, just weeks after rolling out the service to its base of more than 28,000 members.

Unlike institutional custody platforms, the holdings reflect adoption at the individual level, with everyday users opting to store digital assets within a familiar financial institution rather than relying solely on exchanges or full…

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