Bitcoin price traded near $69,000 on Monday, stabilizing after last week’s brief rally and then sell-off into the weekend. The cryptocurrency has remained resilient even as traditional equities and oil markets experience sharp swings.

Bitcoin price remains confined to the $62,500–$72,000 range following February’s sharp decline, with repeated attempts to break above $72,000 failing, according to Bitfinex analysts. 

A high of $74,047 on March 4 marked a brief breakout for the bitcoin price, but momentum could not be sustained, and the move was quickly reversed. The March 6 spike in negative realized profits of around $900 million shows that many investors exited positions…

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Bitcoin has just crossed a major milestone: more than 20 million of its 21 million coins have now been mined. That means over 95% of the cryptocurrency’s total supply is out in the world, leaving less than one million coins yet to be created.

But don’t expect them to appear anytime soon — the last fractions of Bitcoin, called satoshis, are projected to be mined around the year 2140.

Bitcoin’s supply is built into its code, making it very different from traditional money like dollars or euros. When Satoshi Nakamoto launched the network in 2009, the system was designed to release coins gradually. 

Miners earn new bitcoins as rewards for validating transactions and adding them to…

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The U.S. Treasury Department told Congress that bitcoin or crypto mixers can serve legitimate financial privacy purposes, signaling a shift in the government’s approach to blockchain privacy tools. 

The 32-page report, submitted under the GENIUS Act, also proposes new legislative tools to combat illicit finance, including a “hold law” that would give financial institutions temporary safe harbor to freeze suspicious digital assets.

The report acknowledges that lawful users may employ mixers to protect sensitive information on personal wealth, business payments, or charitable donations.

This represents a recalibration from Treasury’s earlier stance, which included sanctioning…

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Nigel Farage has taken a stake in a bitcoin treasury company led by former UK chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, deepening links between the crypto sector and the populist political movement led by Nigel Farage.

Farage invested £215,000 in Stack BTC through his media company Thorn In The Side Ltd, according to disclosures tied to a fundraising round for the London-listed firm. The purchase gives the leader of Reform UK a stake of about 6.3% in the company.

The investment forms part of a £260,000 capital raise that also included participation from Blockchain.com. Stack issued 5.2 million new shares at 5 pence each, with the shares set to trade on the Aquis Growth Market.

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Strategy, the bitcoin treasury company led by executive chairman Michael Saylor, purchased another 17,994 bitcoin for about $1.28 billion last week, continuing one of the largest corporate accumulation strategies in the digital asset market.

The company disclosed in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that the purchases took place between March 2 and March 8 at an average price of $70,946 per coin. The acquisition brings the firm’s total holdings to 738,731 bitcoin.

Strategy has now spent roughly $56.04 billion to build its bitcoin position, with an average purchase price of $75,862 per coin. At the current price near $68,000, the company’s holdings carry a…

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Digital asset investment products recorded $619 million in net inflows last week, with early optimism driving $1.44 billion in the first three days despite the Iran crisis. Later outflows of US$829 million occurred Thursday and Friday, offset by rising oil prices amid weaker payroll data.

Bitcoin led with $521 million inflows, while Ethereum saw $88.5 million and Solana $14.6 million. XRP experienced $30.3 million outflows, and short-Bitcoin products attracted $11.4 million. Overall sentiment remained broadly positive during geopolitical stress.

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