Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson labeled Bitcoin a “Ponzi scheme” in a Daily Mail opinion piece, prompting pushback from Michael Saylor and other Bitcoin industry figures.

Luxor's Hashrate Index said oil shocks tied to the Iran conflict are more likely to pressure miners through bitcoin price volatility and hashprice than through electricity costs, since most hashrate sits in power markets with little crude correlation.

A Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance study found Bitcoin would likely withstand random subsea cable outages unless 72% to 92% of inter-country links fail, though targeted chokepoint attacks could be far more disruptive.

HIVE said it is scaling back ASIC-based bitcoin mining in Sweden amid tax-related uncertainty while expanding liquid-cooled AI data center capacity in Canada through its BUZZ HPC unit.

Bitcoin slipped after failing to hold above $76,000, with analysts flagging weak US spot demand and open interest divergence as risks for a bull trap while resistance sits around $78,300 to $82,500.

A 2013-era bitcoin whale sold another 1,000 BTC as large holders continued to dominate exchange deposits during bitcoin's sharp pullback.

VanEck's Matthew Sigel said bitcoin has stabilized after a 19% drawdown as leverage cooled, options hedging surged, onchain activity weakened, and miner selling remained restrained.

Bitcoin mining difficulty fell 7.7% on March 20 after block production slowed, offering temporary relief to miners facing tighter margins and rising competition from AI data centers.

Jimmy Song and Samson Mow have launched ProductionReady, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit aimed at funding a new conservative Bitcoin client and developer education to reduce reliance on a single dominant implementation.

Charles Edwards of Capriole Investments says the Bitcoin Yardstick metric hit record lows in February 2026, signaling the deepest value reading ever recorded as price diverges sharply from hash rate.

Bitcoin experienced a rare two-block reorganization on March 24 after Foundry USA Pool extended its competing branch past blocks mined by AntPool and ViaBTC, with the network resolving the fork by adopting the chain with the greatest cumulative proof of work.

Multiple analysts warn that if Bitcoin's drawdown deepens toward $40,000–$45,000, historical patterns suggest a recovery to all-time highs may not arrive until after Q2 2027.