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NEW: Short-term Bitcoin holders have unloaded more than 27,000 BTC over the past 24 hours 👀
NEW: Nine artificial intelligence models forecast that bitcoin could reclaim $100,000 sometime between mid-2026 and early 2027, based on factors like halving cycles, institutional inflows, and macro liquidity.
What it feels like after saying 50 bps instead of half a percent:
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BREAKING: 🇺🇸Square to enable bitcoin lightning payments as default for over 4 million merchants ⚡️

Square will auto-enable Bitcoin payments for all eligible partners starting March 30, 2026.

A Terms of Service notice was sent to merchants registered with Square's POS solutions.

This means over four million businesses using Square could become Bitcoin accepting merchants overnight.

Up until now, business owners had to manually activate bitcoin payments and decide whether to auto-convert to USD or keep in BTC.

The rollout is part of Block’s push to integrate Bitcoin payments across its ecosystem including CashApp, leveraging the Lightning Network instant, low-cost transactions.

Sellers will still have the option to disable the feature or automatically convert Bitcoin to USD at the point of sale.
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NEW: 🇺🇸 Senators reach deal with White House to resolve crypto stablecoin yield dispute with banks.
🔥 Telegram founder Pavel Durov says he he won't sell his bitcoin even if the price goes to $1M

He bought thousands of Bitcoin at $700 in 2013. Says even at $1,000,000... he won’t sell.
🇮🇷💥 IRAN CHARGES HORMUZ TOLLS IN BITCOIN 👀👇

Shipping firms would receive a payment request prior to transit. Once approved, vessels would be given a short window to complete the transaction in bitcoin. 
🔥 NEW: $300 BIllion Financial Advisor Ric Edelman says if The Clarity Act passes "the winter's over... you will see prices skyrocket and we'll hit All-Time-Highs really quick." 🚀

"Bitcoin will be $500,000 by the end of the decade."

https://x.com/i/status/2043751858699657706
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🔥 NEW: CEO of $104B Bitcoin Custodian BitGo Reveals Why Banks are Toast

- Banks are no longer needed for mortgages (Fannie & Freddie own $7.8 trillion in Mortgage Debt)

- SME lending is shrinking and moving on-chain

- Stablecoins are better at payments than banks ever were

- FDIC insurance proves banks were never safe to begin with

#MikeBelshe

https://youtu.be/X8hD0RxkLeo
👉 NEW: BlackRock has bought over 41,000 Bitcoin since the start of 2026

BlackRock (BLK) has increased Bitcoin (BTC) holdings for iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) by more than 5% year-to-date (YTD).

At the beginning of this year, IBIT held about 770,290 BTC, as Finbold previously reported. The fund has since increased its Bitcoin bag to approximately 811,981 coins, according to official data analyzed by Finbold on April 24. Consequently, BlackRock’s IBIT has acquired nearly 41,691 BTC in 2026, representing a 5.41% increase.

Source: The Bit Times
💥 NEW: Bitcoin Lightning payments are coming to 4 MILLION Square POS terminals across the U.S. 👀🇺🇸
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💥👀 BREAKING: Rogue AI agents steal data of 100 Million Mexicans and mine bitcoin for themselves 🤯
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Japan's largest exchange reveals live on Bloomberg they will start bitcoin trading!