Strategy to acquire $14B in Bitcoin, impacting market dynamics

Ran Neuner says Bitcoin’s chart structure is starting to resemble the breakdown pattern that preceded the 2022 capitulation, with one key difference: this time, he argues, Michael Saylor’s Strategy may be the market’s most important marginal buyer. Speaking with Scott Melker in a May 24 interview, Neuner said Bitcoin is sitting inside a “very scary structure,” pointing to what he described as a bear flag that has failed to resolve higher. His concern is not only technical. It is also tied to whether Strategy can keep raising capital through STRC, a preferred-stock instrument that Neuner believes has become central to Saylor’s ability to buy more Bitcoin. “If history repeats, right, then we should break down or could break down below this,” Neuner said, referring to Bitcoin’s current chart pattern. “I hate saying it because look, I don’t even want to admit it to myself, but I mean definitely it’s going down to the $40ks or $50ks if it happens.” The argument rests on a comparison with 20

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Bitcoin price started a downside correction from the $77,800 zone. BTC is showing bearish signs and might continue lower below $75,500. Bitcoin failed to stay above $77,000 and extended losses. The price is trading below $76,800 and the 100 hourly simple moving average. There was a break below a declining channel with support at $76,250 on the hourly chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Kraken). The pair might extend losses if it stays below the $76,200 and $76,500 levels. Bitcoin Price Dips Further Bitcoin price failed to clear the $77,500 resistance zone. BTC started a downside correction and declined below the key support at $76,500 to enter a bearish zone. There was a move below the 50% Fib retracement level of the upward move from the $74,210 swing low to the $77,810 high. Besides, there was a break below a declining channel with support at $76,250 on the hourly chart of the BTC/USD pair. Bitcoin is now trading below $76,500 and the 100 hourly simple moving average. If the pr

Whale traders have taken their most aggressive net-long positions in eight months on Hyperliquid’s HYPE token, even as retail participants sit at a 12-month bearish extreme — a gap that data suggests typically resolves in favor of the larger players. Related Reading: When Bitcoin Gets Ignored, It Tends To Rally The Hardest, Analyst Says Retail Traders Stand Back As Big Money Moves In Data from Alphractal shows that since early May, large traders have been quietly building leveraged long positions while retail participants turned bearish and began short selling into the rising trend. That kind of split has historically triggered a wave of short covering by retail traders, pushing prices higher. HYPE was trading at $62.05 at the time of reporting, with a 24-hour trading volume of $830 million and a market cap of over $15 billion. The token slipped 2% over the past day, but its technical picture has stayed firmly bullish. Prices are tracking well above the 20-day simple moving average of

President Donald Trump posted a public statement Tuesday defending the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) exclusive federal authority over prediction markets and warning that the United States must protect its position as the world’s leading crypto destination. Trump Backs CFTC Chairman Selig on Prediction Markets, Warns States to Stand Down On Truth Social, Trump directed […]

Ethereum has lost the $2,100 level as selling pressure overwhelms a recovery that has been struggling to find structural support since the mid-May highs. The decline is uncomfortable — but a CryptoOnchain analysis has identified a contradiction in the network data that makes the current price weakness considerably more complex than a straightforward bearish reading suggests. Related Reading: The Institutional Bitcoin Exit Is Real: Analyst Exposes Who’s On The Wrong Side Of The Trade The contradiction sits between two data points that should not be moving in the same direction simultaneously. The ETH 2.0 Staking Rate has reached a new all-time high of 32.18% — the highest proportion of Ethereum’s total supply ever committed to the network’s validator infrastructure. More ETH is locked in long-term staking contracts than at any previous point in the asset’s history, reflecting a cohort of holders whose conviction about Ethereum’s long-term value has never been stronger or more structural

Bitcoin’s cycle map is putting one month at the center of its next major turning point. The premise of everything changing in one month is not based on one chart alone but on a combination of cycle timing, HODL wave behavior, drawdown patterns, and on-chain bottom signals that have always characterized the final stage of […]

Grayscale says Elon Musk’s SpaceX could become the most valuable public company holding bitcoin after its expected IPO, while Strategy would likely remain the largest holder by BTC amount. Its S-1 filing lists 18,712 BTC under digital assets. SpaceX IPO Could Reshape Corporate Bitcoin Rankings Crypto asset manager Grayscale Investments said in a blog post […]