Gold analyst Kevin Smith is making a brutal macro call: $20,000 an ounce in about four years if money supply keeps expanding, stocks tumble, and stress keeps piling up. It’s a tail-risk thesis, not a consensus forecast — but the backdrop for gold is getting harder to ignore.
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Bitcoin slipped below $65,000 as Trump’s proposed tariff action rattled markets, triggering a broader risk-off move across stocks and crypto. Higher yields, stronger labor data, and a wave of liquidations added fuel to the selloff, even as BTC’s long-term thesis remains intact.
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Charles Hoskinson says partisan “Crypto = Trump = Corruption” politics could derail the CLARITY Act, a bill meant to define U.S. crypto rules and SEC vs. CFTC oversight. His warning: if crypto becomes a culture-war punching bag, clear regulation could get buried.
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A new Bitcoin Security Consortium is launching with $15 million in pledged support to fund post-quantum cryptography research and long-term defenses against future quantum threats. The group says it will back security work without trying to control Bitcoin’s protocol.
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The EU has widened its Russia sanctions drive to include 14 crypto service providers, alongside banks, oil shipping, and defense-linked supply chains. The message is blunt: crypto is now part of the sanctions enforcement battlefield, not a magic escape hatch.
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Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott is backing the push to pass the CLARITY Act, a crypto market structure bill meant to finally settle the SEC vs. CFTC turf war. The stakes are high for Bitcoin, XRP, exchanges, and builders—and so is the risk of Congress botching it.
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RIF surged over 70% after Rootstock highlighted stronger network stats, including uninterrupted uptime, nearly 21 million transactions, and growing Bitcoin DeFi activity. The rally has traders eyeing more upside, but the move still needs real follow-through, not just another turbocharged crypto candle.
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Bitcoin has bounced back above $65,500, and on-chain data suggests the $62,000 area could be a meaningful support zone. Ali Martinez says that setup leaves room for a run toward $84,569, but like every crypto target, it’s a scenario—not a law of nature.
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Strategy is helping lead a $15 million Bitcoin Security Consortium with major Wall Street names to fund quantum-readiness research before any real threat arrives. The push is serious, but not apocalyptic: Bitcoin isn’t broken today, yet future upgrades could be a messy coordination test.
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Goldman Sachs is backing the CLARITY Act, but the crypto market structure bill is running into resistance from banks worried about deposit flight and Senate Democrats demanding tougher ethics and consumer protections. The real fight is over who gets to write the rules for digital money.
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