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With Bitcoin Under $80K, Cathie Wood Puts Gold Back Under The Microscope Bitcoin’s latest slide below the 80,000-dollar mark has revived an old debate on where it fits alongside gold in a world obsessed with inflation, money printing, and financial repression. For Cathie Wood and the ARK Invest team, the recent pullback is not the…

Bitcoin prediction markets now price a steep 2026 pullback as the base case Traders on Polymarket are increasingly betting that Bitcoin’s next major move will be down, not up. After a sharp weekend sell-off briefly dragged BTC under 75,000 dollars on Monday, contracts on the platform began assigning a 72% probability that Bitcoin will trade…

SEC freezes crypto ETF decisions as government shutdown stalls regulators As of 31 January 2026, the gears of U.S. financial regulation have almost ground to a halt. With Congress failing to pass a new federal budget, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been pushed into its official shutdown mode, dramatically slowing its ability to…

Bitcoin Active Addresses Sink To 2020 Levels After $83,000 Breakdown: What Comes Next For BTC? The past week has been brutal for Bitcoin bulls. The benchmark cryptocurrency has shed more than 12% in value, sliding from a failed attempt to hold above $83,000 down toward its next key support area around $77,000. Beneath the price…

Step Finance treasury hack wipes out $27M in SOL as STEP token collapses 90% Solana-based DeFi portfolio tracker Step Finance has suffered a major security incident involving its treasury, with more than 261,000 SOL — roughly 27 million dollars — drained from wallets controlled by the project. The breach triggered a brutal market reaction, sending…