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Bitcoin’s $80,000 floor cracked under back-to-back inflation shocks, and Xi Jinping’s Taiwan warning further dampened expectations of a recovery. BTC was trading at $79,200 in Asian hours on Thursday, down 2.3% in 24 hours and 2.2% in the seven days, after falling below the $80,000 level that had served as a floor for most of […]

A key tailwind that reportedly drove bitcoin’s recent surge above $80,000 appears to be waning. The 11 US-listed spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs), which pulled in $3.29 billion in investor money through March and April, are now leaking funds. And big ones at that. On Wednesday, investors pulled $635 million from those funds, the highest

A viral X post claims that Claude ‘cracked’ a forgotten bitcoin wallet to recover 5 BTC from a user’s computer. But don’t get caught up in the hype, because that’s not what happened. Anthropic’s AI simply helped the owner search their own computer for an old wallet file, which was then decrypted with a password