
Bitcoin blasts past $72,000 as Trump, Treasury buybacks wipe out $3.1B in shorts
Bitcoin climbed roughly 15% since Monday as a Treasury bond-market intervention helped push yields lower and forced billions of dollars in bearish positions to unwind.
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Over $1 billion of shorts are liquidated as Bitcoin raced from about $64,100 toward $69,000 after expanded long-term debt buybacks pushed Treasury yields lower.

A new preprint says off-book routing damped liquidation feedback inside Hyperliquid, while wider market effects remain untested.

A viral clip sharpened the clash between fee-funded security and the credibility of a fixed supply.

Bitcoin faces the highest 30-year Treasury yield since 2007 after crypto-collateralized lending fell by $22.5 billion from its 2025 peak.

An anonymous trader holds $415,000 against CLARITY ahead of a Senate test, dwarfing the market’s $160,000 in displayed liquidity.

Bitcoin compounded at 56.3% annually from 2016 to 2026, leaving the same starting investment in SPY with roughly $828,000 less wealth.



