This week Bitcoin will face major volatility across a key 48 hour period: Fed first, GDP and PCE right after
Bitcoin faces a 48-hour macro trap as the Fed speaks first, but GDP and PCE get the last word.

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A fresh oil shock has put Bitcoin on collision course with a higher-for-longer Fed just as traders were betting on relief later this year.
Project Eleven awarded its Q-Day Prize after Giancarlo Lelli broke a 15-bit elliptic curve key on public quantum hardware.
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Eric Balchunas argues the latest selloff revealed that the people once mocked as fee-paying tourists may now be helping form a stickier floor under Bitcoin.
The simple four-year halving narrative no longer explains the full recovery case for Bitcoin, as a growing chorus now points instead to institutional inflows, corporate buying, improving risk appetite, and technical momentum.
After years of framing crypto as a sanctions and crime risk, Washington is increasingly treating Bitcoin’s underlying architecture as strategically useful infrastructure.