
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.

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.

Investors poured $1.3 billion into Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana funds over three sessions, with more than $1 billion flowing into Bitcoin alone.

Bitcoin’s relative performance has improved across shorter horizons as crypto begins competing again for speculative capital.

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.

Yakovenko’s Solana-funded acquisition idea leaves the legal buyer, ownership structure and control of company revenue unresolved.

The $33.33 million mining acquisition was funded with equity warrants that could ultimately cover 43.3 million shares.

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

Abu Dhabi’s sovereign funds declined to trim their BlackRock Bitcoin ETF holdings during the broader crypto market downturn.

Strategy accounts for nearly 86% of the fund’s indirect Bitcoin exposure, while a new BitMine stake brings Ethereum into the mix.

Bitcoin is moving deeper into traditional portfolios as advisers, institutions, and retirement channels widen access to exposure.

Arthur Hayes is watching a $60 billion Fed limit as the trigger for a Bitcoin liquidity trade tied to Japan’s yen intervention.

August 7 gross futures carry ranged from 5.69% to 7.89%, above the 4.19% Treasury yield, but public data cannot identify investor motive.
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