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Bitcoin Price Today Slips Below $70,000 as CPI Looms and Iran Risks Keep Traders on Edge

Bitcoin could test $75,000 as markets look ahead to Wall Street reopening

Bitcoin fell to near $74,600 on Saturday, moving below a support zone that traders tracked this week. U.S. spot bitcoin funds showed outflows, and higher bond yields kept risk demand weak. Trading is light this weekend. U.S. stock markets remain closed Saturday and are set to stay shut Monday, May 25, for Memorial Day. That leaves crypto trading most of the weekend with few signals coming from Wall Street’s cash markets.
23 May 2026
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Baiya Stock Doubles After $1 Million BNB Bet: What Just Happened to BIYA

Baiya Stock Doubles After $1 Million BNB Bet: What Just Happened to BIYA

Baiya International Group Inc. shares more than doubled on Friday after the Nasdaq-listed China human-resources technology firm said it had fully deployed $1 million into Binance Coin, or BNB, and renamed its digital-asset strategy the “Binance Plan.” The company said the move followed a public vote on its X account in which BNB received about 89.2% support. That mattered because BIYA is a very small, volatile stock, and the announcement gave traders a fresh crypto-treasury angle before a long U.S. market weekend. The shares closed at $1.30, up 110.53%, with volume of 101.17 million shares against an average of 6.18 million; Benzinga showed the stock at $1.38 after hours.
23 May 2026
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Strive Stock’s Bitcoin Play Grows, Traders Eye the Open

Strive Stock’s Bitcoin Play Grows, Traders Eye the Open

Strive Inc. Class A shares moved up in premarket trade Friday, building on Thursday’s jump with traders still pushing into the bitcoin-treasury angle going into Memorial Day weekend. ASST changed hands at $19.24 ahead of the open, according to Google Finance, after closing at $18.53 on Thursday, up 9.13%. U.S. equity markets will be shut Monday, May 25, for Memorial Day, per the Nasdaq holiday schedule. Strive isn’t being valued just as a fund manager anymore. A Form 8-K filed May 19 with the SEC showed Strive purchased 381.61 bitcoin between May 13 and May 18 at an average price near $79,348, fees included, bringing its bitcoin treasury up to 15,391 coins.
22 May 2026
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Kraken’s Dubai Approval Gives It a Regulated Shot at UAE Crypto Traders

Kraken’s Dubai Approval Gives It a Regulated Shot at UAE Crypto Traders

Payward, the parent of Kraken, has secured preliminary approval from Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority for a broker-dealer, investment and management licence, moving the U.S.-founded crypto exchange closer to a fuller UAE launch. The timing matters because Dubai has become a crowded licensing ground for large digital-asset firms. Binance, OKX and Crypto.com already hold active VARA licences, giving Kraken a late but still serious route into a market where local regulatory cover and dirham access can decide who wins institutional flow.
21 May 2026
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POET Eyes $400 Million Raise as Traders Focus on Key Risk

POET Eyes $400 Million Raise as Traders Focus on Key Risk

POET Technologies Inc. shares slipped in premarket Nasdaq trading Thursday, retreating after a bounce. Investors questioned if the $400 million stock-and-warrant sale arms the AI photonics firm to grow or just piles on more headwinds. The timing is a factor for POET. The company is looking to shift from small commercial sales and engineering to higher-volume production of its optical engines. These are small modules that turn electrical signals into light, letting data centers move data faster with less effort. POET is selling into the same AI infrastructure growth that has attracted money to chips and networking stocks.
21 May 2026
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MARA Stock Just Jumped — Now Its $1.5 Billion AI Power Bet Faces a Test

MARA Stock Just Jumped — Now Its $1.5 Billion AI Power Bet Faces a Test

MARA Holdings shares edged lower before Thursday’s open, pausing after a 5.7% jump in the prior session as investors weighed fresh insider filings against the bitcoin miner’s push into power-backed AI infrastructure. The stock closed Wednesday at $13.15 and was indicated at $13.10 in pre-market trading at 8:02 a.m. EDT. The timing matters because MARA is no longer being priced only as a bitcoin-mining trade. Bitcoin mining — using large amounts of computing power to validate blockchain transactions and earn coins — still drives the company’s volatility, but the newer story is whether MARA can turn access to cheap or controlled power into high-performance computing, or large-scale data processing for AI workloads.
21 May 2026
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MARA Holdings Stock Gains as Bitcoin Recovery and AI Plans Run Into Morgan Stanley Downgrade

MARA Holdings Stock Gains as Bitcoin Recovery and AI Plans Run Into Morgan Stanley Downgrade

MARA Holdings shares rose in U.S. morning trade Wednesday as bitcoin steadied and investors discussed if the one-time miner can shift its power holdings into an AI infrastructure business. The stock gained around 7%, trading at $13.315 after opening at $12.63. Trading volume topped 18 million shares by late morning. Bitcoin, which miners rely on for revenue, rose about 1.2% to near $77,357.
20 May 2026
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Crypto Bill Gets Past Senate Obstacle, Details Remain a Threat

Crypto Bill Gets Past Senate Obstacle, Details Remain a Threat

US crypto market legislation that cleared a Senate committee is facing pushback from decentralized-finance developers after a last-minute amendment. The new language could drag more software projects under securities law. The debate has shifted from the committee vote to the text that could determine the bill’s fate. Digital Asset Market Clarity Act advanced out of the Senate Banking Committee last week by a 15-9 tally, putting the crypto bill on track for a floor battle in the full Senate. The key point is the measure has left committee and now needs real bipartisan votes if it is going to clear the Senate.
20 May 2026
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XRP’s $10 Bet Just Ran Into a $1.37 Problem

XRP’s $10 Bet Just Ran Into a $1.37 Problem

XRP traded near $1.37 on Tuesday as new forecasts sharpened a split over the token: one camp still sees a staged path toward $4 and beyond, while skeptics say Ripple’s own payments strategy could weaken XRP’s role. Recent articles from 24/7 Wall St., The Motley Fool and TipRanks put that divide back in front of investors within a softening crypto market. That matters now because XRP is not rallying into the debate. CoinMarketCap data showed XRP down about 1.1% over 24 hours, with a market value near $84.5 billion and daily trading volume around $1.8 billion; CoinGecko put the token about 62.6% below its peak.
19 May 2026
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Bitmine Shares Fall as Lee Raises Ethereum Exposure

Bitmine Shares Fall as Lee Raises Ethereum Exposure

Bitmine Immersion Technologies shares dropped hard Monday. The move came as the company increased its Ethereum holdings, but Ether’s price fell and risk assets stayed weak. The stock gave up 7.5% to trade at $18.37 in the afternoon, with shares hitting a low of $18.32. About 33.5 million shares changed hands. Ether, or ETH, slipped 4.1% to around $2,098. Bitcoin dropped 2.2%.
18 May 2026
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XRP Slides; $1.38, ETF Inflows and Washington on Traders’ Radar

XRP Slides; $1.38, ETF Inflows and Washington on Traders’ Radar

XRP dropped near $1.38 on Monday. The coin pulled back as the wider crypto market decline erased gains from last week, when U.S. regulation and fund inflow optimism had boosted prices. XRP was around $1.39, off 2.29% in the last 24 hours, according to CoinMarketCap. Trading volume stood at $1.89 billion with a market cap close to $85.64 billion. Bitcoin and ether also fell, so the slide wasn’t just about XRP.
18 May 2026
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Bitcoin Drops $80,000 With Focus Turning to Bonds

Bitcoin Drops $80,000 With Focus Turning to Bonds

Bitcoin dropped under $77,000 Monday, moving closer to its lowest in two weeks. The slide came as oil prices ticked up and bond yields climbed, with a spate of forced selling also weighing on crypto demand. Bitcoin was trading at $76,753 at the dateline, off around 2.1% after hitting a session low of $76,655. Bitcoin breaking below $80,000 is key for short-term traders. That level turned into a line to watch after last week’s failed rebound. Once again, bitcoin has acted less like an inflation hedge and more like a risk asset. Traders sold when they saw higher rates and tighter liquidity coming.
18 May 2026
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Riot Platforms’ AI spending puts pressure on Bitcoin investors

Riot Platforms’ AI spending puts pressure on Bitcoin investors

CASTLE ROCK, Colorado, May 18, 2026, 03:02 Riot Platforms is trying to shift from bitcoin mining to being an AI data-center landlord, but now it has to show that its power deals, land, and nuclear project can actually bring in tenants. Shares most recently traded at $23.49 ahead of the Nasdaq open, putting the company’s market cap near $8.2 billion.
18 May 2026
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MARA slips 6% as Bitcoin miner’s AI strategy gets set for Monday trial

MARA slips 6% as Bitcoin miner’s AI strategy gets set for Monday trial

MARA Holdings starts the week weaker, after sliding 6.4% to $12.44 on Friday. The drop followed broad losses in bitcoin-mining names. MARA still finished the week lower by about 3.9%, even after bouncing twice in the middle of the week on its Q1 numbers. MARA is trying to show investors it’s more than a bitcoin miner. The company says it wants to be known as an energy-backed digital infrastructure firm, aiming to use its power assets for AI and HPC — those big data center needs that require a lot of computing muscle. The $1.5 billion deal to buy Long Ridge Energy & Power is central to this push. The agreement remains the key test of that change.
17 May 2026
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Bitmine Faces $13.4B Ether Position Into Monday After Weekend Drop

Bitmine Faces $13.4B Ether Position Into Monday After Weekend Drop

Bitmine Immersion Technologies is on the back foot at the start of the week after shares sold off hard on Friday. Traders are watching its big Ethereum stake as the token fell over the weekend. The stock settled at $19.87 on Friday, dropping 9.7% as it wrapped the week off 10.4%. After hours, shares were flat near $19.82. Volume was high with close to 49.7 million shares traded.
17 May 2026
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Bitcoin Slides Under $80,000 Ahead of ETF Reopen

Bitcoin Slides Under $80,000 Ahead of ETF Reopen

Bitcoin slipped in weekend trading, sticking around $78,183 after a spike in U.S. bond yields and oil prices sent risk assets tumbling Friday and pulled the largest cryptocurrency under $80,000. Crypto trades all weekend, but with U.S. stocks and bitcoin ETFs closed, traders faced the fallout from Friday’s selloff in a thinner market. Bitcoin’s start to the week got a push from traders looking for more direction on U.S. crypto regulation, but those gains faded as capital rotated back into the dollar and government bonds offering higher yields. Bonds pay out a yield—what investors get for holding them. As those yields climb, risk assets like bitcoin can have trouble holding buyers.
16 May 2026
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XRP drops over weekend as $1.50 seen as key before crypto vote in Washington

XRP drops over weekend as $1.50 seen as key before crypto vote in Washington

XRP was down Saturday, hovering near $1.42 after getting a policy push from Washington this week and a pickup in fund flows, but the price didn’t break higher. It dropped 2.15% over the last 24 hours, according to CoinMarketCap, with market cap around $87.6 billion. About $1.82 billion traded in the past day. Crypto traders are watching Washington's next steps on regulation as risk assets keep falling. The U.S. Senate Banking Committee advanced the CLARITY Act on May 14. The bill tries to clarify when digital tokens are securities and when they're commodities.
16 May 2026
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  • Danika Mason Says She's Expecting First Child With Liam Knight
    June 30, 2026, 9:57 PM EDT. Danika Mason, sport presenter on the Today show, said she is expecting her first child, a girl due in December. Mason and partner Liam Knight, former rugby league player, are looking forward to the new addition. Knight came back to Australia after playing in the UK so he could be with Mason. She has talked about her experience so far, from morning sickness to food cravings, drawing support from friends and colleagues. The couple confirmed their relationship in 2024 and got engaged while on a trip to Italy. The announcement drew congratulations from across the media and sports world.
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