Bitcoin24h $77,205.62-2.22%

Ethereum24h $2,302.71-3.40%

XRP24h $1.40-2.87%

BNB24h $626.54-1.64%

Solana24h $84.50-3.38%

TRON24h $0.3246+0.24%

Dogecoin24h $0.0992-0.53%

Hyperliquid24h $41.65-2.36%

UNUS SED LEO24h $10.37+0.02%

Bitcoin Cash24h $449.56-1.43%

Bitcoin outperforms gold as Iran war shakes ‘safe-haven’ trade

Since Donald Trump joined Israel’s war with Iran on February 28, BTC has rallied 8% while gold has fallen 18%.

US margin debt reached all-time highs as crypto lost $2 trillion

Crypto markets have been penalized with downside volatility amid historic levels of US margin debt relative to income.

After a senior Bloomberg analyst called for bitcoin to crash to $10k and kept interrupting his counterargument, Lawrence Lepard ragequit.

BTC has lagged far behind gold over the past year. By one calculation, BTC is 68% lower than it should be.

There has never been a two-year period with a declining number of addresses holding more than 0.1 BTC — until now.