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‘Computer-Hitler’ Makes a Bid for Power
Not long ago, claims that the world was moving toward a global digital dictatorship were confined to people who demand the government reveal its alien contacts and believe tinfoil clothing protects them from electromagnetic radiation. Those halcyon days are gone, and today leading investigative journalists use the phrase “digital gulag” without irony. At ForkLog’s request, Roman Korolev, author of the Telegram channel “Dark Culturology,” examines this new reality by tracing the roots of conspiracy beliefs about the coming of the Antichrist, an infernal computer and a concentration camp encircling the entire globe. Religious fear of the machine Many conspiracists argue humanity is on the final turn toward a total system of suppression and control that uses computer technologies to surveil people and strip them of their freedoms — in short, a “digital concentration camp.” Conspiracy believers inclined toward religiosity often equate this looming cybernetic world of universal unfreedom with the Kingdom of the Antichrist, to be established before the Second Coming. “Human technophobia is a permanent phenomenon, but it is in the second half of the 20th century that fear of new technologies begins to take on a religious underpinning,” Igor Kuziner, a scholar of religion, told ForkLog. According to him, scholars of conspiracy theories identify several causes. One is the atom’s entry into human life, including its terrifying military use in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Another, perhaps the most important, is the growing complexity of technologies to the point where they become a “black box,” hermetically sealed from the average person. A 19th-century technopessimist could hate a steam engine for threatening his job, but at least he could see how steam moved pistons and grasp the principles behind it. The modern person, who spends much of life in front of a screen, usually can’t fully explain how a computer works. The post-silicon-revolution world is more complex, and complexity inspires fear. “But computers will become part of everyday life later, in the 1990s. In the 1960s–70s, the main threat conspiracists saw in them was that they would become part of government bureaucracy. In radical American Protestant circles, the idea spread that the government was concentrating financial levers in its hands in order to control the economy and all human life through calculating machines. This coincided with the global fuel crisis, when after another Arab-Israeli war Middle Eastern countries refused to export oil to the US, and prices on everything else rose with the fuel. And despite their marginality, such ideas became quite popular in the US,” Kuziner says. For someone raised in a Christian culture, the notion that things are moving not toward progress but toward a fatal catastrophe would hardly seem new. After all, that is precisely the scenario foretold in the Bible, which prophesies that before the end times will come the Great Tribulation — a period of immeasurable suffering and unimaginable cruelty. Since the days of Roman persecutions, Christians have seen in the surrounding world signs of that prophecy’s fulfillment. Anglo-Irish clergyman John Nelson Darby, who in the 19th century had a profound impact on Protestant fundamentalist culture, quite precisely calculated the Great Tribulation to last seven years. Roughly midway, according to Darby’s projections, a totalitarian dictatorship of the Antichrist will be established, with the figure hiding his true nature behind the mask of a charismatic peacemaker until the appointed time. He will gain a plenitude of power humanity has never even imagined and will wield it for persecution, torment and terror on an unprecedented scale. Dire as that sounds, Darby predicted the suffering would be comparatively short-lived: just three and a half years until Christ returns to earth and routs the Antichrist’s army at Armageddon. The truly righteous, he said, won’t have to suffer at all, because at the start of the Great Tribulation the Lord will “rapture” them to heaven, where they will remain with the Savior until his return to the world. Authors who extended this line of thought, as noted by American sociologist Michael Barkun in “A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America,” tended to equate the Antichrist’s unprecedented managerial abilities, as foreseen by Darby, with the development of information technologies. Indeed, in the second half of the 20th century what better tool could there be than television for the Son of Perdition to attain worldwide fame and infect minds with sweet lies? It took a few decades to learn the tool truly exists — and it is the internet. Soft Black Stars by Current 93 Likewise, street cameras and tracking features embedded in electronic devices will be used by the Antichrist to monitor billions, while barcodes containing the “mark of the beast” will let him seize complete control over their economic lives. He will ultimately abolish cash altogether so every transaction runs on credit cards through a banking system under his sway. Having realized his plans, the Antichrist will govern the world via a supercomputer capable of analyzing and predicting the behavior of everyone on earth. As Barkun writes, for some conspiracists “Antichrist and computer became virtually interchangeable.” In a more extravagant version, he himself is an ultra-powerful calculating machine to which humanity voluntarily cedes global power. A generator of evil To understand how such beliefs spread, we need to introduce another Protestant preacher: American David Wilkerson, who in 1972 produced the pseudo-documentary “Rapture.” It depicts a future in which news anchors report events heralding the Great Tribulation: the sudden disappearance of millions (including people behind the wheel of cars or at aircraft controls), earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other displays of nature’s fury. As part of the film’s promotion, Wilkerson published a newspaper, “Signs of the Times,” filled with similar Great Tribulation fantasies. One article is written in the voice of Dr. Hendrik Eldeman — a fictitious “chief analyst of the Confederation of the Common Market.” He describes a supercomputer in Brussels spanning three floors, named “The Beast,” which plans to assign “every citizen of the world a number used for all buying and selling.” The number, invisible to the naked eye, will be laser-etched on the forehead or back of the hand, turning every person into a walking credit card. Notably, Wilkerson did not hide the fictional nature of these articles. Yet within months, his fellow evangelical Protestants were writing in their outlets about the Beast as established fact. The theory was relayed in that key, for instance, by preacher Mary Stewart Relfe in her 1981 Alabama book “When Your Money Fails: The 666 System in Action.” As writes Russian anthropologist Alexander Panchenko, “Relfe paid special attention to the development of international payment systems and the spread of plastic debit cards, which, in her view, were to become the main instrument of humanity’s economic subjugation. In Relfe’s book, the story of the Brussels computer and Dr. Eldeman was repeated several times. Moreover, it stated that the ‘little beast’ in Brussels would soon be replaced by another supercomputer located in Luxembourg.” By 1983, Athonite monk Parthenius included an alarming message about the Beast in his apocalyptic pamphlet “Troubling Signs of the Times,” distributed among Greek laity. Evidently, Relfe’s book was the source that carried the legend of the infernal computer beyond Protestant fundamentalism and into other conservative Christian circles. Researchers have established that even before the Soviet Union collapsed, the awful truth about the Beast computer spread in Old Believer circles via samizdat. After the USSR’s dissolution, nothing stood in the way of such rumors. Russian monarchist writer Sergei Fomin, a proponent of the Jewish-conspiracy idea, mentioned the Beast in the bestseller “Russia Before the Second Coming,” published in 1993 by the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius. The demonic computer also drew sharp condemnation from seer Ioann (Veniamin Bereslavsky), founder of the “Center of the Mother of God,” and Maria Devi Christos (Maria Tsvigun), leader of the notorious “White Brotherhood.” American scholar of Russian religious movements Eugene Clay notes that the Beast-computer legend was used with equal ease in propaganda by American Protestants, Greek and Russian Orthodox, conservative European Catholics and new religious movements. Apparently, in every milieu the beliefs similarly “expressed anxiety over the state of the economy and deep mistrust of computer technologies, state surveillance, globalization and Europeanization.” On Russian soil, these beliefs soon seeded a movement against taxpayer identification numbers (INN), one of its more prominent figures being the well-known schema-hegumen Sergius, then spiritual father of the Sredneuralsk women’s monastery. In a sermon he foretold the advent of “electronic slavery by devil-like people who will be eternal inhabitants of hell. The inscription is the barcodes on products and things. Everyone has an INN, and it contains three sixes. The seal of the Antichrist will deprive a person of God’s grace. If you consent to the processing of personal data, all information about you is transmitted to the world computer located in Brussels. Its name is BEAST.” Typical Orthodox-fundamentalist agitation against “the Beast.” Source: Eesti Rahvaluule. Now schema-hegumen Sergius — too conservative even by Russian Orthodox Church standards — has been defrocked, placed on the federal list of terrorists and extremists, and is serving time in a penal colony. But the concepts he promoted, of course, have not disappeared. These ideas took root in Russian society amid post-Soviet economic turmoil and expectations of an apocalypse in 2000. As we know, nothing happened. That did not stop many intellectuals in these circles from heralding new doomsdays, pushing the date back year after year. During the Covid pandemic, such beliefs gained unprecedented traction worldwide, but Russia has long been at the vanguard of “electronic” conspiracism. The country rebelled against INNs, against new passports whose numbers supposedly add up to “666,” and against vaccinations that would somehow “chip” people. All these fears rest on the belief that the Antichrist will mark us, and we will cease to be people with baptismal names, becoming mere numbers in his vast electronic concentration camp. ‘The Beast’ becomes ‘Hitler’ Contemporary Russian conspiracists do not always lean on apocalyptic imagery borrowed from their American “colleagues.” Instead they may speak the language of pop culture — for example, jokingly dubbing the secret world government’s supercomputer “Computer-Hitler,” a figure lifted from a cult album by the thrash-metal band Korrozia Metalla. Or they call it “Rehoboam,” the name a similar computer bore in the series Westworld. The essence of these beliefs remains the same: evil forces will gather information about every individual into a single electronic system and gain unchallenged power over people by using probability theory to anticipate any possible action. Looking around, many readers may find these fears not entirely groundless. Governments of all stripes are seeking to limit cash in circulation. The global tech elite have long behaved as though they’ve read the grimmest conspiratorial blueprints and firmly resolved to implement them. Nor does it seem far-fetched that the governance of human society could, in our lifetimes, be handed to neural networks — whose diabolical nature is easy to recognize for anyone who has dealt with them even once. Does all this mean the fighters against the “digital concentration camp” were right about humanity’s future? There is a caveat. Sociologist Michael Barkun — with whose work we began — linked the explosive spread of beliefs in a totalizing system of digital control to the end of the Cold War. A special plan of the Antichrist for this world. Source: JungleJournalist blog. Although the US emerged victorious, in the eyes of Protestant fundamentalists the world paradoxically did not become safer. Fear of a communist threat from the East gave way to dread of a global, unified system governed from a single center — stripped of any hint of local identity and equally unfree for all. In conspiracist circles this system became known as the “New World Order.” From the vantage point of 2026, however, reality looks far less like a prelude to a globalist utopia than it did at the end of the second millennium. “Conspiracists are fighting — as if it were inevitable — the idea that our world is developing toward digital globalization, although there are many completely opposite theories: about humanity’s shift to techno-feudalism, techno-nationalism, and so on. It is quite possible we are moving toward global digital fragmentation,” Kuziner concludes. If both proponents and critics of these projects are right, we may be able to say with confidence that the Antichrist’s plans won’t come to pass. Instead of one digital concentration camp for all, we will get many small autonomous camps, divided by borders and implacably hostile to one another. Reader, take comfort.
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Wyoming issues executive order to manage AI data center growth with focus on power costs, water usage, environmental impact, and workforce development. The post Wyoming Launches Executive Order to Regulate AI Data Center Expansion appeared first on Blockonomi.
CrowdStrike (CRWD) Shares Tumble 9% Despite Strong Earnings and Stock Split Announcement
CrowdStrike (CRWD) stock dropped 9% after hours despite beating Q1 earnings and announcing a 4-for-1 stock split. Analysts raise price targets. The post CrowdStrike (CRWD) Shares Tumble 9% Despite Strong Earnings and Stock Split Announcement appeared first on Blockonomi.
Shinhan targets Canton Network to take Korean assets global
Shinhan Financial Group moves to join Canton Network governance as it seeks to expand Korean tokenized financial products overseas.
Crypto Holders Avoid Israel’s Tax Program, Exposing Just $50.7M of Hidden Capital
Israel’s latest voluntary disclosure program is drawing little participation from crypto holders, with new data showing that only a small share of undeclared digital‑asset wealth is being reported. Broad Underperformance Across All Assets Israel’s push to surface undeclared cryptocurrency holdings is falling far short of expectations, with new data showing that taxpayers are largely avoiding […]
Goldman Sachs Launches Tokenized Real Estate Fund in Major Blockchain Push
Goldman Sachs in Major Blockchain Push Big banks are moving fast into digital assets. Goldman Sachs has joined hands with Apex Group and Archax to create a new tokenized real estate fund. This move brings traditional finance and blockchain together […] The post Goldman Sachs Launches Tokenized Real Estate Fund in Major Blockchain Push appeared first on Blockmanity.
Goldman Sachs launches tokenized property fund on GS DAP platform
Goldman Sachs has joined a group of financial and digital asset firms that have launched a tokenized real estate fund, adding another institutional-backed project to a market that has gained momentum across property investing. According to a Thursday announcement, Goldman…
Vietnam Tests AI-Equipped Police Drones
The Hanoi police have initiated testing of AI-powered drones for traffic monitoring and control, developed by Vietnamese companies MiSmart JSC and Gtel Robot JSC. The drones transmit real-time video to the command center and officers' mobile devices. They operate at an altitude of 50 meters with a flight corridor of 20 meters.
OpenAI and Anthropic urge Congress to regulate synthetic DNA sales as AI lowers bioweapon barriers
AI-driven regulation of synthetic DNA could reshape biotech markets, favoring larger firms and biosecurity tech, while challenging decentralized science. The post OpenAI and Anthropic urge Congress to regulate synthetic DNA sales as AI lowers bioweapon barriers appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
TSMC CEO announces capacity expansions in Japan and Germany to meet growing chip demand
TSMC's expansions in Japan and Germany highlight a strategic shift towards regional semiconductor production, reducing reliance on Taiwan. The post TSMC CEO announces capacity expansions in Japan and Germany to meet growing chip demand appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Quantinuum raises $1.68B in IPO, putting quantum computing’s commercial future to the test
Quantinuum's IPO success highlights growing investor confidence in quantum computing, potentially accelerating industry innovation and competition. The post Quantinuum raises $1.68B in IPO, putting quantum computing’s commercial future to the test appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Pi Network (PI) Price Predictions for This Week (June 4)
PI crashed 10% this week. Will the key support hold? PI Network (PI) Price Predictions: Analysis Key support levels: $0.13, $0.10 Key resistance levels: $0.16, $0.20 Market Crash Sends PI to Key Support This week, PI set a new record low after crashing by 10%. This has driven the price to the $0.13 key support […]
Bitcoin Quantum Discount Hits 27%: What It Means for Smart Investors Today
Charles Edwards warns a 28% quantum discount is suppressing Bitcoin price discovery due to developer inertia.
AI Leaders Urge Stricter Controls on DNA Synthesis
Leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Microsoft AI have signed an open letter calling for mandatory legislative checks on clients and orders from synthetic DNA and RNA suppliers, according to WIRED. The publication reports that the appeal was supported by Sam Altman (OpenAI), Dario Amodei (Anthropic), Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind), and Mustafa Suleyman (Microsoft AI). The agreement also includes scientists, national security experts, and representatives from the gene synthesis industry. The initiative's authors proposed that suppliers be required to screen orders for synthetic nucleic acids and maintain records of such transactions. The letter specifically emphasizes the need for client identity verification and equipment control. The appeal notes that the rapid development of AI reduces "knowledge barriers," potentially allowing malicious actors to use neural networks to design dangerous pathogens and toxins, bypassing previous restrictions. Order screening is described as one of the most effective and "least burdensome" ways to mitigate biological threats. WIRED highlighted that some companies, such as Twist Bioscience, voluntarily conduct such checks as part of an industry consortium, yet no unified federal regulations exist in the US. Earlier, a bipartisan bill was introduced in the Senate to require all gene synthesis providers in the country to screen their counterparts for ties to terrorist organizations or attempts to recreate dangerous viruses. In June 2025, one of the largest medical charities, Wellcome Trust, allocated £10 million to launch the world's first project to create parts or even entire DNA from scratch.
Arthur Hayes sells HYPE and NEAR days after bold $100K wager
Arthur Hayes sold HYPE and NEAR after a $100K bet, citing energy prices, AI IPOs and political risk as markets near a possible top.
David Solomon: AI will enhance productivity without causing job loss, the importance of human interaction in finance, and the evolving landscape of entry-level jobs | Odd Lots
AI is set to boost productivity and economic growth, dispelling fears of widespread job loss. The post David Solomon: AI will enhance productivity without causing job loss, the importance of human interaction in finance, and the evolving landscape of entry-level jobs | Odd Lots appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Jamie Metzl: AI’s ethical challenges in rule-making, its potential to extract universal principles, and the necessity of human collaboration | Jordan Harbinger
AI's dual nature challenges ethical boundaries while offering tools to synthesize wisdom for global peace. The post Jamie Metzl: AI’s ethical challenges in rule-making, its potential to extract universal principles, and the necessity of human collaboration | Jordan Harbinger appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Will XRP Lose $1 in Next 30 Days? Analyzing Fundamental Bearish Shift
XRP might lose the historic threshold way sooner than anticipated.
WISeKey (WKEY) Shares Drop as WISeSat Progresses Toward Nasdaq Launch Under WSAT Symbol
WISeKey (WKEY) stock falls as WISeSat files amended SEC forms for Nasdaq listing under WSAT ticker through SPAC combination with Columbus Acquisition. The post WISeKey (WKEY) Shares Drop as WISeSat Progresses Toward Nasdaq Launch Under WSAT Symbol appeared first on Blockonomi.
Why is the Ripple (XRP) Price Down This Week? (June 4)
XRP is down 9% on the weekly chart! Can the support at $1 stop the downtrend? Ripple (XRP) Price Predictions: Analysis Key support levels: $1 Key resistance levels: $1.4, $1.6, $2 Downtrend Resumes After three months of XRP moving sideways to form a large pennant, the price finally fell below it. With this latest drop, […]
Katie Porter out of California governor race, Becerra advances
The mixed-party general election could reshape California's political landscape, influencing future bipartisan strategies and voter dynamics. The post Katie Porter out of California governor race, Becerra advances appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Over $600M in Bitcoin longs liquidated as BTC dips toward $60K
Many traders expect Bitcoin to stage a short-term relief bounce toward $70,000, but the broader technical setup remains bearish for BTC.
Bitcoin Exchange Supply Keeps Falling: What Happens If Demand Returns?
Bitcoin is trading above $65,000 after a 12% breakdown over two days that erased weeks of recovery progress and forced a reassessment of the market’s structural integrity. The speed of the decline was alarming — but XWIN Research Japan has published an on-chain analysis that looks beneath the price action and identifies signals that complicate […]
Trump says Iran negotiations progressing well, flags potential weekend updates
The potential resolution of US-Iran tensions could stabilize global oil markets, impacting energy prices and indirectly influencing crypto volatility. The post Trump says Iran negotiations progressing well, flags potential weekend updates appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Quantinuum raises $1.68B in upsized IPO, lands $15.6B valuation as quantum computing goes public
Quantinuum's IPO success signals growing investor confidence in quantum computing, potentially accelerating innovation and market expansion. The post Quantinuum raises $1.68B in upsized IPO, lands $15.6B valuation as quantum computing goes public appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Why Broadcom (AVGO) Stock Dropped 6% Despite Crushing Earnings and AI Revenue Surge
Broadcom (AVGO) shares fell 6.1% after earnings despite beating estimates with $22.19B revenue and 143% AI growth. Q3 guidance disappointed Wall Street. The post Why Broadcom (AVGO) Stock Dropped 6% Despite Crushing Earnings and AI Revenue Surge appeared first on Blockonomi.
Israel and Lebanon agree to ceasefire contingent on Hezbollah withdrawal from South Litani
The ceasefire's success could stabilize regional tensions, impacting crypto markets and potentially altering Lebanon's economic reliance on stablecoins. The post Israel and Lebanon agree to ceasefire contingent on Hezbollah withdrawal from South Litani appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Wall Street pulls back from record highs as Middle East tensions rise and crude prices climb
Rising geopolitical tensions and oil prices could hinder economic growth, complicate monetary policy, and challenge crypto market stability. The post Wall Street pulls back from record highs as Middle East tensions rise and crude prices climb appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
XRP price analysis: Can bulls defend $1.14 after ETF outflows?
XRP trades near $1.18 after a 5.56% drop as whale selling, ETF outflows and weak technical signals put $1.10 and $0.84 in focus for traders.
Bitdeer Breaks Ground on 100 MW Alberta Site With on-Site Gas Power
Bitdeer (NASDAQ: BTDR) has started construction on a vertically integrated energy and computing facility in Alberta, advancing a project that reflects how bitcoin miners are increasingly pairing data centers with dedicated power generation as demand from AI workloads reshapes the market for electricity and digital infrastructure. This article first appeared in The Energy Mag. The […]
Polymarket accused of changing settlement rules to void winning bet on Strategy Bitcoin sale
This incident could undermine trust in prediction markets, potentially deterring future participants and affecting market integrity. The post Polymarket accused of changing settlement rules to void winning bet on Strategy Bitcoin sale appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Wyoming Governor Signs Executive Order on Data Center Development
Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon has signed the executive order "Data Centers the Wyoming Way," establishing a framework for the development of data centers in the state. The order mandates authorities to prepare implementation recommendations within 60 days and sets requirements for the protection of water resources, local community interests, and natural areas.
Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM) Stock Drops as CEO Projects Years-Long AI Chip Supply Shortage
TSMC (TSM) stock declined 1.7% after CEO warned AI chip demand will exceed supply for years. Details on US expansion and High-NA EUV technology plans. The post Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM) Stock Drops as CEO Projects Years-Long AI Chip Supply Shortage appeared first on Blockonomi.
Collector Unseals $1.78M Casascius Physical Bitcoin After 12-Year Dormancy
A rare 25 BTC Casascius physical coin worth $1.78M was unsealed June 2 after 12 years. Only 0.01 BTC moved—here's why collectors are watching closely. The post Collector Unseals $1.78M Casascius Physical Bitcoin After 12-Year Dormancy appeared first on Blockonomi.
US Treasury to establish Bitcoin Reserve, urges CLARITY Act approval
The U.S. Treasury's Bitcoin Reserve plan and CLARITY Act push could redefine crypto regulation, boosting market confidence and Bitcoin's appeal. The post US Treasury to establish Bitcoin Reserve, urges CLARITY Act approval appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Schwab's Thinkorswim Launches 24/7 XRP Futures Trading
Charles Schwab has significantly expanded its footprint in the digital asset derivatives market by launching 24/7 cryptocurrency futures trading on its popular thinkorswim platform.
Bitcoin has lost its momentum trade, says Charles Schwab’s Jim Ferraioli
Bitcoin has fallen more than 16% over the past month even as the S&P 500 has gained 5%, a divergence that Charles Schwab says is being driven less by crypto-specific problems and more by investors chasing opportunities elsewhere. According to…
President Trump considers ending Iran ceasefire if US troops killed
The potential end of the ceasefire could escalate US-Iran tensions, impacting regional stability and complicating US domestic politics. The post President Trump considers ending Iran ceasefire if US troops killed appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman distances firm from lobbying efforts during Capitol Hill visit
OpenAI's distancing from lobbying highlights the growing influence and strategic convergence of AI and crypto in shaping future regulations. The post OpenAI CEO Sam Altman distances firm from lobbying efforts during Capitol Hill visit appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Alphabet raises $84.75B in upsized equity offering to fund massive AI buildout
Alphabet's massive AI investment signals a tech arms race, potentially reshaping global AI infrastructure and impacting market dynamics. The post Alphabet raises $84.75B in upsized equity offering to fund massive AI buildout appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Treasury Secretary Confirms Progress on Bitcoin Reserve, Calls for Senate Action on CLARITY Act
Treasury Secretary Bessent confirms US Bitcoin reserve progress and pushes Senate to pass CLARITY Act. Current holdings valued at $215 billion. The post Treasury Secretary Confirms Progress on Bitcoin Reserve, Calls for Senate Action on CLARITY Act appeared first on Blockonomi.
Hyperliquid (HYPE) Surges Past $74 as Grayscale ETF and Institutional Demand Fuel Rally
Hyperliquid (HYPE) reaches all-time highs above $74 as Grayscale launches HYPG ETF. Three US ETFs attract $136M+ in inflows amid record platform volume. The post Hyperliquid (HYPE) Surges Past $74 as Grayscale ETF and Institutional Demand Fuel Rally appeared first on Blockonomi.
Bitcoin Drops Below $62,000
On June 4, the price of the leading cryptocurrency fell to $61,351. Amid the negative trend, the market faced a massive wave of long position liquidations. Hourly chart of BTC/USDT on Binance. Source: TradingView. At the time of writing, digital gold is trading at $63,581. Following Bitcoin, altcoins also entered the "red zone": Ethereum tested values below $1800, Solana dropped to $69, and XRP was trading at $1.17. Source: CoinMarketCap. In the past 24 hours, the volume of forcibly closed positions in the market amounted to about $1.63 billion, with the majority being longs — $1.38 billion. Source: CoinGlass. Delta Exchange analyst Riya Segal, in a comment for The Economic Times, linked the sell-off to a combination of factors: ongoing outflows from spot Bitcoin-ETF, geopolitical instability, and the breach of key support levels, which triggered a cascade of liquidations. Experts at CoinDesk noted that the $65,000 zone served as an important technical threshold. Holding below this mark opens the way for testing the $60,000 level. Simultaneously, on the Deribit options exchange, there was a surge in interest in put positions with strikes at $50,000, $55,000, and $65,000, expiring at the end of June. Additional pressure on the market is exerted by the movement of institutional demand. On June 3, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded a net outflow of $396.6 million. The continuous negative trend has persisted since May 15, marking the 13th consecutive session. Source: SoSoValue. Giottus CEO Vikram Subburaj emphasized that the lack of capital inflow into funds deprived the asset of support that contributed to growth earlier in the year. On June 2, Bitcoin fell below $70,000 amid increasing ETF outflows.
Bitcoin (BTC) Loses Ground as AI Stocks and IPOs Capture Investor Interest
Bitcoin drops 16% as investors shift capital to AI stocks and IPOs. ETF outflows surge while analysts caution about potential further declines ahead. The post Bitcoin (BTC) Loses Ground as AI Stocks and IPOs Capture Investor Interest appeared first on Blockonomi.
US House Democrats call for FTC probe into prediction markets
The lawmakers are also asking the FTC for information on whether it has plans to take investigative or enforcement action against prediction markets for possible deceptive practices.