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At 4:35 PM on March 23, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that the United States and Iran had held productive diplomatic conversations, and instructed the military to pause strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure for five days.

Bitcoin surged to $71,401.85 within just 10 minutes of his post.

A Presidential Post That Moved Markets

Trump’s statement described “very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East” over the preceding two days, characterising the exchanges as “in depth, detailed, and constructive.” He confirmed the talks would continue throughout the week.

The operational consequence was direct: “I have instructed the Department of War to postpone any and all military strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for a five day period, subject to the success of the ongoing meetings and discussions.”

The pause is conditional, tied explicitly to progress in diplomatic talks. It applies specifically to energy infrastructure – the facilities most directly connected to oil supply disruption and the inflation pressures that have kept central banks in a hawkish posture for weeks.

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Markets Moved Before the Analysts Could

Bitcoin surged to a 24-hour high of $71,401, recovering sharply from $67,588 where it had been trading earlier in the day. Ethereum climbed to $2,190, up 6.30% in the same window. Solana rose 5.70% to $91.01, while XRP gained 4.15% to $1.43.

The speed of the reaction reflected the scale of the overhang the Iran conflict had placed on digital asset markets since late February. Crude oil had surged more than 51% in a month, pushing electricity costs higher for Bitcoin miners and sustaining the kind of inflation environment that keeps risk assets under pressure.

Every escalation in the conflict had sent prices lower. Today’s post reversed that dynamic in minutes.

Five Days

The diplomatic window Trump has opened is narrow and conditional. If the talks that continue through the week produce meaningful progress, the macro pressure that has suppressed crypto markets for nearly a month could ease. If they break down, markets return to the position they held this morning.

Markets are treating the announcement as a de-escalation, with searches for Iran ceasefire surging globally within minutes of Trump’s post.

Trump described the conversations as a foundation, not a resolution. The difference between those two things will determine whether today’s rally holds.

The post Bitcoin Miners Are Losing $20,000 Per Coin, So Why Have They Stopped Selling? appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News

Bitcoin is trading at $68,247 at the time of writing, roughly $20,000 below what it costs to mine a single coin. Crude oil has surged 51% in a month to nearly $100 a barrel, pushing electricity costs – miners’ largest operational expense – higher at exactly the wrong time. The numbers are difficult, and they are getting worse.

Yet on-chain data tells a different story about what miners are actually doing with the coins they produce.

The Scale of the Squeeze

According to Jeremy, founder of Glyde, Bitcoin miners are currently losing approximately $19,400 on every coin they mine, based on an average production cost of $88,000 against a market price of $68,600 at the time of his analysis. Network difficulty has dropped 7.76%, the second largest negative adjustment of 2026.

The hashrate has retreated to 920 EH/s from a record 1 zetahash reached last year. Block times have stretched to 12 minutes and 36 seconds against a 10-minute target, a visible sign that mining machines are being switched off as operators exit unprofitable positions.

Oil Price Is Adding Fuel to the Fire

Crude oil is currently trading at $99.207, up 51.15% over the past month, with Brent crude at $113.647 – up 60.57% in the same period. For an industry where electricity represents the majority of operating costs, rising energy prices are compressing margins from the other direction simultaneously.

Miners are not just dealing with a falling Bitcoin price. Their costs are rising while their revenue falls.

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The Signal in the Data

Despite the pressure, Cryptoquant author and analyst Darkfost has flagged a development that runs counter to what the pain would suggest. Monthly average Bitcoin inflows from miners to Binance have dropped to approximately 4,316 BTC, the lowest level since June 5, 2023.

Across all exchanges, the figure reaches 4,381 BTC. Miners are not selling, even as they operate at a loss, and they still hold an estimated 1.8 million BTC in reserve. Darkfost described the current decline in inflows as a constructive signal, noting that structural selling pressure from the miner cohort appears to be temporarily easing.

What History Says About This Setup

Jeremy pointed to a pattern worth noting. In both 2019 and 2022, every time Bitcoin traded this far below its average production cost, it marked a cycle low.

His conclusion was direct: “The last two times this happened, the bottom was already in.”

History does not guarantee repetition. But the combination of collapsing miner selling and deeply underwater production economics has, in prior cycles, preceded recoveries rather than further declines.

The post Scammers Are Using the Iran War to Steal From Crypto Users: ZachXBT’s Full Exposé appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News

On-chain investigator ZachXBT has exposed a coordinated network of 11 X accounts manufacturing fake geopolitical panic about the Iran conflict to funnel followers into crypto pump and dump schemes that have already generated six-figure profits on-chain.

A Five-Step Scam Hiding in Plain Sight

The operation is methodical. According to ZachXBT, the network purchases accounts with existing followers, floods timelines with doom posts about war and politics multiple times a day, cross-reposts across accounts to manufacture virality, then uses the audience to promote fake giveaways and crypto scams before changing usernames to avoid detection.

One of the lead accounts, @wanglaurentceo, operating under the name “Wang Laurent,” accumulated 79.9K followers and cycled through 17 username changes, from “usdtt11” to “xrpinsol” to “edtrumpofficial.”

ZachXBT described it as an AI-generated fake Asian version of Mario Nawfal, created by running Nawfal’s profile photo through an image generation tool to build a credible-looking persona from scratch.

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The Posts That Reached Millions

The content the network produces is designed for fear-driven engagement. Posts claiming Iran threatened to cut undersea cables carrying 95 to 99% of global internet traffic accumulated 26,000 retweets, 50,000 likes, and 1.8 million views, even after X’s Community Notes flagged the claim as factually incorrect.

Large legitimate accounts unknowingly amplified the posts by engaging with them, extending the reach of content they had no reason to doubt.

The Scam Behind the Panic

On February 22, 2026, all ten accounts in the network simultaneously promoted $ORAMAMA, a meme coin on Solana via PumpSwap. They posted about it once and never mentioned it again.

On-chain evidence, according to ZachXBT, confirms the scheme generated six-figure profits.

Blocking the Exposer?

After ZachXBT published his thread, all 11 accounts blocked him simultaneously. His response was pointed: “almost as if they’re operated by one person.”

ZachXBT also raised a broader concern beyond the scam itself: “It’s scary to think about the implications of it if a nation state actor operated the same scheme rather than a meme coin scammer given how easy it is to operate.”

He called for platform bans and legal consequences for manipulation of this kind, and recommended that users review account history and recent posts before engaging with any content on social media, describing it as a personal standard given how widespread engagement farming and AI-generated spam has become.

ZachXBT confirmed that Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, is also aware of these accounts.

Not trying to blow up his notifications

He’s aware pic.twitter.com/f5cNBmygpu

— ZachXBT (@zachxbt) March 23, 2026

The post Tokenization Hearing Confirmed, CLARITY Act Stablecoin Deal Done “In Principle”: Big Week for Crypto appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News

Two things happened in Washington this week that the crypto industry has been waiting years for and they arrived at the same time.

The House Financial Services Committee has scheduled a hearing titled “Tokenization and the Future of Securities: Modernizing Our Capital Markets” for Wednesday, March 25, 2026 at 10AM EST. Blockchain Association CEO Summer Mersinger is among the confirmed witnesses.

The hearing, first reported by Fox Business journalist Eleanor Terrett on X, will bring together lawmakers and industry voices to formally examine how tokenization fits into the future of US financial markets.

It is one of the most significant Congressional hearings on tokenization to date and it lands in the same week the CLARITY Act’s most stubborn obstacle was removed.

The Stablecoin Standoff Is Over – Almost

Senators Thom Tillis and Angela Alsobrooks announced they have reached an “agreement in principle” on stablecoin yield, the provision that had blocked the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act from advancing for months. Banks had argued that allowing stablecoin platforms to offer rewards on token holdings would draw deposits away from traditional banking. That argument is now, at least in principle, resolved.

Senator Alsobrooks told Politico: “We’ve come a long way. And I think what it will do is to allow us to protect innovation, but also gives us the opportunity to prevent widespread deposit flight.”

Senator Tillis, while cautious, said he feels “like we’re in a good place,” adding that he still plans to review the details with industry stakeholders before moving forward.

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The Window Is Narrow

With the stablecoin yield compromise in place, the Senate Banking Committee markup is now targeted for the second half of April – likely the weeks beginning April 13 or April 20 following the Easter recess.

Senator Bernie Moreno has been direct about the stakes: if the bill does not pass by May, digital asset legislation may not move again for the foreseeable future. Senate floor time is under pressure from unrelated priorities, including the Republican voter-ID bill and ongoing developments around the Iran conflict.

Issues around DeFi treatment, ethics provisions, and a potential attachment of community bank deregulation to the bill still require resolution before a broad bipartisan vote becomes possible.

This development follows the SEC and CFTC’s landmark joint classification of 16 crypto assets as digital commodities earlier this week, the most significant US crypto regulatory action in a decade, reinforcing a pattern of accelerating policy momentum in Washington.

The tokenization hearing on March 25 and the CLARITY Act’s path toward an April markup represent back-to-back milestones. Whether the legislative window holds is the only question left.

The post “Gambling With a Timer”: James Wynn Returns to Hyperliquid With a 40x Bitcoin Short appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News

James Wynn is back on Hyperliquid. The trader who turned $4 million into $87 million, then lost nearly all of it, has returned to the platform that made him infamous, this time with $3,911 scraped together from referral rewards and a 40x short on Bitcoin sitting $415 away from liquidation.

Bitcoin is currently trading at $70,697. His liquidation price is $71,112.

A History Worth Knowing

For those unfamiliar with Wynn, the backstory matters. By May 2025, he had built one of the largest publicly visible leveraged positions in crypto history – a $1.25 billion long on Bitcoin using 40x leverage on Hyperliquid. The position unraveled as prices dropped, resulting in losses exceeding $100 million. He ended the month with $23 in his account.

Before deactivating his X account, he changed his bio to a single word: “broke.”

He has since returned to Hyperliquid multiple times, depositing fresh capital and repeating the same pattern of high-leverage trades, each ending in liquidation.

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What He Just Did

On-chain analytics platform LookOnChain flagged the latest move on X. Wynn’s wallet – tracked publicly at 0x5078C2fBeA2b2aD61bc840Bc023E35Fce56BeDb6 on Hypurrscan – shows he claimed a referral reward of $1,654 USDC, deposited $3,911 USDC into Hyperliquid, and opened a 40x short on 2.69 BTC worth approximately $190,000. His liquidation price stands at $71,112.48

Gordon, founder of Crypto Crib, responded bluntly: “James Wynn is back after managing to claim $1,654 in referral rewards. Awful trader, no wonder he is BROKE.”

The reaction from the broader community was similarly unsympathetic.

Trader Joe, known as SelfSuccessSaga on X, wrote: “This is exactly how overleverage wrecks people every cycle. 40x short isn’t trading, that’s straight up gambling with a timer. One squeeze and that whole position gets wiped in seconds flat.”

The Numbers Don’t Lie

With Bitcoin at $70,697 at the time of writing and his liquidation price at $71,112, Wynn’s position requires Bitcoin to fall meaningfully to generate any profit. A move of just $415 to the upside wipes out his entire deposit.

The crypto community has watched this pattern play out before. The only question is whether this time ends differently or whether Hyperliquid’s on-chain data logs another liquidation under the wallet address the community has been tracking since May 2025.

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Gold is trading at $4,491 this week, down 10.52% – its worst weekly performance since 1982 -despite a backdrop that would historically have driven the precious metal sharply higher. A war is ongoing in the Middle East, oil refineries are under attack, three US warships are deployed, and inflation is rising.

In every prior cycle where these conditions converged, gold has served as the primary safe haven. This time, it has not.

Why Gold Crashed When It Shouldn’t Have

According to the analysis page Bull Theory, three simultaneous mechanical forces drove the selloff rather than any change in gold’s underlying fundamentals. The US dollar surged on safe haven flows, making gold more expensive for buyers outside the United States. Commodity funds sold gold positions to cover losses from oil margin calls generated by the volatile energy market. And the CME raised gold margin requirements, forcing leveraged positions into liquidation.

The result was a paper market flush that had little to do with gold’s actual value proposition and everything to do with the infrastructure that surrounds it.

Bull Theory drew a direct historical parallel: the last time gold posted a comparable weekly loss was 1982, when the Federal Reserve was hiking rates to 20% to crush inflation – conditions that were fundamentally bearish for gold.

Within 12 months of that 1982 crash, gold had rallied 50%.

Bitcoin’s Divergence Is Becoming Difficult to Ignore

While gold suffered its worst week in over four decades, Bitcoin closed the same period down just 0.14%, currently trading at $70,563.

Coinbureau CEO Nic highlighted the contrast on X, noting that Bitcoin has outperformed gold for three consecutive weeks, that the asset is sitting at a bullish MACD crossover that has preceded multiple significant rallies historically, and that the RSI has recovered from oversold levels, signalling a return of upside momentum.

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Saylor’s Thesis Might Be Playing Out

Michael Saylor added his view on Friday: “Bitcoin’s a solution to everyone’s problem. Go buy the Bitcoin and wait because hundreds of trillions of dollars of capital from all around the world are going to flow into cyberspace to the Bitcoin network.”

MICHAEL SAYLOR: “Bitcoin’s a solution to everyone’s problem.”

“Go buy the Bitcoin and wait because hundreds of trillions of dollars of capital from all around the world are going to flow into cyberspace to the Bitcoin network.” pic.twitter.com/qJ77ROGkid

— Simply Bitcoin (@SimplyBitcoin) March 20, 2026

Crypto analyst SightBringer expanded on that argument, writing that Bitcoin represents the destination for capital that is trying to escape institutions compromised by “politics, dilution, leverage, seizure risk, or counterparty fragility” – the very forces that drove this week’s gold liquidation.

The week’s events did not disprove gold’s long-term case. What they demonstrated, however, is that gold’s digital infrastructure remains exposed to the same systemic pressures it is supposed to hedge against, while Bitcoin’s position outside that infrastructure continues to look structurally different.