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• Tether names KPMG as the firm that will perform the first complete independent financial audit of the company. 

• JPMorgan says bitcoin is outperforming gold and silver as precious metals face heavy exchange-traded fund outflows, weakening liquidity, and institutional position unwinds in March 2026.

• Goldman Sachs, a leading global investment bank, says bitcoin and crypto may have bottomed after declines since October 2025, with institutional demand signaling potential upside.

• Bitwise joins Lombard's Bitcoin Smart Accounts as its first yield partner, aiming to unlock productive returns on $500B in institutionally held BTC.

• Exchange outflows of BTC throughout March signal genuine long-term accumulation by investors, according to analysts.

• Ireland's Criminal Assets Bureau seizes 500 BTC worth over $35M from a convicted drug trafficker's wallet, recovered with Europol's support.

• US Bitcoin ETFs draw nearly $2.5B in monthly inflows, nearly wiping out year-to-date losses despite BTC trading 40% below its October 2025 all-time high.

• Morgan Stanley's spot Bitcoin ETF, MSBT, nears launch after NYSE confirms an official listing notice, a step analysts say signals an imminent trading debut.

• GameStop, the US video game retailer, confirms that it did not sell its 4,709 BTC holdings but pledged them as collateral with Coinbase Credit for a covered-call income strategy.

• MARA Holdings, a major US-listed Bitcoin mining company, sells 15,133 BTC for $1.1B to repurchase $1B of convertible debt at a 9% discount, cutting its total debt by 30%.

• UK government announces a temporary ban on political donations made in Bitcoin and crypto, retroactive from March 25, pending new legislation.

• St. Cloud Financial Credit Union, a Minnesota-based cooperative serving 28,000 members, surpasses 10 BTC held in custody through its newly launched member-facing vault.

• Traders face a pivotal $18.6B Bitcoin monthly options expiry on toady, Friday, with bulls needing a 6% rally to $75K to avoid over 90% of call options expiring worthless.

• The Bitcoin Fix, a Bitcoin education channel, argues that while AI can replicate virtually all digital content at near-zero cost, Bitcoin's proof-of-work mechanism creates unforgeable digital scarcity anchored in real-world energy expenditure, making it the only digital asset AI cannot copy or fabricate (Mar 22 | 6:16 min watch).

• Alex Thorn, Head of Research at Galaxy Digital, argues that every high-net-worth individual should hold BTC, citing Bitcoin's ability to be self-custodied and global transferred as qualities that make it superior compared to immobile paper assets like gold ETFs (Mar 21 | 1:06 min watch).

• Bitcoin Straight Up argues that the key to converting skeptics isn't explaining Bitcoin but asking targeted questions that guide them to identify monetary system flaws and independently describe bitcoin's core properties as the solution (Mar 27 | 11:01 min watch).

• Dave Collum, Chemisty professor at Cornell and Libertarian, in an appearance on BTC Sessions' podcast, warns that BlackRock's institutional embrace of Bitcoin represents a worst-case scenario for Bitcoiners, arguing that state power and Wall Street capture could absorb or crush BTC's libertarian promise before it ever threatens the existing financial order (Mar 23 | 15:17 min watch).

• Matthew Kratter of Bitcoin University warns that Bitcoin loans pose serious risks, including margin calls, rehypothecation, and potential systemic manipulation by governments and bankers, while urging Bitcoiners to maintain self-custody and avoid borrowing against their bitcoin stack (Mar 23 | 12:15 min watch).

• Adam Livingston argues that gold's worst 2-week drawdown in a decade, combined with Bitcoin's resilience and a rebounding BTC/gold ratio, signals the early stages of a major capital rotation from gold into BTC, backed by 10 years of historical data (Mar 25 | 14:06 min watch).

• Green Candle argues that Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill', through $4.2T in new debt, inflation, and dollar devaluation, inadvertently makes BTC the single best asset to hold in America (Mar 26 | 9:01 min watch).

• The Bitcoin Fix, a Bitcoin education channel, argues that while AI can replicate virtually all digital content at near-zero cost, Bitcoin's proof-of-work mechanism creates unforgeable digital scarcity anchored in real-world energy expenditure, making it the only digital asset AI cannot copy or fabricate (Mar 22 | 6:16 min watch).

• Alex Thorn, Head of Research at Galaxy Digital, argues that every high-net-worth individual should hold BTC, citing Bitcoin's ability to be self-custodied and global transferred as qualities that make it superior compared to immobile paper assets like gold ETFs (Mar 21 | 1:06 min watch).

• Bitcoin Straight Up argues that the key to converting skeptics isn't explaining Bitcoin but asking targeted questions that guide them to identify monetary system flaws and independently describe bitcoin's core properties as the solution (Mar 27 | 11:01 min watch).

• Dave Collum, Chemisty professor at Cornell and Libertarian, in an appearance on BTC Sessions' podcast, warns that BlackRock's institutional embrace of Bitcoin represents a worst-case scenario for Bitcoiners, arguing that state power and Wall Street capture could absorb or crush BTC's libertarian promise before it ever threatens the existing financial order (Mar 23 | 15:17 min watch).

• Matthew Kratter of Bitcoin University warns that Bitcoin loans pose serious risks, including margin calls, rehypothecation, and potential systemic manipulation by governments and bankers, while urging Bitcoiners to maintain self-custody and avoid borrowing against their bitcoin stack (Mar 23 | 12:15 min watch).

• Adam Livingston argues that gold's worst 2-week drawdown in a decade, combined with Bitcoin's resilience and a rebounding BTC/gold ratio, signals the early stages of a major capital rotation from gold into BTC, backed by 10 years of historical data (Mar 25 | 14:06 min watch).

• Green Candle argues that Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill', through $4.2T in new debt, inflation, and dollar devaluation, inadvertently makes BTC the single best asset to hold in America (Mar 26 | 9:01 min watch).

• ForrestHODL demonstrates how the Coldcard Q hardware wallet doubles as a fully offline password manager, using its encrypted secure notes and password generation features, including BIP85 and random options, to store sensitive credentials without relying on cloud-based services (Mar 21 | 7:01 min watch).

• Bitcoin Island argues that stopping the push to convert others to Bitcoin reduces stress and attracts genuinely curious 'independent thinkers,' making silence one of the smartest strategies for Bitcoiners (Mar 25 | 7:49 min watch).

• Michael Saylor, in an appearance on CNBC's Power Lunch with Brian Sullivan, pitches $STRC, a perpetual preferred stock offering 11.5% monthly, tax-deferred yield backed by the firm's $50B+ Bitcoin treasury, positioning it as a stable 'digital money market' alternative with a Sharpe ratio exceeding 3.9 (Mar 27 | 9:25 min watch).

• Andrew Gordon, a tax attorney, in an appearance on Marty Bent's TFTC podcast, argues the IRS's treatment of bitcoin as property, requiring capital gains reporting on every transaction with no de minimis exemption, creates crushing compliance burdens that drive businesses overseas and stifle everyday BTC adoption (Mar 25 | 1:44 min watch).

• Dushyant Shahrawat of Bloomberg argues that despite price drops, BTC proves its safe-haven resilience amid the US-Israel-Iran war, with Iran leveraging 6-8% of global Bitcoin mining, largely controlled by the state, to bypass sanctions and accumulate value outside traditional banking (Mar 25 | 0:49 min watch).

• HODL Tarantula, Co-founder Sovereign Hybrid Compute, argues that miners acting as 'buyers of last resort' for stranded energy, like flared gas and excess renewables, stress-test grid infrastructure while utilizing underused resources, driving energy efficiency (Mar 25 | 1:00 min watch).

• Mike Coffey, CEO of BlueCotton, in an appearance on Natalie Brunell’s Coin Stories podcast, highlights how he slashed employee turnover from 108% to 17% by offering BTC bonuses funded through in-house mining, urging small business owners to adopt innovative, cost-neutral financial incentives that build lasting loyalty (Mar 25 | 1:23 min watch).

• Tony of The Bitcoin Way warns that Iran's 2026 Strait of Hormuz closure and Gulf energy attacks risk triggering fiat currency collapse via war-driven money printing, urging Bitcoin self-custody as a resilient hedge beyond government-controlled financial systems (Mar 24 | 4:49 min watch).

• Bitcoin Ikorodu, a grassroots Bitcoin adoption initiative in Nigeria, shares how a local barber named Ola went from zero Bitcoin knowledge to confidently using BTC, including knowing the sat as its smallest unit, in his own barbershop business (Mar 23 | 0:48 min watch).

• Daniel Batten, environmental analyst and Bitcoin sustainability researcher, shares in an interview with Beau Turner of Abundant Mines how a single 2022 tweet challenging Greenpeace USA's inaccurate claims on Bitcoin's environmental impact sparked three years of community-amplified research revealing Bitcoin mining's 59% renewable energy use (Mar 21 | 2:20 min watch).

• Lyn Alden, author of 'Broken Money', in an appearance at the Women of Bitcoin Summit, argues that holding US dollars is like saving in 'melting ice cubes' due to inflation, while Bitcoin's fixed supply cap and zero-dilution protocol make it uniquely sound as a long-term monetary asset (Mar 27 | 0:56 min watch).

• The Bitcoin Fix also argues that while Bitcoin's protocol is superior, its success is far from inevitable, warning that complacency, politicization, and failure to cross the adoption chasm to the pragmatic early majority could derail the path to capturing a $450T global monetary premium (Mar 24 | 6:53 min watch).

• Mark Moss warns that the 2026 oil shock, already at 11M barrels per day lost, surpassing both 1970s crises combined, has triggered a $350T 'debt vortex' with only three exits, all inflationary, making hard assets, energy equities, and BTC essential positioning tools (Mar 27 | 17:18 min watch).

• Oshins of Simply Bitcoin argues that the Iran ceasefire exposes three fatal flaws in fiat money: $36T US debt, dollar weaponization backfiring via petro-yuan infrastructure, and accelerating purchasing power collapse, all while Bitcoin holds steady as the only exit (Mar 27 | 24:57 min watch).

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