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Bitcoin has ‘failed’, according to a prominent crypto influencer. With BTC stuck below $70,000, one must ask: is he right?

Elizabeth Warren is back with another rant against crypto. Here’s what she had to say to Scott Bessent and Jerome Powell about crypto bailouts.

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TOP STORY

'Bitcoin Has Failed' — Crypto Influencer Questions Entire BTC Thesis After 12 Years

Crypto influencer Ran Neuner is questioning the entire Bitcoin thesis after 12 years—and his argument is brutal: when tariffs, currency stress, and fiscal instability finally hit, capital ran to gold, not BTC.

"Institutions had access. There were no barriers left. That's the uncomfortable part." Neuner says the community won the ETF fight, got Bitcoin into the system, and now has nothing left to fight for — and the energy shows it.

Even Strategy buying nearly $1 billion in BTC weekly can't generate a meaningful pump since October.

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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong sees quantum computing as a solvable issue. But that may not be the biggest risk to COIN right now.

FINTECH FOCUS

Elizabeth Warren Says Fed, Treasury Shouldn't 'Use Taxpayer Dollars To Bail Out Crypto Billionaires'

Sen. Elizabeth Warren is drawing a hard line: no taxpayer bailouts for crypto billionaires.

In a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell, Warren demanded both agencies rule out direct Bitcoin purchases, guarantees, or liquidity facilities — warning any intervention would directly enrich Trump's World Liberty Financial.

The stakes are real: Strategy is down 20% this year, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong reportedly lost $7 billion, and a record $17 billion was stolen in crypto fraud in 2025.

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