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The Latest Bitcoin & Macro news: Weekly Recap 11.03.2025

🧠Quote(s) of the week:
'For anybody worried about Bitcoin's current pullback, here's some perspective: Today's drawdowns are within range of previous bull-run pullbacks. In other words, corrections like these are historically normal during bull runs. Steady lads!' - The Bitcoin Layer

🧡Bitcoin news🧡
On the 4th of March:

➡️The IMF demands El Salvador stop buying Bitcoin as a condition of further funding. Disgusting! The IMF just made a very public confession: Bitcoin is a direct threat to their power. By barring El Salvador from accumulating more, the IMF is admitting that sovereign Bitcoin adoption shatters their grip.



'94 countries have loans with the IMF. All those countries were just sent a message that they can’t buy Bitcoin. This is why after 2021 no other countries followed El Salvador, SOMETHING stopped the momentum.

We now have a pretty good idea who was behind that.' - Nico (Bitvolt)

Please read the following tweet/post by Mags for more clarification on this topic.

https://x.com/Crypto_Mags/status/1897034635605062024

gladstein (nprofile…xncl) Alex Gladstein said it best: 'Zero coverage in the mainstream economic media but think of the simple implication:

The IMF considers Bitcoin a threat

No longer useless, but revolutionary.'

➡️River: 'The era of "banning" Bitcoin is over. It has never been more globally accessible than today. Countries are slowly coming around to Bitcoin products, payments, custody, and now reserves.'

➡️'Crypto markets are now worth -$100 billion LESS than they were before the US Crypto Reserve announcement. Over the last 24 hours, crypto has erased -$500 BILLION of market cap in a massive reversal.

➡️China-based Holographic tech firm MicroCloud has purchased up to $200 million in Bitcoin.

➡️Riot mined 470 Bitcoin worth $39.6 million in February.

➡️BlackRock wakes up to Bitcoin's scarcity: "If every millionaire in the US asked their financial advisor to get them 1 bitcoin, there wouldn’t be enough." You don't say!😉 There isn't enough Bitcoin for everyone on earth to have 0.01 BTC. Today you can buy 0.01 BTC for $860. 0.01 BTC will eventually buy a house.

➡️North Korea’s Lazarus Group has fully laundered the proceeds of the Bybit hack. 500,000 ETH has been converted, primarily to BTC as ETH trades down to ~$2,100.

On the 5th of March:

➡️Metaplanet acquires another 497 Bitcoin, bringing its total holdings to 2,888. Metaplanet CEO says, “We wanna buy as much Bitcoin as we can before the price goes up.” “I think $1 Million is still cheap in the long term.”

➡️Strategy is the largest convertible bond issuer again in 2025. Year to date, they are 30% of the US convertible market, powered by Bitcoin.

On the 6th of March:

➡️Bhutan’s PM tells how strategic Bitcoin reserve helped finance their nation’s expenses. 'Hundreds of people have made billions of dollars on the back of Bitcoin - why aren't governments doing more?'

➡️Liquidity is coming! 'The Global M2 Money Supply chart just printed another vertical line. (See the far right side of the chart. Yellow line.)

The rally for Bitcoin and other assets is going to be epic.' - Colin Talks

Two days later: Global liquidity just hit a new ATH, adding $1.5 TRILLION IN ONE DAY. The correlation with M2 is mainly with direction, not necessarily magnitude. Bitcoin is now at $78,000—only $8k away from fully converging with the path that the global M2 money supply charted ~70 days ago.

Fear and greed index at 20, a value reached in bull markets when bitcoin is on its way to making a local bottom.

➡️'Texas passed the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve legislation SB 21 in the Senate. Texas is the 8th biggest economy in the world. This would be like Italy, France, or India establishing a Bitcoin Reserve.' -Bitcoin Archive

On the 7th of March:

➡️USA Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Plan

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/establishment-of-the-strategic-bitcoin-reserveand-united-states-digital-asset-stockpile/

bitpaine (nprofile…8q3r) : I literally have not seen a single person who read the EO correctly. This is MORE than I was hoping for:

-BTC is recognized as a valuable strategic asset by the largest economy in the world.

-BTC and shitcoins are now officially separated in US government policy. Shitcoins seized won’t be sold, only Bitcoin is worth accumulating.

-Bessent and Lutnick were authorized to develop budget-neutral strategies for further acquisition.

Literally what else was anyone hoping for? This is everything.

The United States just signaled its intent to buy and hodl Bitcoin. Most people aren't aware of this information yet.

'I’ve noticed three distinct responses wrt the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.

No-coiners: Totally unaware. Didn’t know it happened. Couldn’t tell you the current Bitcoin price either.

Bitcoin Tourists: Bummed the announcement didn’t instantly pump their bags. Anxious the top may be in this cycle. Considering selling some.

Real Bitcoiners: Euphoric, bullish, regardless of short-term price action, knowing the long-term paradigm shift to a Bitcoin standard is well underway.' - AlanBWatts

Which one are you?

On the 9th of March:

➡️'Internal Ripple emails, submitted in the SEC’s lawsuit over unregistered securities sales, reveal the company was behind promoting the “Bitcoin is controlled by China” FUD.' - Bitcoin News

➡️US Govt could sell some of its $800B gold to buy Bitcoin for its Strategic Reserve - Standard Chartered

On the 10th of March:

➡️Bitcoin just made the biggest weekly price drop in history with a $13,561 red candle. Bitcoin longs obliterated! Biggest wipeout since the crypto casino meltdowns (Celsius, 3AC, FTX). Leverage traders REKT



➡️Spain's second-largest bank BBVA gets approval to launch Bitcoin trading and custody services

➡️Japanse giant, SBI VC, just acquired 4000 Bitcoin.

➡️Strategy to issue up to $21 billion in 8.00% Series A perpetual strike preferred stock through an ATM program to buy more Bitcoin.

➡️A Bitaxe Ultra with ~491 Gh/s just found block #887212 on Solo CK Pool. Absolutely obliterating the required difficulty with 719.9T! With a total of 3.3Th running on their account they had a 1 in 250,000,000 chance and they hit. Boom — a quarter million bucks off of $150 hardware.

➡️$1.5 trillion Franklin Templeton says the US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve can help alleviate the deficit.

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