BITCOIN CRASHES AS MICHAEL SAYLOR STRATEGY GETS SUED! CLARITY ACT PUSH IS COMING!
June 26, 2026
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5 min readBlood in the Streets: Bitcoin Below $59K as Strategy Faces a Class Action
Bitcoin was trading at $58,748 as this episode aired, and Tony Edward didn't mince words: "It is bloody out there." The RSI on the weekly chart is oversold, 53% of Bitcoin in circulation is held at an unrealized loss, and a quant fund reports that four proprietary on-chain signals have aligned only five times in Bitcoin's 15-year history — each prior instance marked a cycle bottom. But the host cautioned that no one can call the exact bottom, and the market could still visit $54K, $50K, or even wick to $48K before capitulating.
The Case for a Bottom Zone
Edward walked through the technical signals. The weekly chart is forming a bullish divergence — the RSI is ascending while price is descending, a pattern that resembles the 2022 bottom. The MACD on the daily flipped bearish, but that doesn't mean it will stay that way. The liquidation heat map shows clustered liquidation risk above current prices, not below, meaning a move down is unlikely to trigger a cascade of forced selling. The real danger, he argued, is for those positioned short. "Everybody's super short because, oh look, it's falling," he said. "Same thing that happens inverse of what happens in a bull market."
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:52) **Market Bloodbath: Bitcoin Drops Below $59K** - Host Tony Edward opens with the market crash, Bitcoin at $58,748, and frames it as a "bottom zone" based on on-chain metrics.
- 2 (04:56) **Short Squeeze Setup & Rare On-Chain Signal Alignment** - Derivatives data and a quant fund's report point to a potential relief rally and a major inflection point.
- 3 (07:53) **Michael Saylor's Strategy Under Fire: Stock Drops & Class Action Lawsuit** - The host connects market fear to the troubles of Michael Saylor's firm, where the STRK instrument has fallen from $100 to $75.
- 4 (11:31) **SBI Holdings Acquires Japanese Bitcoin Exchange Bit Bank for $288M** - Major Japanese financial conglomerate SBI deepens its crypto footprint with a large acquisition.
- 5 (14:03) **Investco Files for Tokenized Fund Targeting Stablecoin Reserves** - The $2.5 trillion asset manager deepens its blockchain push with a fund aligned with the GENIUS Act.
- 6 (16:24) **GOP Lawmakers Race to Pass the Clarity Act Before August Recess** - Political pressure and a tightening legislative window drive the push for crypto regulation.
- 7 (17:28) **Circle & Namora Target Japan's $440 Billion Daily FX Market** - The stablecoin giant partners with Namora to launch a digital asset settlement business in Japan.
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⏰ Time Stamps ⏰
00:00 Intro
00:24 Bitcoin analysis
06:25 Michael Saylor Strategy lawsuit
08:54 SBI buys Bitcoin exchange
12:33 Invesco Tokenized Stablecoin Reserve
13:55 GOP Clarity Act race
14:58 Circle Japan USDC
16:21 Kraken Exchange Aave DeFi
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