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Bitcoin is trading with a cautiously bullish tone as a $5 billion cluster of call open interest piles up at the $70,000 and $72,000 Deribit strikes, the CLARITY Act clears the Senate, and $228.2 million in long positions get flushed in a single 24-hour window. The setup is textbook late-cycle: options traders are paying up for upside, spot participation is thin, and macro is starting to bite through a 4% French 10-year. What follows breaks down where the bid actually sits, what breaks the thesis, and the levels that matter into next week.
Bitcoin enters the last full week of July hovering near $70,000, with a CryptoBeast composite of 66 (bullish) driven almost entirely by the sentiment leg. Sentiment sits at 90, but news volume, trend, and on-chain scores are all clustered in the 50-55 band. That gap matters. It says the mood is running hotter than the mechanics.
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The State Department is partnering with Bitcoin Policy Institute and Palantir to debut a Freedom Tech program focused on protecting free expression online.
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BTC ETF inflows hit $2.1B, ETH sentiment prints 100, and Fear & Greed sits at 91 as AI-infrastructure headlines from Nvidia, MARA and Hyundai reroute crypto…
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BTC sits near $70K as a $5B Deribit call cluster, CLARITY Act momentum, and $228M in long liquidations set up the next breakout attempt.
CoinRabbit, GoMining Report Says Managing Mined Bitcoin Now Outweighs Raw Hashrate
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