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And check out our new daily news show covering all of the top stories in 5 minutes, downloadable on Apple Pod or Spotify. GM! Today’s top news: – Crypto majors fall 3-4% across the board; BTC at $73.3k – BTC ETF outflows total $1B+ over past 2 sessions, worst since January – HYPE falls 9% despite positive ETF inflows – Jefferies projects $1T crypto public market after upcoming IPOs – Google engineer becomes 2nd arrested for Polymarket insider trading 📉 Massive Outflows Send Crypto Lower Bitcoin slipped below $73,000 Thursday morning and is currently trading at $73,260, down 3.4% in the last 24 hours and at levels not seen in 6 weeks.
Two forces seem to be driving the price action: Iran war escalation overnight and the worst Bitcoin ETF outflow day of 2026. On the Iran front, renewed strikes and a breakdown in the latest ceasefire negotiations sent oil back up 2.5% and risk assets lower across the board. The peace deal optimism from last weekend evaporated quickly.