Bitcoin News
By Jean-Luc Maracon
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ETF Outflows and the Opportunity Cost Problem. When government bonds yield north of 5%, holding Bitcoin — which pays nothing — gets harder to…
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Strategy's Bitcoin Buys and the Cost of Capital. Strategy has said it plans substantial Bitcoin purchases through 2026.
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Bitcoin's hard-money case just got harder. The 30-year Treasury yield climbed to 5.18% as of May 20, 2026, and the pressure on speculative assets is real and immediate.
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The yield jump didn't come out of nowhere. Energy prices have been climbing, inflation expectations remain stubbornly elevated, and the U.S.
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Bitcoin dropped below $80,000 last week.
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When government bonds yield north of 5%, holding Bitcoin — which pays nothing — gets harder to justify on a risk-adjusted basis. Institutional allocators aren't sentimental.
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The tokenized U.S. Treasuries market tells the story pretty clearly. It's up 70% year-to-date, reaching $15.35 billion in on-chain market value.
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Futures markets aren't helping the mood either. There's now a 44% probability priced in for a Fed rate hike by December — a sharp break from earlier in the year, when rate cuts…
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See also: Spot Bitcoin ETFs Bleed $2.26 Billion in Two Weeks as Price Hits $74,300
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Strategy has said it plans substantial Bitcoin purchases through 2026. But rising yields complicate that playbook directly.
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And yet — the long-cycle argument for Bitcoin hasn't disappeared. It's just getting temporarily crowded out by short-term pain.
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But "worth questioning" doesn't move the price today. High Treasury yields do. And right now they're moving it down.
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Read also: Canaans ASIC Revenue Crashes 74% While Bitcoin Treasury Hits Record 1,807 BTC
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The paradox is uncomfortable. Bitcoin was built as a hedge against fiscal instability, and fiscal instability is exactly what's driving yields higher and pushing Bitcoin lower in…
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The $530 billion in six-month interest payments. The 5.18% yield. The 70% jump in tokenized Treasuries.
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