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Bitcoin news and economic news update. Today I cover the bitcoin selloff, the reported $1.3 billion dark pool sale of BlackRock’s IBIT shares, Fold’s new $150 million credit facility for its bitcoin rewards card program, bitcoin miners moving deeper into AI infrastructure, Trump backing CFTC authority over prediction markets, and fresh DeFi security warnings as AI changes the hacking landscape. This episode also gets into bitcoin price, bitcoin regulation, bitcoin economics, macro liquidity, AI data center power demand, and why the economics of bitcoin still favor simple custody over complicated yield games.
Topics for today:
- BlackRock IBIT dark pool sale and bitcoin price weakness
- Fold gets a $150 million bitcoin rewards credit facility
- IREN signs a $1.6 billion Dell AI cloud infrastructure deal
- AI chatbot bias, Catholicism, and Pope Leo’s AI warning
- TeraWulf acquires a 1 GW Kentucky AI data center site
- Trump backs CFTC control over prediction markets
- Bitcoin++ Vienna, Lightning, Arc, and scaling tradeoffs
- OpenZeppelin warns AI makes DeFi security worse
- Stake DAO exploit shows private key risk in DeFi
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Today’s Articles covering bitcoin news, financial news, AI infrastructure, and regulation:
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-fall-coincides-billion-dollar-ibit-sale-dark-pool
https://www.tradingview.com/news/reuters.com,2026:newsml_TUA9Y4FCX:0-fold-gets-150-million-credit-facility-to-scale-bitcoin-rewards-credit-card-program/
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/05/27/iren-shares-jumps-on-usd1-6-billion-dell-deal-to-expand-ai-cloud-business
https://decrypt.co/369045/ai-chatbots-claude-chatgpt-bias-catholicism-pope-leo
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/terawulf-acquires-1-gw-kentucky-ai-data
https://decrypt.co/369128/trump-backs-cftc-over-prediction-markets-calls-state-officials-scum
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/05/27/openzeppelin-ceo-says-ai-makes-defi-unsafe-as-over-usd1-billion-hacked-from-defi-in-last-year
https://www.theblock.co/post/402719/security-researchers-flag-ongoing-stakedao-exploit-vsdcrv
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