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Markets surge, war spreads, California buys, and New York opens the door.Thomas Hunt ( https://www.twitter.com/madbitcoins)THIS WEEK: Bitcoin Surges to $74,000 After President Trump Throws Support Behind Key Crypto Billhttps://www.investopedia.com/bitcoin-surges-after-president-trump-throws-support-behind-key-crypto-bill-11919161Bitcoin (BTC) is quickly giving up its weekly gains — here's whyhttps://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/03/06/no-deal-with-iran-trump-demands-unconditional-surrender-sending-oil-surging-bitcoin-and-stocks-lowerThe Secret Bitcoin Loophole Helping Iran Fire Missiles At Israel And US Without Going Brokehttps://www.ndtv.com/world-news/the-secret-bitcoin-loophole-helping-iran-fire-missiles-at-israel-and-us-without-going-broke-11175328California’s taxpayer-backed pension systems invest in Bitcoin and crypto – Orange County Registerhttps://www.ocregister.com/2026/03/06/californias-taxpayer-backed-pension-systems-invest-in-bitcoin-and-crypto/Strike Secures New York BitLicense, Opening Bitcoin Financial Services To State Residentshttps://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/strike-secures-new-york-bitlicenseTim Draper On The AI Boom, Bitcoin’s Future And Building ‘Human Accelerators’https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/tim-draper-ai-bitcoin-human-accelerators/Food Lion manager stops elderly woman from losing $5K in bitcoin scamhttps://www.wistv.com/2026/03/06/food-lion-manager-stops-elderly-woman-losing-5k-bitcoin-scam/Bitcoin News on X: "SOUTH KOREA TAX OFFICE LEAKS CRYPTO SEED PHRASE, $4.8M IN TOKENS DRAINED South Korea’s National Tax Service accidentally exposed a crypto wallet seed phrase in an official press release tied to a tax enforcement campaign, leading to the loss of 4 million PRTG tokens worth about https://t.co/blyoGS8Cpg" / Twitterhttps://x.com/bitcoinnewscom/status/2027461233457467653Sweep on X: "Everyone knows about the 10,000 Bitcoin pizza but nobody talks about the other 150,000 BTC he wasted after Before the famous pizza order, Laszlo Hanyecz invented GPU mining for Bitcoin Which made it possible for him to mine thousands of BTC per day Satoshi personally messaged https://t.co/DNw0BIIuUc" / Twitterhttps://x.com/0xsweep/status/2027431656890454457Bitcoin's hard fork proposal to get back $5 billion in stolen Mt. Gox funds sees no takershttps://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/02/28/former-mt-gox-ceo-proposed-a-rewrite-of-bitcoin-s-code-to-recover-usd5-billion-in-stolen-funds-gets-quickly-shutdownDeveloper embeds image on Bitcoin as a single transaction, challenging BIP-110's core claims | The Blockhttps://www.theblock.co/post/391667/developer-embeds-image-on-bitcoin-as-a-single-transaction-challenging-bip-110s-core-claimsbeeple on X: "WORLD WAR MEME https://t.co/2O6QrwUSeo" / Twitterhttps://x.com/be
