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View More NewsBitcoin may have already bottomed in early February at around $60,000 and is unlikely to go lower this year, according to a crypto analyst, despite expectations of another downturn.“The dozens of bottom signals only flashed in synchrony at the bottoms. They were not flashing in the middle. Yet they all flashed in Q1 2026 at 60k,” Matthew Hyland said in an X post on Friday.“To compare the current price action to mid bear market price action has major visible flaws because you did not have bottom signals flashing in the middle; they flashed at the bottoms,” Hyland said, pointing to…
Crypto bullish chatter on social media has surged to levels that, according to crypto sentiment platform Santiment, could signal the current market uptrend may be short-lived.“Rallies that arrive with a confident crowd tend to fade faster than those climbing a “wall of worry,” Santiment said in a report published on Saturday. “Those climbing skepticism tend to extend,” Santiment added.Santiment said the ratio of bullish to bearish crypto-related comments on social media is currently around 1.5 to 1, based on a sample of active crypto accounts tracked across multiple platforms. It comes as Bitcoin (BTC) has increased 11.50% over the past…
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The Northern Territory holds a special place in the Australian imagination: an endless outback, home to iconic Australian places like Uluru and Kakadu and the distinctive dot painting art style. Last week, it was also the setting for a shocking murder that has reopened Australia’s fractious debate about entrenched hardship in Indigenous communities in the Territory and the country’s wider handling of Indigenous policy.On the night of 25 April, five-year-old Indigenous girl Sharon Granites, now referred to as Kumanjayi Little Baby in keeping with local customs, was abducted from her home in the Old Timers Creek town camp on the…
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