Michael Saylor renewed attention on Strategy’s bitcoin plans after the company’s rare 32 BTC sale sparked debate among investors. His latest post shifted focus back to Strategy’s 843,706 BTC reserve and the possibility of future acquisitions.

Gold and silver have shed a combined trillion dollars in market value from their January peaks, with gold trading near $4,331 per ounce and silver around $67.30 on June 5, even as a live geopolitical conflict and above-target inflation would traditionally push precious metals higher.

Bitcoin ( BTC) is trading at $61,822 on June 7, 2026, at 8:35 a.m. EDT, caught between a deeply oversold momentum reading on shorter timeframes and relentless selling pressure from moving averages across the daily chart. The technical picture this weekend is mixed but carries a clear bearish lean, with the $63,000 level standing as the most consequential level on current charts.

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Hut 8 has priced $4.25 billion of senior secured notes to finance a large artificial intelligence (AI) data center project in Texas. The deal marks another major step in the company’s shift from bitcoin mining toward power-backed digital infrastructure.

Travala has launched an agentic AI travel protocol allowing autonomous agents to book more than 2.2 million hotels with minimal human intervention.

ETH Zurich researchers led by Renato Renner built a “perfect die” by entangling two qubits linked through a 30-meter tunnel with microwave photons, then refining the output with a two-source extractor. The Nature-published experiment yields random numbers whose unpredictability is certified by physics, pointing to applications in cryptography and gaming that classical generators cannot match.

Leopold Aschenbrenner just took Situational Awareness LP from $255M to $13.7B in only six quarters. His Q1 2026 filing dropped and one new move stands out as especially sharp. Full breakdown of what he’s doing with AI infrastructure stocks here 👇

Alla Bakina, Director of the Bank of Russia’s National Payment System Department, highlighted that most private banks in Russia are ready to provide digital ruble services on September 1. The currency will integrate with the existing universal QR code payment system.

7RCC Global has launched BTCK, an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that combines 80% bitcoin exposure with 20% regulated carbon credit futures. The fund gives investors a listed product that blends digital assets with environmental commodities.

A growing dispute in Washington over bank capital requirements could have major implications for institutional bitcoin adoption. Senators are challenging a 1,250% risk weight that they argue makes holding BTC prohibitively expensive for regulated banks.

Bitcoin’s sharp decline is fueling debate over whether investors are selling liquid crypto positions to chase the Spacex IPO and emerging AI opportunities. The theory points to liquidity pressure, ETF outflows, and Strategy’s small BTC sale as contributing factors.

Welcome to Latam Insights, a compilation of the most relevant crypto news from Latin America over the past week. In this edition, the US targets Brazil’s Pix in a USTR report, Chile dismantles Tren de Aragua’s crypto laundering group, and a sugarcane-powered bitcoin mining project surges in Brazil.

BNB Chain’s first quarter showed a broader network mix, with real-world assets, stablecoins, and artificial intelligence (AI)-native applications gaining ground as trading cooled from Q4’s memecoin surge. The chain also delivered faster block times, lower fees, and stronger developer activity.

A New York attorney intervened to stop what could have been the largest courtroom judgment in bitcoin in history, filing an amicus brief that persuaded a judge to freeze proceedings targeting nearly 40,000 dormant wallets collectively holding an estimated 3.8 million BTC.