Maelstrom, the family office of BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes, said two of the four developers funded under its Bitcoin Grant Program are now working full-time on privacy tools designed to make Bitcoin transactions harder to trace. The program has paid monthly Bitcoin installments on 12-month contracts since October 2024 and limits grant stacking to $400,000 per year. The update follows Hayes confirming Maelstrom has exited its entire Zcash (ZEC) holding, citing a risk tied to Zcash's Orchard pool.

Bitcoin briefly moved above $64,000 on June 12 and later reached a seven-day high of $64,349 amid shifting headlines around President Donald Trump's claim of a U.S.-Iran understanding. Prices swung between $62,805 and the mid-$63,000s, while derivatives liquidations totaled $88 million and weekly spot bitcoin ETF outflows were cited at about $405 million.

A June 12, 2026 report from Galaxy Digital says Bitcoin may still be in the process of forming its cycle low as its drawdown tracks prior bear-market patterns. The firm's base case places a potential bottom between $40,000 and $46,000 sometime before the fourth quarter of 2026, while alternative scenarios range from $30,000–$37,000 on the downside to $51,000–$54,000 if buying remains steady.

Bitcoin has fallen nearly 50% from its July 2025 record above $123,000, and was trading around $63,900 as of Friday. The pullback, alongside declines of roughly 4% in the Nasdaq Composite and 8% in gold, is pushing investors to reconsider whether bitcoin belongs in a diversified portfolio and, if so, what a prudent allocation looks like.

Bitcoin (BTC) moved back above $64,000 on June 12, trading near $64,300 and rising about 1.9% over 24 hours. Analysts said the $64,000–$65,000 band remains the key resistance zone, with a break above $65,000 seen as important for a stronger rebound. Several major altcoins also posted gains during the session, alongside improving broader risk sentiment.

SpaceX said it completed a $75 billion IPO on June 12 while holding Bitcoin on its balance sheet. The company disclosed 18,712 BTC worth about $1.19 billion at press time, and reported an unrealized gain of $431 million. As shares began trading on Friday, BTC briefly reached around $64,300 before trading near $64,720, up 1.57% over 24 hours.

BlackRock filed a Form 8-A with the SEC on June 11 for its iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF (BITA), registering shares for listing on Nasdaq. Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas said the step typically indicates trading could begin in about a week, pointing to a potential June 18 launch. BTC was priced at $63,476.23 at press time, up 1% over 24 hours and 2.5% over seven days.

Last month, the U.S. Commerce Department signed letters of intent to award just over $2 billion to nine quantum computing firms, including $1B for IBM and $375M for GlobalFoundries. The author argues this accelerates the race toward a cryptographically relevant quantum computer, while post-quantum defenses for Bitcoin and other systems remain slowed by coordination and adoption barriers. NIST timelines cited in the piece deprecate RSA-2048 and ECDSA at 112-bit security in 2030 and disallow them in 2035, raising pressure for industry-wide migration planning.