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Liquid Capital founder Li Hua announced that he successfully recovered an iPhone that was locked 18 years ago and the lost BTC through imBack. He praised imBack’s technical capabilities and has completed a strategic investment in it. imBack provides a service to recover crypto assets, helping users access digital wallets with locked or lost private keys.

The crypto market experienced a 2.23% gain, reaching a $2.36T market cap, with Bitcoin and Ethereum rising 3.17% and 3.78%, respectively. Notable gainers included $TRUMP, $GROK, and $MAGA. DeFi TVL increased by 1.72%, while NFT sales rose 5.79%. HypurrFi warned users of domain hijacking, and Apple removed Bitchat from China.

Standard Chartered has put a $500,000 Bitcoin price target on the table for 2030, and the market nudged higher in response – BTC climbing roughly 100 basis points to $67,500 as the forecast circulated. The number alone is striking; what’s more telling is that it comes from a bank with a $70

Bitcoin BTC$69,892.51 climbed to near $70,000 as traders reacted to signs of possible de-escalation in the Iran war and amid a short squeeze that liquidated more than $270 million in shorts. Crypto prices rose, along with equity index futures and equities, as Axios reported that the U.S. and Iran a

Gate News message: April 6, according to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa), monitoring shows that the trader "first sets 10 big targets" currently holds 2,250.15 BTC long positions, with a total position value of about $156 million. The trader's average opening price is $67,193.72, the current unrealized profit is about $5.52 million, and the liquidation price is $55,423.

Gate News message, April 6, BTC breaks through the 70,000 USDT mark, currently reported at 70,040 USDT, up 4.57% over the past 24 hours.

Gate News bot 消息，Gate 行情显示，BTC 突破 70000 USDT，现价 70000 USDT。

From 2026-04-06 09:00 to 2026-04-06 09:15 (UTC), the BTC price traded within the 69216.0 to 69739.9 USDT range. Within 15 minutes, it delivered a +0.58% return, with an amplitude of 0.76%. During this period, large trades dominated and drove prices higher; market attention increased in the short term, and overall volatility rose slightly. The main driving force behind this move is that large capital operations accelerated in and out of markets with weak liquidity. On-chain data shows that the average BTC transfer amount surged from $42,602 24 hours ago to just before the incident.

The Korea Financial Services Commission requires all cryptocurrency exchanges to set up a system to verify assets every 5 minutes, and to complete it by the end of May. It found that some exchanges’ verification frequency is insufficient and that there are defects in their trading circuit breaker mechanisms; all exchanges are required to publish their asset balances and submit to audits. The regulatory measures stem from an operational mistake at an exchange in February.

Gate News message: On April 6, CoinAnk data shows that in the past 24 hours, liquidations across the entire network totaled $195 million, including long liquidations of about $41.33 million and short liquidations of about $153 million. Shorts accounted for 78.5%. By coin type, Bitcoin liquidations were about $83.85 million and Ethereum liquidations were about $44.48 million.

Bitcoin (BTC) is heading into the end of the weekend with a familiar mix of nerves and opportunity. A new Santiment readout, amplified by Crypto Rover, says bearish sentiment around BTC has jumped to a five-week high, while the market itself is hovering near $66,972, with an intraday high of $67,487

Gate News message, April 6, 150 billion-dollar investment bank TD Cowen analyst Lance Vitanza reiterated a buy rating for Bitcoin reserve company Strategy (MSTR), with a 2026 target price of $440.

A solo Bitcoin miner has achieved something that most people in the crypto space consider nearly impossible today. The miner successfully validated a block and secured a reward worth around $210,000. This win came despite facing extremely low probability odds, estimated at roughly 1 in 28,000. In a

Gate News message: On April 6, according to Santiment data, the BTC profit-loss trade ratio reached 2.95, the highest level in 12 weeks. This indicator measures the ratio of profitable trades to losing trades; the current value shows that the share of profitable trades in the market is significantly higher than that of losing trades, reaching a recent peak level.