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🎙 Bitcoin Fortress Podcast — Episode 224

Date: July 12, 2026
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In this episode:

In this episode of The Bitcoin Fortress Podcast, we examine why Bitcoin’s price may be stuck in one of its longest consolidations while the network’s underlying infrastructure continues to strengthen. We cover the latest ETF flows, Strategy’s Bitcoin sale and what it means for corporate treasury models, the CLARITY Act, the new U.S. CBDC ban, quantum-computing preparedness, privacy advancements, global adoption, and the biggest themes from the Bitcoin podcast universe. The bear market may be testing conviction, but the long-term foundations of Bitcoin continue to advance.

 

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NEWS (July 5, 2026 – July 12, 2026)

Market structure, price and ETF flows

1. Bitcoin’s $60,000–$70,000 range becomes its third-longest consolidation
2. U.S. Bitcoin ETFs break a ten-day negative streak
3. Analysts say holder capitulation may signal a late-stage bear market
4. Bitcoin’s July gains face weak U.S. demand
5. Spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded their worst month since launch in June
6. The behavioral mistake hurting Bitcoin ETF investors

Strategy, digital credit and corporate Bitcoin

7. Strategy sells 3,588 Bitcoin for approximately $216 million
8. Strategy reports an $8.3 billion quarterly loss
9. Strategy sells Bitcoin after announcing its new capital playbook
10. Metaplanet explores Bitcoin-backed digital credit in Japan
11. Metaplanet announces its Bitcoin-backed credit study

Washington, regulation and financial control

12. New Senate CLARITY Act draft may arrive within days
13. The CLARITY Act and Congress’s approaching summer deadline
14. Four-year Federal Reserve CBDC prohibition becomes law
15. Housing legislation containing the CBDC prohibition passes into law
16. SEC prepares its Regulation Crypto proposal
17. New Hampshire rejects a $100 million Bitcoin-backed municipal bond
18. Additional details on the rejected New Hampshire Bitcoin bond

Security, quantum risk and privacy

19. Crypto firms prepare for the quantum-computing threat
20. BitGo announces quantum-risk management controls
21. BitGo adds quantum-risk controls to Bitcoin custody
22. SLP 753 — Dan Gould on Payjoin and Bitcoin privacy

Global adoption and financial infrastructure

23. Russia’s Alfa-Bank plans Bitcoin trading and custody
24. Swift launches a blockchain ledger with 17 banks
25. Japan’s domestic-investment push may support Bitcoin and gold

Bitcoin podcast universe

26. Stephan Livera Podcast
27. SLP 753 — Payjoin DevKit with Dan Gould
28. SLP 752 — Fedimint, community custody and Bitcoin in South Africa