Bitcoin moved higher above $68,000 and is trading above $68,500 alongside the 100-hour simple moving average. The rally pushed to $69,256 before consolidating, with resistance focused on $69,250 and $69,500 and upside targets including $70,000 and $71,500 if those levels break. If BTC fails to reclaim $69,250, supports sit at $68,800, $68,500, $67,500 and $66,500.

Michael Saylor and economist Peter Schiff argued on X on April 5 over how to judge bitcoin’s performance and whether Strategy’s stock (MSTR) is justified. Schiff pointed to BTC’s 12% five-year gain versus MSTR’s 68.5% rise and urged investors to sell before a sharp drop. Saylor countered that longer horizons show stronger results, citing a chart showing bitcoin at a 36% annualized return since August 2020.

On April 5, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social warning Iran to keep the Strait of Hormuz open and said military strikes could follow by Tuesday, pressuring equity futures while lifting oil. May 2026 WTI futures traded around $114.42–$114.59 (about +2.6% to +2.7%) as E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures slipped 0.65% to 24,061.75. Bitcoin later traded at $69,009 (+2.11%), while Hyperliquid’s XYZ:CL oil perpetual saw open interest reach $575M–$593M.

A solo Bitcoin miner connected to solo.ckpool.org mined block 943,411 on Thursday, taking the full block reward worth about $210,000. The payout totaled 3.139 BTC, including a 3.125 BTC subsidy and 0.014 BTC in fees, and the rig was estimated at roughly 230 TH/s.

Crypto trader KillaXBT said in an April 4 post on X that Bitcoin could extend its downside toward the $63,000 area, citing liquidity behavior and weekly support/resistance structure. The analyst also pointed to $64,900 as a nearby low vulnerable to another sweep and outlined a potential rebound path toward $72,800 after a downside move. At the time of writing, BTC was around $67,256, up 0.5% over the past day.

Kevin Warsh, Donald Trump's pick for Fed chair, is scheduled to testify before the Senate Banking Committee on April 16, with Jerome Powell's term ending May 15. Bitcoin is trading around $67,000 as markets price Warsh's stated sequence of shrinking the Fed's $6.7 trillion balance sheet before discussing rate cuts. Rate-cut probabilities have shifted sharply, with June now priced at 11% and April at 1%.

Michael Saylor posted "Back to Work" on X on April 5, reviving his closely watched "orange dot" format that some traders associate with Strategy's bitcoin accumulation updates. The chart shared with the post shows Strategy holding 762,099 BTC, after an SEC filing said the company made no bitcoin purchases for the week ending March 29.

On April 5, 2026, Michael Saylor responded to Peter Schiff's warning about Strategy (MSTR) by sharing a performance chart that tracks major assets since August 2020. Saylor argued that Bitcoin has delivered a 36% annualized return in that period, versus 16% for gold and 14% for the S&P 500. The article also notes Strategy's average Bitcoin entry price near $75,700 and an unrealized loss of about $3 billion at a BTC price around $67,000.