📰 Crypto Digest
ETF inflows resume after weeks of drains; Kalshi outlines Iran carveout; DOJ seizures highlight enforcement; mining difficulty spikes; tokenized gold drives weekend signals.
Press review for 02 mars 2026 – editorial selection
Last updated: 07:18
Daily News Summary: Bitcoin ETF inflows resume after five-week drain; Kalshi updates on Iran leadership carveout; DOJ seizures highlight enforcement; Bitcoin mining faces a 15% difficulty spike; tokenized gold drives weekend price signals.
💰 Bitcoin ETF inflows resume after five-week drain; $875.5M in late Feb
- Over five weeks into late February, US-listed spot Bitcoin ETFs drained about $3.8 billion.
- Between Feb 20 and Feb 27, US-listed spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded roughly $875.5 million in net inflows.
- Three consecutive sessions ending Feb 27 yielded about $1.1 billion in net inflows.
- The short-term implication is that ETF flows will likely matter more than commentary.
🏛 Kalshi update on Iran's Khamenei market carveout: reimburse users and settle to last-traded price
- Kalshi said it would reimburse users.
- Markets will be resolved to the last-traded price before the death of Iran's leader was confirmed.
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🚨 Crypto investment cons now run like call centers and the DOJ $580M haul shows where the money pools
- The DOJ strike force delivered $580 million in freezes, seizures, and forfeitures within three months.
- Enforcement targets infrastructure rather than individual operators and focuses on chokepoints where money concentrates.
- Treasury estimates Americans lost at least $10 billion in 2024 in Southeast Asia-based scam losses.
- DOJ credited collaboration with infrastructure players, including sanctions and asset freezes.
⚙️ Bitcoin difficulty spike could flip miners from sellers to hoarders in days
- Bitcoin difficulty rose about 15% to roughly 144.40T.
- Hashprice fell from roughly $33.5 to about $29.7 per PH/s/day around the adjustment.
- Higher difficulty increases the work required to earn the same output and raises power costs and depreciation.
- Miners may sell treasury coins to cover fiat obligations, translating to spot-market supply if needed.
📈 Tokenized gold drives weekend price discovery as CME futures are closed
- Tokenized gold markets like PAXG and XAUt now handle nearly all gold price discovery when CME futures shut for the weekend.
Review based on an editorial selection of reliable press sources.
