Fed Discount Rate Minutes, Bitcoin at $66K, and Mining Stocks Outperform

Markets digest Federal Reserve discount rate meeting minutes from January as Bitcoin reclaims sixty-six thousand dollars amid renewed U.S. institutional buying signals. Mining stocks decouple from crypto volatility with Terawulf surging thirty-one percent while Bitcoin drops seventeen percent month-to-date. Bitcoin ETFs post two hundred fifty-eight million in inflows as spot Bitcoin ETF assets under management decline thirty percent since year-start. South Korea moves to regulate crypto influencer disclosures. Strategy becomes Wall Street's most-shorted large-cap stock as Anchorage Digital acquires perpetual preferred securities. Senator Blumenthal launches congressional probe into Binance over alleged one point seven billion in Iran-linked transactions. Circle crushes earnings expectations with Q4 EPS at forty-three cents versus consensus thirty-five, shares jump fifteen percent pre-market. Fed proposes rule eliminating reputation risk from banking supervision to combat crypto debanking. Hong Kong announces new digital bond platform linking regional tokenization hubs.