Catherine Austin Fitts, former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and one of the most outspoken critics of central financial control systems, has made her position on Ripple and XRP unusually clear: she believes they are central to the financial infrastructure being built right now, while Bitcoin is not.
Around 31,000 Bitcoin options contracts expire on July 3, with roughly $1.9 billion in notional value, max pain near $61,000 and a 0.7 put/call ratio. Bitcoin briefly reclaimed $62,000 as Ether and Solana extended gains, while bearish traders lost $281 million in liquidations over 24 hours.