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April 12 — Following U.S.-Iran negotiations, the entire U.S. delegation has departed Pakistan, with no members remaining in the country. President Trump’s envoy Wietkof, son-in-law Jared Kushner, and the U.S. technical team have all left Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital. U.S. Vice President Mike Pence arrived at Ramstein Air Base in Germany before 7 a.m. ET on April 12. According to Pakistani media reports, Pence departed Pakistan on April 12 local time. (Xinhua News Agency)

On April 12, The Wall Street Journal reported that U.S. Vice President Vance said after marathon U.S.-Iran peace talks the two sides failed to reach an agreement—because Tehran refused to abandon its pursuit of nuclear weapons. “Unfortunately, we’ve made no progress,” Vance stated, adding he called on Iran to make a clear commitment to no longer seeking nuclear weapons. Iran’s top negotiator, meanwhile, said Washington had failed to earn its trust. Separately, the U.S. noted two Navy destroyers transited the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday—marking the first time U.S. warships have passed through the waterway since the conflict began. In response, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy denied the ships transited the strait, warning any attempt to do so would face a “decisive, firm response.”

April 12th — OnchainLens monitoring shows that amid a deadlock in U.S.-Iran negotiations, the whale address 0x9e8 has liquidated the bulk of its 20x leveraged long position in silver over the past 5 hours, while opening a new 20x leveraged long position in oil totaling 95,577 contracts, valued at $9 million.

April 12: MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor shared updates related to its Bitcoin Tracker on Thursday, with the message: "Think ?igger." Per MicroStrategy’s past pattern, the company typically discloses its Bitcoin holdings additions the day following the release of such updates.

April 12 — Cryptocurrency analyst Axel Adler Jr. noted Wednesday that Bitcoin’s current pullback is far milder than the bear markets seen at similar stages in 2017-18 and 2021-22. Still, the magnitude of the current decline alone isn’t enough to confirm a bottom has formed, he added. By comparison, the 2021-22 cycle posted a maximum pullback of 54%, the 2017-18 cycle 64%, and the 2013-15 cycle 43%. Adler said current market dynamics resemble a mild bear market, not yet entering a deep capitulation phase. A bottom can’t be confirmed, and a true recovery is still pending. He characterized the current phase as a bear market pause, not a trend reversal.

April 12: Philadelphia musician G.Love said he accidentally downloaded a malicious counterfeit app from the Apple App Store while switching computers and reconfiguring his Ledger crypto wallet—resulting in the theft of roughly 5.92 Bitcoin in a short time. On-chain detective ZachXBT later noted he’d traced the stolen funds’ flow, revealing the assets were routed through a CEX deposit address. ZachXBT also criticized the Apple App Store’s review process, arguing the platform’s allowance of fake apps to be listed exacerbates risks to users’ asset security.