Bitcoin

The case is a reminder that 'crypto-adjacent' cult/ponzi-style fraud narratives (starving children under religious authority) can feed regulatory and media hostility toward unregulated 'community' schemes, but it is not an on-chain, exchange, or protocol event. With BTC at $81,567 and Fear & Greed at 55 (Greed), the market is in a fragile, dominance-driven regime where altcoins underperform; idiosyncratic legal news has almost zero beta to price.

Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Mackenzie was found guilty of 191 murder charges, all but one involving children, after telling parents to starve their children.