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2026-06-19 · bitcoin — Kalshi, the regulated prediction market platform that fought a years-long legal battle with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, is now weighing an initial public offering as early as 2027. The company's annualized
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2026-06-19 · bitcoin — The Federal Reserve on June 18, 2026, proposed a new rule that would force stablecoin issuers to verify customer identities before opening accounts or processing direct token redemptions. The proposal extends traditional
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2026-06-17 · bitcoin — Greece is poised to deny Binance its Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) license, a decision that could force the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume out of the European Union entirely. The rejection, r
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2026-06-15 · bitcoin — On June 15, 2026, BitGo became the first pure-play digital asset custody firm to appear on the Fortune 500 list, reporting $16.2 billion in annual revenue. The San Francisco-based company, now operating under a federal c
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2026-06-15 · bitcoin — On June 15, 2026, the Korea Composite Stock Price Index blew past the 8,500 mark within the first twenty minutes of trading. The catalyst: a confirmed ceasefire and peace framework between the United States and Iran, a d
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2026-06-13 · bitcoin — On June 13, 2026, onchain analytics platform Artemis reported that Arbitrum absorbed roughly $2 billion in net inflows over the preceding seven days, making it the single largest destination for capital moving across blo
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2026-06-13 · bitcoin — On June 12, 2026, Blockworks, the crypto media and data company, announced its acquisition of Messari, one of the industry's most recognized research and analytics platforms, for just over $10 million. The price tag itse
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2026-06-11 · bitcoin — On June 10, 2026, a bipartisan pair of U.S. House members introduced legislation that would create a multi-agency task force dedicated to investigating and prosecuting cryptocurrency theft. The bill places the new unit u
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2026-06-10 · bitcoin — On June 10, 2026, Fold Holdings announced it had sold approximately $45 million worth of bitcoin from its corporate treasury to eliminate all secured debt on its balance sheet. The stock surged more than 130% in intraday
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2026-06-09 · bitcoin — Bitcoin traded at $63,180 on June 9, 2026, pinned below its 200-day moving average for a second straight week. Three forces are pressing on the price: $1.2 billion in ETF outflows over the past two weeks, a capital rotat
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2026-06-05 · bitcoin — Charles Schwab's chief fixed-income strategist Kathy Jones told investors in a June 2026 research note that Bitcoin's production cost of roughly $60,000 per coin among the most efficient miners could represent a durable
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2026-06-03 · bitcoin — Franklin Templeton CEO Jenny Johnson told audiences in early June 2026 that the traditional finance industry resists public blockchains not because the technology is unproven, but because it threatens the fee-based reven
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2026-06-01 · bitcoin — On May 12, 2026, Strategy, the company formerly known as MicroStrategy, disclosed in a regulatory filing that it had sold 32 BTC for approximately $3.1 million. The sale was the first known disposal of Bitcoin by the fir
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2026-06-01 · bitcoin — The Sui blockchain ground to a complete stop three times between Thursday evening and Saturday morning UTC, locking users out of their funds and freezing all on-chain activity for a combined span of roughly five hours. T
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2026-05-31 · bitcoin — The S&P 500 closed at a fresh all-time high during the last week of May 2026, yet Bitcoin fell roughly 4% over the same stretch, settling near $107,000. The divergence caught traders off guard. Sentiment data from Santim
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2026-05-29 · bitcoin — JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon told Fox Business on Friday, May 30, 2026, that the Clarity Act is "dead on arrival" in its current form and called Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong "full of sh*t." The outburst marks the sharp
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2026-05-28 · bitcoin — Fidelity Digital Assets published its Q2 2026 outlook on May 28, warning that Bitcoin mining is undergoing a "structural retooling" that the market has largely ignored. The report argues that flattening hash rate growth,
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2026-05-26 · bitcoin — The S&P 500 closed above 5,900 on May 23, 2026, marking its sixth consecutive week of gains. Yet forward price-to-earnings ratios have actually compressed over the past twelve months. The paradox, stocks climbing in pric
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2026-05-26 · bitcoin — On May 25, 2026, Hyperliquid announced HIP-4, an upgrade that eliminates external oracle dependencies for prediction market settlement. The update introduces what the team calls "canonical outcome markets," allowing off-
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2026-05-25 · bitcoin — On May 23, 2026, the yield on the US 30-year Treasury bond surged to 5.082% during intraday trading in New York. That is the highest level since October 2023, and in practical terms, the steepest borrowing cost for the l
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2026-05-23 · bitcoin — In 2011, a software engineer named Mike Caldwell began selling brass coins from his home in Sandy, Utah. Each one contained a private key hidden beneath a tamper-evident hologram. Peel the sticker, sweep the key, spend t
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2026-05-23 · bitcoin — Trump Media & Technology Group transferred roughly 2,650 Bitcoin, valued at approximately $285 million, from custodial cold storage to a Crypto.com exchange wallet between May 19 and May 22, 2026. The move, tracked by on
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2026-05-21 · bitcoin — Representative Nick Begich introduced a House bill to permanently codify the US strategic bitcoin reserve into federal law, turning Trump's executive order into a durable program.
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2026-05-20 · bitcoin — Hunter Biden's art site now takes Bitcoin for paintings priced up to $500,000, putting a public ledger behind a market long criticized for anonymous, opaque sales.
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2026-05-17 · bitcoin — Bitcoin slid to $78,300 on May 17, shedding 3.8% over the week as rising U.S. Treasury yields and renewed fears of prolonged Federal Reserve tightening drained risk appetite across digital asset markets. Spot Bitcoin ETF
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2026-05-16 · bitcoin — The Roundhill Memory ETF (DRAM) pulled in $10 billion within six weeks of its April 2026 launch, shattering the fastest-asset-accumulation record set by Bitcoin spot ETFs in 2024.
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2026-05-16 · bitcoin — Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss announced on May 15, 2026, that they would pour $100 million of their personal Bitcoin holdings into Gemini, the cryptocurrency exchange they founded in 2014. The move came alongside a Q1 202
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2026-05-12 · bitcoin — Strategy, the company formerly known as MicroStrategy, disclosed a purchase of 535 bitcoin for approximately $43 million during the week ending May 11, 2026. The buy came just days after co-founder and executive chairman
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2026-05-11 · bitcoin — At Consensus Miami on May 10, 2026, senior representatives from PayPal and Google Cloud made a claim that would have sounded absurd five years ago: autonomous AI agents will conduct commerce on cryptocurrency rails, not
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2026-05-10 · bitcoin — Korean financial outlet BlockMedia compares blockchain's current position in global finance to Andy Warhol's banana album cover for The Velvet Underground & Nico. The polished interfaces of modern fintech may be concealing something far more radical underneath.
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2026-05-09 · bitcoin — Ten notable venture rounds the week of May 3 through May 9, 2026 were dominated by M&A and payment infrastructure. Kraken and MoonPay led the pivot from speculative token plays to revenue-generating plumbing.
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2026-05-07 · opinion — DHS is reportedly weighing whether to shut down the Florida Everglades immigration detention facility known informally as Alligator Alcatraz because it costs more than $1 million a day to run. The story will be filed as a fiscal squabble between agencies. The deeper story is what happens when a government can spend without natural constraint, and how a hard money standard would have killed the project before the first contract was signed. Fiat is not the neutral medium people imagine. It is the silent subsidy that funds the indefensible.
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2026-05-07 · bitcoin — At Consensus Miami on May 6, 2026, executives from Binance, Revolut, and Circle took the stage to declare that crypto has crossed into the mainstream. Their claim: digital assets are no longer a speculative sideshow but
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2026-05-06 · bitcoin — At Consensus Miami 2026 on May 5, a panel of industry executives and regulators agreed on a single word to describe why crypto has not reached mainstream adoption: trust. The panel, hosted inside the Fillmore Miami Beach
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2026-05-03 · bitcoin — CoinDesk published its pre-conference primer on artificial intelligence on May 4, 2026, timing the piece to land exactly three weeks before Consensus Miami opens its doors on May 26. The article covers terminology from "
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2026-04-29 · macro — Strategy stopped behaving like a corporate treasury years ago. In 2026 it has stopped pretending. The financing pattern, the holding policy, the public messaging, and the way credit markets price the paper now match a sovereign wealth fund more closely than they match a company. The implications run further than most institutional investors are willing to say out loud.
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2026-04-22 · bitcoin — Two years ago, Bitcoin's mempool was a battleground. JPEGs and memecoin inscriptions paid hundreds of sats per vbyte to fight for confirmation. Blocks cleared at a fraction of that rate today, and nobody is talking about it. The quiet fee environment is not a sign of health. It is a structural problem arriving on schedule.
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2026-04-22 · politics — The country that made Bitcoin legal tender is quietly winding down its program under IMF pressure. The country that never held a press conference is now sitting on one of the largest sovereign Bitcoin positions in the world. The sovereign adoption story is real. It just isn't where you were looking.
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2026-04-21 · bitcoin — The public Lightning Network crossed 20,000 nodes and 60,000 channels this year. Payment volume, by any honest measure, has barely moved. The infrastructure got built. The demand did not show up. The gap between the two is the story the ecosystem keeps refusing to tell.
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2026-04-16 · opinion — Stablecoin circulating supply passed $200 billion. Daily settlement volume routinely exceeds Visa in dollar terms. Emerging market users are adopting stablecoins faster than they ever adopted Bitcoin. The maximalist response has been to ignore the data and repeat the 2019 talking points. That response is losing the argument and losing the market share. It is worth being specific about what exactly is being lost, because parts of the maximalist case are still correct and parts of it are not.
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2026-04-14 · bitcoin — The fourth Bitcoin halving turns two on Saturday. The protocol delivered exactly what it promised: a clean cut to new issuance and a stress test for the mining industry. The four-year cycle theory built around it did not deliver what it promised. The gap between those two statements is the real legacy of 2024.
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2026-04-12 · opinion — AI-powered surveillance went from science fiction to city infrastructure in under three years. Your face unlocks your phone, and now it unlocks your file in a police database. This is not a drill.
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2026-04-10 · opinion — The EU's Chat Control law is pushing Signal to exit Europe. But Signal is a company with servers, employees, and a jurisdiction. Nostr is a protocol with none of those things. You can't regulate what you can't find.
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2026-04-09 · opinion — Nigeria processes more P2P Bitcoin volume than any country except the US. Kenya runs mobile-first Lightning payments. South Africa's central bank is integrating Bitcoin into its regulatory framework. The continent Western media ignores is building the future of money.
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2026-04-09 · bitcoin — Iran is demanding Bitcoin payment from oil tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz. The world's most critical energy chokepoint is now a live proof-of-concept for censorship-resistant money.
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2026-04-08 · bitcoin — Nostr Wallet Connect quietly turned Bitcoin's Lightning Network into a permissionless payment layer that works across any app, any country, no KYC, no intermediary, no platform risk. The financial system just got an upgrade it can't undo.
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2026-04-07 · bitcoin — While the market obsesses over ETFs and price targets, Bitcoin Core developers shipped major upgrades to transaction relay, mempool policy, and P2P networking. These changes don't move the price today. They determine whether Bitcoin works in 2036.
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2026-04-05 · bitcoin — The Crypto Fear & Greed Index dropped to 11 - a level reached only five times in Bitcoin's history. Every previous instance marked a generational bottom within 30 days. The market is telling you something.
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2026-04-05 · politics — While the federal Strategic Bitcoin Reserve sits idle at 328K BTC with no acquisition mandate, Texas, New Hampshire, and Arizona have already passed state-level Bitcoin reserve laws. Ohio, Massachusetts, and South Dakota have bills in committee. The states are moving faster than Washington.
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2026-04-04 · macro — The Fed is trapped between war-driven inflation and a slowing economy. Rate cuts fuel inflation. Rate hikes kill growth. Every historical stagflation episode has produced a flight to hard assets - and Bitcoin is now on that list.
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2026-04-03 · macro — Bitcoin has lost 45% since its October high, with the Iran war accelerating the selloff. But every major armed conflict since Bitcoin's inception has produced a generational buying window - usually within 60 days of the first shots.
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2026-04-01 · opinion — MicroStrategy started buying Bitcoin in 2020 with $250 million. Five years later, it holds over 500,000 BTC and trades at a perpetual premium to NAV. The playbook is being copied - but the imitators face a market that has already priced in the strategy.
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2026-04-01 · macro — Gold hit an all-time high above $3,200 in Q1 2026 while Bitcoin fell 27% from $94K to $69K. Both are supposed to be 'hard money.' The divergence reveals what the market actually believes Bitcoin is - and isn't - in a crisis.
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2026-04-01 · opinion — Bitcoin's four-year halving cycle has been the most reliable pattern in crypto. But the 2024 halving produced no parabolic blow-off top, no 80% crash, and no altseason. The cycle didn't repeat - and the reasons why suggest it never will again.
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2026-03-31 · opinion — Roughly 600 institutional investors disclosed Bitcoin ETF positions in their most recent 13F filings. Among them: state pension funds, sovereign wealth vehicles, and the retirement systems of teachers, firefighters, and government employees. Millions of people now have Bitcoin exposure without knowing it.
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2026-03-31 · macro — Q1 2026: a Fed that refused to cut, a dollar that refused to weaken, and a global liquidity expansion that refused to wait for either. The quarter in full.
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2026-03-30 · bitcoin — Bitcoin entered 2026 at $94K and exits Q1 at $69K. A 27% drawdown that reshuffled holders, stress-tested miners, and revealed institutional conviction vs retail retreat.
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2026-03-27 · bitcoin — Bitcoin retests $69,000 - the exact 2021 all-time high. What was once the ceiling is now the floor. If it holds, the macro structure survives.
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2026-03-26 · opinion — Controlling just 2% of Lightning nodes is enough to deanonymize payments. As adoption accelerates, Lightning's privacy model deserves honest scrutiny.
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2026-03-26 · opinion — China's digital yuan became the first interest-bearing CBDC on Jan 1. With 230M wallets, the e-CNY is no longer digital cash - it's programmable state-surveilled money.
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2026-03-26 · bitcoin — US spot Bitcoin ETFs crossed $65B in cumulative net inflows, with $18.7B added in Q1 alone. Through a 50% price decline and geopolitical turmoil, institutions held.
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2026-03-25 · bitcoin — A record 20,031 wallets hold at least 100 BTC. Whales added 56,227 BTC since December. Long-term holders accumulated 375,000 BTC in 30 days. Smart money is loading.
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2026-03-25 · bitcoin — Bitcoin miners lose ~$19K on every BTC produced as costs of $88K exceed market price. Difficulty dropped 7.76% as public miners pivot facilities to AI data centers.
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2026-03-25 · macro — Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz. Trump issued a 48-hour ultimatum. Oil spiked above $112, Bitcoin fell to $68K. The 89% S&P correlation confirmed: BTC is a risk asset.
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2026-03-24 · bitcoin — The 20 millionth bitcoin was mined on March 10. 95.24% of all bitcoin now exists. The remaining 1 million will take 114 years - and much of what's mined is lost forever.
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2026-03-24 · macro — The Fed held at 3.50–3.75%, slashing its 2026 rate cut forecast to one. Oil above $108, PCE at 2.7% - the liquidity catalyst bulls counted on has been delayed.
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2026-03-23 · opinion — Bitcoin and 'crypto' are not the same thing. The distinction isn't tribal - it's structural. Here's why this publication covers Bitcoin exclusively.
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2026-03-22 · bitcoin — Starting March 30, Square enables Lightning payments by default across 4 million merchants. Zero fees through 2026, instant settlement, no chargebacks.
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2026-03-22 · bitcoin — The fourth halving cut the block reward to 3.125 BTC. One year in: 164,250 fewer BTC created, miners adapted, and the network barely noticed.
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2026-03-21 · opinion — While skeptics debate whether Lightning 'works,' a parallel economy runs on it. Nostr zaps, merchant payments, cross-border remittances - it's not theoretical.
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2026-03-20 · macro — The Bank of Japan abandoned yield curve control, letting 10-year JGB yields rise to 1.8%. The yen carry trade unwind is draining global liquidity.
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2026-03-19 · bitcoin — Bitcoin's hashrate crossed 800 EH/s for the first time, doubling in 18 months. Behind the number: a structural shift in mining geography and hardware efficiency.
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2026-03-19 · macro — DXY climbed to 108 as global capital flows toward US assets. The milkshake theory predicted this - but its implications for Bitcoin are more nuanced than either side admits.
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2026-03-18 · politics — Six months after Executive Order 14178 established the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, the US holds 207,000 BTC from seizures. The debate: whether to buy more.
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2026-03-17 · opinion — Mt. Gox to FTX - the lesson is always the same. If you don't hold the keys, you don't hold the Bitcoin. Self-custody is not an advanced feature. It's the default.