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Bitcoin Reclaims $80K, Solana Tops $100. Stocks? Red.
Crypto's biggest 3-day rally since 2023 pushed Bitcoin past $80K and Solana over $100 while chip stocks dragged equities red. Here is the scoreboard, the why, and the honest read.
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Tether's $120 Million Uruguay Mining Bet Just Collapsed
A nine-figure mining project died on one ambiguous contract clause. Here is the Reuters timeline, the honest read, and why this touches Tether's side bets, not the reserves behind USDT.
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Bitcoin Hit $74,600 and a Record $2.7 Billion in Shorts Burned
The price is the headline everywhere else. The real story is $2.7 billion of bearish bets force-closed in one day, ten dollars of shorts burned for every dollar of longs. Here is how a record squeeze works.
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Gold Just Spiked to $4,504. Crypto Added $190 Billion. Same Week.
Soft US data cut September rate-hike odds, central banks are record buyers, and gold jumped 10% in a month. It landed the same week crypto added $190 billion. The hard-asset trade is going mainstream.
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A Bill Just Added $190 Billion to Crypto in 24 Hours
No halving, no ETF, no billionaire tweet. A market-structure bill found momentum in the Senate and $190 billion followed. Here is what happened and what to watch on September 15.
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Tether Just Passed a Full KPMG Audit, Gold Bars Counted One by One
Critics said Tether would never pass a real audit. KPMG just completed one, counted every gold bar, and signed a clean opinion. Here is what it means for the money you hold.
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Crypto's Biggest Market Maker Is Spending $1B to Go Trade Stocks
BlackRock is moving funds onto Solana. Wintermute is spending a billion dollars to go trade equities. The traffic runs both ways now, and the wall in the middle is getting thin.
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The First Quantum Attack on Crypto Might Look Like a Normal Hack
The unsettling part of the quantum warning is not that wallets break. It is that you would not be able to tell the difference from a normal hack.
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The CLARITY Act Is Back, and the Senate Votes in September
The crypto market structure bill nobody expected to survive the summer just got a date. Here is what the CLARITY Act would actually settle, and what it would not.
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A Live Exploit Is Draining BTCPay Merchants' Lightning Nodes
Attackers emptied Lightning nodes belonging to merchants running BTCPay Server, in some cases before the public warning went out. Update to 2.4.2 or take the node offline.
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Crypto Lost Over $1 Billion to Hacks in Six Months
More than $1 billion gone in six months, across more separate incidents than the whole of last year. The pattern behind the number matters more than the number.
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What Happens to Crypto When Someone Passes Away?
Self-custody means nobody can seize your crypto. It also means nobody can recover it. A quiet subject the industry avoids, and what the people who think about it do differently.