By Marty Bent
Austin, TX
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By Marty Bent
Austin, TX
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By Marty Bent
Austin, TX
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The Dutch Public Prosecution Service petitioned a Rotterdam court to declare Knaken Cryptohandel B.V. bankrupt on June 30, 2026, citing public interest, weeks after the unlicensed exchange went dark and locked roughly 30,000 customers out of their holdings.
The KIDS Act would push the internet toward age verification gates under the banner of protecting kids. Parents should parent. Government should stay out of building identity rails.
China's central bank ran its first-ever overnight reverse repo on June 29, injecting 300 billion yuan at a 1.25% rate it refused to disclose, 10 basis points below the median analyst forecast and exactly at the threshold Standard Chartered called a de facto rate cut.
The Supreme Court's 6-3 decision in Trump v. Slaughter ends 91 years of independent-agency protection, extending presidential removal power to the SEC and CFTC by the same constitutional logic, but carving out the Federal Reserve.
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Chatrie v. United States that police conducting a geofence search, ordering Google to sweep location data on all users near a crime scene, constitutes a Fourth Amendment search requiring constitutional justification.
The IDF demolished a 200-meter-long, 25-meter-deep Hezbollah drone complex under the Lebanese village of Majdal Zoun on June 28, two days after signing a US-brokered trilateral security framework that Hezbollah has already rejected.
Stargate's $500B AI infrastructure push has locked in nearly 7 gigawatts of planned U.S. capacity across six campuses. The grid math is already hurting Bitcoin miners.
Strategy unveiled a five-part Digital Credit Capital Framework on June 29, authorizing up to $1.25B in bitcoin sales, raising STRC dividends to 12%, and hard-coding a $2.55B cash reserve floor, all while holding 847,363 BTC untouched.
Michael Howell says bitcoin weakness reflects a slowing liquidity impulse, not a dead debasement thesis. Plus Jay Patel, Strategy capital management, and Jordi Visser on the AI shakeout.
The Bank for International Settlements released its 2026 Annual Economic Report on June 28, warning that an AI capex bust, opaque circular financing deals, and record sovereign debt are the three interlocking pressure points most likely to crack the global financial system.
The Supreme Court is expected to rule imminently on whether Trump can fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook, the first presidential attempt to remove a sitting Fed board member in the central bank's 113-year history. The outcome matters less than what the attempt itself has already revealed.
NYK Line CEO Takaya Soga told the Financial Times that Hormuz shipping will remain well below prewar levels for months. With 80 naval mines sitting in the main traffic lane, the U.S.-Iran MOU can't fix what minesweepers haven't cleared.
El Salvador's National Bitcoin Office has continued announcing Bitcoin purchases since signing a $1.4 billion IMF deal that required the public sector to confine Bitcoin-related activity. The reserve sits at 7,636 BTC. The IMF says nothing has changed. The blockchain disagrees.
Sunrun, Tesla, and Renew Home announced a framework to aggregate more than 16 GW of home batteries and smart thermostats into a virtual power plant targeting AI data center demand. No offtake agreements exist yet, and roughly 60% of the capacity is demand response, not firm generation.
