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A São Paulo state court ordered Coinbase to return approximately R$507,000 after unauthorized transactions drained a user's Coinbase Wallet, ruling that the burden of proof fell on…
Keyrock's T-bill issuance framework, which showed an ~80% correlation with Bitcoin prices since 2021, called the October 2025 top 8 months early. The same signal now points to a st…
EPSA CEO Todd Snitchler makes the case that state-mandated plant retirements and permitting blockades, not PJM's governance structure, are manufacturing the grid capacity crunch th…
The think tank wants to become a defendant, using its own self-custodied bitcoin as the standing to fight a theory that could reach any long-term holder.
The US Treasury auctioned $22 billion in 30-year bonds on July 9 at a yield of 5.058%, the highest at a 30-year auction since 2007. Bitcoin held up while gold slid. The debt math i…
Binance co-CEO Richard Teng disclosed at Reuters NEXT Asia on July 9 that 70% of EU user withdrawals following the exchange's MiCA-driven service suspension went to self-hosted wal…
France signed more than 16 strategic agreements with Syria on July 7, brought TotalEnergies to Damascus, and is explicitly building a Hormuz bypass. Iraq is already running 500-700…
MARA Holdings signed a definitive agreement to acquire a 1,200-acre powered land site in Matagorda County, Texas, targeting up to 2 GW of grid capacity by April 2028 at a milestone…
Sen. Ron Wyden sent a formal letter to Senate leaders on July 8 demanding Section 604 of the CLARITY Act remain intact. The provision is the only statutory protection standing betw…
Secretary Rubio, Japan's Motegi, and South Korea's Cho signed a trilateral SMR Memorandum of Cooperation on July 8 at the NATO Ankara Summit, committing $10M+ in US funding and an…
Governor Kelly Ayotte signed HB 302 on May 6, 2025, making New Hampshire the first U.S. state to authorize its treasurer to hold Bitcoin as a reserve asset, after Arizona vetoed, F…
Hyperscale Data (NYSE: GPUS) crossed 1,000 Bitcoin in its corporate treasury on July 9, 2026, roughly doubling its stack from ~515 BTC in under seven months through a dual strategy…
Cantor Equity Partners and BSTR Holdings terminated their original July 2025 merger agreement on July 8, 2026, dropping the $1.5 billion PIPE and postponing the shareholder vote wi…
Russia enacted a full ban on diesel exports July 8, 2026, after Ukrainian drone strikes drove crude-processing rates to multi-year lows. With Russia supplying ~11% of global diesel…
Bull Bitcoin petitioned France's Conseil d'État on February 24 to annul Decree No. 2025-1276, the French rule implementing DAC8's mandatory crypto identity and transaction reportin…
Trump declared the June 17 US-Iran MoU 'over' at the NATO summit in Ankara on July 8, after Iran attacked three tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and CENTCOM retaliated with strikes…
SEC Chairman Paul Atkins published the agency's 2026 regulatory agenda on July 7, formally committing to propose rules that would allow Bitcoin to trade alongside equities on SEC-l…
Payward disclosed a $22 million arbitration win against Mazars USA on July 7, 2026, after the auditor walked away from a nearly complete 2022 audit days before finishing, citing SE…
The U.S. Treasury sold $58 billion in 3-Year notes at 4.179% on July 7, stopping through the When-Issued level by 0.6 basis points, even as Iran struck three commercial vessels in…
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