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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…
Hosting lets you own real hashrate without turning your garage into a data center. The catch is trust. An honest, criteria-first comparison of who to actually trust with your miner…
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…
Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces struck eight sanctioned Russian shadow fleet tankers in the Sea of Azov overnight July 6-7, following two more strikes the previous night, as part…
The NY Fed's June 2026 Survey of Consumer Expectations shows 1-year inflation expectations at 3.7%, the highest since September 2023, with the medium-term anchor also breaking high…
On March 6, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14233 establishing the U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve with a hard no-sell mandate. Here is what the order does, what it doe…
UAE crude output surpassed 3.8 million bpd in June, its highest since April 2020, after Abu Dhabi formally exited OPEC on May 1. Chinese teapot refiners entered ADNOC tenders for t…
The White House confirmed on July 6 that structuring work on the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve is ongoing. Crypto adviser Patrick Witt's promised 'big announcement' is now 10 weeks ove…
Strategy's Michael Saylor declared Bitcoin's four-year halving cycle dead, arguing institutional capital flows and bank credit now set price. The 2026 drawdown is already stress-te…
Saudi Deputy FM Waleed El Khereiji arrived in Tehran for Khamenei's state funeral despite not appearing on Iran's official guest list, a quiet diplomatic signal that Gulf states ar…
A pseudonymous Bitcoin holder calling himself John Doe 33 filed a motion to dismiss the Noah Doe lawsuit on June 30, becoming the first actual owner to contest the claim over 39,06…
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