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Block turned its dollar wallet into a Lightning payment rail. The businesses cashing in first are the ones Visa and Mastercard treat as second-class.
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…
BIP-110, the proposal to temporarily restrict arbitrary data on Bitcoin, enters its mandatory signaling window around August 7 with zero miner support in the current period and cum…
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…
Trump announced he won't sign the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, but the bill, including a ban on Federal Reserve CBDC issuance through December 31, 2030, becomes law automatica…
The Federal Reserve named a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen to co-lead its new Productivity and Jobs task force on July 9, 2026, alongside a Stanford economist on leave at Anthropic…
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…
TeraWulf plans to raise $3.5 billion in leveraged loans and high-yield bonds to finance Anthropic's 401 MW Justified Data campus in Hawesville, Kentucky, locking up exactly the kin…
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…
BitGo launched four Bitcoin quantum-risk management tools on July 9, 2026, giving institutions a practical way to measure and reduce address-key exposure before any quantum compute…
Meta announced July 8 it will build a C$13 billion AI data center in Alberta powered by a C$4.6 billion, 932 MW natural gas plant. The sustainable AI narrative didn't survive conta…
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…
From a small Missouri town to the Utah State Senate, voters are removing officials who approved multi-billion-dollar AI data center deals in secret. The ballot box is the only circ…
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