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Dr. Ko Ju-Chun, a sitting Taiwanese legislator, puts an 80% probability on Taiwan establishing a Bitcoin strategic reserve within five years, contingent on a center-right electoral…
Florida regulators let Duke Energy's AI data center rate petition survive dismissal 4-1, but Commissioner Gary Clark told the utility it is on 'real shaky ground.' The decisive evi…
CleanSpark signed a 20-year, $6.6B triple-net data center lease with an unnamed investment-grade tech company. The same tenant holds an LOI on 885 MW of CleanSpark's Texas portfoli…
Benchmark raised its Hut 8 price target from $85 to $165, citing $16.8B in contracted AI data center lease revenue. The upgrade signals something bigger: former Bitcoin miners are…
Patrick Witt, the White House crypto council's lead CLARITY Act negotiator, departs July 18 for Army JAG training days before a Senate floor vote expected around July 20, leaving D…
France curtailed 6.4 GW of nuclear output across eight reactors as heatwave-elevated river temperatures triggered mandatory cooling limits. Wholesale prices hit multi-year highs. T…
A single Bitaxe Gamma running at roughly 1 TH/s validated Bitcoin block #957,382 on July 9, collecting 3.1382 BTC worth ~$200,000 through Public Pool's zero-fee solo mining service…
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order July 14, 2026, imposing the nation's first statewide one-year moratorium on new hyperscale AI data centers requiring 50 MW or m…
Strategy graded 25 of the world's largest banks on Bitcoin adoption and published a leaderboard. Fidelity leads at 71%. The overall score sits at 32%. No methodology has been relea…
The New York Fed's Open Market Desk is running $10B/month in Reserve Management Purchases on top of ~$16.5B/month in MBS-to-T-bill reinvestments. The FOMC reaffirmed the standing d…
DP World is negotiating a new multipurpose port in Fujairah on the UAE's Gulf of Oman coast, a direct capital response to the ~95% collapse in Jebel Ali container traffic after Ira…
The Senate returned July 13 with roughly three weeks before the August recess. Section 604, the provision that would bar the federal government from treating non-custodial Bitcoin…
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…
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