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U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs logged 10 consecutive outflow sessions in May and 13 in June 2026, draining a combined ~$7.2B and flipping year-to-date flows negative for the first time sin…
Robert Mitchnick, BlackRock's Managing Director and Head of Digital Assets, told Yahoo Finance on June 22 that fear over U.S. borrowing levels and money-printing risk is now Bitcoi…
President Trump signed an executive order on June 22, 2026 mandating federal agencies migrate to post-quantum cryptography by Dec. 31, 2030. Bitcoin developers have been building t…
Microsoft Threat Intelligence disclosed a clipboard-hijacking worm targeting Bitcoin, Tron, and Monero wallets across Windows machines. It spreads via USB, exfiltrates over Tor, an…
OFAC's Iran General License X goes beyond cargo clearance to authorize ongoing Iranian oil production through August 21. The sanctions lever Washington just eased is the same mecha…
Strategy's latest 8-K shows 520 BTC purchased for $35M while ~$300M of a $335M MSTR share sale was retained as cash, pushing the USD Reserve to $1.4B. The preferred stock credit st…
Attorney Ian Cohen filed a rebuttal on June 19 opposing efforts to lift a court stay in a New York lawsuit targeting 39,069 Bitcoin addresses holding roughly 3.8 million BTC, inclu…
Kevin Warsh's debut FOMC meeting held rates steady but flipped the dot plot from projected cuts to projected hikes, killed forward guidance, and revised PCE inflation up to 3.6%. T…
H.R. 3633 is on the Senate floor calendar and the House has promised to move fast. Everything now turns on whether Senate leadership can lock in seven Democratic votes before Augus…
Iran's military command announced a closure of the Strait of Hormuz on June 20, 2026, citing U.S. and Israeli violations of the Islamabad MoU signed two days earlier. But U.S. Cent…
Bloomberg's Eric Balchunas publicly called for Strategy to retire STRC after the preferred stock hit a record low of $82.53. The real story is what happens to the BTC accumulation…
CME Group sued the CFTC on June 18, 2026, arguing the agency's approval of Bitcoin perpetual futures for KalshiEX and Coinbase violated Dodd-Frank. TD Cowen expects CME to seek a p…
Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg told lawmakers the Pentagon needs $80B covering Iran war costs and non-defense spending. With U.S. debt approaching $39T, every supplement…
JPMorgan puts Bitcoin's all-in production cost at $78,000. BTC has traded ~19% below that for five straight months. Public miners sold a record 32,000 BTC in Q1 2026. The network's…
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