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Bitcoin held above $64,000 and treasury stocks surged Monday while equities sold off, as Trump threatened to bomb Oman and the 60-day U.S.-Iran negotiating window closed without a…
BitMart's founder dismissed calls for independent audits and proof-of-reserves as 'fabricated rumors' while users report funds remain inaccessible ahead of the August 26 final trad…
Glassnode's 'Trigger Happy' Week 32 report confirms bitcoin is trading near half its October 2025 peak while AI-driven equities absorb the exact debasement-fear capital bitcoin sho…
Binance provided Russian authorities with transaction records, passport data, and personal details on Yuri Belenkiy, a 49-year-old IT specialist who donated roughly $700 in crypto…
Bitcoin futures open interest sits near $48B against $25B in daily futures volume and $12.55B in spot. Glassnode's Week 32 report warns the mismatch is mechanical: when liquidation…
JPMorgan Chase launched a program allowing institutional clients to pledge Bitcoin as loan collateral. The bank that called Bitcoin a fraud is now using it as a credit instrument.…
Harvard Management Company's Q2 2026 13F shows zero IBIT shares sold or added for the first time since the endowment's peak $443M position in Q3 2025. The trimming cycle is done.
Edelman Financial Engines, the $326B RIA serving 1.3 million retail clients, disclosed a $34M spot Bitcoin ETF position in its Q2 2026 13F, split between IBIT and GBTC, and now lar…
Three oil tankers hijacked in the Gulf of Aden and off Puntland between April and July 2026, the biggest Somali piracy surge in years, driven directly by Hormuz rerouting flooding…
Russian PM Mikhail Mishustin signed Decree No. 936 banning all Bitcoin mining and pool participation in Moscow, Moscow Oblast, and parts of Kursk Oblast from August 15, 2026 throug…
Tudor Investment's Q2 2026 13F shows the firm added 109,446 IBIT shares while slashing call-equivalent exposure by roughly 85%, a rotation from tactical optionality toward committe…
Norway's NBIM holds a record 11,549 BTC equivalent via Strategy and other equity stakes. Abu Dhabi's Mubadala has added to its BlackRock IBIT position every quarter since Q4 2024.…
Mubadala Investment Company and ADIC's Al Warda Investments held a combined ~$882M in BlackRock's IBIT at Q1 2026 quarter-end prices, per SEC 13F filings. Mubadala has added shares…
Metaplanet completed a ¥200M (~$1.3M) inaugural BitBond raise on Aug. 13, paying 4.0-4.3% annually over three years. The bonds are senior unsecured obligations with no Bitcoin coll…
K33 Research's Vetle Lunde reports Norway's Government Pension Fund Global now holds an indirect Bitcoin equivalent of 11,549 BTC worth ~$725M, an all-time high driven almost entir…
MSCI has opened a formal consultation proposing to exclude 'non-operating companies' from its Global Investable Market Indexes. Strategy fails all five proposed financial screens.…
The SEC killed its August 14 Reg Crypto vote with a vague 'scheduling issue.' The White House is set to convene crypto and prediction market executives the day before the CFTC's in…
The Babylon Bee and Alliance Defending Freedom filed a federal lawsuit August 11 against New Mexico's HB 182, a 2024 law requiring state-mandated AI disclaimers on political satire…
UBS Group AG disclosed roughly 2.5 million IBIT shares worth approximately $90 million as of June 30, 2026, per a Form 13F filed with the SEC on August 13. The position jumped 230%…
A Singapore-based maritime crewing agency is reportedly offering tanker crews a Hormuz transit bonus equal to one additional month's full salary on top of base pay, signaling that…
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