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Bitcoin spent the weekend mostly within a familiar price channel, then slipped lower before recovering as traders reacted to the developing impact of the Iran war. However, while real-world macro events now dictate Bitcoin's movements more than fundamentals or adoption levels,

America may reject the name “CBDC” while still building the conditions for CBDC-like control through private dollar infrastructure. Washington has ruled out a retail Federal Reserve digital dollar in legal form. At the same time, the stablecoin regime now taking shape

Treasury’s mixer language points to a new U.S. line on crypto privacy A new Treasury report says lawful users may use mixers for financial privacy on public blockchains. The language leaves Treasury’s money-laundering case intact, while opening room for privacy tools

Bitcoin's derivatives market gave us the best explanation of this week's macro stress. Funding rates turned sharply negative, open interest stayed elevated, and then the US jobs report landed. Put together, that showed a market leaning hard into downside hedges just

US markets move in seconds when the jobs report hits. February payrolls fell by 92,000 jobs, the unemployment rate rose to 4.4%, and prior months were revised down by 69,000. Together, that's 161,000 fewer jobs than the numbers showed at the

On Mar. 5, Justin Sun reached a $10 million settlement with the SEC to resolve a civil fraud case that alleged he generated $31 million through wash-trading-style transactions and undisclosed celebrity promotions. The settlement, which requires court approval and includes no

When seabed disturbances off Côte d'Ivoire severed seven submarine cables in March 2024, the regional internet impact earned an IODA severity score above 11,000. For Bitcoin, the global effect was negligible. The affected region hosted roughly five nodes, about 0.03% of

Riot case study shows US Bitcoin miners can clear power costs long before they clear full profit Bitcoin mining costs are often reduced to a single number: the “cost to mine one BTC.” In reality, that figure depends on what layer

AI is raising demand for builders, not erasing them In February, a Citadel Securities analysis using Indeed data showed software-engineer job postings rising while overall job postings stayed weaker. That split does not mean AI is creating jobs across the whole economy.

Bitcoin’s rebound on March 4 looked odd if you only watched it through the usual “risk assets are breaking” lens. Oil was jumping, shipping insurers were repricing war risk, and traders were treating the Strait of Hormuz like a live

When crude starts leading the headlines, crypto people tend to ask the wrong questions, like what it is that oil actually does to Bitcoin. While it's the simplest and easiest way to explain what you don't know, it's a pretty bad

Headlines about Bitcoin ETF outflows often mix two things: Bitcoin's price move and actual share redemptions. If BTC drops, ETF AUM drops in dollars even if nobody sells a single share. That mark-to-market drop gets read as money leaving, and it

A large volume of US commercial real estate (CRE) debt is rolling into a very different market from the one that produced it. The Mortgage Bankers Association says $875 billion of commercial and multifamily mortgages are scheduled to mature in 2026,

On Apr. 16, the Securities and Exchange Commission will host a public roundtable on listed options market structure covering quote-driven competition, customer experience, and growth. This is standard regulatory fare, except that Bitcoin exposure is migrating into regulated, centrally cleared products

Blue Owl Capital's OBDC II fund permanently halted redemptions in February. The firm replaced quarterly tenders with return-of-capital distributions funded by loan repayments and asset sales, committing to return roughly 30% of net asset value within 45 days. Blue Owl also

President Donald Trump projected four to five weeks for the conflict with Iran to come to an end. The market priced its playbook: headline shock, brief spike, diplomatic theater, then normalization. That script worked in 2019 when drones hit Saudi Aramco

Bitcoin’s brief rally above $73,000 during the past day has the feel of a price performance that could still fade, fast, noisy, and familiar to anyone who has watched bear-market rebounds fail. What is different this time is not the price

Washington lawmakers are moving on multiple fronts to curb the most politically toxic corners of prediction markets after millions of dollars flowed into bets tied to US-linked military action in Iran. Over the past week, several Democratic lawmakers have been pursuing