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Bitcoin’s hashrate is near record levels, yet miner revenue per unit of compute has fallen to record lows, pushing the network into a ‘high-security, low-profitability’ phase.
While the network’s hashrate has pinned itself above the one-zettahash watermark, which is a record for aggregate computing power, the revenue underpinning that security has disintegrated to historic lows.
Still, the system...
Tether, the issuer of the USDT stablecoin, has spent the past year accumulating Bitcoin and gold at a pace that puts it on par with several sovereign treasuries.
For context, the firm purchased more gold than every central bank combined over the last quarter alone, pushing its total holdings to 116 tons of physical bullion.
Tether’s Gold Accumulation (Source: Financial Times)
Yet the build-up has...
Market chop aside, Wall Street is rolling out Bitcoin (BTC) exposure to advisors through structured notes and ETF-collateralized lending.
The bank simultaneously faces debanking blowback after Strike CEO Jack Mallers said his personal Chase accounts were shut. The juxtaposition spotlights institutionalization for clients versus risk-control for crypto-native principals.
On one side, JPMorgan...
This is a speculative report translated for non-specialists. The narrator is an investigator who arrived long after humans were gone. Everything described as measured relies on real Bitcoin mechanics: block intervals, difficulty/target, timestamp rules, and data available from block headers and the coinbase transaction.
We arrived on a silent planet. The last clocks still ticking were embedded in...
Bitcoin’s recent slide below $80,000 has triggered a wave of sleep disruption across the retail trading community, according to a new report from CEX.io.
The flagship digital asset has since rebounded to about $88,000, but the roughly 31% drawdown from its recent peak left many investors monitoring prices through the night.
This behavior has moved beyond simple anxiety, as nearly 70% of surveyed...
Texas has taken the first formal step toward becoming the first US state to hold Bitcoin as a strategic reserve asset.
On Nov. 25, Lee Bratcher, president of the Texas Blockchain Council, reported that the world’s eighth-largest economy, valued at $2.7 trillion, purchased $5 million worth of BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF, IBIT.
He added that a second $5 million allocation is already lined up for...
Bank of America forecasts US real GDP growth of 2.4% in 2026, propelled by five different tailwinds. Meanwhile, JPMorgan stressed various headwinds for the macroeconomic landscape next year.
The OBBBA fiscal package adding roughly half a point through consumer spending and capex, lagged Fed cuts boosting activity in the second half, more growth-friendly trade policy, sustained AI investment, and...
The Dec. 4 meeting of the SEC’s Investor Advisory Committee opens with a question the agency has spent years avoiding: “What does it actually look like when publicly traded equities live on a blockchain?”
Not as wrapped derivatives on offshore exchanges, not as speculative tokens detached from shareholder rights, but as registered securities trading inside the same regulatory framework that...
A 284-page complaint filed Nov. 24 against Binance in North Dakota federal court represents 306 American families who lost relatives in the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks.
The lawsuit demands roughly $1 billion from Binance, former CEO Changpeng Zhao, and executive Guangying “Heina” Chen, with the amount automatically tripling to $3 billion if the plaintiffs win under the Anti-Terrorism Act.
The...
Strategy Inc. (formerly MicroStrategy) spent 2025 building the largest corporate Bitcoin reserve the public markets have ever financed, but the scale of that ambition ended up colliding with the logic of its own stock.
What began as an aggressive accumulation strategy, powered by the company’s appetite for leverage and a willingness to dilute existing shareholders, evolved into a structural...