In the span of one frenetic week, France unveiled seemingly opposing policy tracks.
On Oct. 31, the French National Assembly adopted a first-reading amendment rebranding the country’s real estate-only wealth tax into a broader “tax on unproductive wealth” that now explicitly covers digital assets.
At the same time, the right-wing Union des droites pour la République (UDR) introduced a bill to...
XRP can serve as short-term working capital for currency exchanges, as transactions typically take only a few minutes to complete.
Orders move through central exchanges, and if any money needs to be held briefly, companies can hedge that risk using XRP futures.
The idea is to use local liquidity at both ends of a transaction while using XRP as a bridge in between. This approach keeps the time...
Bitcoin has treated $106,400 as a pivot across the current cycle, acting as both resistance and support.
Price has repeatedly clustered near the level, cleared it on retests, and expanded toward the next channel bands, while breaks below the level often required a repair phase before any advance.
My charts below show price channels that have been most influential to Bitcoin since the start of...
Quantum computing is no longer just science fiction or the stuff of cypherpunk paranoia; it’s officially a front-page threat for the world’s first stateless money. If you ever thought Satoshi’s creation was immune to existential risk, think again. The latest round of Bitcoiners and cryptographers in the Human Rights Foundation (HRF)’s latest report would like a word.
[Editor’s Note: Advancements...
The following is a guest post and opinion from Shane Neagle, Editor In Chief from The Tokenist.
It is no secret that large language models (LLMs) crossed the capability threshold by harvesting vast amounts of public and private data. Combined with breakthroughs in transformer architectures and compute power, this data scraping led to concerns about intellectual property (IP) rights.
Intellectual...
Remember when Crypto Twitter was like taking a front-row seat to the movies? Markets were a runaway rollercoaster, narratives flipped like pancakes, and every week had the energy of a new heist movie. What happened? If you’re lamenting the days of God candles and 20% BTC pumps, Nic Carter wants you to smile through the tears: crypto is boring now because we won.
Hacks, dumps, pumps, oh my!
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Self‑custody was once the ultimate badge of credibility in crypto. A declaration of faith in sovereignty over convenience, code over blind trust, and cryptography over legal...
In a breakthrough for global markets, President Donald Trump has secured a far-reaching deal for US-China trade. The agreement with Chinese President Xi Jinping de-escalates tensions between the world’s two largest economies.
According to the official White House fact sheet, the agreement includes China’s commitment to suspend new export controls on rare earths and critical minerals. They will...
If you’ve ever bought a token only to find out its grand use case was “having a token,” congrats, you played the game just right. Wolf of All Streets’ Scott Melker sums it up best. After years wandering crypto’s high-stakes tables, he’s upgraded his stance from “99.9% of crypto is a casino” to “99.999999%. As for the rest of the industry? Well, it’s doubling down on his assessment, one Twitter...
North Korea-linked hackers stole more than $2 billion in cryptocurrency in 2025, surpassing every prior year on record, while global law enforcement recovered $439 million and arrested hundreds of money launderers across 40 countries in a single four-month operation.
The collision of record state-sponsored heists and coordinated multilateral enforcement raises a sharper question than whether...