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Bitcoin difficulty just plunged 11% but a projected rebound next week may decide miners’ fate

Bitcoin’s mining difficulty decreased by 11.16% to approximately 125.86 trillion at the most recent retarget boundary around block 935,424. That marks the largest negative adjustment since the 2021 China mining ban, the sixth consecutive downward...

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Bitcoin price recovery dream meets $18.8 trillion household debt, and one Fed decision could flip everything

The US economy is starting 2026 with an uncomfortable split-screen scenario that is complicating the outlook for Bitcoin’s recovery towards $100,000. While Wall Street credit pricing still looks calm, the “real economy” stress gauges are...

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Are spot Bitcoin ETFs at risk after custodian Coinbase reports $667M loss? The 1.5M BTC question

Coinbase just posted the kind of earnings report that makes two groups of people sweat at the same time. The first group is obvious, COIN shareholders who saw the company swing into a loss while...

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New crypto ban targets Russia rails but one chokepoint decides whether flows die or just relocate offshore

The European Commission’s 20th sanctions package proposes a comprehensive ban on all cryptocurrency transactions involving Russia, an escalation from targeting specific bad actors to attempting to sanitize the rails themselves. The question is whether the...

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Web3 hit $64 billion product market fit in 2025 but reliance on centralized logins has created a critical security flaw

Prediction markets entered the mainstream in 2025, with a fourfold surge in annual trading volume as a handful of venues consolidated control over what is rapidly becoming an institutional-scale product, according to a new report...

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XRP Ledger just flipped Solana in RWA tokenization value and the holder count reveals why

The XRP Ledger (XRPL) has overtaken Solana on one closely watched metric over the past month, flipping it in real-world asset tokenization, excluding stablecoins. Data from RWA.xyz indicate that the Ledger has approximately $1.756 billion...

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Uniswap is bringing BlackRock’s $2.2 billion BUIDL to DeFi, but the trade access comes with a catch

On Feb. 11, Uniswap announced that BlackRock’s $2.2 billion USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) would trade on UniswapX via a partnership with Securitize. The integration enables BUIDL holders to swap into USDC via an...

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Can Bitcoin handle global economic uncertainty being worse than ever as it now doubles 2008 recession levels?

The World Uncertainty Index, a GDP-weighted measure constructed from the frequency with which “uncertainty” appears in Economist Intelligence Unit country reports, reached 106,862.2 in the third quarter of 2025 and remained elevated at 94,947.1 in...

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Vitalik Buterin pitches Ethereum as the AI settlement layer, but one hidden leak could ruin it

Vitalik Buterin just published a research proposal that sidesteps the question everyone keeps asking: can blockchains run AI models? Instead, the research claims Ethereum as the privacy-preserving settlement layer for metered AI and API usage....

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Ethereum price decline is testing Wall Street as ETF flows flip while a $1,800 retest looms

Ethereum’s slide toward $2,000 has left its exchange-traded fund (ETF) investors holding more than $5 billion in paper losses, extending a marketwide crypto drawdown that has also hit Bitcoin. According to CryptoSlate’s data, the move...

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Why Bitcoin ETFs bleed billions while Gold makes 53 new all-time highs with $559B in demand

Gold demand reached a record $555 billion in 2025, driven by an 84% surge in investment flows and $89 billion in inflows into physically backed ETFs. The World Gold Council reports ETF holdings climbed 801...

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China Bitcoin legalization is priced at 5% but Beijing’s February 2026 Ban 2.0 made one detail brutal

Polymarket traders are pricing the prospect of China legalizing onshore Bitcoin purchases at roughly 5%. At first glance, the number appears dismissive. Still, it raises the question of whether the Chinese government will explicitly permit...

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Sam Bankman-Fried requests new trial claiming FTX had $16.5 billion surplus in 2022, but does it matter?

Sam Bankman-Fried filed a motion for a new trial on Feb. 10, advancing a claim that reframes FTX’s collapse not as fraud-driven insolvency but as a recoverable liquidity crisis. The motion invokes Rule 33 of...

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Blanket crypto ban targets Russia rails but one chokepoint decides whether flows die or just relocate offshore

The European Commission’s 20th sanctions package proposes a comprehensive ban on all cryptocurrency transactions involving Russia, an escalation from targeting specific bad actors to attempting to sanitize the rails themselves. The question is whether the...

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Odds Bank of Japan raises rates hits 80% with Bitcoin on the sideline – one hidden signal decides everything

Bank of America Securities expects the Bank of Japan (BoJ) to raise its policy rate from 0.75% to 1.0% at its April 27-28 meeting. Markets already price roughly 80% odds of that outcome, according to...

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Bitcoin price is sliding today because the government admitted nearly 1 million jobs from last year never existed

At 8:30 a.m. Eastern, the U.S. labor market handed traders a breaking story with two timelines, one for today, one for last year. Nonfarm payrolls grew by 130,000 in January, unemployment held at 4.3%, and...

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Why Bitcoin traders still beat the dollar which has tanked to 89 cents since 2023

If you hold either US dollars or Bitcoin, then you’re a little poorer this morning than when you went to bed last night. It doesn’t matter whether there’s cash in your pocket or sats in...

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Why Bitcoin faces a brutal liquidity trap because China’s $298B of US Treasuries are up for sale

China’s gradual retreat from US government debt is evolving from a quiet background trend into an explicit risk-management signal, and Bitcoin traders are watching the market for the next domino. The immediate trigger for this...

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