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How long can silver and gold outperform Bitcoin before reverting to type?

Bitcoin bear Peter Schiff has spent years sounding the alarm on Bitcoin, repeatedly arguing that investors are better off sticking with traditional safe-haven assets like gold and silver. As one of crypto’s most outspoken skeptics,...

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Bitcoin’s “mine canary” is fluttering as specific Fed stress signals warn of a silent liquidity trap ahead

Amid a general sense of unease around the spike in precious metals, the decline in the dollar, Bitcoin’s weak-to-flat price action, geopolitical uncertainty, and persistent trade wars, several economic stressors actually appear relatively relaxed. The...

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Ripple’s billion dollar masterstroke forces 13,000 banks to rethink corporate cash while raising tough questions for XRP

Ripple has pushed deeper into corporate finance with a new treasury platform that aims to let finance teams manage cash and digital assets in one system. The product, called Ripple Treasury, is built on treasury...

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Banks may lose up to $500B after Fidelity’s official token launches on Ethereum with freeze powers

Fidelity announced the launch of a stablecoin on the Ethereum mainnet, positioning the token as a compliance-wrapped settlement dollar distributed through the firm’s brokerage, custody, and wealth management channels. The move lands amid what looks...

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Furious crypto lobbyists aim $193M war chest at Washington chokepoints for 2026 midterms

Fairshake and its affiliate super PACs announced they have more than $193 million in cash on hand heading into the 2026 midterms. The amount includes $74 million raised since July from three contributors: $25 million...

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Global markets crash as everything including Bitcoin sells off at once erasing trillions

Markets dumped into the US open, Bitcoin fell through $85k, gold slipped too At 09:30 EST the tape changed in a way traders can feel in their stomach, the kind of flip where you stop...

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Bitcoin’s $100k breakout silently crippled its adoption curve as on-chain metrics crater

Bitcoin Is Being Bought, Not Used For most of Bitcoin’s history, price and usage told broadly the same story. When price moved higher, more people showed up. More wallets became active. More transactions hit the...

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Is your Ethereum at risk? Vitalik Buterin admits his biggest design mistake since 2017

Vitalik Buterin said he no longer agrees with his 2017 tweet that downplayed the need for users to personally verify Ethereum end-to-end. This week, he argued the network should treat self-hosted verification as a non-negotiable...

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Save the Bitcoin bull run by dropping these 8 days which changes the dollar weakness story

Bitcoin’s 2026 problem is the weekend I keep coming back to this line because it feels brutally true in the way only markets can be true. The only thing worse than buying Bitcoin this year...

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Crypto whales go after gold as it hits a rare extreme last seen over a decade ago

Crypto whales are reaching for gold as Bitcoin stalls, but the trade may be less of a verdict on crypto than a hedge for a specific macro window. On Jan. 27, blockchain sleuth Lookonchain flagged...

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How Aave’s DeFi monopoly created a risky feedback loop with only a $460M backstop

Aave now controls 51.5% of the DeFi lending market share, the first time any protocol has crossed the 50% threshold since 2020. The milestone arrives not through competitor collapse but through steady accumulation: Aave’s $33.37...

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The big lie about 24-hour trading ignores the $4.5 billion crypto market that never actually closes its doors

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation spent 2025 building infrastructure for extended trading hours, targeting a 24×5 schedule that would keep US markets open from Sunday night through Friday evening with brief daily maintenance windows....

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Bitcoin will either join the Gold rush or succumb to a risk-off reality after the dollar plunge

The US dollar slid to a four-year low, while gold and silver pushed deeper into record territory as Bitcoin attempted to recliam the $90,000 level. During the past day, the dollar index, a gauge of...

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BlackRock is cannibalizing Bitcoin gains for “income” in a move that could leave retail investors behind during rallies

BlackRock is moving deeper into the “Bitcoin as a portfolio sleeve” trade, this time by packaging the flagship digital asset’s inherent volatility into distributable income. On Jan. 23, the $14 trillion asset management firm filed...

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Brutal storm weakens Bitcoin security as major mining pool drops 30% of its hashing power

One thing we rarely think about is how bad weather can affect Bitcoin’s security, but it happens fairly regularly. Snow can legitimately pose a risk to Bitcoin miners who secure the blockchain. The snow shows...

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Bitcoin hits breaking point this week as the Fed’s hidden liquidity trap threatens to drain markets despite a rate hold

Bitcoin traders will parse Federal Reserve guidance on Jan. 28 for signals on real yields, the dollar, and dollar-liquidity plumbing. Those channels can move spot prices even if the policy-rate corridor is unchanged. The Fed’s...

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Bitcoin breaking $126,000 has clear 3 year pathway but a brutal $1.3 billion exodus changes everything today

Bitcoin’s path back to a new all-time high and subsequent price discovery is being set by whether spot ETF flows turn persistent again after a two-way start to 2026 that tested how “sticky” institutional demand...

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Security of the US government’s $28B Bitcoin reserve threatened after weekend theft reveals flaw

The US government has been trying to execute a historic pivot with its Bitcoin holdings, shifting from a messy, case-by-case inventory of seized crypto into a strategic national reserve for almost a year now. That...

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