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Bitcoin’s kimchi premium is on life support after South Korea targets Bithumb

South Korea’s move to suspend Bithumb over AML failures turns a local compliance case into a market-structure story. Enforcement against the country’s second-largest exchange threatens to reroute retail flows, deepen venue concentration, and degrade one...

First new US refinery in 50 years won’t produce fuel this decade as rising oil pressures Bitcoin now

President Donald Trump’s announcement of the first major new US oil refinery in nearly 50 years arrives as gasoline prices have become a political problem and energy has turned inflationary again. The Brownsville project is...

Crypto traders are buying tokenized stocks that don’t actually make them shareholders

Nasdaq’s latest tokenization push is another attempt to bring stocks onto blockchain rails. Yet the real significance lies more in the structure. Rather than endorsing the offshore model of stock wrappers and synthetic equity exposure,...

Oil plunges as Iran tensions cool, easing inflation fears and lifting Bitcoin back above $70k

Bitcoin climbed back above $70,000 Tuesday as crude oil staged a sharp reversal, easing near-term fears of accelerating inflation and giving digital asset markets room to recover. According to CryptoSlate’s data, the largest digital currency...

Strategy paradoxically funds 66,231 Bitcoin purchase by giving investors $442M

Strategy has found a new gear in its Bitcoin accumulation engine, and its STRC preferred stock equity is doing a growing share of the driving. The company, formerly known as MicroStrategy, held 738,731 BTC as...

Prosecutors push to retry Tornado Cash founder even after Washington said crypto mixers have legal uses

Washington sent two messages about crypto privacy in the same week. Treasury told Congress that lawful users of digital assets may leverage mixers to protect personal wealth, business payments, charitable donations, and consumer spending habits...

Is crypto needed to protect the security of AI agents paying each other online?

The infrastructure race for agentic commerce is already producing winners. Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol now runs on more than 10,000 public servers and pulls 97 million monthly SDK downloads, connecting AI applications to external tools...

Kalshi’s Brazil prediction market launch lands in a country already fighting a betting addiction crisis

Kalshi’s first move outside the United States is not London, not Singapore, not any of the financial centers that have spent years building crypto-friendly regulatory frameworks. It is Brazil, through XP International and its brokerage...

Why oil panic hitting global markets caused traders to dump Bitcoin instead of hiding in it

An Oil Scare Near Hormuz Showed How Fast Bitcoin Reverts to a Risk Trade While Bitcoin has rebounded and held above $70,000 over the last 48 hours, the acute phase of the latest oil shock...

60% of XRP holders are now underwater as losses top $50 billion

XRP remains under significant pressure as the latest oil shock and broader market unease push investors toward a more defensive stance. The Ripple-linked digital asset has fallen 26% this year to about $1.34 and is...

New Bitcoin signal shows where BTC is likely to decide its next move

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...

The US said no to CBDCs — but your digital dollars already have the same control powers

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,...

US Treasury says lawful crypto users may use mixers for financial privacy

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,...

95% of all Bitcoin is now mined — and it’s raising a new question about security

Bitcoin’s circulating supply surpassed 20 million coins on March 9, a milestone that places 95% of all BTC that will ever exist into the hands of holders and leaves fewer than 1 million coins still...

Cardano spent years looking slow. Now that may help it win in crypto’s rule-heavy era

Cardano’s recent updates look unremarkable when read one by one: a ratified long-term vision, a stricter constitution, better governance indexing, a formal-verification push, and new treasury guardrails. However, they point to a larger shift when...

People traded $25B of crypto stock tokens that do not make them stockholders

Nasdaq’s latest tokenization push is another attempt to bring stocks onto blockchain rails. Yet the real significance lies more in the structure. Rather than endorsing the offshore model of stock wrappers and synthetic equity exposure,...

Seven internet cables were cut at once — Bitcoin barely noticed, but researchers found a real chokepoint

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...

New model proves miners need Bitcoin above $74k to break even on power – but other costs push it over 6 figures

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,...