Bitcoin is a $1.5 trillion prize pool secured by nothing more than numbers, private keys, generated by math, that unlock wallets holding real money. That’s the seductive idea behind Keys.lol: a site that spits out batches of Bitcoin private keys and their corresponding addresses, like an infinite roll of digital lottery tickets. Refresh the page, […]
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DeFi exclusions sound protective, yet the CLARITY Act’s Bank Secrecy expansion may target your access points While supporters say the CLARITY Act could bring long-awaited regulatory certainty to crypto markets, not everyone is on board. Critics argue the bill doesn’t need to “ban DeFi” to reshape it. Their claim is that CLARITY can leave base-layer […]
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Ethereum's most infamous experiment is back. Not as a venture fund, but as something the ecosystem arguably needs more: a permanent security budget. On Jan. 29, a group of Ethereum veterans announced plans to convert roughly 75,000 ETH in decade-old recovery funds into a staked endowment whose yield will finance smart contract security work across […]
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If you have ever landed in London, opened your banking app, and felt that tiny jolt of disbelief, you are not alone. One pound shows up as more than one dollar, again, and it feels wrong in the same way a meme coin with eight decimals feels wrong. The U.S. is bigger, the dollar runs […]
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The crypto industry's capital headline for 2025 looks like a comeback story: $50.6 billion across 1,409 transactions, up sharply from 2024's totals. However, the composition tells a different story. According to the annual Crypto Fundraising Report, 43.7% of that capital came from just 21 mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Traditional venture capital and private investment accounted […]
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Analog January is meeting Bitcoin at the custody layer as some investors seek exposure without screen time. The digital-minimalism push, framed as “tech-low and slow living,” is landing as crypto returns to a volatility regime that makes constant checking expensive. Livingetc reported that “Analog January” (sometimes shortened to “Janalog”) is a reset from compulsive micro-checking […]
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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong publicly sparred with crypto reporter Eleanor Terrett this week after she questioned the exchange’s stance on crypto regulation, prompting an exchange that quickly spilled onto social media and reignited tensions between industry leaders and the broader community. Senate Banking postponed its planned Jan. 15 markup of the CLARITY Act, leaving timing […]
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Bitcoin developer, Jameson Lopp, posted a simple observation days after CoinGecko published its 2025 dead coins report. The timing crystallized a tension that's shaped crypto since the first Bitcoin fork. Token issuance has always been abundant, as spinning up a new coin takes minutes, not months. But CoinGecko's latest dataset turned the “anyone can launch” […]
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X revised its developer API policies to ban applications that financially reward users for posting, and enforcement has already begun. Nikita Bier, who joined X's product team after selling his social app tbh to Meta, framed the move as part of a broader effort to reduce low-quality engagement and told displaced builders that X would […]
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Solana's verified X account fired a shot on Jan. 14: “Starknet has 8 daily active users, 10 daily transactions, and still somehow has a 1b MC and 15b FDV[…] Send it straight to 0.” The data used in the ‘sh*tpost' appears to trace back to an April 2024 snapshot, as the FDV figure was wrong. […]
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A single Bitcoin (BTC) miner collected a full block reward on Jan. 13, claiming 3.125 BTC plus fees worth close to $300,000 at current prices. The win wasn't split among thousands of pool participants. One address received the entire payout in an industry dominated by industrial-scale mining operations commanding exahashes of compute power. But solo […]
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Iran's currency, the rial, has collapsed to around 1 million per US dollar, a record that spotlights how quickly savings can be wiped out when trust in money breaks. The currency lost nearly half its value across 2025, with official inflation reaching 42.5% in December. Recent protests erupting in Tehran's Grand Bazaar, triggered by the […]
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NFT Paris was supposed to be the kind of week people plan their year around. You book the ticket, you text the group chat, you lock in the flights before prices jump, you tell yourself the hotel bill is “work”, you start quietly hoping the market gives you a reason to feel optimistic again. Then, […]
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On the last trading days of the year, the kind of chart that almost nobody outside finance ever looks at started yelling again. Banks piled into the Fed’s Standing Repo Facility, borrowing a record $74.6 billion on Dec. 31 for 2025. Overnight funding rates popped, the benchmark SOFR briefly hit 3.77%, the general collateral repo […]
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2025 delivered at least four distinct “crypto is dead” episodes: a January AI-induced flash crash, the October tariff liquidation that erased $19 billion in leveraged positions, months of altcoin carnage, and a fourth quarter slump that wiped out the year's price gains. Mainstream outlets dusted off “crypto winter” language each time. Bitcoin logged more obituaries […]
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There are traders you hear about because they talk, and traders you hear about because their footprints keep showing up in public data. The wallet that crypto Twitter has been calling “BitcoinOG,” “1011short,” or some variation of those names falls into the second category. Back in October, the story was simple, and loud. The wallet […]
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Investors logged into glossy crypto trading dashboards showing five-figure “profits,” then found themselves blocked from withdrawing a cent unless they first wired extra “taxes” or “loan repayments” to overseas accounts. When victims tried to cash out, the platforms demanded advance fees to “unlock” their accounts, yet never released any money. On Dec. 22, the SEC […]
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Every Boxing Day, I make the same cup of tea, check the same price chart, and ask the same question: What story is Bitcoin telling this year? Line up the December 26 close from the start of the exchange era to today, and a pattern appears. The holiday reveals the mood that carried us into […]
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Contrary to popular belief, quantum computers will not “crack” Bitcoin encryption; instead, any realistic threat would focus on exploiting digital signatures tied to exposed public keys. Quantum computers cannot decrypt Bitcoin because it stores no encrypted secrets on-chain. Ownership is enforced by digital signatures and hash-based commitments, not ciphertext. The quantum risk that matters is […]
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X says its Terms of Service will change Jan. 15, 2026, expanding how the platform defines user “Content” and adding contract language tied to the operation and protection of its AI systems. The current terms, dated Nov. 15, 2024, remain in effect until the 2026 version takes over. A core revision is that X now […]
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A Polymarket contract asking whether President Donald Trump will declassify UFO files in 2025 sat at 5.5% on Dec. 6. The next day, it rocketed toward 90%. The trigger wasn’t a White House announcement or a Pentagon press conference, but likely a resolution proposal filed with UMA Protocol, the decentralized oracle that settles Polymarket’s disputes. […]
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Polymarket just resolved “YES” on a $16 million market asking whether the Trump administration would declassify UFO files in 2025… even though no documents have been released. The outcome arrived after late-session buying near 99 to 99.9 cents, and a resolution through UMA’s Optimistic Oracle, which recorded multiple disputes before finalization. The oracle pipeline relies […]
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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 […]
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If you’re new to Bitcoin or the only sats you hold are in an ETF or a centralized exchange, you’d be forgiven for not knowing about Core vs Knots and the entire OP_RETURN saga. But if you’ve weathered a few cycles, HODLed like a champ, and are still scratching your head, it’s time you opened […]
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The XRP Ledger has entered a new phase of community participation with the upcoming launch of XAO DAO, marking the network’s first decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). This launch signals a shift toward deeper decentralized governance in XRPL’s future, offering users a structured way to engage in critical decisions, fund initiatives, and support real-world blockchain adoption. […]
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A debate has erupted among the Bitcoin community over a joint statement released by 31 Bitcoin Core developers on June 6. In their statement, the developers argued that while the new transaction relay policy might lead to more non-financial use cases, protecting censorship resistance is one of the core tenets of the blockchain. The developers […]
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Some crypto community members have criticized Coinbase for not giving technical reasons for delisting WBTC and justifying its decision by citing Justin Sun-linked risks.
While many crypto community members celebrated Donald Trump’s reelection, some may have felt differently.
Not endorsed by Donald Trump, Senator John Thune defeated Elon Musk-supported Senator Rick Scott to become the new Senate majority leader.
Elon Musk rolled out the paid verification model on X, earlier known as “Twitter Blue,” to fight the scammers and spammers thriving on the platform before his takeover.