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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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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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is making a case that the most valuable upgrade for the world’s second-largest blockchain may be learning how to stop upgrading. Last November, Buterin reportedly argued that locking down parts of the base layer can reduce bugs and lower the odds of “surprises” for a network that secures hundreds of billions […]
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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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A tax employee in Bobigny used internal software to compile dossiers on cryptocurrency specialists, billionaire Vincent Bolloré, prison guards, and a judge. She passed the information to criminals who paid €800 to attack a prison officer at home in Montreuil. Her appeal was rejected Jan. 6, as reported by local media. The case matters less […]
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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has stated that the blockchain network must decide between chasing speculative trends or fulfilling its original promise as a neutral “world computer.” In two separate detailed posts on the social media platform X, Buterin reflected on 2025 as a year of significant technical progress. However, he cautioned against the network’s growing […]
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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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The Ethereum blockchain recorded its strongest operational year in history in 2025, processing record transaction volumes and securing the vast majority of the DeFi market. However, the crypto asset that powers the network failed to mirror that growth, posting double-digit losses for the year. According to CryptoSlate's data, ETH is trading down 10% year-to-date at […]
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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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This week started with a sensational screenshot shared across hundreds of breathless posts on X, and a claim designed to hit every financial nerve ending at once. A “systemically important” US bank, a silver margin call, liquidation by the exchange in the middle of the night, the Federal Reserve allegedly “forced” to pump billions into […]
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Bitcoin miners produced block 929,699 on Dec. 27. What if that was the signal for a New Year’s moment, rather than our traditional calendar? The pitch is that block height, the ordered count of blocks every full node can verify, can act as a calendar layer for a market that trades and settles across jurisdictions. […]
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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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If 2024 was the year of the crypto reawakening, 2025 was the year the plumbing finally got permitted. This year, the emerging industry entered January with tentative optimism and exited December with federal statutes. As a result, the narrative shifted definitively from “crypto as a casino” to “crypto as capital markets infrastructure.” During this period, […]
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Michael Saylor delivered a characteristically bold take on Dec. 16 about Bitcoin and the quantum leap: “The Bitcoin Quantum Leap: Quantum computing won't break Bitcoin—it will harden it. The network upgrades, active coins migrate, lost coins stay frozen. Security goes up. Supply comes down. Bitcoin grows stronger.” The statement captures the optimistic case for Bitcoin's […]
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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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I keep seeing the same screenshot popping up, the one where an AI model appears to have a full-blown inner monologue, petty, insecure, competitive, a little unhinged. The Reddit post that kicked this off reads like a comedy sketch written by someone who has spent too long watching tech people argue on Twitter. A user […]
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Ethereum remains the most consequential blockchain ever built. It introduced programmable money, anchored the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector, and serves as the primary venue for the world’s most secure smart contracts. By legacy measures, its dominance is undisputed because it holds the deepest developer ecosystem, the largest pool of locked capital, and plays a central […]
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When Binance rolled out its new “Binance Junior” accounts this month, the announcement landed with the kind of split reaction usually reserved for children’s TikTok privacy updates. On paper, the product is tightly controlled, restricted to a savings lane, and anchored to a parent’s KYC identity: there are no trading buttons, no margin sliders, no […]
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Belarus expanded platform blocking in December, tightening access to exchanges and reinforcing a High-Tech Park perimeter for residents. The move fits a wider access playbook across EMEA and APAC that now uses telecom blocklists, app-store removals, and KYC gates to shape who reaches the same BTC and USDT order books. The practical result is a […]
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More Bitcoin now sits outside exchanges, and courts cannot move those coins without keys. That custody shift is colliding with family law. Exchange balances hover near multi-year lows at roughly 14–15% of circulating supply, about 2.7–2.8 million BTC. The rest sits with institutions in vaulted custody or in personal wallets where a 12–24 word seed […]
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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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When the ball drops this New Year’s Eve, you could look to Bitcoin to help you keep your New Year’s resolutions. Bitcoin can enforce promises with code and collateral. That unlocks a class of “self-bribes,” in which a person escrows funds today under conditions only future behavior can satisfy, with payout paths encoded in script […]
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The machine that never ages Picture a wallet that never ages. No heirs, no estate, no retirement date, a machine adding sats, rolling UTXOs, and bidding the minimum fee for centuries. By 2125, its balance towers over most treasuries; its only preference is to keep existing. Somewhere, a miner includes its quiet, patient heartbeat in […]
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission approved spot Bitcoin ETFs at block 826,565. By block 840,000, those funds held more than 800,000 BTC. By block 925,421, U.S. spot ETFs collectively held **≈5–6%** of circulating BTC (per live trackers at the time). Only after reading does the translation arrive: those blocks correspond to January 2024, April […]
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Market chop aside, Wall Street is rolling out Bitcoin (BTC) exposure to advisors through structured notes and ETF-collateralized lending. The bank simultaneously faces debanking blowback after Strike CEO Jack Mallers said his personal Chase accounts were shut. The juxtaposition spotlights institutionalization for clients versus risk-control for crypto-native principals. On one side, JPMorgan moves BTC exposure […]
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This is a speculative report translated for non-specialists. The narrator is an investigator who arrived long after humans were gone. Everything described as measured relies on real Bitcoin mechanics: block intervals, difficulty/target, timestamp rules, and data available from block headers and the coinbase transaction. We arrived on a silent planet. The last clocks still ticking […]
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Bitcoin’s recent slide below $80,000 has triggered a wave of sleep disruption across the retail trading community, according to a new report from CEX.io. The flagship digital asset has since rebounded to about $88,000, but the roughly 31% drawdown from its recent peak left many investors monitoring prices through the night. This behavior has moved […]
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A suspect posing as a delivery worker entered a Mission Dolores home near 18th and Dolores around 6:45 a.m. on Nov. 22, restrained the resident, and stole a phone, laptop, and about $11 million in cryptocurrency, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. San Francisco police had not announced arrests or provided asset details as of […]
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A Cloudflare outage today disrupted access to services across the internet, exposing the significant amount of traffic that runs through Cloudflare. Cloudflare’s status page described the event as an “internal service degradation” that began at 11:48 UTC, saying some services were “intermittently impacted” while teams worked to restore traffic flows. Earlier, at 11:34 UTC, CryptoSlate […]
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