This weekend, the Bitcoin network logged its steepest difficulty cut since July 3, 2021—a moment that followed China’s sweeping ban on mining and trading, which triggered a sharp market sell-off and sent miners scrambling for exits beyond the region. Bitcoin Mining Gets Easier—for Now—as Difficulty Drops 11.16% After a winter storm ripped through dozens of […]
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BTC lending platform Strike has updated its bitcoin-backed loan policies amid heightened crypto market volatility, extending the margin call recovery window and adjusting loan-to-value thresholds to give borrowers more flexibility. Bitcoin Lending Platform Strike Expands Margin Call Recovery Time for Bitcoin-Backed Loans The changes include expanding the margin call recovery period from 24 hours to […]
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Tether’s USDT reached record highs across usage, transfers, and reserves in Q4 2025, continuing to grow even as the broader crypto market slowed sharply after October’s liquidation event. Tether Hits New Highs as Stablecoin Market Stalls Tether’s USDT closed out 2025 with a string of milestones, reinforcing its position as the dominant stablecoin despite a […]
U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis urged American banks to embrace stablecoins and digital assets, arguing they represent a new financial product rather than a threat as Congress struggles to advance stalled crypto legislation. Banks should see stablecoins as a way to expand services, not defend turf, Lummis said during a Feb. 6 appearance on Fox Business, […]
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Prediction markets across Kalshi, Polymarket, and Myriad are signaling a strong consensus that the New England Patriots will lose Super Bowl LX on Feb. 8, with pricing one day before kickoff historically among the most reliable signals these platforms produce. Kalshi, Polymarket, and Myriad Agree: Patriots Face Long Odds on Super Bowl Sunday As of […]
Heh, the after market reaction is the same as we always saw with Intel a decade+ ago when they were continually reporting record revenue quarters etc. The reaction may be a bit stronger currently with AMD for the aforementioned reason of investors expecting AMD to be getting more of the AI bubble spending than they […]
Several X accounts have reignited a long-running debate in bitcoin circles, arguing that a single onchain bitcoin now underpins multiple financial claims across exchange-traded funds (ETFs), futures, perpetual swaps, wrapped tokens, and structured products. The argument, often labeled the “paper bitcoin” theory, draws direct comparisons to gold’s financialization in the 1980s, when derivatives came to […]