Day: March 3, 2026

Bitcoin showed remarkable resilience Tuesday, holding firm near $68,600 even as global equities cratered under the weight of an escalating Middle East conflict. Bitcoin Defies Global Equities Rout While global equities cratered under the weight of an escalating Middle East conflict, bitcoin again displayed a striking resilience on Tuesday, March. 3. The top cryptocurrency hovered […]

Visa is accelerating stablecoin adoption across global payments, unveiling a plan to expand onchain settlement and crypto-linked card programs to more than 100 countries as institutional momentum builds around blockchain-based fund transfers. Visa Expands Stablecoin Card and Onchain Settlement Push With Bridge Global payments firms are deepening their push into stablecoin-based settlement. Visa (NYSE: V) […]

SoFi Technologies and Mastercard revealed Tuesday that they will enable settlement using SoFiUSD across Mastercard’s global payments network, marking a new step in the integration of regulated U.S. dollar stablecoins into mainstream card infrastructure. OCC-Regulated SoFi Bank Launches Stablecoin Settlement With Mastercard The partnership will allow issuers and acquirers to settle card-based transactions using SoFiUSD, […]

Prediction markets tracking the escalating Middle East conflict between the United States, Israel and Iran are humming with activity on Tuesday, as traders funnel more than $230 million into bets tied to regime change, military escalation, and diplomatic outcomes. Polymarket Traders Price 42% Chance of Iranian Regime Collapse by June 30 On Polymarket, the headline-grabbing […]

Oil traders are suddenly pricing in a risk many desks had pushed to the background: what happens when the Middle East’s most important chokepoint becomes a frontline. Strait of Hormuz Jitters Fuel War Premium, Even as Some See Limits to $100 Breakout Crude rallied as the conflict involving Iran, the U.S., and Israel escalated, with […]

Bitcoin’s derivatives complex is stacked high and twitchy as traders parse positioning with the leading crypto asset at $66,705 on March 3, 2026. Futures open interest remains fairly elevated across major venues, while options markets show a modest tilt toward calls and a thicket of expirations looming ahead. Bitcoin Open Interest Swells as Options Traders […]

M15 nmUnified memory architecture – LP-DDR416 billion transistors 8-core CPU 4 high-performance cores192 KB instruction cache128 KB data cacheShared 12 MB L2 cache 4 high-efficiency cores128 KB instruction cache64 KB data cacheShared 4 MB L2 cache(Apple claims the 4 high-effiency cores alone perform like a dual-core Intel MacBook Air) 8-core iGPU (but there is a […]

This post is brutally honest. You may not like it. x86 on the consumer side is becoming irrelevant. It’s so soundly beaten by ARM that it’s not funny. Let’s suppose Intel’s chips have the same performance and power efficiency of the M4 series. You guys would be calling for AMD’s funeral. Heck, even a 20% […]