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Can Bitcoin help amid internet blackouts after Iran’s currency collapsed 95% overnight?
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 ...

Ethereum’s hidden ‘death spiral’ mechanic could freeze $800 billion in assets regardless of their safety rating
An Ethereum price collapse could break the blockchain’s ability to settle transactions and freeze over $800 billion in assets, a Bank of Italy research paper warns. The paper, authored by Claudia Bi...

Bitcoin broke its classic macro correlation because the market is suddenly pricing a terrifying new risk
On Sunday night, a lot of people in markets did the same thing at the same time: they opened a video and listened to a central banker sound like he was reading from a crisis manual. Jerome Powell said...

Vitalik Buterin warns Ethereum must do this one thing immediately or its roadmap becomes a liability
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...

Bitcoin liquidity to get crunched by a new regional law that legally excludes 99% of buyers
On paper, South Korea has been one of the world’s loudest crypto markets for years. In practice, it has been a strangely narrow one. If you were a regular person, you could trade on the big won exch...

Two major crypto events canceled after city hit by 18 violent physical attacks on crypto holders amid market downturn
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 ...

Bitcoin traders are bracing for a Fed “credibility shock” that hinges on one critical date this month
Bitcoin opened the year trading like it usually does when macro uncertainty rises: it moved with the tide of rates, the dollar, and risk appetite, even as investors tried to pin a more specific narrat...

Bitcoin is being hijacked by three “boring” institutional dials that are overpowering the halving’s supply shock
Bitcoin’s four-year cycle used to be a comfort blanket. Even people who claimed they didn’t believe in it still traded as they did. The halving would cut new supply, the market would spend months ...

CBDCs are banned here but a new State token is doing something even more surprising
For years, stablecoins have been crypto’s most useful invention and its most awkward dinner guest. Useful because they turn blockchains into 24/7 dollar rails, and awkward because while the promise ...

A hidden “yield war” has begun in Ethereum ETFs, forcing issuers to finally pay you for holding
Grayscale has turned Ethereum’s staking yield into something ETF investors instantly recognize: a cash distribution. On Jan. 6, the Grayscale Ethereum Staking ETF (ETHE) paid around $0.083 per share...