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Your gas bill just became a Bitcoin story Fresh March data tied one household pressure point to one market trade. The preliminary survey from the University of Michigan put consumer sentiment at 55.5, the lowest reading of 2026, and said gasoline prices had exerted the most immediate impact felt by consumers. The same release showed one-year inflation expectations at 3.4%, above 2024 levels. A...
Bitcoin’s real macro risk right now is more discreet than simply watching the price of oil. Behind the scenes, a Fed liquidity cushion is nearly gone, and it can quickly become a headwind for Bitcoin's attempt to avoid a deep crypto winter. On March 19, usage of the Federal Reserve’s overnight reverse repo facility stood at just $0.637 billion. Separately, the Fed’s weekly balance-sheet release...
Bitcoin investors are buying protection around $50,000 even as the flagship digital asset holds near $70,000 and has recently outperformed gold, the S...
When Vanity Fair published “Crypto's True Believers Demand to Be Taken Seriously” on Mar. 17, the backlash arrived within hours. Hayden Adams said he had passed on the shoot after being asked to pose in a bathrobe in a sauna. Camila Russo called the framing “so off.” Nic Carter compared the group photograph to the Alliance of Magicians from Arrested Development. Dennison Bertram, a former fashion...
The Fed kept rates unchanged at 3.50%-3.75% on Mar. 18, lifted its 2026 inflation projections to 2.7% for both headline and core PCE, and held to a median year-end fed-funds path of 3.4%. Chair Jerome Powell said higher energy prices will push up overall inflation in the near term and that the implications of events in the Middle East are uncertain. One day later, the ECB held its deposit rate at...
Retail investors became the main force behind gold-fund buying over the past six months, helping extend bullion’s rise even as some institutional money started to step back. At the same time, fresh inflows into US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) show part of Wall Street rebuilding crypto exposure through the regulated ETF channel, setting up a split in how investors are responding to...
Coinbase is directing some Commerce users to a seed-phrase recovery flow ahead of a March 31 migration deadline. The issue sits inside Coinbase’s shutdown plan for legacy Commerce wallets. In its transition guide, Coinbase says users with funds in a Commerce wallet must withdraw them before March 31, 2026, when the Commerce portal and withdrawal tool will become inaccessible. For users who backed...
Metaverse land never recovered. The numbers now show how far it fell The biggest metaverse land deals of the 2021 and 2022 boom now map to four- and five-digit values when priced against current collection floors, rather than the six- and seven-figure valuations buyers once paid. The decline runs through the entire metaverse land trade. A CoinGecko study found that average metaverse land prices...
Trading begins on MEXC Playnance’s G Coin has entered open-market trading, with the G Coin/USDT pair going live on MEXC after the project’s Token Generation Event on March 18. MEXC’s official announcement said deposits were open and withdrawals would begin on March 19, while the exchange’s live G Coin page shows the pair as active. For Playnance, that shifts G Coin from an ecosystem-native...
For decades, the benchmark for US risk lived on US time. S...