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Japan is quietly preparing the most pro-crypto shift of any G7 nation.
According to multiple reports from local media, the Financial Services Agency (FSA) is drafting a sweeping reclassification of digital assets that would bring Bitcoin, Ethereum, and around 100 other tokens under the same umbrella as stocks and investment funds.
If the plan moves forward, Japan will treat these tokens as “...
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If you’ve been anywhere near tech Twitter this year, you’ve probably heard someone talk about “vibe coding.” Maybe you scrolled past the viral memes, caught Karim’s thread...
Influencers on X love pointing to rising M2 charts or a softening dollar as proof that Bitcoin is about to blast off.
Those overlays make for great engagement, but they flatten a far more complex relationship. They matter, but not in the simple, linear way they’re often sold.
Money printing, which increases the global M2 money supply, is said to lead Bitcoin price movements by about 12 weeks. The...
For a few days in November, a malicious Chrome extension ranked as the fourth result for “Ethereum wallet” on the Chrome Web Store.
The extension, called “Safery: Ethereum Wallet,” looked polished enough to pass as legitimate. It had a clean icon, a generic name adjacent to security language, a flood of five-star reviews, and boilerplate descriptions familiar to anyone who’s downloaded a crypto...
For a while, owning Bitcoin was professionally awkward. Big asset managers couldn’t touch it, compliance teams didn’t know what to do with it, and internal mandates typically banned the direct custody of anything that looked like a bearer instrument.
But equities? Equities were fine. That’s how MicroStrategy, a Virginia-based enterprise software firm, became the most traded Bitcoin proxy in the...
In 2019, Rodolfo Novak sent a Bitcoin transaction from Toronto to Michigan without internet or satellite. He used a ham radio, the 40-meter band, and the ionosphere as his relay.
Nick Szabo called it “Bitcoin sent over national border without internet or satellite, just nature’s ionosphere.” The transaction was tiny, the setup finicky, and the use case borderline absurd.
Yet, it proved something...
Coinbase spent 2025 positioning itself as the infrastructure layer for retail crypto access, absorbing teams and technology that could accelerate its “everything exchange” vision.
A Nov. 21 announcement that it acquired Vector.fun, Solana’s fastest-moving DEX aggregator, fit the pattern: acquire the rails, sunset the product, integrate the speed.
But the deal carved out an unusual exception....
Younger, wealthier Americans seem to be rewriting the house rules of wealth management.
They like broad equity indices. They park cash in T-bills. They still buy real estate and private deals. But they also expect to see Bitcoin, Ethereum, and a handful of other digital assets on the same dashboard as everything else.
For them, crypto is a normal slice of a portfolio. For many of their advisors,...
Oracle did what every legacy tech giant dreams of. In September, it announced a $300 billion cloud deal wrapped around OpenAI, the hottest name in software, and watched its stock rip higher.
Two months later, the market gave its verdict. Oracle has shed more than $300 billion in market value, trading below its pre-AI announcement levels, while reports began calling it a “ChatGPT curse.”
Analysts...
Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) is currently navigating the most complex regime in its four-year history as a corporate Bitcoin treasury.
The company, which transformed itself from a steady enterprise software provider into the world’s largest corporate holder of BTC, is facing a convergence of headwinds that threaten the structural mechanics of its valuation.
For years, the Tysons Corner-based...