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Bitcoin Knots is back with another fork. Its last one died in two blocks.

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Bitcoin Knots is back with another fork. Its last one died in two blocks.

Luke Dashjr's Bitcoin Knots is running a conditional BLAKE2b fork rehearsal Sunday, but it still lacks settled activation settings, a day-one hash, named service policies, and universal replay protection. After the last fork died in two blocks, this one's starting with the same problems.

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Bitcoin ETFs' $3 billion streak snaps: ETH, XRP, and Solana funds keep the money moving

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Bitcoin's new macro test isn't $80,000. It's 54%.

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Farage Dumped Crypto Sponsors Days After $1.4M Darknet Seizure. That's Not a Coincidence.

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The ETF Ticker Gold Rush Is Suffocating the SEC

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The XRP number that matters more than Evernorth's Nasdaq vote

A Texas Town Just Gave Helium Its Best Real-World Test

Public miners just proved they're not Bitcoin stocks anymore

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Bitcoin Knots is back with another fork. Its last one died in two blocks.

Bitcoin ETFs' $3 billion streak snaps: ETH, XRP, and Solana funds keep the money moving

Bitcoin's new macro test isn't $80,000. It's 54%.

Farage Dumped Crypto Sponsors Days After $1.4M Darknet Seizure. That's Not a Coincidence.

The ETF Ticker Gold Rush Is Suffocating the SEC

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Polygon's urgent node warning: stale validators just fell off the chain

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Trump Digital Gold Lost 98% in Hours. The Data Points to the Team.

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Solana's supply cut just passed. But the drama was all in the details

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Solana Neobank Avici Loses $652K to Exploit, Token Crashes 44%

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No Loan, No Problem: How the US Actually Helped Japan's Yen Rescue

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Capital B's €21M Bitcoin Raise Has a Dilution Problem

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Solana's Inflation Is About To Get Crushed. 30% Disinflation Rate Approved.

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Ripple's 10,000-Line Trim Shows Security Isn't Just About Audits

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Bullish's $100M GPU loan bet says stablecoins already won

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Whales Just Yanked 231M XRP Off Binance. The Shorts Are Playing With Fire

Whales pulled 231 million XRP from Binance in the largest exchange withdrawal in six months. XRP's up 11% this week but futures traders are betting against the rally. Someone's going to get squeezed.

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ZEC's 19x Rally Might Be For Real. Grayscale Says The Second Leg Is Bigger.

Zcash exploded 19x in twelve months. Grayscale says it still holds under 1% of Bitcoin's market cap and that's exactly why they think the trade isn't done. Privacy is the biggest sleeping alpha in crypto right now.

Dex Murphy

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One Stat Shows How Concentrated This Market Has Become

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The Sandbox's $700K Bridge Exploit Just Bought It a Second Chance

After a $700K bridge exploit hit The Sandbox's Base and BNB Chain deployments, the project pledged a 1:1 refund in Ethereum-based SAND from its treasury. Claims open within two weeks. Here's what that means for holders, the project's credibility, and the wider metaverse sector.

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After a $44.7 million AVAX hit, Avalanche Treasury bets $10 million on itself

Avalanche Treasury Corp approved a $10 million Class A buyback after a $44.7 million Q2 loss, most of it tied to AVAX. The move signals conviction, but it doesn't fix the underlying problem of token treasury volatility.

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Druckenmiller Just Broke Ranks With His Own Protégé on Treasury Buybacks

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Salesforce's Record Quarter Takes the Steam Out of the 'AI Replaces SaaS' Narrative

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MSTR shareholders just funded a $1.59B cash pile. Here's why that's a problem

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Bitcoin Knots is back with another fork. Its last one died in two blocks.

Bitcoin ETFs' $3 billion streak snaps: ETH, XRP, and Solana funds keep the money moving

Bitcoin's new macro test isn't $80,000. It's 54%.

Farage Dumped Crypto Sponsors Days After $1.4M Darknet Seizure. That's Not a Coincidence.

The ETF Ticker Gold Rush Is Suffocating the SEC

The XRP number that matters more than Evernorth's Nasdaq vote

A Texas Town Just Gave Helium Its Best Real-World Test

Public miners just proved they're not Bitcoin stocks anymore

Bitcoin Knots is back with another fork. Its last one died in two blocks.

Bitcoin ETFs' $3 billion streak snaps: ETH, XRP, and Solana funds keep the money moving

Bitcoin's new macro test isn't $80,000. It's 54%.

Farage Dumped Crypto Sponsors Days After $1.4M Darknet Seizure. That's Not a Coincidence.

The ETF Ticker Gold Rush Is Suffocating the SEC

The XRP number that matters more than Evernorth's Nasdaq vote

A Texas Town Just Gave Helium Its Best Real-World Test

Public miners just proved they're not Bitcoin stocks anymore

Trending →

Bitcoin Knots is back with another fork. Its last one died in two blocks.

Bitcoin ETFs' $3 billion streak snaps: ETH, XRP, and Solana funds keep the money moving

Bitcoin's new macro test isn't $80,000. It's 54%.

Farage Dumped Crypto Sponsors Days After $1.4M Darknet Seizure. That's Not a Coincidence.

The ETF Ticker Gold Rush Is Suffocating the SEC

The XRP number that matters more than Evernorth's Nasdaq vote

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Polygon's urgent node warning: stale validators just fell off the chain

Trump Digital Gold Lost 98% in Hours. The Data Points to the Team.

Solana's supply cut just passed. But the drama was all in the details

Solana Neobank Avici Loses $652K to Exploit, Token Crashes 44%

No Loan, No Problem: How the US Actually Helped Japan's Yen Rescue

Capital B's €21M Bitcoin Raise Has a Dilution Problem

Solana's Inflation Is About To Get Crushed. 30% Disinflation Rate Approved.

Ripple's 10,000-Line Trim Shows Security Isn't Just About Audits

Bullish's $100M GPU loan bet says stablecoins already won

Bitcoin's $80K comeback is Wall Street's arrival, not crypto's

JPMorgan's $21.4 Million IBIT Note Just Missed Its Exit: The Fine Print Behind the Missed Call

Alpha Arena's Bali Final Wasn't a Warm-Up. It Was a Talent Hunt

Korea's $1.35 Trillion Pension Fund Just Proved It Doesn't Need Bitcoin

Bitcoin Profitability Flips in February: The 2023 Recovery Pattern Is Back

Pikachu Showed Up at Apple Park Days Before the CEO Handover. That's Not Just a Photo Op.

Whales Just Yanked 231M XRP Off Binance. The Shorts Are Playing With Fire

Solana traders just saved a 64-year marmot study. The federal government couldn't.

Ethena's 95% Buyback Plan: The Deal That Rewrites the Founder-VC Playbook

A 64-year-old marmot study lost its federal grant. Solana traders saved it with a meme coin

World Liberty Financial's Federal Bank Charter Is a Big Deal. The 49% Stake Is the Catch

ZEC's 19x Rally Might Be For Real. Grayscale Says The Second Leg Is Bigger.

Zoomex Just Made TradFi Trading 80% Cheaper. Here's Why That Matters

One Stat Shows How Concentrated This Market Has Become

Thailand's SEC Just Opened the ETF Door. Here's What's Inside

Altcoins just added $215B in three days. The whole rally rests on one Bitcoin price level.

The Sandbox's $700K Bridge Exploit Just Bought It a Second Chance

Bitcoin Just Did Its First Quantum-Safe Transaction. No Fork. No Drama.

Nvidia's $91 Billion Question: Is AI Spending Getting Narrower?

Cosmos EVM Flaw Just Forced 3 Chains to Freeze. What Now?

BNB Chain's Pasteur Hard Fork Is a $100 Billion Security Bet

After a $44.7 million AVAX hit, Avalanche Treasury bets $10 million on itself

Taurus and Swift Just Put Tokenized Assets on the World's Payments Rails

Druckenmiller Just Broke Ranks With His Own Protégé on Treasury Buybacks

NoOnes enters withdrawal-only mode as Aug. 23 EU sanctions listing forces wind-down

Salesforce's Record Quarter Takes the Steam Out of the 'AI Replaces SaaS' Narrative

AI bank runs could shrink $5.8 trillion in deposit funding, Dallas Fed warns

Criminals Are Using AI Every Day. The Police Are Barely Allowed To.

Chinese State Hackers Doubled Their Attack Volume. Blame AI.

MSTR shareholders just funded a $1.59B cash pile. Here's why that's a problem

Bitwise's Self-Custodied Tokenized Stock Portfolios Put Non-US Investors First

Strategy Raised $2 Billion and Bought Zero Bitcoin. Here's Why That Matters

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