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South Korea's 22% Crypto Tax Has Slid to 2029, and Washington Is the Reason

1 day ago

South Korea's 22% Crypto Tax Has Slid to 2029, and Washington Is the Reason

Seoul is weighing a fourth postponement of its crypto gains levy, with 2029 now the number lawmakers and industry groups are rallying around. The holdup isn't the rate. It's that the U.S. doesn't start sharing crypto transaction data until 2029, which would leave Korean exchanges' users holding a bill nobody else has to pay.

Michigan's Long-Run Inflation Gauge Is Stuck Near 3%, and Bitcoin's Rate-Cut Trade Hates It

1 day ago

Michigan's Long-Run Inflation Gauge Is Stuck Near 3%, and Bitcoin's Rate-Cut Trade Hates It

The University of Michigan survey came back with steady sentiment but long-run inflation expectations still hanging near 3%, well above the pre-2020 baseline. That quietly caps how far real yields can fall, which is the one number Bitcoin actually trades on. Here's what it breaks, who gets hurt, and the two releases to watch next.

Strategy Skipped Bitcoin and Spent $205M Buying Back Its Own Preferred Stock

1 day ago

Strategy Skipped Bitcoin and Spent $205M Buying Back Its Own Preferred Stock

Strategy made zero Bitcoin purchases last week and burned $205 million repurchasing its STRC preferred shares, cutting its dollar reserve 46% to $242.4 million. That's a capital structure story, not a coin story, and it tells you where the treasury trade is heading next.

Bitcoin's Nasdaq Ratio Ended a 235-Session Drought, and the Track Record Says 84%

1 day ago

Bitcoin's Nasdaq Ratio Ended a 235-Session Drought, and the Track Record Says 84%

The Bitcoin-to-Nasdaq ratio reclaimed its 200-day moving average on September 18 after 235 straight sessions below it, and it hasn't closed under that line since. One year after similar reclaims, Bitcoin finished higher five of six times, with a median gain near 84%. The skeptics still have a case, but it's getting thinner.

One PHP Bug, Three Countries Offline: What the Cyber Pandemic Talk Means for Crypto Allocators

1 day ago

One PHP Bug, Three Countries Offline: What the Cyber Pandemic Talk Means for Crypto Allocators

Government portals in France and Finland went dark. Hospital sites in the Netherlands followed. Cloudflare logged attack traffic, and the UK's cyber agency told organizations to pull systems they couldn't patch in time. Here's the sequence, the impact, and why Bitcoin's slow engineering culture suddenly looks like a feature.

BTCPay Server's October 19 Fix Isn't in the Release You're Running

1 day ago

BTCPay Server's October 19 Fix Isn't in the Release You're Running

A permission-tightening merge landed in BTCPay Server's codebase on October 19, but the newest tagged release predates it. That means store-scoped API keys can still reach further than merchants think, and the people most exposed are the ones who chose self-custody precisely to avoid this kind of surprise.

Bernstein Holds $160 HOOD Target While Prediction Markets Add $1.7B by 2028

1 day ago

Bernstein Holds $160 HOOD Target While Prediction Markets Add $1.7B by 2028

Bernstein lifted Robinhood's revenue estimates through 2026 and 2028 but left its $160 price target untouched. The number that matters inside the revision is $1.7 billion in prediction market revenue, a line item projected to overtake crypto trading by 2028.

Metaplanet Buys a U.S. Wrapper for Preferreds as Bitcoin ETFs Add $1B in Three Sessions

1 day ago

Metaplanet Buys a U.S. Wrapper for Preferreds as Bitcoin ETFs Add $1B in Three Sessions

Metaplanet couldn't sell preferred stock at home in Japan, so it bought a U.S. company to issue it in dollars. That puts it in the same capital pool Strategy and Strive are already fighting over, and the structure is where the real bitcoin-per-share math lives.

Crypto Paid for the PHP Exploit. Nobody Budgeted for the Patch.

2 days ago

Crypto Paid for the PHP Exploit. Nobody Budgeted for the Patch.

A researcher cracked a PHP hacking challenge, proved a critical flaw was exploitable, and got paid even after a wallet mistake. The demonstration worked. The fix doesn't exist yet. That gap is crypto's real security problem, and it's about to get expensive.

Strive Buys 6,182 Bitcoin at $82,732 With Money That Costs 16.67% a Year

2 days ago

Strive Buys 6,182 Bitcoin at $82,732 With Money That Costs 16.67% a Year

Strive (ASST) picked up 6,182 bitcoin for $511.4 million and pushed its treasury to 43,000 BTC. The average price was $82,732 a coin. And the way it funded the buy is more interesting than the buy itself.

66.3%: The Fed's Inflation Data Is Missing a Third of Its Prices

2 days ago

66.3%: The Fed's Inflation Data Is Missing a Third of Its Prices

September's commodities-and-services inflation data came back with a quote collection rate of just 66.3%, and nobody can tell you which way the hole skews the number. That matters way more than the headline CPI print, because the Fed is setting rates off a survey with a third of its inputs missing. Crypto is the asset class that pays for that uncertainty.

XT Earn Splits Your Crypto in Two: Rent Money and Diamond Hands

2 days ago

XT Earn Splits Your Crypto in Two: Rent Money and Diamond Hands

XT Exchange's new Earn product draws a line between assets you need next week and assets you're holding for months, and pays you differently on each. It's a simple idea that most yield products get wrong, and that's exactly why it matters.

Cardano's Leios Plan Ships 3x to 5x Throughput. The 15x Needs a Vote

2 days ago

Cardano's Leios Plan Ships 3x to 5x Throughput. The 15x Needs a Vote

Input Output has merged key Leios code and finally put real numbers on Cardano's scaling plan: three to five times current capacity first, with anything bigger gated behind governance votes and mainnet evidence. The restraint is the actual story here. The 15x headline isn't.

Bitcoin Defends $80,000 as FOMC and Tech Earnings Land in the Same Week

2 days ago

Bitcoin Defends $80,000 as FOMC and Tech Earnings Land in the Same Week

Bitcoin spent the weekend holding $80,000 while US futures traders thinned out. With a Fed decision, a wall of tech earnings, and inflation data all landing within days, the round number is now the whole trade. Asian desks are positioned differently than you'd expect.

Dan Niles Says AI Hasn't Peaked. His Cash Advice Says Something Else.

2 days ago

Dan Niles Says AI Hasn't Peaked. His Cash Advice Says Something Else.

Dan Niles thinks agentic AI keeps the trade alive, but he's spent weeks telling clients to sit on more cash. With Microsoft, Alphabet, and Amazon reporting in days and chip stocks already selling off faster than the tape, the 1998 internet drawdown is looking uncomfortably familiar.

Jack Dorsey Said 'there's No Moat.' Saylor Said Bitcoin. Musk Said Sparta. Who's Right?

2 days ago

Jack Dorsey Said 'there's No Moat.' Saylor Said Bitcoin. Musk Said Sparta. Who's Right?

Jack Dorsey's four-word post pulled 3.5 million views and two very different answers from Michael Saylor and Elon Musk. Strip away the philosophy and there's a real signal here about where defensibility in crypto actually lives.

Gold Miners Went From a Record Month to a Washout in 21 Sessions

2 days ago

Gold Miners Went From a Record Month to a Washout in 21 Sessions

Nearly 92% of stocks in the VanEck Gold Miners ETF now trade below their 50-day moving average, a breadth extreme last seen in late July right before miners ripped to a record month. This time the setup lands three days before a Fed decision where a hike is still on the table.

Bitcoin ETFs Snapped a Two-Week Bleed With $301M. The Weekly Number Is Hiding Something.

2 days ago

Bitcoin ETFs Snapped a Two-Week Bleed With $301M. The Weekly Number Is Hiding Something.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs closed the week $301 million in the green, ending a two-week outflow streak. But a strong three-day open followed by heavy withdrawals tells a much less bullish story than the headline, and the difference matters for anyone trading flow prints.

The FCA's Self-Custody Guidance Has One Real Target: Third-Party Risk Scores

2 days ago

The FCA's Self-Custody Guidance Has One Real Target: Third-Party Risk Scores

The UK regulator's new consultation treats unhosted-wallet checks as good practice, not law. The sharper signal is buried in the criticism of unexplained third-party scores and rigid tracing rules. Compliance teams will read it as binding anyway, and that's where the cost lands.

Vitalik Buterin Backs an AI That's Worse on Purpose

2 days ago

Vitalik Buterin Backs an AI That's Worse on Purpose

Moonshot AI stripped top-end hacking skills out of Kimi K3.1 Pro, and its exploit benchmark score fell from 90.5% to 81%. Vitalik Buterin says that's the right trade, and that the alternative is KYC for AI. He's half right, and the half he's wrong about is the interesting part.

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