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  • The $17 billion lesson: how retail turned Bitcoin proxy plays into pain trade
    by Christina Comben on October 18, 2025 at 4:00 pm

    There’s a grim symmetry to every crypto boom: an idea born from freedom eventually gets packaged, securitized, and sold back to the masses, this time at a hefty premium. According to a new 10XResearch report, retail investors have collectively lost $17 billion trying to gain indirect Bitcoin exposure through listed “digital asset treasury” companies like The post The $17 billion lesson: how retail turned Bitcoin proxy plays into pain […]

  • Why the price of gold is rising while Bitcoin is struggling
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on October 18, 2025 at 2:00 pm

    For years, Bitcoin has been hailed as “digital gold,” a hedge against inflation and policy excess. Yet, as geopolitical tensions rise and trade disputes return to the headlines, the original store of value, gold, is stealing the spotlight. According to TradingView data, gold climbed to an all-time high of $4,376 per ounce on Oct. 17, The post Why the price of gold is rising while Bitcoin is struggling appeared first on CryptoSlate.

  • How crypto-native leverage drove Bitcoin sell-off while ETFs barely flinched
    by Gino Matos on October 18, 2025 at 12:06 pm

    JPMorgan attributes the recent Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) sell-off to crypto-native leverage rather than institutional exits, noting that spot ETFs and CME futures absorbed minimal forced selling while perpetual futures markets faced sharp deleveraging across both assets. Bitcoin fell 13.1% from $122,316 on Oct. 3 to $106,329 by Oct. 17, while perpetual open interest The post How crypto-native leverage drove Bitcoin sell-off while ETFs […]

  • New debt-fueled era for Bitcoin miners marked by 1 zetahash milestone – Report
    by Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright on October 17, 2025 at 7:00 pm

    Bitcoin mining crossed the zetahash threshold in September as the network averaged 1.034 ZH/s, and hashprice fell below $47 per PH per second. According to a new report by The MinerMag, the step up in difficulty coincided with miners’ equity values nearly doubling since August to about $90 billion by October 15, while BTC fell The post New debt-fueled era for Bitcoin miners marked by 1 zetahash milestone – Report appeared first on […]

  • TRON Strengthens Its Role as Global Settlement Infrastructure in Q3 2025, Reports CoinDesk, Nansen, and Particula
    by News Desk on October 17, 2025 at 5:00 pm

    Geneva, Switzerland – October 17, 2025 – CoinDesk Data the institutional research division of CoinDesk, a leading global media outlet in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry, together with prominent blockchain analytics and risk assessment firms Nansen and Particula, have each released independent Q3 2025 reports analyzing onchain activity on the TRON network. Collectively, the findings The post TRON Strengthens Its Role as Global […]

  • How Ripple’s new $1 billion XRP treasury plans to reshape the token’s future
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on October 17, 2025 at 5:00 pm

    Ripple appears to be preparing one of its most ambitious experiments through a $1 billion digital-asset treasury (DAT) designed to accumulate and manage XRP as a long-term reserve. According to a Bloomberg report, the initiative would be financed through a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC). This structure is often used in traditional finance to raise The post How Ripple’s new $1 billion XRP treasury plans to reshape the token’s […]

  • Florida tries Bitcoin again: How $218B pension bill makes BTC a state asset this time
    by Andjela Radmilac on October 17, 2025 at 3:45 pm

    Florida is back with another attempt to put Bitcoin on the state’s balance sheet. The new bill, HB 183, revives last year’s failed effort but with sharper teeth and broader reach. It once again sets a ceiling of 10% of certain state funds that could be allocated to digital assets, including Bitcoin and regulated ETFs. The post Florida tries Bitcoin again: How $218B pension bill makes BTC a state asset this time appeared first on CryptoSlate.

  • Can Visa’s $670B bet on programmable money rewrite global credit?
    by Gino Matos on October 17, 2025 at 2:15 pm

    Visa just dropped a roadmap for the future of finance, and it runs on programmable money. In a comprehensive new report, the payments giant is stating to its network of over 15,000 financial institutions that the $670 billion stablecoin lending market is no longer just an experiment in crypto. This market is the foundation for The post Can Visa’s $670B bet on programmable money rewrite global credit? appeared first on CryptoSlate.

  • Bitcoin miners just moved $5.6B to exchanges under AI escape plan
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on October 17, 2025 at 12:45 pm

    Bitcoin miners are running out of room to breathe. In the wake of a $19 billion market rout, operators have begun moving massive volumes of Bitcoin onto exchanges, a classic signal that sell pressure is building. Data from CryptoQuant shows that between Oct. 9 and Oct. 15, mining wallets sent 51,000 BTC, worth more than The post Bitcoin miners just moved $5.6B to exchanges under AI escape plan appeared first on CryptoSlate.

  • Why Bitcoin price just plummeted under $104k to lowest level since June
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on October 17, 2025 at 11:15 am

    Bitcoin extended its week-long decline, sliding to its lowest level since July as renewed US–China trade tensions and heavy fund outflows forced another wave of liquidations across crypto markets. According to CryptoSlate data, Bitcoin fell over 5% in the past 24 hours to as low as $103,300 after trading near $112,000 earlier in the week. The post Why Bitcoin price just plummeted under $104k to lowest level since June appeared first on […]

  • LPG Tanker Reportedly Hit By “Unknown Projectile” Off Yemen
    by Tyler Durden on October 18, 2025 at 7:45 pm

    LPG Tanker Reportedly Hit By “Unknown Projectile” Off Yemen UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) reported that a commercial vessel was struck by an “unknown projectile” approximately 210 kilometers (130 miles) east of Aden, Yemen. Security firm Ambrey identified the vessel as the liquefied natural gas tanker MV Falcon. UKMTO WARNING 036-25 UPDATE 001 – ATTACK – 18 OCT 25 Click here to view the full […]

  • “Can’t Wait To Spend Quality Time Together”: Trump Invades Bluesky ‘Safe Space’, Liberals Melt Down
    by Tyler Durden on October 18, 2025 at 6:35 pm

    “Can’t Wait To Spend Quality Time Together”: Trump Invades Bluesky ‘Safe Space’, Liberals Melt Down Democrats who live in the Bluesky echo chamber are losing their minds after the White House social-media team opened an account on the far-left platform. Overnight, Bluesky turned into ‘Bluecry’ as Trump memes and posts invaded what liberals thought was a ‘safe space.’ Not anymore. “What’s up, Bluesky? We thought you might’ve […]

  • FAFO: Federal Agents Bear Spray Obnoxious Antifa Goon In The Face
    by Tyler Durden on October 18, 2025 at 6:00 pm

    FAFO: Federal Agents Bear Spray Obnoxious Antifa Goon In The Face Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Federal agents outside the ICE facility in Portland were not taking any BS from Antifa agitators Friday night, with officers spraying one screeching lunatic directly in the face with bear spray. The individual was seen on camera earlier yelling at agents stationed on the roof to jump off and kill themselves. She then […]

  • Salesforce CEO Apologizes For Pro-Trump Comments Amid Democratic Party Machine’s Outrage
    by Tyler Durden on October 18, 2025 at 5:25 pm

    Salesforce CEO Apologizes For Pro-Trump Comments Amid Democratic Party Machine’s Outrage Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has spent years bankrolling left-wing Democrats – from Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden to progressive ballot measures across California. And look at California now. Things have deteriorated so badly that even Benioff, once the poster child of Bay Area liberalism, told The New York Times one week ago he would welcome […]

  • The Ghost Of Mt. Gox Will Stop Haunting Bitcoin This Halloween
    by Tyler Durden on October 18, 2025 at 4:50 pm

    The Ghost Of Mt. Gox Will Stop Haunting Bitcoin This Halloween Authored by Yohan Yun via CoinTelegraph.com, Mt. Gox, the defunct Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange, still holds around 34,689 Bitcoin ahead of its Oct. 31 repayment deadline. The exchange lost around 650,000 BTC in thefts that went undetected from 2011 until its 2014 collapse, while about 200,000 BTC was later found in an old-format wallet. Those coins became the […]

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  • No Kings Kicks Off Across Country As States Prepare For Violence
    by Tyler Durden on October 18, 2025 at 4:15 pm

    No Kings Kicks Off Across Country As States Prepare For Violence The billionaire-funded ‘No Kings’ protests kicked off on Saturday, with what organizers claim are more than 2,600 protests across the country against “authoritarian power grabs” by the Trump administration [which are promptly halted by activist judges who overrule the ‘king’ every time]. No Kings marchers heading down 14th Street heading to the main rallying area at […]

  • “Fueled By Billionaires”: No Kings Prepares Color-Revolution-Style Mobilization Against Trump
    by Tyler Durden on October 18, 2025 at 4:00 pm

    “Fueled By Billionaires”: No Kings Prepares Color-Revolution-Style Mobilization Against Trump The Democratic Party’s dark-money NGO network, bankrolled by left-wing billionaires, is reportedly preparing to activate a coordinated, color-revolution-style mobilization across the U.S. this weekend – a replay of failed agitation attempts seen earlier this year targeting President Trump and Elon Musk. The operation, marketed under […]

  • Jack Smith Referred To DOJ For Misconduct Investigation And Possible Disbarment
    by Tyler Durden on October 18, 2025 at 3:40 pm

    Jack Smith Referred To DOJ For Misconduct Investigation And Possible Disbarment Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, Former special counsel Jack Smith was criminally referred to the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Oct. 16 by multiple Republican lawmakers for alleged misconduct and possible disbarment. A group of GOP lawmakers, led by Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, asking […]

  • China Expels 9 Top Generals, Including Two From Communist Party Leadership, In Sweeping Purge
    by Tyler Durden on October 18, 2025 at 3:05 pm

    China Expels 9 Top Generals, Including Two From Communist Party Leadership, In Sweeping Purge In another major purge likely based on loyalty, China’s President Xi Jinping has embarked on another significant series of top level military firings, with the Communist Party having expelled nine senior generals in one of the most sweeping such moves in decades. A Defense Ministry statement indicated the nine officers are under […]

  • How America’s Paper-Money System & The Federal Reserve Plunder American Taxpayers
    by Tyler Durden on October 18, 2025 at 2:30 pm

    How America’s Paper-Money System & The Federal Reserve Plunder American Taxpayers Authored by Jacob G. Hornberger via The Future of Freedom Foundation, Given that the Federal Reserve has obviously abandoned its 2 percent target for the rise in prices brought on by its own paper-money inflationary policy, it’s important that we keep in mind how our nation’s paper money-system and the Fed’s inflationary policy plunder and […]

  • The US Has Given Ukraine The Most Aid To Date
    by Tyler Durden on October 18, 2025 at 1:55 pm

    The US Has Given Ukraine The Most Aid To Date Following Zelensky’s trip cap-in-hand to Washington this week, we note that (to date) the United States has been the biggest supporter of Ukraine in terms of aid, according to data from the Ukraine Support Tracker compiled by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel). EU institutions (including the European Commission and the Council), followed by Germany and the United […]

  • When The Curve Speaks: What The (UK) Bond Market Is Telling Us
    by Tyler Durden on October 18, 2025 at 1:20 pm

    When The Curve Speaks: What The (UK) Bond Market Is Telling Us Authored by Ben Lord via BondVigilantes.com, In 2020, the bond market awoke from a decade-long slumber and moved long-dated bonds higher, in what we call a curve steepening, even whilst short-end rates were (possibly) at paradigm lows. It was easy to look at this steepening move as being driven by the quite justified cutting of interest rates in response to the global […]

  • Poland Lets Ukrainian Wanted By Germany In Nord Stream Blasts Walk Free: ‘A Just Act’
    by Tyler Durden on October 18, 2025 at 12:45 pm

    Poland Lets Ukrainian Wanted By Germany In Nord Stream Blasts Walk Free: ‘A Just Act’ A Polish court has simply let a Ukrainian citizen suspected by Germany of sabotaging the Nord Stream gas pipelines in September 2022 walk free. The Polish judge ruling in the case not only decided to ignore the European arrest warrant issued by German authorities last month, but went so far as to say that if the man did have a part in the […]

  • The EU Has To Get Real If Europe Is To Matter In AI
    by Tyler Durden on October 18, 2025 at 12:10 pm

    The EU Has To Get Real If Europe Is To Matter In AI Authored by Paul Steidler via RealClearMarkets.com, The European Commission, the governing body of the European Union, announced strategies last week to boost AI usage and investment through an extraordinarily deceitful press release. The lead paragraph trumpeted the strategies are “to ensure Europe stays ahead, driving adoption in key industries and putting Europe at the […]

  • Germany Has The Highest Minimum Wage, Malta The Lowest
    by Tyler Durden on October 18, 2025 at 11:35 am

    Germany Has The Highest Minimum Wage, Malta The Lowest Any income or salary comparison is always rife with concerns around prices (how affordable things are) and inflation (how that affordability changes over time). But when we adjust wages for both, what broad themes and insights can be seen? The visualization below, via Visual Capitalist’s Pallavi Rao, compares 2024 statutory minimum wages in 50 U.S. states and 35 OECD and […]

  • Danish People’s Party Manifesto Calls For Mass Repatriations, Hijab Ban, & Halal Tax
    by Tyler Durden on October 18, 2025 at 11:00 am

    Danish People’s Party Manifesto Calls For Mass Repatriations, Hijab Ban, & Halal Tax Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, The Danish People’s Party (DF) has set out one of the most hardline immigration platforms in Europe ahead of a general election expected next year, pledging mass repatriations, sweeping citizenship reviews, bans on Islamic practices, and a fundamental reversal of four decades of immigration policy. […]

  • Head Of Russia’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Pitches “Putin-Trump” Undersea Tunnel Linking Russia-US
    by Tyler Durden on October 18, 2025 at 10:00 am

    Head Of Russia’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Pitches “Putin-Trump” Undersea Tunnel Linking Russia-US President Trump confirmed a “very productive” phone call with Russian President Putin on Thursday, according to a post on Truth Social. The two leaders are now expected to meet in the near term in Budapest, Hungary, with discussions centered on potential pathways to end the war in Ukraine. Trump’s latest threat to supply Ukraine with […]

  • The Next Putin-Trump Meeting Might Lead To Something Tangible This Time Around
    by Tyler Durden on October 18, 2025 at 3:25 am

    The Next Putin-Trump Meeting Might Lead To Something Tangible This Time Around Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The geostrategic context of newfound pressure upon each, their increased bilateral tensions, and rising fears that false flag provocations in Europe could manipulate them into war with one another make it likely that their planned Budapest Summit will be more successful than the Anchorage one. The next […]

  • Get Woke, Go Broke: Hollywood Productions Plummet To All Time Lows
    by Tyler Durden on October 18, 2025 at 3:00 am

    Get Woke, Go Broke: Hollywood Productions Plummet To All Time Lows Film and TV production in the Los Angeles area has hit an all-time low, sinking to levels worse than the SAG union strike of 2023.  The city has introduces new tax incentives to generate enthusiasm but many in Tinseltown are questioning if the industry will ever recover. FilmLA, the city and county’s film permitting office, said Tuesday that on-location […]

  • Victor Hanson: How Biden & Obama Failed In The Middle East
    by Tyler Durden on October 18, 2025 at 2:35 am

    Victor Hanson: How Biden & Obama Failed In The Middle East Authored by Victor Davis Hanson, The short answer to why both the Biden and Obama administrations failed to achieve peace in the Middle East is that they took actions opposite to Trump’s current efforts, which have led to a ceasefire. First, consider Iran. Iran was flush with cash, on a trajectory toward a nuclear weapon, and arming Israel’s “ring of fire” […]

  • Senate Candidate Returns AIPAC Money As Pro-Israel Group Becomes Political Poison
    by Tyler Durden on October 18, 2025 at 2:10 am

    Senate Candidate Returns AIPAC Money As Pro-Israel Group Becomes Political Poison In the latest indication that the war in Gaza is significantly threatening Israel’s dominance over American politics, a sitting US congressman and Senate hopeful has announced he’s returning donations received from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), and refusing to accept any more.    “In recent years, AIPAC has aligned itself […]

  • Tests Find High Levels Of Lead In Protein Powders, Shakes: Consumer Reports
    by Tyler Durden on October 18, 2025 at 1:45 am

    Tests Find High Levels Of Lead In Protein Powders, Shakes: Consumer Reports Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Popular protein powders and shakes contain high levels of lead, Consumer Reports (CR) said on Oct. 14. Twenty-two of 23 products tested by CR had detectable amounts of lead, and more than two-thirds had unsafe levels of lead, according to the organization. Protein powder, in an undated file […]

  • The Irony Of Trump’s New ‘War On Drugs’: Recalling The History Of CIA Narco Trafficking
    by Tyler Durden on October 18, 2025 at 1:20 am

    The Irony Of Trump’s New ‘War On Drugs’: Recalling The History Of CIA Narco Trafficking The Hill has recently estimated that some 10,000 American troops are currently supporting the Trump-ordered counternarcotics operations in the Caribbean. At this point the military intervention has killed 27 people, including individuals who are likely not Venezuelan (for example, Colombia earlier said one of its boats was hit, and The Guardian […]

  • Federal Courts To Scale Back Operations As Shutdown Exhausts Funds
    by Tyler Durden on October 18, 2025 at 12:55 am

    Federal Courts To Scale Back Operations As Shutdown Exhausts Funds With the government shutdown about to enter its third week, the federal court system announced Friday that it will begin operating in a limited, unpaid capacity starting Monday – having exhausted the last of the court fees and other stopgap funds that had kept its doors open since Oct. 1. Los Angeles Federal Courthouse (Bryan Chan,  LA Times) In a statement, the […]

  • Ray Dalio Explains Why Gold & Why Now…
    by Tyler Durden on October 18, 2025 at 12:30 am

    Ray Dalio Explains Why Gold & Why Now… Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio stated on Friday that gold has started replacing some U.S. Treasury holdings as the riskless asset for investors, amid a continued surge in the yellow metal’s prices. This comes after he said investors should allocate as much as 15% of their portfolios to gold even as the precious metal surged to new all-time highs this week. “Gold is a […]

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