Category: Crypto

Crypto • October 30, 2026

A Crypto Exchange Can Freeze Billions After a Hack. Who Actually Controls the Money?

On October 29, billions of dollars in cryptocurrency began moving out of Binance-controlled wallets without authorization. By the following morning, the world’s largest crypto exchange was describing a security incident with an estimated impact of $6.3 billion, while stablecoin issuers and blockchain partners were scrambling to prevent the attackers from moving some of the assets. […]

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Crypto • October 3, 2026

PEPE as a Macroeconomic Indicator Is a Ridiculous Idea. Let’s Test It.

A frog-themed token with no cash flow, no yield, no central bank and no obvious claim on anything productive should have very little to tell us about the global economy. That is precisely why PEPE is interesting. Traditional measures of risk appetite tend to look respectable: equity indices, credit spreads, Treasury yields, volatility, currencies. Memecoins […]

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Crypto Explained • September 8, 2026

What Does Bitcoin Hedge, Exactly?

Bitcoin has spent most of its adult life accumulating narratives. It was electronic cash, then digital gold. It became an inflation hedge, an escape hatch from monetary debasement, a geopolitical safe haven, a liquidity sponge and, depending on the market cycle, the ultimate risk-on asset. The problem is obvious: an asset cannot be judged as […]

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Crypto • August 26, 2026

Bitcoin at $80K: Does the Old Four-Year Crypto Cycle Still Matter?

Bitcoin is back above $80,000. In another era of crypto, that number alone might have been enough to restart the familiar conversation about bull markets, halvings and the supposedly inevitable four-year Bitcoin cycle. But this is not another era. Bitcoin pushed through $80,000 in August 2026 after a powerful rebound, yet it remains well below […]

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Crypto • August 25, 2026

Bitcoin Just Did Something Crypto Investors Have Been Waiting For

Bitcoin just delivered the kind of week that believers in the Bitcoin digital gold thesis have been waiting years to see. The headline number was spectacular enough: Bitcoin gained roughly 23% over the week, climbing back above $77,000. But the percentage gain was not the most interesting part of the move. The real story was […]

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Crypto Explained • August 22, 2026

Bitcoin Finally Broke the $70,000 Wall

Bitcoin finally punched through $70,000. But the most interesting part of the move is not the number itself or even the size of the rally. The important part is what $70,000 had become. After repeatedly frustrating recovery attempts in 2026, the zone had turned into a meaningful market barrier. Bitcoin’s break above it, followed by […]

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Crypto • August 14, 2026

Bitcoin Miners Are Quietly Respawning as AI Data Centers

For years, bitcoin miners optimized one of the most specialized character builds in modern business. Think Diablo, except instead of stacking critical-hit damage or elemental resistance, the stats were megawatts, ASIC efficiency, cooling capacity and hash rate. The quest was brutally simple: turn electricity into bitcoin more efficiently than the other guy. Now parts of […]

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Crypto • August 11, 2026

Bitcoin, Gold and Copper Are Telling Different Apocalypse Stories

Bitcoin is back around the $65,000 line. Copper has pushed above $14,000 per tonne. Gold, after trading above $5,000 earlier this year, is climbing again as markets rethink the Federal Reserve and the dollar. At first glance, this looks like one giant fear trade. Buy the hard stuff. Sell the future. Prepare for monetary debasement, […]

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Crypto Explained • July 23, 2026

What Is Web3?

Web3 is the idea of a new kind of internet built around ownership, decentralization and user-controlled assets. Instead of logging into platforms that own your identity, your data, your audience and your digital stuff, Web3 imagines a web where users connect with wallets, hold tokens, use decentralized apps and carry value across services. That is […]

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Crypto Explained • July 21, 2026

What Is a Smart Contract?

A smart contract is one of the ideas that made crypto bigger than digital money. Bitcoin showed that a blockchain could move value without a bank. Smart contracts showed that a blockchain could also run code. At its simplest, a smart contract is a program stored on a blockchain. It follows rules written in code […]

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