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Bitcoin, Ethereum Outperform Markets in July as Chip Stocks Plunge 22%
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FTX Fifth Distribution Is Its Smallest Yet: Who Still Cannot Get Paid?
FTX begins its fifth creditor distribution on Friday, moving roughly $900 million to holders of allowed claims. The round is the smallest of the five ...
Where are the Ethereum founders 11 years after the genesis block?
On July 30, 2015, the Genesis Block for the Ethereum protocol was mined. The chain has become the second most important blockchain in the cryptocurren...
Robinhood Sank After a Blowout Quarter: Rebound, or a Slide to $76?
Robinhood (HOOD) stock closed at $89.84 on July 29, down 3.15%, slipping under $90 even after the company posted its best quarter ever. Robinhood Stoc...
Up 439%, Then Margin-Called: Did Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Actually Blow Up?
Situational Awareness made 439% in six months. Then margin calls took its entire stock book in one trade. Ken Griffin’s Citadel bought it. A qua...
BitMEX wipes out 35 derivatives as exchange shutdown approaches with punishing post-closure fees
BitMEX settled 35 derivatives today, July 30, closing any remaining positions and canceling open orders as the exchange moved another step toward its ...
Citi Slashes Coinbase Target 41% — And Keeps Its Buy Rating
Coinbase (COIN) stock heads into second-quarter earnings today after the close under a warning from one of its biggest backers. Citigroup still rates ...
Aave Deprecates 50 Low-Adoption Assets and Winds Down Six Chain Deployments
Aave is deprecating 50 low-adoption asset reserves across its lending markets and winding down its deployments on six blockchains. In a July 30 post o...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Urges Lawmakers to Vote on Clarity Act, Quotes Satoshi Nakamoto
Bitcoin Magazine Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Urges Lawmakers to Vote on Clarity Act, Quotes Satoshi Nakamoto U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen...
Bitcoin's Final Bear Leg: History Says $35,000, On-Chain Data Disagrees
Bitcoin (BTC) trades near $64,000, roughly 49% below its October 2025 record of $126,000. Seasonal patterns from three past cycles now point to one Bi...
Former FTX member Leopold Aschenbrenner's $20B AI fund blows up
Leopold Aschenbrenner, the founder of hedge fund Situational Awareness, has seen his leveraged positions liquidated following a swift downturn in AI s...
A 90% shareholder rebellion just forced this public company to dump its entire Bitcoin treasury at a crushing £39,984 per-coin loss
Shareholders of Satsuma Technology Plc approved a capital return and delisting with 90.63% and 90.59% of votes cast, respectively, against the majorit...
Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Finally Breaks Silence on Russia Charges
Telegram founder Pavel Durov has answered Russia’s terrorism charges, accusing Moscow of punishing him for rejecting state demands for mass surv...
The Web’s Missing Payment Primitive Didn’t Need Better Tech, It Needed to Ditch Humans
The story being told about x402 right now is that it ends the subscription era and finally makes fractional-cent payments work for everyone. I want to...
A Rocky Year: Ethereum Turns 11 Years as ETH Trades 61% Below the High Set Last August
Ethereum's (ETH) genesis block turned 11 on July 30, closing quite a busy year. The network now runs on a 60 million gas limit, double where it sat tw...
