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The carry trade is unwinding, and bitcoin is getting caught in the same liquidation wave as tech stocks and gold. Bitcoin fell below $79,000 as traders price in a 60% chance of a Fed rate hike next week, while the yen rallied alongside climbing oil prices and government bond yields.
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When hackers call ahead to announce they're robbing you for your own good, you're either watching a very polite heist or witnessing the death throes of federated trust models.
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The BitMEX founder just told Trump to kill the crypto bill that everyone else is celebrating. Arthur Hayes is calling for Trump to veto the CLARITY Act, arguing it threatens Bitcoin's decentralization while White House crypto advisor Bo Witt says skeptics will be proven wrong
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The memecoin grift just found its floor: when even crypto traders, who bought dog coins and watched their friends ape into tokens named after genitals, say "this is too much," you've achieved something remarkable.
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Europe just wrote a €3 billion check to prove it can still build foundational AI without asking Silicon Valley for permission. Mistral, the French AI model maker, closed a €3 billion funding round led by Samsung, the largest European AI raise on record
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The AI labs building the future are suddenly playing by Wall Street's oldest rules. Anthropic and OpenAI bankers are pushing for investment-grade credit ratings ahead of anticipated IPOs, seeking legitimacy in traditional finance markets.
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When the company building Claude says no to $6 billion in real-time rendering tech, it's not about the price tag—it's about what Anthropic thinks it needs to win.
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Sources Crypto Briefing
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The company behind the world's largest stablecoin just announced it's buying Bitcoin, gold, and enough US Treasuries to sit at the table with central banks.
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Google just made its AI agents talk to each other — and to your company's data infrastructure. Google integrated Notebooks with NotebookLM in the Gemini Desktop app, creating a unified workspace for AI-assisted research and project management
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Trust minimization isn't just a slogan when someone can mint fake Bitcoin, walk out with $320 million in real Bitcoin, and negotiate the return terms in PGP-signed messages written into the blockchain.
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The man selling the shovels just declared the gold rush over — while booking meetings with heads of state to sell more shovels.
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Seven years after shutting the door on retail prediction markets, the UK's financial watchdog is reaching for the handle again—because its citizens already walked around to the American side.
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Sources Crypto Briefing
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When hackers give most of the money back and call it a security audit, you're watching either the weirdest whitehat operation in crypto history or the beginning of a very creative exit story.
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White-hat hackers are supposed to return everything — this one kept 15% as a bounty, and nobody seems to be arguing. The Liquid Network attacker returned 3,400 BTC after Blockstream patched the bridge nodes, but retained approximately 598.5 BTC (roughly $34 million at current prices).
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When an exchange freezes withdrawals and vanishes $94 million in user funds, the first arrest is news — the fifth arrest is a pattern.
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When gold flows where dollars can't, the map of power rewrites itself. Russia has shipped $14.5B worth of gold to Hong Kong in just seven months of 2026, already eclipsing all of 2025 and marking a threefold increase in exports year-over-year.
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The real story isn't who won — it's how fast the lead changed hands, and what that says about infrastructure moats in crypto.
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The ghost town effect strikes again: when US markets close, crypto liquidity evaporates and sentiment becomes a house of cards. Bitcoin dropped 1-2% on Monday as the US Labor Day holiday drained liquidity, with $80K resistance holding firm despite weekend momentum
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