Bitcoin's governance theater just got a working prototype that doesn't need anyone's permission. Leonidas launched DOG Mode, a Bitcoin client that bypasses default relay policies to challenge anti-spam restrictions without requiring consensus changes or miner votes
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The AI labs that built billion-dollar models are quietly admitting they can't afford to run them. Meta is negotiating to lease up to $10 billion in computing power to Anthropic over two years, opening a potential cloud business line for the social media giant
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When Bitcoin crashes with no scandals, no exchanges blowing up, and no leveraged traders getting wrecked, you're watching something more dangerous than a blowup—you're watching indifference.
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The company that turned corporate Bitcoin hoarding into a religion just got told by its own data provider to stop buying and figure out when to sell. CryptoQuant warns Strategy to pause Bitcoin purchases and rebuild cash reserves, citing $10.6B in unrealized losses and collapsed dividend coverage
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Wall Street's index funds are now collateral in DeFi lending pools, but $23 million is barely enough to buy a penthouse in Miami.
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The companies training the smartest AI models don't want to own the metal anymore—they want to rent it from whoever has scale. Meta is negotiating to lease up to $10B in computing infrastructure to Anthropic to host Claude AI models, marking a major shift in AI infrastructure economics
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The man who called crypto "rat poison squared" just put $31 billion into the company racing to build AI agents that could replace human analysts. Berkshire Hathaway disclosed a $31 billion stake in Alphabet, with Warren Buffett claiming the company will outperform 95% of Wall Street picks
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The chip company building the picks and shovels for the AI gold rush just placed a quiet bet on the bank that might handle the money. NVentures, NVIDIA's VC arm, acquired a $196 million stake in Revolut, revealed through UK regulatory filings
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When your stock market becomes more volatile than Bitcoin, you've either broken something fundamental or discovered what the future looks like.
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The AI trade just ate itself, and crypto is learning what it means to be correlated when the music stops. Bitcoin dropped below $63,000 and Ether fell 1.74% as semiconductor stocks shed over $2 trillion since June, triggering a risk-off wave across markets.
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Japan's corporate Bitcoin treasury playbook just got its second draft, and this time the math is more cautious. Bitcoin Japan Corporation plans to raise $60M through bond issuance, reviving its Bitcoin treasury strategy with a measured $4.08M allocated for BTC purchases
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Bitcoin's culture war over what counts as "spam" just got a client fork with teeth. Runestone co-founder launches DOG Mode, an alternative Bitcoin client that removes Bitcoin Core's transaction size limits to enable Ordinals and Runes activity
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The fight over what belongs on Bitcoin's blockchain just went from committee meeting to code fork. BIP 110 proposes restricting arbitrary data on Bitcoin through a consensus change, but has almost no miner support
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Eight weeks of bleeding $8 billion just stopped, and the biggest money manager on Earth turned the faucet back on. BlackRock's IBIT brought in $79.15M on July 16, leading U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs to snap an eight-week outflow streak that drained over $8 billion from the category
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The state that houses Wall Street just told the infrastructure powering Web4 to build somewhere else. New York enacted a one-year moratorium on new data centers over 50 megawatts, the first statewide ban of its kind in the US
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The most interesting part isn't the size of the check, it's who wrote it. Citadel Securities invested $400 million in Crypto.com, valuing the exchange at $20 billion Traditional finance's largest market maker is now betting big on crypto infrastructure, signaling institutional capital is back
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The first TradFi giant to admit Bitcoin spot ETFs were just the opening act. T. Rowe Price launched the industry's first actively managed multi-token spot crypto ETF, breaking from the single-asset Bitcoin and Ethereum products that dominated 2024's ETF wave
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The stablecoin that promised to be "unstoppable" just proved it has an off switch, and the US Treasury knows exactly where to find it.
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Ken Griffin's market-making empire just wrote a nine-figure check to prove that crypto exchanges aren't just casinos anymore — they're infrastructure for the next generation of capital markets.
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The brokerage that automated retail stock trading just raised a nine-figure round to let AI agents trade everything—and they're building the pipes for a market where your software buys assets while you sleep.
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