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Options traders are storming into bets against crypto’s most vocal evangelist Michael Saylor. Call it mutiny on Strategy. Flows around Saylor’s Strategy (MSTR) and the company’s variable-rate preferred stock STRC are turning bearish this week after traders had been more balanced in the preceding month despite a steady decline in bitcoin that began in ...

Higher energy prices continue to push headline inflation up. And we do not expect to see a meaningful reprieve in the food space either, especially following recent headlines about beef prices. Our forecast for core calls for a +0.3% m/m uptick in May, which would nudge the year-over-year pace to 2.9% – well below headline but moving in the wrong direction ...

According to reports, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK initiative has received over £9 million from crypto billionaires in Q1 2026, with new disclosure reporting £7 million from billionaires Christopher Harborne and Ben Delo alone. The donation spree from crypto billionaires shows the growing influence of digital asset wealth in British politics. The donations come ...

Bitcoin is heading for its worst performance for this point in the year in at least a decade, as booming AI stocks and a series of glittering upcoming new listings such as SpaceX lure away capital from the world's largest cryptocurrency. Its price has tumbled around 15 per cent this week, the most since November 2022, when trading platform FTX imploded. At ...

Bitcoin has now confirmed its first TBO Breakdown since the breakdown cluster that began on January 31, when BTC started its most recent dump. The latest move removed nearly every short-term support level Aaron was tracking, leaving $60,000 as the last major level still standing. The four-hour chart adds important context: Thursday’s drop came with a major ...

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong sits down with POLITICO’s Dasha Burns for a wide-ranging conversation on the future of crypto, the growing political influence of the industry, and his vision for a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence. Plus, he responds to JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon’s recent attack, after Dimon called him “full of s--t,” and ...

Several large data ⁠centers and crypto facilities planning to connect to the Texas power grid ahead of peak summer ⁠demand have failed key reliability tests, raising the risk of power outages just as electricity use hits its seasonal high, according to the state grid operator. The rapid expansion of data centers processing vast amounts of data for ...

Grayscale Research head Zach Pandl said Bitcoin needs fresh buyers to establish a durable floor after Strategy’s first token sale in nearly three years exposed limits on the company’s ability to keep accumulating at current share prices. In a note published Thursday, Pandl argued that Strategy’s leveraged model has become a source of strain for the wider ...

Major U.S. banks reportedly plan to launch a tokenized deposit network as soon as the first half of 2027, in Wall Street's latest effort to integrate blockchain into traditional finance. According to a Thursday report from the Wall Street Journal, the network is expected to be operated by the Clearing House, a private-sector payments company owned by a ...

*BITCOIN FALLS BELOW $60,000 FOR FIRST TIME SINCE OCTOBER 2024