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The Big Bitcoin Short: This guy made $200M timing Trump’s tariff post perfectly

The record $19 billion liquidation spree is reviving debate over whether crypto trades tied to policy leaks could ever qualify as insider trading.

3 months ago

A bright cinematic scene shows a towering Tether coin formed from U.S. Treasury bonds rising at the center as five marble pedestals with the flags of Japan, China, the U.K., Luxembourg, and Belgium are subtly edged aside inside a sunlit trading floor.

Analysis

How Tether’s $127B in US Treasuries will hit top-5 foreign holders by 2033

$1T question: Could Tether ever be the largest foreign holder of U.S. debt?

3 months ago

Adoption

Top 10 most crypto-friendly countries revisited (2025)

Revisiting CryptoSlate’s first-ever list from 2017: See which countries now lead the world in crypto adoption, regulation, and tax clarity in 2025.

3 months ago

Photorealistic iPhone with a Bitcoin wallet screen sends glowing data streams to an Apple iCloud cloud beside a UK emblem and Big Ben, hinting at government access risk to keys.

Featured

Will Apple give governments Bitcoin private key backups via $80M iCloud backdoor?

iCloud Keychain stays encrypted end-to-end, but backups, Photos, and Notes don’t. Here’s how a UK-only carve-out could open a small but real attack surface for Bitcoin private keys.

3 months ago

A matte gold Bitcoin locked within a chained vault wheel shows most segments sealed while a glowing final quadrant with a gauge releases a thin stream of coins into a tray.

Analysis

Over 61% of BTC hasn’t moved in a year: What it means for Bitcoin price

We map HODL Waves, Coin-Days Destroyed, and weekly ETP net flows to see when thin float helps rallies, and when revived supply caps them.

3 months ago

A photorealistic BlackRock plaza features a spinning metal flywheel fed by glowing gold Bitcoin streams and cool-blue tokenized fund flows, symbolizing a powerful ETF–tokenization feedback loop.

Analysis

BlackRock’s $24 billion Bitcoin flywheel is moving BTC liquidity with 800% growth

Record breaking inflows into BlackRock’s IBIT ETF this year: can it keep outrunning new BTC supply?

3 months ago

Daylight, photorealistic 16:9 scene shows a Coinbase-branded blue vault chaining gleaming Bitcoin collateral to rising stacks of blue “loan” cubes as a dotted liquidity arc climbs toward the skyline

Lending

With over $1B in Bitcoin loans Coinbase targets $100B in 5 years

After reaching $1B, hitting the loan target by 2030 requires a 7.7% per month growth rate.

3 months ago

London scene shows a massive padlocked evidence case of gold Bitcoins over the Thames with Union Jack light, a crown-and-scales icon, caution stripes, and a jagged risk graph hinting at 61k BTC in legal limbo.

Crime

Will $7.2B BTC in seized Bitcoin crash the market in January?

A ruling on loss vs. mark-to-market will decide who gets the upside and how coins hit the market.

3 months ago

Glowing teal ETF cubes on a trading-grid send bright gold-teal flow arcs toward a radiant Bitcoin before a subtle Wall Street facade and Federal Reserve seal.

ETF

Bitcoin ETFs are currently buying more than double the BTC mined: $4B in 4 weeks

Nine of the past 12 weeks printed inflows; at the recent pace, ETFs could retire ~2.7× quarterly.

3 months ago

A bright 16:9 cinematic skyline shows a blazing gold Bitcoin rocketing along a neon green arc as shattered red short arrows tumble below beside a glowing Federal Reserve seal and rate-cut gauge.

Analysis

Bitcoin hits $118.5k: Why all-time high is coming next as rate-cut bets crush shorts

Dollar down, real yields softer, ETF creations up, fueling a short squeeze through the $118k–$120k bands; $111k STH remains the momentum line to hold.

3 months ago

Cinematic split-scene with a vintage AOL dial-up setup fading into fiber-optic lines that converge on a bright Bitcoin emblem and flow onward to a modern smartphone and stablecoin/ETF icons, symbolizing access layers evolving while the network endures.

Adoption

AOL shut down dial-up internet: Will Bitcoin be replaced too?

ETFs, stablecoins, and Layer-2s are broadband for Bitcoin: New access rails, not replacements.

4 months ago

A luminous Ethereum sigil hovers over a neon city as drones, robotic vehicles, and credential halos exchange bright data streams, symbolizing AI-driven machine-to-machine commerce

AI x Crypto 2025: Will the machine economy fuel the next Ethereum boom?

How AI agents can drive 15–20% of DeFi by Q4... and jump-start Ethereum.

4 months ago

Liam 'Akiba' Wright

The Big Bitcoin Short: This guy made $200M timing Trump’s tariff post perfectly

How Tether’s $127B in US Treasuries will hit top-5 foreign holders by 2033

Top 10 most crypto-friendly countries revisited (2025)

Will Apple give governments Bitcoin private key backups via $80M iCloud backdoor?

Over 61% of BTC hasn’t moved in a year: What it means for Bitcoin price

BlackRock’s $24 billion Bitcoin flywheel is moving BTC liquidity with 800% growth

With over $1B in Bitcoin loans Coinbase targets $100B in 5 years

Will $7.2B BTC in seized Bitcoin crash the market in January?

Bitcoin ETFs are currently buying more than double the BTC mined: $4B in 4 weeks

Bitcoin hits $118.5k: Why all-time high is coming next as rate-cut bets crush shorts

AOL shut down dial-up internet: Will Bitcoin be replaced too?

AI x Crypto 2025: Will the machine economy fuel the next Ethereum boom?

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Exchanges to freeze trading and withdrawals after countdown under new crypto law – how long do you have?

Tether just bought 8,888 Bitcoin, exposing a mechanical profit engine turning T-Bills into automatic crypto demand

The Fed just leaked a bullish liquidity signal that suggests Bitcoin can front-run a 2026 recovery

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Liam 'Akiba' Wright

The Big Bitcoin Short: This guy made $200M timing Trump’s tariff post perfectly

How Tether’s $127B in US Treasuries will hit top-5 foreign holders by 2033

Top 10 most crypto-friendly countries revisited (2025)

Will Apple give governments Bitcoin private key backups via $80M iCloud backdoor?

Over 61% of BTC hasn’t moved in a year: What it means for Bitcoin price

BlackRock’s $24 billion Bitcoin flywheel is moving BTC liquidity with 800% growth

With over $1B in Bitcoin loans Coinbase targets $100B in 5 years

Will $7.2B BTC in seized Bitcoin crash the market in January?

Bitcoin ETFs are currently buying more than double the BTC mined: $4B in 4 weeks

Bitcoin hits $118.5k: Why all-time high is coming next as rate-cut bets crush shorts

AOL shut down dial-up internet: Will Bitcoin be replaced too?

AI x Crypto 2025: Will the machine economy fuel the next Ethereum boom?

Exchanges to freeze trading and withdrawals after countdown under new crypto law – how long do you have?

Tether just bought 8,888 Bitcoin, exposing a mechanical profit engine turning T-Bills into automatic crypto demand

The Fed just leaked a bullish liquidity signal that suggests Bitcoin can front-run a 2026 recovery

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