Clarity Act

Clarity Act Advances as Bitcoin ETF Outflows and Cuban Sale Rattle Markets

The U.S. Senate Banking Committee handed the crypto industry a significant legislative win last week, voting 15-9 to advance the Clarity Act, the first wide-ranging market structure bill for digital assets. The measure is championed by major crypto firms including Coinbase, Circle, and Ripple, which view predictable federal oversight

Silk Road

Silk Road Agents Thought Bitcoin Would Hide Them, It Did Not

In January 2013, federal agents staged one of the more unusual operations in the history of digital law enforcement. A controlled delivery of cocaine was sent to Curtis Green, a 47-year-old Silk Road moderator living in Spanish Fork, Utah, who answered his door with a pink walking cane and two

SpaceX IPO

SpaceX IPO Reveals Bitcoin Hoard as Traders Eye May Options Expiry

SpaceX grabbed the crypto world's attention on May 20 after filing its S-1 registration statement with the SEC ahead of a planned Nasdaq debut next month. The filing disclosed that the rocket and satellite company held 18,712 BTC on its balance sheet as of March 31, with

Strategy

Strategy Piles Into Bitcoin as Wrench Attacks and Token Unlocks Rattle Crypto

Strategy added 24,869 BTC between May 11 and May 17, spending roughly $2.01 billion at an average cost of $80,985 per coin and pushing total holdings to 843,738 BTC, more than 4% of Bitcoin's fixed 21 million supply cap. TD Cowen responded by lifting

Clarity Act

Clarity Act Advances as Galaxy Wins BitLicense and Bitcoin Depot Collapses

The U.S. Senate Banking Committee handed the cryptocurrency industry a major legislative victory last week, advancing the Clarity Act on a 15-to-9 vote. The bill, widely considered the industry's top regulatory priority, cleared the panel with two Democrats crossing the aisle to join all committee Republicans in

Bitcoin

Bitcoin Slides Below $77K as Liquidations Surpass $661 Million Monday

Bitcoin tumbled sharply to start the week as a perfect storm of macroeconomic headwinds and geopolitical unrest rattled the broader digital asset market. The total crypto market capitalization fell 3.8% to $2.56 trillion as Bitcoin dropped below $77,000 amid rising macroeconomic and geopolitical pressure. More than $661

Clarity Act

Clarity Act Advances as Bitcoin Pulls Back on Inflation and ETF Inflows Surge

Bitcoin whipsawed markets this week after the U.S. Senate Banking Committee passed the long-awaited Clarity Act in a bipartisan 15-9 vote, sending BTC briefly to $82,000 before a sharp reversal erased much of the gain. The bill, which would assign digital commodities to the CFTC and digital securities

Clarity Act

Clarity Act Advances as Strategy Buys Bitcoin and Warsh Takes Fed Helm

The cryptocurrency industry scored a significant legislative victory Thursday when the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act cleared the Senate Banking Committee in a bipartisan 15-9 vote. CNBC reported that the bill is the top legislative priority of the crypto industry, as it would add predictable oversight and guardrails to the

Clarity Act

Bitcoin Slides Below $80K as Senate Votes on Landmark Crypto Bill

Bitcoin pulled back sharply on Thursday, slipping below the closely watched $80,000 level as a hotter-than-expected inflation reading rattled risk markets. The April Producer Price Index rose 1.4% month-over-month, nearly triple economists' forecasts of 0.5%, complicating the Federal Reserve's path toward rate cuts. The

Bitcoin

Bitcoin and Crypto Are Challenging the Century Old Federal Reserve System

Few moments in American legislative history carry as much long-term weight as the final weeks of 1913. On December 23 of that year, with most of Congress already home for the Christmas holiday, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act into law. Earlier that same year, on February 3,

Gold

Epstein Emails Renew Debate Over America's Missing Gold Claims

The release of documents tied to Jeffrey Epstein has revived a long‑running question that sits at the edge of finance, politics, and national trust. Emails from 2011, resurfacing in the latest files, has drawn new attention to claims that the United States’ gold reserves at Fort Knox may not

Markets

Bitcoin Pushes Toward $76K as Markets Brace for Key Policy Signals

Bitcoin advanced early in the week, briefly touching $76,000 as traders positioned ahead of a dense lineup of global economic decisions. The move reflected a cautious but constructive tone across digital assets, as we are watching inflation readings and central bank commentary that could shape market direction through the

Jeffrey Epstein

Crypto, Jared Kushner, and the Shadow Network Behind the Money Flows

When the Justice Department quietly released a tranche of FBI interviews and internal Deutsche Bank records as part of the recent Epstein files, most of the recent news headlines have been focused on Jeffrey Epstein. But buried in the documents is a different story, one that sits at the intersection

Crypto

IRS Expands Crypto Audit Rules With Exchange and Wallet Form

A new IRS audit document circulating among tax professionals is drawing sharp attention across crypto after attorney Andrew Gordon published images of the form on social media. The document requires taxpayers to disclose whether they have ever used more than one hundred exchanges, wallets, and service providers, including Coinbase, Binance,

Dogecoin

X Money Edges Toward Public Debut as Dogecoin Remains Absent

Elon Musk’s push to expand X into a full financial platform is moving into a new phase, with the company preparing early public access for its X Money app in April. The rollout marks the first time the broader user base will be able to test the service after

Binance

DOJ Investigates Binance Exchange for Iran's Suspected Use to Evade Sanctions

Federal investigators are reviewing whether Iranian government entities and affiliated militant groups relied on the Binance crypto exchange to move funds in violation of US sanctions, according to a report published Wednesday. The Department of Justice has begun interviewing individuals familiar with the transfers as officials work to understand how

Jeffrey Epstein

Epstein Files Reveal Failed Silicon Valley Coin During ICO Mania

In the sprawling release of Jeffrey Epstein’s legal documents, most eyes go straight to the salacious names. But buried in the emails and PDFs is a quieter story that perfectly captures the fever dream of late-2018 crypto: a slick venture fund pitching a tokenized late-stage tech vehicle called the

Regulations

CFTC Moves to Strengthen America's Role as the Crypto Capital

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Michael Selig said on Monday that the United States has become the leading hub for digital asset activity, telling industry executives that "America is now the crypto capital of the world." His remarks came during a keynote address at the FIA’

Bitcoin

Winklevoss Twins May Have Sold $130 Million in Bitcoin Holdings

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss may have sold a significant portion of their Bitcoin holdings last week after moving funds into Gemini, according to new data from Arkham Intelligence. The activity drew attention due to both the size of the transfer and its timing, which came as Bitcoin traded between $67,

Tornado Cash

Tornado Cash Developer Faces New Trial Despite Federal Shift on Crypto Privacy

Roman Storm is once again at the center of a widening debate over how the United States treats open‑source privacy tools. The Tornado Cash co‑founder, first indicted in 2023, was convicted in August 2025 on one count of unlicensed money transmission after a four‑week trial. Jurors could

Jeffrey Epstein

Epstein's Legal Strategy Reveals Link to OneCoin Crypto Scheme Involving NY Corruption

In the summer of 2019, Jeffrey Epstein had been in federal custody for less than a week when his legal team made a seemingly random request. A request connecting Epstein to OneCoin, the massive multi-level marketing cryptocurrency scheme which eventually led to several arrested and the founder, Ruja Ignatov to

Jeffrey Epstein

Epstein Files Reveal How Banks Shape a Hidden Financial World

Central banks manufacture scarcity to keep the world grinding. And now, fresh evidence from the Epstein files puts a human and very elite face on the other side of that system: private banking empires built for the ultra-wealthy, hidden behind layers most people never see. This isn't theory.

Bitcoin

How Central Banks Create Scarcity and Why Bitcoin Offers a Way Out

We are conditioned to exist within a state of perpetual exhaustion, sacrificed on the altar of the "rat race" which demands our every waking hour. We trade our vitality, our health, and our very sanity for a resource we are told is finite, yet the institutional hegemony reveals

Jeffrey Epstein

Epstein’s 2018 Bitmain Investment Deal That Came Down to the Wire

Newly released documents from the Jeffrey Epstein files reveal that in August 2018, at one of the Bitcoin mania heights, Epstein and his inner circle were actively negotiating a direct investment in Bitmain, the Chinese Bitcoin and crypto mining hardware giant then valued at roughly $14 billion and eyeing a

Libra

Argentina's Javier Milei Secret Blockchain Deal Surfaces as LIBRA Investigation Intensifies

Argentinian prosecutors have uncovered a confidential blockchain advisory agreement linking President Javier Milei to Libra co‑creator Hayden Davis, adding new pressure to the country’s stalled investigation into the collapse of the LIBRA token. According to reporting from Argentinian news outlet La Nación and sources familiar with a January