The Compound and Friends: It’s Like Free Money

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Surviving system meltdowns and cyber attacks

New contributor and perma-worrywart The Engineer is back with a new concern: how to survive system meltdowns or other malicious goings-on at your financial services provider. These days, my biggest financial worry isn’t losing my money in the markets. It’s losing access to it altogether. Beyond investment risk, my concerns range from technology failures through […]

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Bitcoin stalled at $95k after a hidden Fed warning quietly derailed the post-cut celebration

Bitcoin pushed toward $95,000 in the hours before the Federal Reserve’s Dec. 18 meeting, then retreated to the $92,000 zone amid Jerome Powell’s confirmation of a mixed-to-bearish stance for 2026 and delicate on-chain structure. The Fed delivered an expected quarter-point cut, bringing the target range to 4.25%-4.50%, but Chair Jerome Powell spent the press conference […]

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Allora Integrates the TRON Network, Bringing Decentralized AI-Powered Forecasts to Developers

Disclosure: This is a paid article. Readers should conduct further research prior to taking any actions. Learn more › New York, December 8, 2025 — Allora, the intelligence network that combines many AI models into a smarter, adaptive system, today announced that Allora Predictive Intelligence is now live on the TRON network. With this integration, […]

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Why did these Bitcoin and Ethereum treasuries expand under stress?

The two largest crypto treasury companies, Bitcoin-focused Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) and Ethereum-heavy BitMine, executed significant expansions of their digital asset treasuries this week despite their falling premium. On Dec. 8, Strategy revealed that it acquired 10,624 BTC last week for $962.7 million, its largest weekly outlay since July. This purchase effectively ignored the broader signal […]

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Coinbase resumes user registrations in India, plans fiat on-ramp by 2026

Key Takeaways Coinbase has reopened its app for user registration in India with crypto-to-crypto trading and plans to enable fiat on-ramps by 2026. The company said earlier this year it had engaged with India’s Financial Intelligence Unit to facilitate its re-entry into the Indian market after withdrawing due to regulatory challenges. Share this article Coinbase […]

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Bitcoin wallets interacting with this specific protocol are now flagged for “high-risk” seizures by compliance algorithms

When European police staged another coordinated sweep against crypto mixers this autumn, most people saw a familiar headline and scrolled on. But every seizure, every frozen server rack, every compressed hard drive pushed into an evidence van has the potential to change how Bitcoin actually moves. Mixers (tools that allow users to break the traceable […]

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