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A reader asks: My question is about the potential troubles coming. Let’s say the market goes down 20% or even 30%. Would I be happy? No. But, investing for more than 12 years already (mostly DCA) – I am thinking about this kind of decline as a “time travel” back two or three years back. […]
Dec 25, 2025Ravie LakshmananData Breach / Financial Crime The encrypted vault backups stolen from the 2022 LastPass data breach have enabled bad actors to take advantage of weak master passwords to crack them open and drain cryptocurrency assets as recently as late 2025, according to new findings from TRM Labs. The blockchain intelligence firm said […]
Chile has made a hard pivot. In a decisive Dec. 14 runoff, José Antonio Kast, a conservative former congressman and leader of the Republican Party, won the presidency with roughly 58% of the vote over leftist Jeannette Jara. It marks Chile’s starkest rightward shift since the return to democracy. Markets took it as a deregulatory […]
Key Takeaways Bitcoin’s hash rate dropped 4%, the largest decline since April 2024. Historical data analyzed by VanEck shows price gains often follow hash rate drops. Share this article Bitcoin’s network hash rate dropped 4% over the last month, the steepest decline since April 2024. VanEck notes that negative hash rate growth has historically led […]
Bitcoin’s “miners are dumping” story is comforting in the way simple stories always are. Price slides, miners run out of oxygen, coins hit exchanges, and the price is shoved around by a single, easy villain. But miners are not a single actor, and selling pressure isn’t just a mood. It’s math, contracts, and deadlines. When […]
Key Takeaways XRP spot ETFs have seen daily inflows since launching. Total assets under management in XRP ETFs have reached $1.2 billion. Share this article US XRP exchange-traded funds have accumulated $1.2 billion in assets following an unbroken streak of daily inflows since their market debut, according to aggregated data from issuer websites and market […]
Four XRP spot ETFs now trade in the US, with combined assets of $941.7 million as of Dec. 18. Grayscale’s GXRP holds $148.1 million, Canary Capital’s XRPC $373.6 million, Franklin Templeton’s XRPZ $189 million, and Bitwise’s XRP ETF $215.6 million. That stack grew from roughly $336 million at launch in November to current levels in […]
Search engine giant Google has emerged as a silent architect behind Bitcoin miners’ rapid pivot towards artificial intelligence (AI). Instead of acquiring mining firms, the Alphabet-owned company has provided at least $5 billion of disclosed credit support behind a handful of BTC miners’ AI projects. While markets often frame these announcements as technology partnerships, the […]
Key Takeaways $526 million was liquidated from crypto markets in 24 hours, impacting more than 154,000 traders. The largest single liquidation order was $11 million on Hyperliquid’s HYPE-USD pair. Share this article Crypto markets saw around $526 million in liquidations in the past 24 hours, affecting over 154,000 traders. Long positions accounted for $372 million […]
Bitcoin trades near $89,000 today after its 14-day relative strength index fell below 30 in mid-November, a threshold traders track for capitulation. A chart circulated by Global Macro Investor’s Julien Bittel, sourced to LSEG Datastream, overlays Bitcoin’s recent path with the average trajectory that followed the last five RSI breaks below 30 and traces a […]
