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Wall Street Wants In. Strategy Might Get Kicked Out.

BlackRock cut the price of entry for swapping Bitcoin into IBIT by 96%. MSCI is trying to kick Strategy and Metaplanet out of its indexes for the crime of holding too much Bitcoin. UBS tripled its position. JPMorgan more than doubled its. And Tether finally got the audit it promised nine years ago.

Aug 16, 2026

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$111 Million Gone. Clarity Act Delayed. Strategy Sells Again.

The Coldcard exploit has climbed past $111 million confirmed, with Galaxy Research now tracking at least 15 separate attackers. The Senate punted the Clarity Act to September, and Bitcoin shrugged, crossing $65,000 anyway. Putin signed Russia's first comprehensive crypto law while Washington's stalled. Strategy sold another 1,638 Bitcoin below its own cost basis. And BTCPay Server just disclosed an actively exploited vulnerability. Update your server before you read the rest of this.

Aug 7, 2026

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Your Coldcard May Have Generated a Guessable Seed. Here Is What to Check.

On July 30, Coinkite disclosed that a firmware bug had been silently disabling the hardware random number generator on Coldcard wallets since March 2021. Instead of true randomness, affected devices fell back to predictable entropy sourced from device details like the serial number and internal clock. An attacker exploited this and swept 594 BTC, worth approximately $38 million, from about 500 wallets in a 25-minute window early Thursday morning. If you own a Coldcard and generated your seed using the device itself, read this now.

Jul 31, 2026

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The Institutions Just Funded Bitcoin's Survival. The Senate Is Still Trying to Kill Its Future.

Raphael Zagury takes the helm at Twenty One Capital as Jack Mallers returns to Strike following a board split that ended a three-way merger with Elektron Energy. BlackRock, Fidelity, Coinbase, Strategy, and five other firms launched the Bitcoin Security Consortium, pledging $15 million to fund the developers who maintain Bitcoin's code. The Clarity Act got an ethics provision this week and immediately stalled again. A British Bitcoin treasury company just voted to liquidate. And Bitcoin ETFs just posted their longest inflow streak in 21 weeks.

Jul 26, 2026

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The Gold Is There. The Bitcoin Reserve Isn't. Larry Fink Is Bullish Anyway.

The House is holding a Clarity Act field hearing in New York today. Trump posted that the Senate should pass it. The August recess is three weeks away and passage odds sit at 43 percent. The US government moved $288 million in seized Bitcoin to Coinbase Prime and nobody in Washington will say why. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent went on Fox News to confirm the gold at Fort Knox exists. And Larry Fink told CNBC the leverage is gone and he is very bullish for the next twelve months.

Jul 19, 2026

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Wall Street Wants In. Strategy Might Get Kicked Out.

$111 Million Gone. Clarity Act Delayed. Strategy Sells Again.

Your Coldcard May Have Generated a Guessable Seed. Here Is What to Check.

The Institutions Just Funded Bitcoin's Survival. The Senate Is Still Trying to Kill Its Future.

The Gold Is There. The Bitcoin Reserve Isn't. Larry Fink Is Bullish Anyway.

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