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View More NewsBitcoin BTC$64,459.73 has added around 0.9% in the past 24 hours to $64,700, while the broader CoinDesk 20 (CD20) is up just 0.16%. Strength in equity markets, which have climbed to record highs, appears to leave the crypto sector unperturbed.Crypto appears to be moving to the perceived safety of the biggest tokens, with bitcoin and ether ETH$1,909.71 the only CD20 members in positive territory. Zaheer Ebtikar, the chief strategy officer at crypto neobank Plasma, told CoinDesk altcoins are struggling “without aggressive support from bitcoin momentum.”Altcoin open interest has fallen about 15% over the past month while bitcoin has gained roughly…
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A review of Push the Wall: My Life, Writing, Drawing, and the Art of Storytelling by Frank Miller; 224 pages; Canongate (July 2026)Even outside of comic book circles, Frank Miller is known as a gifted artist and writer who made comics grown up and gritty. From his damaged version of Bruce Wayne to Marv in Sin City (whom Miller pithily describes as “Conan the Barbarian in a trenchcoat”), Miller has created stories that resemble a strikingly original blend of film noir and dark Wagnerian opera. But the Miller who emerges from this memoir—part autobiography, part primer for aspiring graphic novelists—is…
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Bitcoin hovered near $64,830 on Thursday, up 0.8% over 24 hours and 1.3% on the week, while trading inside a narrow band, CoinDesk data…
Nasdaq-listed PowerCompute refinanced $18 million of debt through a Bitcoin-backed facility carrying an initial interest rate of about 2%. Read the full article here
Ether’s holder base is splitting, however. Wallets holding 10,000 to 100,000 ETH have risen from about 14 million ETH in mid-2025 to record highs…
US-listed Bitcoin ETFs attracted $244.4 million on Wednesday, marking three consecutive inflow days for a combined $626 million. Read the full article here
Bitcoin BTC$64,502.86 was little changed, adding 0.16% since midnight UTC to trade near $64,000, even as global equities hit new highs, fueled by optimism…
Mysten Labs’ co-founder Sam Blackshear said he is joining Anthropic as AI shifts the balance between attackers and defenders. Read the full article here
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You’d have an easier time hitting a fastball off Milwaukee Brewers phenom Jacob Misiorowski than getting Congress to take back wasteful spending it has…
Circle Internet (CRCL) shares fell about 3% in premarket trading Wednesday after an initial jump after the stablecoin issuer reported second-quarter earnings. While the…
Cash App and Square drove better-than-expected results, while the company said it expanded its use of AI across software engineering. Read the full article…
In brief Bitcoin remains range-bound, trapped in a death cross, with all the signs of a bear trap in the making. Zcash, meanwhile, is…
Abdul El-Sayed has won the Michigan Democratic Senate race, and socialists really think they are surging—but they’re still lying when they say their supporters…