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View More NewsThe feeling toward Bitcoin on social media has reached its most bullish level of the year, even as the overall crypto market is down, according to crypto sentiment platform Santiment.“Sentiment on Bitcoin has spiked to 2.23 bullish comments for every bearish one — the most lopsided positive ratio of 2026,” Santiment said in a report published on Saturday.“The previous two biggest positive-ratio days of the year preceded short-term price pullbacks, while severely negative readings marked local bottoms. The current euphoria contrasts sharply with the bearish ETF flow picture and warrants caution,” Santiment said. Spot Bitcoin ETFs logged their tenth consecutive…
The United States has seized roughly $1 billion in Iranian crypto assets, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Friday, adding that some of the wallet owners may not yet know the funds are gone.“I believe that we have seized about a billion dollars of their crypto,” Bessent said while speaking at the Reagan National Economic Forum. “Just outright grabbed the wallets. Some of them may be typing in right now and not have realized that their wallet had been grabbed,” he added.Bessent said the seizures are part of the US financial pressure campaign against Iran, known as Operation Economic Fury. Launched…
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We were promised world records, freakish performances, a new era of sport that would redefine human potential. Instead, we got an Enhanced Games that somehow gave athletes a boatload of drugs and didn’t enhance much of anything. Which, if I’m honest, is quite the feat. The East German regime of the 1980s would be disappointed. But that’s the larger point. The Enhanced Games is a sports story. But more so it’s the latest entry in a larger pattern: a tech culture that tries to convince us to “hack” everything without really understanding what drives actual performance whatsoever.Coming Up ShortFirst, let’s…
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Since September 2, the U.S. military has attacked suspected drug boats in the Caribbean and the Eastern Pacific 59 times, killing 196 people. According…
Bitcoin BTC$73,377.21 added as much as 0.4% since midnight UTC on Friday and was recently just 0.07% higher after slumping to its lowest level…
Bitcoin (BTC) traders have placed new buy orders near $70,000 as the price approaches a key liquidity zone. Order-book data shows more than $500…
In brief Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky filed a motion to vacate his 12-year prison sentence. The former crypto lending CEO cited ineffective counsel as…
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JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon on Friday yet again sharply criticized Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and warned that the latest version of the Clarity…
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Journalist René Capain Bassène devoted his career to restoring peace to Senegal’s troubled Casamance region. The government accused him of being a rebel who…
This morning, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) took historic action to permit the listing of a true bitcoin perpetual contract by a CFTC-registered…