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View More NewsThe rial, Iran’s official currency, has failed in 2026. Hyperinflation chews through savings every single day. Sanctions stack on top of bad decisions and endless geopolitical pressure. Every day, folks wake up to less money. Families scramble to buy basics while everything they saved disappears. This feels too familiar. Lebanon went through the exact same crisis starting in late 2019. The same kind of banking freeze, the same worthless currency slide, the same desperate search for anything that holds value. Bitcoin turned out to be that financial safe haven then. Signs point to it doing the same in Iran now.Beirut…
For much of this month, bitcoin BTC$67,801.44 has been trading around the mid-$60,000s. That much is humdrum.The interesting bit is a developing split in coin ownership that could shape what happens next.Data from Santiment shows the number of wallets holding less than 0.1 BTC, a level typically associated with retail investors, has increased by 2.5% since the largest cryptocurrency hit a record high in October. The growth has pushed the so-called shrimps’ share of supply to its highest since mid-2024.In practice, though, it’s the larger holders known as whales and sharks who tend to set the tone for price direction.…
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In this episode of Quillette Cetera, Zoe Booth speaks with Israeli political thinker and writer Shany Mor, who previously served as Director for Foreign Policy at Israel’s National Security Council. A prominent commentator on democracy, nationalism, and Western political culture, Mor writes widely on Israel, anti-Semitism, and the crisis of the liberal order.They begin with Australia’s recent anti-Israel protests and the country’s growing reputation abroad, before widening the discussion to the deeper intellectual and cultural forces driving contemporary anti-Semitism in the West. Mor argues that antizionism today reflects not merely foreign conflict, but a crisis of meaning within Western societies…
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