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View More NewsMorning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt. And check out our new daily news show covering all of the top stories in 5 minutes, downloadable on Apple Pod or Spotify.GM!Today’s top news: Crypto majors mostly flat, reverse afternoon gains; BTC at $63.7k Strategy sells $216M in BTC, now holds over $2.55B in cash Bernstein reaffirms $150k BTC target for 2026 BonkDAO governance “attack” drains $20M Tether shares plans to bring USDT to Bitcoin 🟠 Strategy Turns Net SellerStrategy confirmed it sold 3,588 BTC over the…
Ether (ETH) led crypto majors into Monday as bitcoin held above $63,000, steadying after a week that pulled it off its lows and back to its highest in more than a month.Bitcoin traded around $63,207, little changed on the day but up 5.5% over seven days, per CoinDesk data. Ether was the stronger performer over the week, up 12.4% to about $1,777, while BNB and dogecoin each gained around 5.5%. Solana held near $80.77 with an 11.2% weekly rise and Hyperliquid’s HYPE led the majors, up 14.6% on the week. XRP traded at $1.14, up 9.4% over seven days.The gains…
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I brought a 510-million-year-old trilobite I’d split out of Cambrian shale four hours north of Las Vegas to show a class of eighth graders. I passed it around the room and explained what it was: an ancient arthropod called Bristolia, from the same branch of the tree of life as every insect and crab alive today, that lived in a warm shallow sea that used to cover Nevada. It predated the dinosaurs by 250 million years. It was older than plants on land. It had what was probably the first real compound eyes that ever evolved on Earth—and when I…
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