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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 are up 3-6% after a cold CPI print; BTC at $64.6k HYPE jumps 7% to $68 as SEC Crypto Task Force meets with HPC team Mizuho downgrades Circle to $50 target, cites OpenUSD competition Pump.fun hits first major unlock as $86M in PUMP hits market (PUMP +15%) Robinhood Chain sees…
Higher rates hurt bitcoin and risk assets as when the Fed raises rates, cash and Treasury bonds start paying a decent, guaranteed return, so investors have less reason to hold something that pays no yield and swings 5% in a session. On the other hand, cooler inflation means the Fed has less reason to raise, so that pull weakens and money flows back the other way.Elsewhere, brent crude advanced 1% to above $85 a barrel, a third consecutive day of gains, after President Trump threatened further strikes on Iran and the U.S. resumed its blockade of Iranian shipping through the…
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Four years ago, a colleague asked me whether I could chair a debate with some guy called ‘Gary Stevenson’, who was, apparently, an anti-inequality campaigner and a YouTube commentator of some description. I had never heard of Stevenson, but accepted. The debate went all right, even though it was mostly a case of talking past each other (which, given that I was the moderator, was probably my fault). It was otherwise not especially memorable. Britain does not exactly have a shortage of left-wing media figures and activists. In the first half of the 2010s, there was the campaign for a…
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In March 2000, Strategy executive chairman Michael Saylor watched more than $6 billion disappear from his fortune in a single day.MicroStrategy’s shares had plummeted…
When Satvik Shubham became editor-in-chief of The State News, one of the first things he learned was that good journalism depends on people who are…
from the taking-my-ball-and-going-home dept Paramount is now threatening California regulators that they’ll be taking their ball and going home (to Texas? Israel?) after California…
The lack of Wikipedia coverage is a more acute concern in an era where more users get their information from AI tools like ChatGPT.…
President Donald Trump’s clearly corrupt settlement of his lawsuit against the IRS suffered two setbacks in federal court on Friday. In the Eastern District…
Japan should create a legal framework for trading cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds (ETFs), the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) said, according to a Reuters report…
[Update 1:57 P.M. UTC, June 1 — Updates third paragraph with share price decline in Monday morning trading.]Strategy sold 32 BTC last week, its…
Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of…
Ceasefire no more: Over the weekend, the U.S. and Iran exchanged strikes, making odds look even worse that a lasting ceasefire deal will be be…
Binance Coin (BNB), up 7.9%, was also a top performer. Read the full article here
Mutsamudu, Comoros, June 1, 2026 – MEXC, a leading 0-fee cross-asset trading platform, today announced the official launch of ‘RealStocks.’ This innovative equity product…
In brief Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy has sold 32 BTC for roughly $2.5 million at an average sale price of $77,135 per Bitcoin. The…