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BitcoinBitcoin Mining Costs and the Search for a Price Floor

Charles Schwab's chief fixed-income strategist Kathy Jones told investors in a June 2026 research note that Bitcoin's production cost of roughly $60,000 per coin among the most efficient miners could represent a durable

BitcoinFranklin Templeton CEO Says Blockchains Threaten Wall Street Fees, Not Its Technology

Franklin Templeton CEO Jenny Johnson told audiences in early June 2026 that the traditional finance industry resists public blockchains not because the technology is unproven, but because it threatens the fee-based reven

OpinionAmerica's Homeless Count Fell, but the Real Story Is Migration Math

On June 2, 2026, Reason magazine reported what the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) had quietly confirmed weeks earlier: the national point-in-time homeless count dropped for the first time in years. Hea

BitcoinStrategy Sold 32 Bitcoin and That Is a Good Thing

On May 12, 2026, Strategy, the company formerly known as MicroStrategy, disclosed in a regulatory filing that it had sold 32 BTC for approximately $3.1 million. The sale was the first known disposal of Bitcoin by the fir

BitcoinSui Network Halts Three Times in 48 Hours After Botched Upgrade

The Sui blockchain ground to a complete stop three times between Thursday evening and Saturday morning UTC, locking users out of their funds and freezing all on-chain activity for a combined span of roughly five hours. T

BitcoinStock Markets Hit Records While Bitcoin Dips, but Whales Keep Buying

The S&P 500 closed at a fresh all-time high during the last week of May 2026, yet Bitcoin fell roughly 4% over the same stretch, settling near $107,000. The divergence caught traders off guard. Sentiment data from Santim

BitcoinJamie Dimon Goes to War Against Crypto Clarity Act and Coinbase

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon told Fox Business on Friday, May 30, 2026, that the Clarity Act is "dead on arrival" in its current form and called Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong "full of sh*t." The outburst marks the sharp

BitcoinBitcoin Mining Enters a Structural Squeeze Between AI Demand and Hash Rate Plateau

Fidelity Digital Assets published its Q2 2026 outlook on May 28, warning that Bitcoin mining is undergoing a "structural retooling" that the market has largely ignored. The report argues that flattening hash rate growth,

BitcoinStocks Keep Rising While Getting Cheaper

The S&P 500 closed above 5,900 on May 23, 2026, marking its sixth consecutive week of gains. Yet forward price-to-earnings ratios have actually compressed over the past twelve months. The paradox, stocks climbing in pric

BitcoinHyperliquid Drops External Oracles With HIP-4, Rewiring Prediction Markets From the Inside

On May 25, 2026, Hyperliquid announced HIP-4, an upgrade that eliminates external oracle dependencies for prediction market settlement. The update introduces what the team calls "canonical outcome markets," allowing off-

BitcoinUS 30-Year Treasury Yield Breaks 5 Percent for First Time in Nine Years

On May 23, 2026, the yield on the US 30-year Treasury bond surged to 5.082% during intraday trading in New York. That is the highest level since October 2023, and in practical terms, the steepest borrowing cost for the l

BitcoinThe History and Future of Physical Bitcoin

In 2011, a software engineer named Mike Caldwell began selling brass coins from his home in Sandy, Utah. Each one contained a private key hidden beneath a tamper-evident hologram. Peel the sticker, sweep the key, spend t