September 2026
15 articles
BitcoinAlkanes Drove 61% of Bitcoin Transactions Across 90 Days of Blocks
SUBFROST published a figure on September 20, 2026 that deserves more scrutiny than it has received. Its indexer counted 59.9 million total Bitcoin transactions between blocks 954,917 and 967,918, spanning June 23 to…
OpinionPolice Shot an Innocent Woman's Car to Pieces. Houston Says That Is Not Its Problem.
On September 27, 2026, Reason published the case of Abigail Trujillo, a bystander in Texas whose vehicle was shot dozens of times by law enforcement. She was not a suspect. She was not accused of anything.
PoliticsWashington Purges 760,000 Obamacare Enrollees and Calls It Fraud
On Tuesday, September 22, 2026, officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services stood at a podium and announced that 760,000 people had been stripped from Affordable Care Act marketplace coverage on…
MacroEuropean Central Banks Push to Ban Yield on Crypto Lending and Staking
On September 22, 2026, CoinDesk reported that a group of European central banks is lobbying to widen the existing stablecoin interest ban into something far larger: a prohibition on yield arising from crypto lending…
BitcoinSaylor Signals Another Bitcoin Buy With Four Words
On Sunday, September 20, 2026, Michael Saylor posted four words to X: "A little more orange." Attached was Strategy's familiar purchase-history chart, the step function of orange bars that the company has published…
OpinionMaryland Would Freeze Data Centers Rather Than Price Electricity
Maryland Governor Wes Moore said on Thursday, September 17, 2026, that he would "absolutely sign" a statewide moratorium on new data center development if the General Assembly sent him one.
PoliticsThe CFTC Will Write Crypto Rules Because Congress Would Not
On Thursday, September 17, 2026, CFTC Chairman Mike Selig confirmed what the derivatives industry had been bracing for since the Senate's digital asset market structure bill stalled: the Commodity Futures Trading…
MacroTreasury Yields Break 5% as AI Safety Fears Hit the Nasdaq
On Monday, September 15, 2026, the US 10-year Treasury yield traded above 5% intraday, the Nasdaq fell as much as 1.3%, and crude oil printed above $100 a barrel.
BitcoinAnthropic Readies a Fall IPO at a Reported $965 Billion Valuation
On September 12, 2026, Yahoo Finance reported that Anthropic is preparing to go public this fall. BlockMedia carried the story the next day with the figures that matter: roughly $130 billion raised from about 300…
OpinionSequins and Solvency: Reading the GOP's First Midterm Convention
Republicans held a midterm nominating convention. That sentence has no precedent in American politics. Presidential nominating conventions run every four years, in July or August, and they exist to formalize a ticket.
PoliticsLummis Blasts Democrats on Clarity Act While Insisting It Can Still Pass
Senator Cynthia Lummis spent the days before the Senate's market structure vote doing two things at once: attacking Democrats for stalling the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, and insisting the bill can still clear…
MacroBudget Travelers Get Thrifty While the Industry Chases Luxury
On September 5, 2026, CNBC published a dispatch on a market that most travel executives have stopped selling to: people who cannot afford the trip.