Germany Mulls Bitcoin Critic Nagel’s Bid for ECB Presidency
Conversations in Berlin are taking place to decide whether Germany will support Joachim Nagel, the current president of the Bundesbank,...
Month: August 2026
CLARITY Act Leaves 5 Loopholes, From Pensions to Trump’s $1.4B Crypto
Senate Banking Committee minority staff say the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act fails five minimum standards, potentially leaving pensions exposed...
Kalshi’s 2026 Trading Volume Tops $148B, Making Up 85% of All-Time Activity
TLDR: Kalshi generated over $148B in 2026, equal to about 85.5% of its more than $173B lifetime trading volume. 2026...
Crypto’s first quantum attack will look like an unexplained breach: Quantus founder
Bad actors with access to a cryptography-breaking quantum computer probably won’t try to announce it to the world by hacking...
BIP-110 dies with a whimper, CLARITY vote punted: Hodler’s Digest, Aug. 9
BIP-110 forks itself into oblivion with a “2-block chain” and CLARITY will finally get a Senate vote in September. The...
Ex-US defense secretary calls CLARITY Act a ‘national security bill’
Former US Defense Secretary Mark Esper says the CLARITY Act is not merely a financial services bill, its a national...
CLARITY Act Odds Sink as Senate Delay Threatens 2026 Crypto Vote
Polymarket traders now price the CLARITY Act at a 21% chance of becoming law this year. The Senate filed a...
Tokenized RWA Sector Hits $38B as Treasury Debt Dominates Market
This week’s metrics show tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) have cracked another ceiling, with total value locked (TVL) blowing past $38...
BIP-110 Backers Plot Minority Chain’s PoW Reset to ‘Fire’ Bitcoin Miners
BIP-110 proponents are debating whether to change the proof-of-work algorithm on their stalled minority chain after it managed to mine...
Prediction Markets Explode, Circle Has Hot Q2, and More – Weekly Recap
This week’s stories highlighted regulatory delays, security concerns, institutional growth, and market experimentation. The Senate pushed the CLARITY Act vote...
Fed Hike Bets Crack as September Hold Odds Storm Into Lead
Prediction markets and the CME Fedwatch tool are lining up behind the U.S. Federal Reserve holding rates steady in September,...
Roughnecks Quits BIP-110 Mining as Ocean Hashrate Collapses
Roughnecks, the mining group responsible for the only two blocks on Bitcoin’s new BIP-110 minority chain, has stopped mining under...
Saylor Drops ‘Doing Business’ Message, Sparks Strategy Bitcoin Mystery
Michael Saylor posted Strategy’s bitcoin chart on Aug. 9 with a two-word caption. Days earlier, the company disclosed another bitcoin...
Bitcoin’s Price Barely Blinks Amid Coldcard Sweeps and BIP-110’s Collapse
Bitcoin barely flinched through two potentially disruptive events, holding near $65,000 as losses tied to the Coldcard hardware wallet exploit...
BIP-110 Bitcoin branch stalls after two blocks as gap widens
The enforcing fork remains stuck at Bitcoin’s full mining difficulty as mandatory signaling proceeds with little hashpower support.Bitcoin’s BIP-110-enforcing branch...
