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Sun, Jun 21

STRC: Saylor's $48 billion cushion is real — and beside the point

The $48.3 billion surplus between Strategy's Bitcoin holdings and its total debt is a genuine number. Saylor earned the right to cite it.

CME Lawsuit: 92% of a market is a confession, not an argument

CME controls roughly 92% of all US exchange-traded derivatives volume. When a company with that kind of grip sues the regulator for letting competitors in, it isn't making a legal point — it's making a fear point.

Bitcoin ETFs: $3.3 billion walked out of one door

Three-quarters of a $4.4 billion outflow came from a single fund — BlackRock's IBIT. Not spread across the market. One vehicle, 73,080 BTC sold into a falling price over twenty days.

Stablecoins: Wall Street isn't joining crypto — it's digesting it

JPMorgan, Citi, Bank of America and Wells Fargo are building a shared tokenised deposit network, targeted for 2027. Visa is testing private stablecoin settlement on a blockchain built specifically for institutions. The DTCC has fifty…

Satoshi's Coins: CZ just made the values conflict impossible to ignore

CZ's proposal is actually reasonable on its own terms. Give everyone six to twelve months after any upgrade to quantum-resistant cryptography, let them move their coins to safety, then freeze whatever's left. It stops a future quantum…

EU AML: now they're coming for the occasional user

The privacy coin ban was already priced in. What's new is who else gets caught.