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January 21, 2026
Coinbase launches expert board to assess quantum computing threat to crypto — fortune.com
Bitcoin is one of the world’s most battle-tested pieces of software. Launched in early 2009, the network has run continuously without being hacked, and today feels more secure than ever. There is, however, a threat on the medium-term horizon that threatens
Why Coinbase split with Andreessen Horowitz and the crypto industry on a key bill—and what’s next for the Clarity Act — fortune.com
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong’s abrupt decision to pull his support for the draft of a landmark crypto bill has jolted Washington, D.C. After working in political lockstep for more than a year, the crypto industry is now facing a rupture as key
Bitcoin’s Slide Erases Gains Posted Since the Start of the Year — bloomberg.com
Bitcoin’s Santa Claus rally appears to have come to an end.
Bitcoin Briefly Erases Gains Posted Since the Start of the Year — bloomberg.com
Bitcoin Briefly Erases Gains Posted Since the Start of the Year Bloomberg.com
The NYSE’s big tokenization plan is vaporware dressed up as innovation — fortune.com
In 1998, the world’s largest telecom, AT&T, cut a series of deals with a popular startup called Excite. By distributing Excite’s content and search tools over its giant cable network, the company believed it could extend its dominance into the emerging
Launderers turn to the Euro, and an Arctic tax haven? — codastory.com
It’s an accepted truth in much of the English-speaking world that the European Union is sclerotic, sluggish and weighed down by bureaucracy. Now that may or may not be true in the formal economy, but in the criminal world, a key statistic has indeed
Wall Street Pulls Back From Bitcoin’s Money-Spinning Basis Trade — bloomberg.com
A quiet but telling shift is unfolding in the crypto derivatives market, as one of the most reliable money-making trades shows signs of breaking down.
Wall Street Pulls Back From a Money-Spinning Bitcoin Trade — bloomberg.com
Wall Street Pulls Back From a Money-Spinning Bitcoin Trade Bloomberg.com
Wall Street is openly talking about whether Trump’s Greenland plan will end U.S. ‘primacy’ — fortune.com
Investors reacted emphatically to President Trump’s insistence that he won’t back down on his plan to take over Greenland: They hate it. The S&P 500 fell 2% yesterday, even though 81% of its companies have beaten their Q4 earnings expectations so far. The
Crypto and Big Banks Fight Over Who Gets to Fleece You — jacobin.com
Wall Street and the crypto industry are engaged in a legislative battle over which business interests will get to fleece more of their customers’ money, with big banks hoping to close a loophole that allows cryptocurrencies to pay interest to investors.
Iran’s central bank using vast quantities of cryptocurrency championed by Farage, says report — theguardian.com
Regime appears to have turned to digital currency issued by Tether in the face of sanctions Iran’s central bank appears to have been using vast quantities of a cryptocurrency championed by Nigel Farage, according to a new report. Elliptic, a crypto
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