Mostly Bitcoin — Daily Digest

Last 24 hours of mainstream crypto coverage

January 23, 2026

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Your Teenager May Be Spreading Himmler’s Favorite Myth — theatlantic.com

Heinrich Himmler and other Third Reich occultists in the 1930s latched onto the strange idea that the Aryan race was not the product of evolution but descended from semidivine beings who left the heavens and established a secret civilization on Earth,

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Trump’s ‘pay-to-play’ politics fuel a ‘new gilded age’, experts say — theguardian.com

Major donors reap influence and material benefits, ethics experts argue, as money and governance intertwine Donald Trump’s “pay-to-play” governing and fundraising style is helping forge a new gilded age where many super rich donors to Trump’s Maga Inc Pac

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VERSABANK TO PRESENT AT THE DIGITAL ASSET VIRTUAL INVESTOR CONFERENCE ON JANUARY 27, 2026, AT 10:30 AM ET – Company Announcement - FT.com — ft.com

VERSABANK TO PRESENT AT THE DIGITAL ASSET VIRTUAL INVESTOR CONFERENCE ON JANUARY 27, 2026, AT 10:30 AM ET – Company Announcement - FT.com Financial Times

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Wall Street celebrates the end of Trump’s Greenland tariff threats and expects the Supreme Court will kill the rest of them — fortune.com

The S&P 500 closed up 0.55% yesterday on good news about U.S. GDP growth and President Trump retracting his threat to impose more tariffs on Europe if he isn’t given Greenland. The S&P is again above 6,900 and within 1% of its all-time high. Gold hit

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Protests and Power Plays: From Tehran to the Arctic Circle — theintercept.com

The people of Iran are in the midst of one of the country’s biggest uprisings — and harshest government crackdowns — since the Iranian Revolution. It started with shopkeepers in bazaars closing their doors at the end of December in protest of the

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Bitwise and Proficio Capital Partners ETF targets gold, metals, bitcoin as alternative to currencies — reuters.com

Bitwise and Proficio Capital Partners ETF targets gold, metals, bitcoin as alternative to currencies Reuters

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