The dominant crypto narrative for 2024 has been institutional adoption. From the U.S. approval of spot bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded funds to the burgeoning number of companies pledging to buy the largest cryptocurrency for their treasuries, crypto has entered, more than ever before, the mainstream conversation.Bitcoin has increased almost 130% this year, breaking record highs on several occasions. It is currently hovering near the psychological threshold of $100,000. The ETFs approved in January have seen net inflows of $36 billion and amassed over 1 million BTC.In addition, the number of publicly traded companies saying they’re adding bitcoin to their corporate treasury…
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There’s no easy way to put it: America’s farmers are in trouble.Our farmers lost more than $30 billion this year. A new Farm Bill to help them is stalled in Congress thanks to Democratic stonewalling. Four years of rising input costs and Biden-led regulatory overreach have put many family farms on the verge of extinction.The good news is that America is going to have a friend to farmers back in the White House soon. President-elect Trump scored win after win for our farm families during his first term and I know that’s one of his top goals for his second.…
Buying Bitcoin at significantly higher prices than just a few months ago can be daunting. However, with the right strategies, you can buy Bitcoin during dips with a favorable risk-to-reward ratio while riding the bull market.Confirming Bull Market ConditionsBefore accumulating, ensure you’re still in a bull market. The MVRV Z-score helps identify overheated or undervalued conditions by analyzing the deviation between market value and realized value. Figure 1: MVRV-Z Score indicates dips are still for buying. View Live Chart 🔍Avoid Buying when the Z-score reaches high values, such as above 6.00, which would indicate the market is overextended and nearing…
A group of doctors opposed to abortion asked the Supreme Court Tuesday to restrict access to a key medication abortion drug while other legal challenges play out, as Wednesday night’s deadline for the court to act approaches.
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Bringing the second day of this year’s Coachella to a close, K-Pop girl group Blackpink made history Saturday night when they became the first Asian act to ever headline the festival. To a crowd of, reportedly, over 125,000 people, Jennie, Jisoo, Lisa and Rosé used the ground-breaking moment to pay homage to Korean heritage by arriving onstage in hanboks: a traditional type of dress.
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Follow Frank on X. On a recent episode of the Galaxy Brains podcast, Michael Saylor made the case that bitcoin isn’t a currency and that it’s best to think of it as capital and capital only.He also shared that Tether (USDT) and Circle’s USD Coin (USDC) are the real digital currencies and unveiled his “evil genius strategy” (his own words) to get the world to adopt the U.S. dollar stablecoins as opposed to bitcoin.In this Take, I’ll cite some of Saylor’s own words from the podcast before breaking down why many of the points he made are off base.Capital, Not Currency“It’s…
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Tuesday that he hopes to replace Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein on the Senate Judiciary Committee with Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland and aims to set up a floor vote on the issue this afternoon, which Republicans are expected to block.
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I have just finished reading Debt: The First 5000 Years by anthropologist David Graeber. The book takes a look at the history of money, debt, and how they relate to societal structures from a lens that departs heavily from the conventional wisdom of economic thinking. Conventional wisdom paints a picture of people inefficiently bartering goods and services directly for each other, and money naturally arising as a result of the problems inherent in this. Graeber eviscerates this narrative looking at anthropological history. Primitive communities simply shared their resources freely with each other, living in a communal lifestyle, with bartering rarely…
A widely used Boeing aircraft, the 737-800, was involved in Sunday’s crash-landing of a Jeju Air flight that killed 179 people.
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Prominent media figures leaped to praise President Biden for withdrawing from his re-election campaign during the summer. However, after Vice President Kamala Harris’ defeat by President-elect Donald Trump, much of that goodwill evaporated.While Biden had been characterized as a sacrificial hero on the level of America’s first president, George Washington, by multiple commentators and celebrities, the post-election hangover revealed the 46th president as a “tragic” figure, whose delay in handing off the reins to Harris doomed her already-limited campaign. “The most tragic figure in American politics in my lifetime is President Biden,” Democratic strategist James Carville said during an episode of…
Terraform creator Do Kwon will be extradited to the U.S., Montenegrin Justice Minister Bojan Božović said Friday.The U.S. and South Korean governments have both sought to take custody of Kwon to face criminal charges related to the collapse of the algorithmic stablecoin Terra/Luna system in 2022, which kicked off a series of high-profile collapses including that of FTX. Kwon, who was arrested in Montenegro in March of 2023 and sentenced to a few months in prison over passport forgery charges, has been fighting his extradition to the U.S. for more than a year. Various courts in the country have ruled…
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