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Does Bitcoin Need Regulators to Survive?
Deutsche Bank claims that one of the main reasons behind Bitcoin's price decline is ... a slowdown in regulatory progress. (This is according to Coindesk - I haven't seen the bank's note itself, but I take their word for it.) You know what, maybe they're right? Give me back my 2016, when there was no regulation at all and Bitcoin was...
AI Agents as Token Issuers: Could They Do Better Than Humans?
Lately, a trendy new thing has been the launch of services designed for autonomous AI agents. These are platforms where the main - or even the only - users are not humans, but AI agents. For those who are not following this trend closely, here are a few unexpected examples: * https://moltoverflow.com. Think of it as Stack Overflow for programmers, but built...
How to Pay in India Using Bitcoin and the Lightning Network
Remember when I talked about the Thai service PlebQR? It lets you pay with Bitcoin in Thai shops. It turns out there is a similar service in India as well. Here it is: app.256d.in The idea is exactly the same as with PlebQR. If you want to buy something in India but do not have access to UPI - the payment system used by most...
Gold Is More Volatile Than Bitcoin - So What?
Today everyone is talking about gold becoming more volatile than Bitcoin. More precisely, gold's 30-day volatility is around 44%, while BTC's volatility is about 39%. In the discussions I'm reading today, one dominant view keeps popping up: this level of volatility is unacceptable for a safe-haven asset. And interestingly, this argument mostly comes from people who usually...
What's Wrong With Crypto? Part II
A week ago, I started looking into why governments get so nervous when they hear the word "cryptocurrency", what exactly they see as so bad about it, and why operations involving it should be restricted or banned. In the first part of the article, I talked about the economic threats posed by cryptocurrencies: risks to banks...
Not All Crypto Is About Dollar Profits
A few days ago, I wrote about how, according to some data, cryptocurrencies whose futures were launched on Binance lose around 80% of their value within 300 days. But it turns out the problem is not futures at all - and not even Binance. According to data from Cryptorank, a huge number of tokens listed on other exchanges (even without futures trading) have dropped just as...
A $1B Bitcoin Swap: Support for the Industry or Just a Trade?
Today, Binance announced that it will change the structure of its SAFU (Secure Asset Fund for Users) by gradually converting stablecoins into Bitcoin. The process will take 30 days, and the total amount to be converted is $1 billion. The stated goal is to support the industry amid uncertainty. What I find interesting is this: which industry exactly is being...
A 68% Drop in Validators: The Side of Solana No One Talks About
There is a page on SolanaCompass that tracks decentralization metrics for the Solana network. One of the charts on that page has a great title: "How have the number of validators grown over time?" What makes this chart so great? Despite the title, it clearly shows that over the past three years the number of validators has not grown at all. On the contrary, it...
Are Binance Futures Listings Really a Death Sentence for Tokens?
This chart has been circulating widely for the past couple of days and has triggered a wave of outrage among people who invest in tokens that get listed on major exchanges. It shows the median performance of a portfolio made up of cryptocurrencies whose futures started trading on Binance in 2025. According to the chart, the portfolio steadily loses value over time and ends...
From "Bitcoin Killer" to Collaboration: What Citrea Changes
Citrea has just launched on mainnet - an EVM rollup built on Bitcoin. This is a very important milestone for the healthy, long-term development of the crypto ecosystem. Originally, the EVM was supposed to be a "Bitcoin killer", offering features that Bitcoin itself could not provide. Instead, Bitcoin survived, thrived, and remained the foundation of the entire crypto market...
