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From Broker Accounts to Stablecoins - How USDT Became "Direct" Money
One of the major crypto exchanges, Bitget, has launched trading for traditional financial instruments. Currencies, gold, indices, commodities - basically everything you'd expect from a regular broker. Nothing shocking at first glance - many platforms are moving in this direction. But take a look at how Bitget markets this new service: "you can now trade ... directly with...
Polymarket Bet That Turned Polygon Into a Geopolitical Watchtower
When it became known in 2024 that Polymarket was responsible for 25% of all gas consumption on Polygon, I wrote that the network had a real chance to claim a promising niche - positioning itself as the blockchain for gambling. Back then, few could imagine that Polymarket would unlock a much bigger role for Polygon. Today, crypto media is buzzing about...
Airdrop Hunters and the Ponzi-Style Tokenomics
In the final days of 2025, right after Lighter's LIT airdrop, crypto communities were buzzing with comparisons between Lighter and its biggest rival, Hyperliquid. In one of those debates, a supporter of Hyperliquid summarized the advantage of his favorite platform like this: "revenue → buybacks → token price goes up → more users → more revenue - a closed growth loop."...
The Wallet That Introduced Bitcoiners to Lightning Is Gone From Europe
Wallet of Satoshi has stopped providing Bitcoin custody services in Europe. It's an interesting twist. Wallet of Satoshi was - and still is - the only truly mainstream wallet built around a custodial model that gained real popularity among everyday Bitcoin users. Sure, there are a few other custody-based wallets designed for businesses or for fiat-focused...
Small Drains, Big Questions
ZachXBT's message about a widespread attack on hundreds of wallets - where small amounts are being drained from each one - raises serious concerns about the reliability of crypto as a way to store personal savings. A lot of crypto users, myself included, choose digital assets believing that crypto can't be stolen or seized by anyone. Yet on ZachXBT's channel...
The Era of Useful Tokens: What Survived 2025
Bitcointalk, the legendary forum launched by Satoshi Nakamoto and still frequented by early Bitcoin contributors, has wrapped up its annual "Altcoin Portfolio Contest." I've mentioned this competition before in one of my Medium deep-dives, highlighting a recurring trend: no matter how creative or diversified the submitted portfolios are, a simple 100% Bitcoin allocation tends to outperform most of them...
Bitcoin's 3-Up-1-Down "Pattern": Broken or Just Misread?
Market commentators kept repeating a popular idea this year: since 2011, Bitcoin tends to follow a clear pattern - three positive years, one negative year. If we extended that logic to 2025, the expectation would be a green year. Now the year is ending, and the yearly change is red. So... is the long-standing pattern officially broken? The thing is, 2011...
$3T Market Cap… Again? The Ultimate Altcoin Reality Check
AshCrypto is pointing out that the crypto market cap is sitting around $3T - roughly the peak of the previous bull cycle that ended in late 2021. Honestly, it's a surprising comparison to make. * Bitcoin, which accounts for about half of the total market cap, is trading at a much higher price now than it was back then. * There are also more bitcoins...
BlackRock: No Guarantee Bitcoin Supply Is Limited to 21M
Have you noticed how financial institutions can say one thing out loud, even put it in writing - and then quietly say something else in the fine print right next to it? Sometimes it's not just different - it's the exact opposite. I've noticed a great example of this in an educational Bitcoin video that BlackRock - the world's largest asset manager - released...
Bitcoin 2025 Year in Review
Back at the start of the year, I wrote that Bitcoin was attracting serious attention from developers and that we could expect new, interesting solutions to make a major contribution to its development. Now the year is coming to an end. So, what important innovations did it actually bring to Bitcoin? If you spent all of 2025 watching Bitcoin solely through...
