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Fewer Trades, Better Results - Proven by WSCT 2026
A crypto trading tournament, WSCT 2026, recently took place in Moscow, Russia. Its organizers call it the largest trading competition in the crypto market. I can’t say for sure whether it’s truly the biggest, but two thousand participants in the qualifying stage is no small number. From those two thousand, just 11 of the most successful traders advanced to the final, where they had to...
No Pay, No Deal: Is Kraken Right to Refuse Extortion?
Nick Percoco, Kraken's Chief Security Officer, shared on X that the exchange recently faced an extortion attempt. A criminal group threatened to release videos allegedly showing access to Kraken's internal systems and customer data. Kraken chose not to pay. This isn't the first time they've dealt with something like this. In a previous incident, they identified the employee responsible for...
Centralization Won’t Protect Your Crypto
Blockchain analytics experts are asking how a fake Ledger app managed to pass Apple’s review process and make it into the App Store - the very app that wiped out the savings of American musician Garrett Dutton, who lost 5.92 BTC after downloading a phishing app and entering his seed phrase. But fake apps on the App Store are hardly a...
bullHYPE: The Return of Leveraged Tokens. Part II
In Part I, I traced the history of leveraged tokens: how they emerged, why they died, and why even the survivors, ETH2x-FLI and XSOL, still lost 97-99% of their value. And now the Hyperliquid ecosystem has produced a reincarnation of this idea: bullHYPE from Hypezion Finance, which people are praising as a good way to long HYPE at the bottom with leverage...
Did WLFI Really Remove Trump - or Is the Story Backwards?
Today there’s a lot of buzz around the claim that the “team page” has disappeared from the homepage of World Liberty Financial. Evergreen says it used to feature photos of Donald Trump and his sons, which are now gone - leading to speculation that the team is trying to distance itself from the conflict-of-interest controversy. I checked the Wayback Machine and looked through snapshots...
Bitcoin Moves More Value Than Visa - With Far Fewer Users
Yesterday, the CEO of the mining pool Braiins pointed out that more value moved through the Bitcoin blockchain in a single day than through Visa - $51.9 billion versus $41 billion. He cited this as evidence that Bitcoin is not dead. To be honest, I didn’t expect to see numbers like that. No, I don’t think Bitcoin is dying. Not every block is full, but...
TON’s Core Issue: Building for Metrics, Not Users
Pavel Durov posted today on his Telegram channel that the TON blockchain has been upgraded and is now 10x faster. How that lines up with the fact that block frequency increased only sixfold, I’m not entirely sure. Is there really anything else that defines blockchain speed besides block time? But that’s not the main point. Seeing this odd announcement full of...
Iran’s Bitcoin Demand - A Glimpse of the Future
Media report that Iran is going to charge vessels $1 per barrel of oil to pass through the Strait of Hormuz during the ceasefire. Given that 15-20 million barrels used to pass through the strait daily, the total adds up to a substantial amount. But the most interesting part is a statement by Hamid Hosseini, spokesperson for Iran’s Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Exporters’ Union, who...
Post-Quantum Crypto Finally Gets a Real Use Case
Of all the post-quantum cryptography projects in the crypto industry, only one strikes me as truly relevant right now. It's Arc, Circle’s upcoming blockchain. This is not the first project of its kind, and not the most advanced. At this stage, it’s still just a project - an idea under development - while there are already working solutions that have...
What If Bitcoin Isn’t Reacting to the Fed at All?
In its latest weekly market commentary, Binance Research offered an interesting take on how Bitcoin’s price relates to macro trends in the US economy. Here’s how their argument goes: * the market has sharply repriced expectations for Fed rates, * this is affecting BTC, * and although since the launch of spot ETFs two years ago BTC’s correlation with the global easing...
