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CoinDesk

@CoinDesk

Leading the conversation on accelerating crypto’s future. Follow @CoinDeskPodcast @consensus2026 @Consensus_HK @CoinDeskES @CoinDeskMarkets @CoinDeskData

New York, USA

Joined April 2013

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INSIGHT: Michael @saylor reflects on @Strategy's darkest moment. When debt exceeded $BTC and cash reserves by $300M in late 2022, and the $60B capital raise since then that added 716,000 $BTC, leaving reserves exceeding debt by $48B today.
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MARKETS: $BTC ETF outflows have slowed dramatically from a peak of $1.72B for the week ending June 5 to $226M last week, an 87% decline in weekly redemption volume.
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INSIGHT: "The Clarity Act is not a concession. It's a commitment." says @SenLummis.
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On this day in 2011, a hacker crashed Bitcoin from $17 to $0.01 on Mt. Gox in minutes using a single stolen auditor password. The exchange rolled back every transaction. Days earlier, the full Mt. Gox user database had been posted for sale on Pastebin. It was the month crypto
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NEW: @CharlesSchwab is entering prediction markets with yes/no S&P 500 options, partnering with @Cboe. The brokerage joins Coinbase, Robinhood, Polymarket, and Kalshi in a fast-growing sector. (per WSJ)
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JUST IN: @axelar discloses a $4.67M exploit targeting assets bridged to Secret Network, with the vulnerability isolated to a Secret-side smart contract. Both connections have been disabled.
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ANALYSIS: $BTC is on track for a third consecutive negative quarter. Down 8% in Q2 and trading just above $62K, the last time Bitcoin posted a longer losing streak was 2022, when it fell for four straight quarters.
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JUST IN: On-chain investigator @zachxbt traced $475K in frozen $BTC back to social engineering scams targeting elderly Americans, after a suspected money mule DM'd him asking for help recovering the funds.
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A short story about Indian scammers who called the cops on themselves: Earlier this week a follower DM'd me from his personal account complaining that 5.73 BTC ($475K) of his was 'unjustly' frozen at Changelly in Mar 2025. So I went and plotted the Bitcoin transaction in my
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NEW: The EU's new AML regulation, taking effect July 2027, caps cash payments at €10,000, bans anonymous crypto accounts, and requires regulated providers to delist privacy coins.
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INSIGHT: "I've been in crypto long enough to know when a moment is real. This is one of them." says @bgarlinghouse on @Ripple's Swell conference returning to New York this fall.
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LATEST: South Korea is bringing cross-border crypto transfers under formal foreign exchange oversight, with new registration requirements expected to take effect in December 2026.
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INSIGHT: A former Ethereum Foundation contributor warns $ETH's core development ecosystem could face a funding crisis within 3-9 months as the EF scales back spending.
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NEW: Franklin Templeton files for two ETFs that would automatically reinvest stock dividends into $BTC, starting with a 95/5 equity-to-Bitcoin split, with exposure capped at 20%.
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