Governor Kelly Ayotte signed HB 302 on May 6, 2025, making New Hampshire the first U.S. state to authorize its treasurer to hold Bitcoin as a reserve asset, after Arizona vetoed, Florida withdrew, and eight other states rejected similar bills.
BitGo launched four Bitcoin quantum-risk management tools on July 9, 2026, giving institutions a practical way to measure and reduce address-key exposure before any quantum computer can threaten the network.
Europe is completely dystopian now. Chat Control, DAC8, in-car cameras, and VPN restrictions point to the same surveillance machine.
Meta announced July 8 it will build a C$13 billion AI data center in Alberta powered by a C$4.6 billion, 932 MW natural gas plant. The sustainable AI narrative didn't survive contact with the engineering.
Hyperscale Data (NYSE: GPUS) crossed 1,000 Bitcoin in its corporate treasury on July 9, 2026, roughly doubling its stack from ~515 BTC in under seven months through a dual strategy of mining via Sentinum and open-market buying via Ault Capital Group.
From a small Missouri town to the Utah State Senate, voters are removing officials who approved multi-billion-dollar AI data center deals in secret. The ballot box is the only circuit breaker ordinary people have right now, and they're using it.
Cantor Equity Partners and BSTR Holdings terminated their original July 2025 merger agreement on July 8, 2026, dropping the $1.5 billion PIPE and postponing the shareholder vote with no new timeline while they renegotiate terms.
Russia enacted a full ban on diesel exports July 8, 2026, after Ukrainian drone strikes drove crude-processing rates to multi-year lows. With Russia supplying ~11% of global diesel last year, and the Iran war already compressing the same barrel pool, global crack spreads hit multi-year highs on the
Brussels is trying to revive Chat Control through procedural games. Plus: broken money turns inflation pain into class war, AI agents become real business, and Bitcoin tech keeps moving.
Bull Bitcoin petitioned France's Conseil d'État on February 24 to annul Decree No. 2025-1276, the French rule implementing DAC8's mandatory crypto identity and transaction reporting. The exchange argues the decree fails the EU Charter's proportionality standard and creates a kidnapping-target
Trump declared the June 17 US-Iran MoU 'over' at the NATO summit in Ankara on July 8, after Iran attacked three tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and CENTCOM retaliated with strikes on 80+ targets. Brent crude surged roughly 6% to around $78-79/barrel. The US Treasury had already revoked the
The Commerce Department's June 12 export control order on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models was reversed in under three weeks. The market shift it triggered may not be.
SEC Chairman Paul Atkins published the agency's 2026 regulatory agenda on July 7, formally committing to propose rules that would allow Bitcoin to trade alongside equities on SEC-licensed platforms under a single broker-dealer license. The rules aren't final, but the direction is unambiguous.
Anthropic embedded steganographic tracking logic inside Claude Code that silently altered system prompts to flag users in Chinese time zones or routing through Chinese AI labs. It ran undisclosed for roughly three months before a developer reverse-engineered it.
