The US Treasury auctioned $22 billion in 30-year bonds on July 9 at a yield of 5.058%, the highest at a 30-year auction since 2007. Bitcoin held up while gold slid. The debt math is no longer theoretical.
Binance co-CEO Richard Teng disclosed at Reuters NEXT Asia on July 9 that 70% of EU user withdrawals following the exchange's MiCA-driven service suspension went to self-hosted wallets, not to competing licensed platforms.
France signed more than 16 strategic agreements with Syria on July 7, brought TotalEnergies to Damascus, and is explicitly building a Hormuz bypass. Iraq is already running 500-700 tanker trucks per day through the corridor. This is not emergency triage.
MARA Holdings signed a definitive agreement to acquire a 1,200-acre powered land site in Matagorda County, Texas, targeting up to 2 GW of grid capacity by April 2028 at a milestone-contingent price of up to $600 million.
Sen. Ron Wyden sent a formal letter to Senate leaders on July 8 demanding Section 604 of the CLARITY Act remain intact. The provision is the only statutory protection standing between non-custodial Bitcoin developers and federal money-transmitter prosecution.
Secretary Rubio, Japan's Motegi, and South Korea's Cho signed a trilateral SMR Memorandum of Cooperation on July 8 at the NATO Ankara Summit, committing $10M+ in US funding and an industry deal to push the BWRX-300 into Europe and the Indo-Pacific.
In April 2022, the U.S. Treasury sanctioned a Russian data center called BitRiver. Overnight, the American customers who had bought miners through Compass Mining and parked them at that facility were locked out of their own machines, stranded in Siberia, with no way to get them back. The hardware
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.
