NYK Line CEO Takaya Soga told the Financial Times that Hormuz shipping will remain well below prewar levels for months. With 80 naval mines sitting in the main traffic lane, the U.S.-Iran MOU can't fix what minesweepers haven't cleared.
El Salvador's National Bitcoin Office has continued announcing Bitcoin purchases since signing a $1.4 billion IMF deal that required the public sector to confine Bitcoin-related activity. The reserve sits at 7,636 BTC. The IMF says nothing has changed. The blockchain disagrees.
Alan Greenspan died June 22, 2026 at age 100. He authored 'Gold and Economic Freedom' in 1966. He then ran the Fed for 19 years and built the debt machine Satoshi was responding to directly.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi pledged reconstruction support for Iran on June 22, signaling Beijing intends to secure long-term oil access in exchange. Every infrastructure contract signed in Tehran under Chinese terms is another barrel that clears outside dollar rails.
Iran's IRGC struck a cargo ship near Oman on June 25, pausing the UN's strait evacuation plan and breaking a week-old ceasefire. OFAC has designated the IRGC's toll-collecting entity and Iran's four largest crypto exchanges as it chases $1/barrel Bitcoin and stablecoin payments that have been
DMND mining pool and GoMining mined block 955,318 on June 25, using Stratum V2's Job Declaration feature for the first known time in a live production environment, shifting transaction selection from pool to miner.
Bitcoin's one-week options skew is flashing a ~24-point put premium, a panic-level read last seen near an interim bottom earlier this year. The BEA releases May PCE at 8:30 a.m. EDT today. A miss on the 3.4% core consensus could trigger a fast unwind.
TRM Labs traced $3.84 billion from 60+ sanctioned Iranian entities through CoinEx since 2019, making it Iran's primary international crypto exit ramp by 2024. OFAC's June 2 sanctions left the exchange off the list.
NYK Line CEO Takaya Soga told the Financial Times that Hormuz shipping will remain well below prewar levels for months. With 80 naval mines sitting in the main traffic lane, the U.S.-Iran MOU can't fix what minesweepers haven't cleared.
El Salvador's National Bitcoin Office has continued announcing Bitcoin purchases since signing a $1.4 billion IMF deal that required the public sector to confine Bitcoin-related activity. The reserve sits at 7,636 BTC. The IMF says nothing has changed. The blockchain disagrees.
Alan Greenspan died June 22, 2026 at age 100. He authored 'Gold and Economic Freedom' in 1966. He then ran the Fed for 19 years and built the debt machine Satoshi was responding to directly.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi pledged reconstruction support for Iran on June 22, signaling Beijing intends to secure long-term oil access in exchange. Every infrastructure contract signed in Tehran under Chinese terms is another barrel that clears outside dollar rails.
Iran's IRGC struck a cargo ship near Oman on June 25, pausing the UN's strait evacuation plan and breaking a week-old ceasefire. OFAC has designated the IRGC's toll-collecting entity and Iran's four largest crypto exchanges as it chases $1/barrel Bitcoin and stablecoin payments that have been
DMND mining pool and GoMining mined block 955,318 on June 25, using Stratum V2's Job Declaration feature for the first known time in a live production environment, shifting transaction selection from pool to miner.
Bitcoin's one-week options skew is flashing a ~24-point put premium, a panic-level read last seen near an interim bottom earlier this year. The BEA releases May PCE at 8:30 a.m. EDT today. A miss on the 3.4% core consensus could trigger a fast unwind.
TRM Labs traced $3.84 billion from 60+ sanctioned Iranian entities through CoinEx since 2019, making it Iran's primary international crypto exit ramp by 2024. OFAC's June 2 sanctions left the exchange off the list.
India is on track to import a record 2.35 million bpd of Russian crude in June 2026, with Russia accounting for 53.5% of all Indian oil imports. The U.S. sanctions waiver on Russian seaborne oil quietly expired. Indian refiners kept buying.
Nouriel Roubini has co-authored a whitepaper for USAFi, a tokenized ERC-20 security he frames as the first 'Technodollar' instrument. The pivot confirms elite macro consensus has accepted fiat's structural decay. What they built to replace it is not sound money.
The Federal Reserve's proposed 'payment account' would let legally eligible fintechs settle directly through the Fed. Congress is now debating the access terms, the moral hazard, and who actually qualifies, and the comment clock is running.
Sen. Steve Daines says the Senate Finance Committee has a crypto tax framework ready and could hold a markup by fall 2026, the clearest timeline signal yet from the upper chamber's tax-writing shop. The framework's contents remain undisclosed.
A Bitcoin Policy Institute fellow projects sovereign nations will dominate Bitcoin mining by 2036 by monetizing stranded power. The Bhutan data already challenges that thesis.
The CLARITY Act is one Senate floor vote from becoming law. Buried in its conforming amendments is a provision that could force corporate Bitcoin treasury companies into CFTC commodity-pool registration, a regulatory tripwire Latham & Watkins flagged nearly a year ago that has received almost no
