Attorney Ian Cohen filed a rebuttal on June 19 opposing efforts to lift a court stay in a New York lawsuit targeting 39,069 Bitcoin addresses holding roughly 3.8 million BTC, including wallets linked to Satoshi Nakamoto. A hearing is set for July 14.
Kevin Warsh's debut FOMC meeting held rates steady but flipped the dot plot from projected cuts to projected hikes, killed forward guidance, and revised PCE inflation up to 3.6%. The cheap-money thesis is gone.
H.R. 3633 is on the Senate floor calendar and the House has promised to move fast. Everything now turns on whether Senate leadership can lock in seven Democratic votes before August recess closes the window.
Iran's military command announced a closure of the Strait of Hormuz on June 20, 2026, citing U.S. and Israeli violations of the Islamabad MoU signed two days earlier. But U.S. Central Command says ships are still transiting, leaving the shutdown contested.
Bloomberg's Eric Balchunas publicly called for Strategy to retire STRC after the preferred stock hit a record low of $82.53. The real story is what happens to the BTC accumulation engine while the ATM tap is shut off.
CME Group sued the CFTC on June 18, 2026, arguing the agency's approval of Bitcoin perpetual futures for KalshiEX and Coinbase violated Dodd-Frank. TD Cowen expects CME to seek a preliminary injunction that would shut down U.S. perps before they gain any trading history.
Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg told lawmakers the Pentagon needs $80B covering Iran war costs and non-defense spending. With U.S. debt approaching $39T, every supplemental is a monetary event.
JPMorgan puts Bitcoin's all-in production cost at $78,000. BTC has traded ~19% below that for five straight months. Public miners sold a record 32,000 BTC in Q1 2026. The network's self-correction mechanism is working. Here's what survives it.
Attorney Ian Cohen filed a rebuttal on June 19 opposing efforts to lift a court stay in a New York lawsuit targeting 39,069 Bitcoin addresses holding roughly 3.8 million BTC, including wallets linked to Satoshi Nakamoto. A hearing is set for July 14.
Kevin Warsh's debut FOMC meeting held rates steady but flipped the dot plot from projected cuts to projected hikes, killed forward guidance, and revised PCE inflation up to 3.6%. The cheap-money thesis is gone.
H.R. 3633 is on the Senate floor calendar and the House has promised to move fast. Everything now turns on whether Senate leadership can lock in seven Democratic votes before August recess closes the window.
Iran's military command announced a closure of the Strait of Hormuz on June 20, 2026, citing U.S. and Israeli violations of the Islamabad MoU signed two days earlier. But U.S. Central Command says ships are still transiting, leaving the shutdown contested.
Bloomberg's Eric Balchunas publicly called for Strategy to retire STRC after the preferred stock hit a record low of $82.53. The real story is what happens to the BTC accumulation engine while the ATM tap is shut off.
CME Group sued the CFTC on June 18, 2026, arguing the agency's approval of Bitcoin perpetual futures for KalshiEX and Coinbase violated Dodd-Frank. TD Cowen expects CME to seek a preliminary injunction that would shut down U.S. perps before they gain any trading history.
Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg told lawmakers the Pentagon needs $80B covering Iran war costs and non-defense spending. With U.S. debt approaching $39T, every supplemental is a monetary event.
JPMorgan puts Bitcoin's all-in production cost at $78,000. BTC has traded ~19% below that for five straight months. Public miners sold a record 32,000 BTC in Q1 2026. The network's self-correction mechanism is working. Here's what survives it.
The petrodollar forced the world to hold dollars to buy oil. It's visibly fraying now. Here's how it actually works, why it's lasted 50 years, where it's cracking, and why a BRICS bloc currency would be worse, not the fix.
Macro analyst Luke Gromen on why China's rare-earth leverage quietly removed the military deterrent behind the dollar order, why he thinks gold has overtaken the Treasury bond as the primary reserve asset, and why reshoring means devaluing the dollar.
Energy economist Anas Alhajji makes the strongest case against the de-dollarization story: BRICS is a paper tiger, the petrodollar is here to stay, and the Gulf trip deepened dollar integration. Plus why 'drill baby drill' is over, and the power crunch nobody is pricing.
Macro analyst Lyn Alden on why reserve-currency status quietly costs the US its industrial base, why there's more inflexible demand for dollars than there are dollars to repudiate, and where gold and Bitcoin fit as neutral reserve assets once the system shifts.
Don't be afraid to admit it; bitcoin competes with the dollar as a currency.
GameStop is reportedly considering investing in Bitcoin, sparking speculation after CEO Ryan Cohen’s meeting with Michael Saylor and triggering a surge in GME stock price.
