By Marty Bent
Austin, TX
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By Marty Bent
Austin, TX
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By Marty Bent
Austin, TX
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By Marty Bent
Austin, TX
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By Marty Bent
Austin, TX
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The BEA's final Q1 2026 GDP estimate shows AI data center equipment and software investment carried roughly 74% of all U.S. economic growth in the first quarter, while consumer spending contributed less than a fifth of the headline number.
EFF's FOIA investigation, published June 25, finds that Flock Safety's ALPR systems, deployed in more than 5,000 communities, include a drop-down menu letting local police subscribe to ICE's Immigration Violator hotlist. The list is built entirely on administrative warrants, issued by ICE agents
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 broke below $59k, stress-testing leverage around the asset while the network keeps clearing blocks. Plus DMND's first known Stratum V2 block, AI compute bottlenecks, miners' HPC fork, MiCA, and stablecoin surveillance.
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.
Catholic leaders and four major law enforcement associations oppose the CLARITY Act's BRCA provision. The bill that would have kept Samourai's developers free needs a floor vote by August or it dies.
Arthur Hayes argues the $1.5 trillion AI capex debt wave absorbed the entire U.S. M2 expansion since November 2022, explaining Bitcoin's underperformance. His thesis: when the bubble cracks, the rescue print has nowhere to go but Bitcoin.
Trump cancelled the signing ceremony for the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which includes a four-year ban on a Federal Reserve CBDC, demanding Congress pass the SAVE America Act first. The elections bill has no viable Senate path, and the Clarity Act's window is shrinking.
