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  • Strategy to “sell some Bitcoin” after posting $12.7 billion Q1 loss as Saylor points to $5 billion Bitcoin gain
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on May 6, 2026 at 8:37 am

    Strategy reported a massive first-quarter loss after Bitcoin’s early-year drawdown overwhelmed its software revenue, even as Michael Saylor pointed to internal Bitcoin metrics showing continued gains in shareholder exposure. The company, formerly known as MicroStrategy, reported a net loss attributable to common stockholders of $12.77 billion, or $38.25 per diluted share, for the first quarter. The post Strategy to “sell some Bitcoin” […]

  • 700 people at Coinbase just got fired as CEO blames cost reset on AI and market volatility
    by Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright on May 5, 2026 at 7:15 pm

    Coinbase will cut about 700 employees, or 14% of its workforce, under a May 5 restructuring plan that the company says will cost $50 million to $60 million. The company framed the move as a response to two forces: crypto-market volatility and a shift in how artificial intelligence is changing the work inside Coinbase. Armstrong The post 700 people at Coinbase just got fired as CEO blames cost reset on AI and market volatility appeared first on […]

  • Bitcoin faces $80,000 seller test as ETF demand keeps $90,000 breakout in play
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on May 5, 2026 at 4:35 pm

    Bitcoin’s rebound above $80,000 has turned into a live test of market depth, with long-term holders selling into strength while ETF buyers absorb supply. The result is a high-stakes standoff: seller pressure is rising, but institutional demand is still strong enough to keep a move toward $90,000 in play. While long-term holders are capitalizing on The post Bitcoin faces $80,000 seller test as ETF demand keeps $90,000 breakout in play appeared […]

  • Ethereum’s biggest staker has just become a public company with over $10 billion locked up
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on May 5, 2026 at 3:15 pm

    Bitmine has staked more than $10 billion in ETH, making it the largest corporate Ethereum treasury company and a yield-generating bet on the network’s proof-of-stake economy. On May 4, the Las Vegas-based company said its staked ETH position stood at 4.36 million tokens, valued at $10.2 billion at ETH’s average price of $2,336. The position The post Ethereum’s biggest staker has just become a public company with over $10 billion locked up […]

  • Bitcoin decouples from S&P 500 as oil, yields, and dollar pressure stocks
    by Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright on May 5, 2026 at 1:15 pm

    Bitcoin’s hold above $80,000 is turning into a live test of whether BTC can trade on its own macro signal while U.S. stocks weaken. After months of Bitcoin following the US stock market open in terms of direction, volatility, and stress, it appears to be decoupling from the AI-fed S&P 500. The contradiction showed up The post Bitcoin decouples from S&P 500 as oil, yields, and dollar pressure stocks appeared first on CryptoSlate.

  • Aave warns $71M exploit recovery could be seized before victims are repaid
    by Gino Matos on May 5, 2026 at 12:22 pm

    Aave is asking a New York court to stop creditors from reaching frozen ETH that was set aside for victims of a major DeFi exploit. The fight turns a crypto recovery effort into a legal test over whether stolen assets can be redirected before users are made whole. Aave filed an emergency motion last week The post Aave warns $71M exploit recovery could be seized before victims are repaid appeared first on CryptoSlate.

  • CLARITY Act risks slipping as housing fight stalls Senate crypto markup
    by Gino Matos on May 5, 2026 at 10:30 am

    The CLARITY Act’s next problem is whether Senate Republicans can keep the crypto market structure bill on schedule while a housing dispute and unresolved DeFi protections pull the markup into a narrower window. The act’s markup has moved past the stablecoin yield standoff to Sen. John Kennedy’s housing frustration, unresolved protections for software developers, and The post CLARITY Act risks slipping as housing fight stalls Senate crypto […]

  • Bitcoin’s $80,000 support comes under pressure as Middle East shock hits bonds
    by Gino Matos on May 5, 2026 at 9:15 am

    Bitcoin’s latest test is coming from the bond market, not just the crypto market. Iran-linked attacks pushed oil above $100 and lifted Treasury yields toward the 4.5% zone, forcing traders to decide whether Bitcoin is still trading as a hedge against monetary disorder or as a risk asset exposed to tighter financial conditions. Iran’s attack The post Bitcoin’s $80,000 support comes under pressure as Middle East shock hits bonds appeared […]

  • If GameStop buys eBay, Bitcoin payments could suddenly have a 135M-buyer marketplace test case
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on May 4, 2026 at 7:10 pm

    GameStop’s unsolicited $55.5 billion bid for eBay could give the video game retailer a far larger e-commerce platform, a broader resale network, and a potential opening to test whether Bitcoin can move beyond corporate treasuries into consumer payments. On May 4, GameStop offered $125 a share for eBay in a cash-and-stock proposal that values the The post If GameStop buys eBay, Bitcoin payments could suddenly have a 135M-buyer marketplace test […]

  • Grok’s crypto wallet was just exploited by a tweet sent in morse code without any private key compromise
    by Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright on May 4, 2026 at 5:30 pm

    Tagging @grok in an X post plus a few dots and dashes was all that was needed last night for a bad actor to pickpocket a verified crypto wallet without ever touching the private keys. Agentic token launchpad, Bankrbot reported on May 4 that it had sent 3 billion DRB on Base to the recipient The post Grok’s crypto wallet was just exploited by a tweet sent in morse code without any private key compromise appeared first on CryptoSlate.

  • Carbon Neutral, Speech Negative: Amsterdam Bans Ads Featuring Meat & Fossil Fuels
    by Tyler Durden on May 6, 2026 at 9:00 am

    Carbon Neutral, Speech Negative: Amsterdam Bans Ads Featuring Meat & Fossil Fuels Authored by Jonathan Turley, In “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” I write about how censorship often becomes an insatiable appetite once countries go down the road of speech regulation. There is no better example than the Dutch and their recent ban on public ads for meat and fossil fuels. Activists have imposed […]

  • No Kings? In Europe, Monarchs Are Far More Popular Than Politicians
    by Tyler Durden on May 6, 2026 at 8:15 am

    No Kings? In Europe, Monarchs Are Far More Popular Than Politicians In Europe, monarchs are far more popular than the politicians who govern. As Visual Capitalist details below, using data from Morning Consult, visualized by The European Correspondent, monarchs hold an approval advantage of nearly 30 points over national leaders. The gap appears in every country analyzed. The pattern reveals a clear divide: leaders making […]

  • UK Faces Summer Flight Disruptions As Jet Fuel Risks Mount
    by Tyler Durden on May 6, 2026 at 7:30 am

    UK Faces Summer Flight Disruptions As Jet Fuel Risks Mount Via City AM, Ministers are expected to warn Britons that flight cancellations could disrupt summer holiday plans. Allianz Trade research says the UK is especially exposed to jet fuel shortages because of import dependence. Airlines are weighing cancellations, surcharges, and ticket price adjustments as fuel supply risks rise. Ministers are set to warn the […]

  • Moscow Targeted By Over 50 Drones, Country’s 2nd Largest Refinery On Fire
    by Tyler Durden on May 6, 2026 at 6:45 am

    Moscow Targeted By Over 50 Drones, Country’s 2nd Largest Refinery On Fire We’ve been documenting that Ukraine has been demonstrating deeper targeting reach inside Russia, as several key oil sites have come under direct drone attack over several days and weeks, resulting in significant destruction. Just in the last several days, Russian state media has recorded over 50 Ukrainian drone attacks targeting the country’s capital of […]

  • How German Media Became The PR Arm Of The Expanding State
    by Tyler Durden on May 6, 2026 at 6:00 am

    How German Media Became The PR Arm Of The Expanding State Submitted by Thomas Kolbe How does economic growth emerge? Let us turn to Ludwig von Mises, one of the defining economists of the 20th century – and paraphrase his idea: growth arises where private capital is guided in a free market by an undistorted price system. Prices signal scarcity and direct scarce resources to where they generate real value. When this system is […]

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  • Ramaswamy Wins Ohio GOP Gubernatorial Primary In Landslide
    by Tyler Durden on May 6, 2026 at 3:53 am

    Ramaswamy Wins Ohio GOP Gubernatorial Primary In Landslide Biotech entrepreneur and former 2024 presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy just beat the pants off of political newcomer Casey Putsch (R) by a margin of 82% – 18% (approximately 530,000 votes to 116,000) in the Ohio gubernatorial primary.  The win positions Ramaswamy to face Democrat Amy Acton, the former Ohio health director who led the state’s COVID-19 response and […]

  • The Petrogas-Dollar: Symptom Or Strategy?
    by Tyler Durden on May 6, 2026 at 3:25 am

    The Petrogas-Dollar: Symptom Or Strategy? Authored ‘No1’ via Gold and Geopolitics substack, Three people sent me Richard Medhurst’s petrogas-dollar piece this week. I read it. Twice even. There’s a lot in there that I feel is correct. The chronology of the Levantine Basin deals. Cheney’s 2001 National Energy Policy. The roughly $35 billion of Chevron contracts signed across Israel, Syria, Greece, and Cyprus in the past […]

  • Meteorologists Sound Alarm Over El Nino Plume Racing Across Pacific Like “Freight Train”
    by Tyler Durden on May 6, 2026 at 3:00 am

    Meteorologists Sound Alarm Over El Nino Plume Racing Across Pacific Like “Freight Train” Meteorologists on X are once again warning about a powerful El Niño, pointing to a new plume of warm subsurface water moving across the Pacific “like a freight train.” The latest water temperature data suggest that El Niño later this year could rank among the strongest on record, with potentially significant implications for the Lower 48. […]

  • Industry Leaders Warn Chinese EV Imports Will Undercut Canada’s Auto Sector, Bring Major Security Risks
    by Tyler Durden on May 6, 2026 at 2:35 am

    Industry Leaders Warn Chinese EV Imports Will Undercut Canada’s Auto Sector, Bring Major Security Risks Authored by Paul Rowan Brian via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A number of industry leaders and policy experts are warning that the government’s permission of importing Chinese-made electric vehicles (EVs) into Canada at low tariff rates will undermine Canada’s auto sector and cause a number of substantial national […]

  • Figure CEO Says Humanoid Robots Could Soon Enter Homes For $600 A Month
    by Tyler Durden on May 6, 2026 at 2:10 am

    Figure CEO Says Humanoid Robots Could Soon Enter Homes For $600 A Month Figure’s CEO told Sourcery’s Molly O’Shea that the humanoid robotics company is preparing for a “near-term” push to bring humanoid robots into homes, where they would perform basic household tasks under a consumer subscription model that could cost “hundreds per month,” similar to a car lease. Molly O’Shea asked Figure CEO Brett Adcock: “In the near term, […]

  • The Golden State Has Fallen: Welcome To The Islamic Republic Of California
    by Tyler Durden on May 6, 2026 at 1:45 am

    The Golden State Has Fallen: Welcome To The Islamic Republic Of California Authored by Rabbi Michael Barclay via American Greatness, On April 8, the California Assembly Committee on Public Employment and Retirement voted 19–0 to adopt AB2017, followed on April 22 by the California Assembly Committee on Appropriations, which voted 7–0 to adopt the bill. And with those votes, all that is left for this to become California law is […]

  • Tech Bros Aim To Sidestep Local Resistance By Installing Mini Data Centers In Homes
    by Tyler Durden on May 6, 2026 at 1:20 am

    Tech Bros Aim To Sidestep Local Resistance By Installing Mini Data Centers In Homes California-based startup Span has developed XFRA, a distributed AI-compute network that turns unused electrical capacity in residential homes and small businesses into miniature data centers.   It may be one of the more ingenious workarounds yet from tech bros, as traditional data-center buildouts are increasingly delayed or canceled, not only […]

  • Texas Doctor Found Guilty For Illegally Distributing Millions Of Opioid Pills
    by Tyler Durden on May 6, 2026 at 12:55 am

    Texas Doctor Found Guilty For Illegally Distributing Millions Of Opioid Pills Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A federal jury in Texas found a physician guilty of unlawfully distributing over a million pills of opioids and other controlled substances from a Houston-area clinic that operated as a pill mill, the Justice Department announced Monday. Tablets of opioid painkiller Oxycodone delivered on […]

  • USAF Says Former Qatari 747 Boeing Ready For USA Paint Scheme
    by Tyler Durden on May 6, 2026 at 12:30 am

    USAF Says Former Qatari 747 Boeing Ready For USA Paint Scheme The U.S. Air Force reports that the Boeing 747 donated by Qatar, now designated the VC-25B Bridge, has completed modification and flight testing and is entering the paint phase ahead of deployment as an interim Air Force One jet.  The bridge aircraft is a former Qatar head-of-state Boeing 747-8i that will serve as an interim presidential aircraft until Boeing’s delayed […]

  • Trump DOJ Probes 36 Illinois School Districts For Secretly Transitioning Kids Behind Parents’ Backs
    by Tyler Durden on May 6, 2026 at 12:05 am

    Trump DOJ Probes 36 Illinois School Districts For Secretly Transitioning Kids Behind Parents’ Backs Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The Trump administration is cracking down hard on radical gender policies in public schools. The Department of Justice has launched full investigations into 36 Illinois school districts accused of helping children “change genders” without telling their parents and pushing sexual […]

  • US Intelligence Only Sees Limited Additional Damage To Iran Nuclear Program Since Last June
    by Tyler Durden on May 5, 2026 at 11:40 pm

    US Intelligence Only Sees Limited Additional Damage To Iran Nuclear Program Since Last June A widely circulating fresh report in Reuters has raised eyebrows and serious questions related to the effectiveness of the 38-day aerial campaign which saw US-Israel bombs unleashed in the many thousands (combined: some 20,000+ munitions expended) on the Islamic Republic. “US intelligence assessments indicate that the time Iran would need to […]

  • DOJ Sues Minnesota To Block Climate Lawsuit Targeting Energy Companies
    by Tyler Durden on May 5, 2026 at 11:15 pm

    DOJ Sues Minnesota To Block Climate Lawsuit Targeting Energy Companies Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is suing Minnesota over the state’s own climate lawsuit against major energy companies. Pumpjacks operate near the site of a new oil and gas well being drilled in Midland, Texas, on April 8, 2022. Eli Hartman/Odessa American via AP The complaint, filed Monday in the […]

  • Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum Is Caught Between A Rock And A Hard Place
    by Tyler Durden on May 5, 2026 at 10:25 pm

    Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum Is Caught Between A Rock And A Hard Place Authored by Nick Corbishley via NakedCapitalism.com, The rock is the rising threat of US military intervention in Mexico; the hard place is Sheinbaum’s own party’s narco-politicians. Late last week, as Mexico was still reeling from revelations that CIA agents are operating in Chihuahua, in direct violation of Mexico’s constitution and sovereignty, the […]

  • How A Musk Victory Vs. Altman Would Reset America’s AI Roadmap
    by Tyler Durden on May 5, 2026 at 10:00 pm

    How A Musk Victory Vs. Altman Would Reset America’s AI Roadmap A courtroom victory for Elon Musk in his high-stakes federal trial against Sam Altman and OpenAI would deliver one of the most disruptive blows to the artificial intelligence sector in its brief but explosive history – potentially forcing the $850-billion-plus company to unwind its for-profit empire, ousting its top leaders, and handing Musk a symbolic and financial […]

  • ISO New England Trims 10-Year Forecast Based On Electrification Outlook
    by Tyler Durden on May 5, 2026 at 9:40 pm

    ISO New England Trims 10-Year Forecast Based On Electrification Outlook By Robert Walton of UtilityDive Electricity consumption in New England will grow about 9% over the next decade, driven by electrification of buildings and vehicles, the region’s independent system operator said in an annual report published Friday. While significant, the rise in consumption is lower than its forecast in the two previous reports, reflecting […]

  • “No Quick Fixes”: Supply-Chain Deep Dive Shows Beef Prices To Remain High
    by Tyler Durden on May 5, 2026 at 9:20 pm

    “No Quick Fixes”: Supply-Chain Deep Dive Shows Beef Prices To Remain High We are all familiar with the surge in beef prices, driven by a U.S. cattle herd at more than a half-century low amid severe drought, elevated feed costs, higher financing expenses, and other inflationary factors, such as soaring diesel prices, squeezing ranchers. $175 for beef?!🥩 $20.65 per pound … for one cut. Herds are at generational lows after […]

  • From DEI To Equal Protection: A New Direction In Civil Rights Policy
    by Tyler Durden on May 5, 2026 at 9:00 pm

    From DEI To Equal Protection: A New Direction In Civil Rights Policy Authored by Kenin M. Spivak via RealClearPolitics, The Trump administration is restoring the core value of equal opportunity to civil rights enforcement. It is eviscerating the race-baiting, intersectional policies of the Biden and Obama administrations, and giving substance to the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services […]

  • Alberta Separatists Say They Have Enough Signatures To Force Referendum On Leaving Canada
    by Tyler Durden on May 5, 2026 at 8:40 pm

    Alberta Separatists Say They Have Enough Signatures To Force Referendum On Leaving Canada A group pushing for Alberta to break free from Canada announced Monday that it has submitted nearly double the number of signatures required to force a referendum — which could come as early as October. While Alberta Premier Danielle Smith opposes independence, she has assured Albertans that she will not try to thwart a referendum if the […]

  • AMD Dumps & Pumps (To New Record High) After Beat-And-Raise
    by Tyler Durden on May 5, 2026 at 8:29 pm

    AMD Dumps & Pumps (To New Record High) After Beat-And-Raise Just wow… AMD shares initially puked after results dropped showing top- and bottom-line beats: EPS: $1.37 vs. $1.29 adjusted expected Revenue: $10.25 billion vs. $9.89 billion expected But now they are exploding higher after the second-largest AI chipmaker raised estimates: For the second quarter, AMD said it expects about $11.2 billion in revenue, versus […]

  • NIH Virologist Vincent Munster Caught Smuggling Deadly Viruses Into U.S., FBI Investigating
    by Tyler Durden on May 5, 2026 at 8:20 pm

    NIH Virologist Vincent Munster Caught Smuggling Deadly Viruses Into U.S., FBI Investigating Authored by Paul D. Thacker via The DisInformation Chronicle, Since the COVID pandemic landed on American shores in early 2020, virologists and allied science writers have engaged in a vociferous propaganda campaign to deny the dangers of virus experiments. When Nature Magazine published a 2021 article minimizing a Wuhan lab accident as the […]

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