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  • Charles Hoskinson says Cardano no longer comes first – its treasury vote explains why
    by Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright on September 20, 2026 at 9:30 pm

    The Pogun rejection blocked a 12.29 million ADA withdrawal while Hoskinson says future products will not default to Cardano. The post Charles Hoskinson says Cardano no longer comes first – its treasury vote explains why appeared first on CryptoSlate.

  • Why keeping your private keys safe won’t always stop crypto theft
    by Andjela Radmilac on September 20, 2026 at 8:30 pm

    Almost 4,000 Bitcoin left Liquid’s reserve on Sept. 6 through a withdrawal the network approved, even though the private keys used to authorize it hadn’t been stolen. Software had accepted a withdrawal that should never have qualified. Liquid lets people move a Bitcoin-backed token on a separate blockchain designed for faster, more private transactions. Bitcoin The post Why keeping your private keys safe won’t always stop crypto theft […]

  • Why Solana’s new 250ms speed boost could actually trigger network instability
    by Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright on September 20, 2026 at 7:20 pm

    Early mainnet data look stable, but the path to 200ms may depend more on leader handoffs, client agreement and infrastructure diversity than headline throughput. The post Why Solana’s new 250ms speed boost could actually trigger network instability appeared first on CryptoSlate.

  • Offshore Bitcoin futures crash 97% as traders abandon traditional risk
    by Andjela Radmilac on September 20, 2026 at 5:15 pm

    A strange thing has happened to Bitcoin’s derivatives market over the past five years. The market is larger, institutions play a much bigger role, exchanges offer more sophisticated products, and traders have become far better at moving risk around. At the same time, one of the products that helped build that market has almost disappeared The post Offshore Bitcoin futures crash 97% as traders abandon traditional risk appeared first on […]

  • EU staking review threatens crypto yields and network security could pay the price
    by Andjela Radmilac on September 20, 2026 at 3:05 pm

    Some of the most consequential financial rules begin with surprisingly little text. For example, on page 36 of the European Commission’s current MiCA review, item 66 asks whether Europe’s treatment of staking is adequate and, if it isn’t, what requirements should apply to companies providing staking services. The question is brief, but the consequences wouldn’t The post EU staking review threatens crypto yields and network security could pay […]

  • Why Russia’s harsh 1% crypto cap actually protects bank customer assets
    by Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright on September 20, 2026 at 1:35 pm

    The draft counts banks’ own holdings and crypto-linked instruments against capital but conditionally excludes customer assets. The post Why Russia’s harsh 1% crypto cap actually protects bank customer assets appeared first on CryptoSlate.

  • Stablecoin salaries can leave workers paying to access their wages
    by Andjela Radmilac on September 20, 2026 at 12:05 pm

    Every paycheck eventually has to pay for something: rent, groceries, transport, or bills. Stablecoins can move between wallets in seconds. But that does not mean an employee can spend the money immediately. They may still need to convert the stablecoins into local currency, move the money to a bank account, and pay fees along the The post Stablecoin salaries can leave workers paying to access their wages appeared first on CryptoSlate.

  • Why Bitcoin’s rally above $80,000 isn’t backed by institutional conviction
    by Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright on September 20, 2026 at 11:05 am

    Leveraged funds became 7,275 BTC-equivalent less net short as asset-manager longs fell and weekly ETF demand barely stayed positive. The post Why Bitcoin’s rally above $80,000 isn’t backed by institutional conviction appeared first on CryptoSlate.

  • Why real-time election odds are misleading prediction market crypto traders
    by Andjela Radmilac on September 20, 2026 at 10:05 am

    You can be right about who will win an election and still pay too much to bet on it. On prediction markets, the price available when you open the app may be gone by the time you try to buy, especially when news sends other traders rushing toward the same outcome. It took very little The post Why real-time election odds are misleading prediction market crypto traders appeared first on CryptoSlate.

  • X brings crypto trading closer to your social feed
    by Andjela Radmilac on September 20, 2026 at 8:00 am

    Crypto Twitter (now X) has always been a place where someone with an illustrated animal for a profile picture can explain why your financial future depends on a token you just learned about. Now X’s Cashtag links are shortening the route from that conversation to a crypto exchange. Kraken joined X’s US Cashtag partner program The post X brings crypto trading closer to your social feed appeared first on CryptoSlate.

  • “Not Enough Raw Material!” – Resource Wars Put Tungsten In Crosshairs As Western Rearmament Supercycle Looms
    by Tyler Durden on September 20, 2026 at 9:30 pm

    “Not Enough Raw Material!” – Resource Wars Put Tungsten In Crosshairs As Western Rearmament Supercycle Looms Submitted by Almonty Industries CEO Lewis Black,  The UK just invested £71m to restart a tungsten mine, with an option on half the output. Other governments will follow. I should be pleased – I’ve spent years arguing the West needs to fund its own supply. The problem is I’ve seen what happens next. In 2008, Japan and […]

  • Iran’s Military Believes US Is Preparing To Resume Attacks
    by Tyler Durden on September 20, 2026 at 9:00 pm

    Iran’s Military Believes US Is Preparing To Resume Attacks Iran’s central military command has announced it believes the United States has made the decision to resume military attacsk on the Islamic Republic. Citing the country’s General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, state media IRIB states that “According to intelligence received, the US has once again decided – with the green light from certain regional countries – to resume […]

  • Trump Says His Planned DC Arch Would Host Drones And Snipers
    by Tyler Durden on September 20, 2026 at 8:30 pm

    Trump Says His Planned DC Arch Would Host Drones And Snipers Via Headline USA, President Donald Trump said Sunday that the massive arch he wants to build between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery would become a “top grade military complex” able to host drones and snipers while storing ammunition. It is one more example of how Trump is insisting that his initiatives to beautify the White House and the city are […]

  • Utah Valley University Faculty’s Sickening Post-Assassination Emails About Charlie Kirk Exposed
    by Tyler Durden on September 20, 2026 at 8:00 pm

    Utah Valley University Faculty’s Sickening Post-Assassination Emails About Charlie Kirk Exposed New public records indicate that faculty members at Utah Valley University sent hostile messages regarding Charlie Kirk to the university’s administrators in the weeks following his assassination on the UVU campus, even though the university had previously issued public statements advocating civility and free expression. Utah Valley […]

  • With The Fed Behind Us…
    by Tyler Durden on September 20, 2026 at 7:30 pm

    With The Fed Behind Us… By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities With the Fed Behind Us… The 10-year Treasury sold off after the Fed bounced Thursday, only to resume selling, finishing the week just under 5%. Stocks, which seemed to move up and down with Treasuries, decided to move to the beat of their own drum into the close on Friday. Similarly, for the past few weeks, it seems that if you knew oil was up/down, you could predict […]

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  • Grassley Urges Diesel Export Ban As Global Fuel Crisis Stokes Resource Nationalism Fears
    by Tyler Durden on September 20, 2026 at 7:00 pm

    Grassley Urges Diesel Export Ban As Global Fuel Crisis Stokes Resource Nationalism Fears “With diesel at $6.57 in Iowa, why doesn’t Pres. Trump put an embargo on diesel exports like presidents in the 70s put embargoes on ag products bc food prices were inflated,” Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley wrote on X late Saturday night. Grassley warned, “High diesel prices ARE KILLING FARMERS’ INCOME.” W diesel $6.57 in Iowa why doesn’t Pres […]

  • Stolen $586,000 Copper Shipment Found Hours Later At Kentucky Warehouse
    by Tyler Durden on September 20, 2026 at 6:00 pm

    Stolen $586,000 Copper Shipment Found Hours Later At Kentucky Warehouse A load of copper worth nearly $600,000 was recovered on Sept. 11 after investigators followed a trail from Illinois to Kentucky and Ohio, wrapping up the initial search only about eight hours after the theft was reported, according to Yahoo News. The case began when a shipment scheduled to travel from DeKalb, Illinois, to Rock Hill, South Carolina, never made […]

  • ‘Keep Digging’… Says Shovel-Salesman Jensen Huang
    by Tyler Durden on September 20, 2026 at 5:30 pm

    ‘Keep Digging’… Says Shovel-Salesman Jensen Huang Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance Maybe it’s the bullshit detection genes that were passed down to me from my mother, but I simply can’t wind up trusting a word Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says about how much AI regulation the United States needs. Just call it a gut reaction from me. It doesn’t mean Huang is necessarily wrong about AI. It’s just that I look at him and all I […]

  • Ocean Container Freight Costs Explode, Rivaling COVID-Era Crisis Highs
    by Tyler Durden on September 20, 2026 at 5:00 pm

    Ocean Container Freight Costs Explode, Rivaling COVID-Era Crisis Highs A worsening ocean freight price shock is reviving concerns about the supply-chain disruptions seen during the pandemic and the 2024 Red Sea crisis. If continued through the fall and winter, higher shipping costs could intensify inflationary pressure, squeeze corporate margins, and weaken growth. Together, these factors raise the risk of a broader economic […]

  • FBI Using AI To Stop School Shootings; Doomers Want It Paused
    by Tyler Durden on September 20, 2026 at 4:30 pm

    FBI Using AI To Stop School Shootings; Doomers Want It Paused Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, While the same ‘current thing’ leftists who spent years on climate, oil and “Palestine” now chants that AI will wipe out the human race, FBI Director Kash Patel just announced that the agency is using the technology to actively prevent mass shootings, including school attacks, before they happen. Patel said artificial […]

  • Big Oil Backs Mazama’s $135 Million Bet On Superhot Geothermal
    by Tyler Durden on September 20, 2026 at 4:00 pm

    Big Oil Backs Mazama’s $135 Million Bet On Superhot Geothermal Mazama Energy announced $135 million in new capital with an oversubscribed Series B that included ConocoPhillips and Shell Ventures. With Devon Energy initially backing Fervo in 2023, a pattern is emerging with oil and gas veterans placing their bets in the geothermal industry.  Some of the techniques developed by the O&G industry are translating well to […]

  • The Fed Rate-Hike Won’t Fix The Inflation It Targets
    by Tyler Durden on September 20, 2026 at 3:30 pm

    The Fed Rate-Hike Won’t Fix The Inflation It Targets Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The Fed did what the bond market dared it to do. This past week, in a unanimous vote, the FOMC raised the target range for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to 3.75%-4.00%, the first Fed rate hike since 2023. The stated reason was “price stability.” Yet this is a Fed whose own chairman has spent the past year […]

  • Bessent And He Lifeng Open High-Stakes Trade Talks Ahead Of Trump-Xi Summit
    by Tyler Durden on September 20, 2026 at 3:05 pm

    Bessent And He Lifeng Open High-Stakes Trade Talks Ahead Of Trump-Xi Summit Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer are meeting Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng at JPMorgan Chase’s Manhattan headquarters on Sunday for a critical round of trade negotiations. The all-day session marks the final ministerial push before President Donald Trump hosts Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington beginning […]

  • Good Intentions Paved The Road To The 2008 Financial Crisis
    by Tyler Durden on September 20, 2026 at 2:30 pm

    Good Intentions Paved The Road To The 2008 Financial Crisis Authored by Paul Mueller via The Daily Economy, This week marks the eighteenth anniversary of the failure of Lehman Brothers, a key event of the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC). Lehman’s failure and the GFC more broadly were dramatic economic events. Lehman Brothers was the largest bankruptcy in US history to date. The global financial crisis gave rise to the Great […]

  • WW3 Near-Miss? AI Hallucinated Nuclear Weapons Components Aboard Chinese Vessel Bound For Iran
    by Tyler Durden on September 20, 2026 at 1:25 pm

    WW3 Near-Miss? AI Hallucinated Nuclear Weapons Components Aboard Chinese Vessel Bound For Iran Could runaway artificial intelligence (AI) spark a future WW3? We don’t need movies like Terminator 2 and its SkyNet to help us imagine this, it’s 2026 and there is already a terrifying real-world precedent that could have kicked off a shooting war with nuclear-armed China. A human analyst within the US intelligence community utilized […]

  • Watch: British Cops Grill Street-Preacher After Someone Takes ‘Offense’ At Bible Passages
    by Tyler Durden on September 20, 2026 at 1:20 pm

    Watch: British Cops Grill Street-Preacher After Someone Takes ‘Offense’ At Bible Passages Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Britain’s latest public-order farce is not a machete fight, a rape gang or a phone-snatch. It is a man on a high street with a Bible. Footage circulating Friday shows three female officers surrounding a Christian street preacher in a busy shopping precinct. One of them looks like she should […]

  • Ukraine Pounds Major Moscow Refinery As Global Diesel Crisis Threatens Economic Shock
    by Tyler Durden on September 20, 2026 at 12:45 pm

    Ukraine Pounds Major Moscow Refinery As Global Diesel Crisis Threatens Economic Shock Military conflicts, economic wars, and resource wars are converging ahead of the Northern Hemisphere winter. Export restrictions on critical materials and energy products are adding economic pressure worldwide, raising the risk that supply disruptions and retaliatory measures widen existing conflicts. With no clear path to de-escalation, the […]

  • The Arctic Front Of The “Cordon Sanitaire” Is The Most Threatening To Russia
    by Tyler Durden on September 20, 2026 at 12:10 pm

    The Arctic Front Of The “Cordon Sanitaire” Is The Most Threatening To Russia Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The military-technical developments there aim to greatly mitigate Russia’s nuclear second-strike capabilities via the Golden Dome in parallel with posing an unprecedented fifth-generation aerial threat via the F-35As that’ll outmatch Russia’s Su-57s by 10:1 without the US and 35:1 if it’s included. RT reviewed […]

  • Total PsAI-Op: How Altman, Amodei, And The ‘EA’ Cult Are Milking “Rogue AI” Breakouts To Protect A Trillion-Dollar Bubble
    by Tyler Durden on September 20, 2026 at 12:00 pm

    Total PsAI-Op: How Altman, Amodei, And The ‘EA’ Cult Are Milking “Rogue AI” Breakouts To Protect A Trillion-Dollar Bubble The sudden emergence of an ‘AI Panic’ over the past weeks and months was highly suspect from the beginning. According to tech insiders, Silicon Valley’s apex AI labs are deliberately overselling “rogue AI” hacks to pressure the federal government into building a regulatory moat that would lock out future […]

  • Massie Explains Strategy For Going After Hegseth
    by Tyler Durden on September 20, 2026 at 11:35 am

    Massie Explains Strategy For Going After Hegseth The non-interventionist D.C.-based think tank Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft has published an interview with the one Republican who has been most outspoken against Trump’s Iran war. Trump had in turn starting last spring launched a political war of his own against Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie, who has been in the hot seat, with his political future in question. But Massie […]

  • “Calm Down, Lefties! Quiet!”: French Soldiers Applaud Military Chaplain’s Warning Of ‘Great Replacement’
    by Tyler Durden on September 20, 2026 at 11:00 am

    “Calm Down, Lefties! Quiet!”: French Soldiers Applaud Military Chaplain’s Warning Of ‘Great Replacement’ Via Remix News, A leaked video of a French military chaplain addressing paratroopers in a cathedral has circulated widely on social media. In the clip, the chaplain makes disparaging remarks about leftists, tells soldiers to keep fighting for their national heritage, and warns of the risk that French values and culture could be […]

  • The Apocalyptic Game: Panic And Opportunity
    by Tyler Durden on September 20, 2026 at 3:20 am

    The Apocalyptic Game: Panic And Opportunity Authored by Sasha Gong via American Greatness, America’s latest argument over artificial intelligence has suddenly become apocalyptic. Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon accused AI companies of “gambling with our lives.” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged the industry to slow the development of frontier models, an idea supported by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk. At the same time, […]

  • Military Report Details Six UFOs Traveling At 480 MPH
    by Tyler Durden on September 20, 2026 at 2:45 am

    Military Report Details Six UFOs Traveling At 480 MPH Newly public military records are offering another look at unexplained objects encountered by U.S. forces, including a cluster reportedly moving through Middle Eastern airspace at extraordinary speed, according to the NY Post. According to a CENTCOM account from 2025, military personnel tracked six round objects traveling together at about 480 mph. Their flight path was unusual […]

  • ‘Princes Of The Dollar’: Why QE Is Over
    by Tyler Durden on September 20, 2026 at 2:10 am

    ‘Princes Of The Dollar’: Why QE Is Over Authored by Kane McGukin via Bombthrower, What the G20, Werner, and Warsh tell us about America’s new monetary playbook In every transition, there are road signs along the way. Matt Dines has been one of the more accurate minds of late on the monetary and geopolitical transition we are living through. His and Camron Otsuka’s commentary earlier this month on Mine Print Hash, post the G20 […]

  • Foreign Capital Returns To Brazil As Goldman Clients See 20% Stock Rally If Bolsonaro Defeats Socialist
    by Tyler Durden on September 20, 2026 at 1:35 am

    Foreign Capital Returns To Brazil As Goldman Clients See 20% Stock Rally If Bolsonaro Defeats Socialist Brazil’s tightening presidential race could drive a sharp repricing of local equities. A new Goldman Sachs survey of 70 global investors found that half see at least 20% upside in EWZ, the US-listed Brazil equity ETF, by year-end if right-wing challenger Flávio Bolsonaro defeats socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. […]

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