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  • Why 26.5 billion XRP tokens are now sitting at a loss despite a $2 price tag
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on November 19, 2025 at 7:30 pm

    XRP is under renewed pressure as the broader market downturn drags its profitability metrics back to levels last seen during Donald Trump’s November 2024 re-election. Glassnode data shows that only 58.5% of XRP’s circulating supply is now in profit. That is the weakest reading since late November 2024, when the token hovered around $0.53. Even The post Why 26.5 billion XRP tokens are now sitting at a loss despite a $2 price tag appeared […]

  • Bitcoin to $73k? Be prepared with the price levels to watch during a bear market
    by Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright on November 19, 2025 at 6:30 pm

    Bitcoin is quietly walking its way down the liquidity staircase, and the next solid step sits around $85,000. That number is not coming from a Fibonacci retracement, a moving average crossover, or any other technical analysis ‘gold standard.’ It comes from my simple grid of horizontal bands, grounded in factors that actually move markets: order-book The post Bitcoin to $73k? Be prepared with the price levels to watch during a bear market […]

  • Sidechains pay, XRPL won’t — the real tug-of-war over staking and XRP’s future
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on November 19, 2025 at 5:30 pm

    For more than a decade, the XRP Ledger (XRPL) has, for one reason or another, stood apart from the rest of the blockchain industry. Built in 2012, long before the rise of modern DeFi, it embraced a minimalist design of fast settlement, deterministic consensus, and no economic incentives for validators. That architecture helped XRPL grow The post Sidechains pay, XRPL won’t — the real tug-of-war over staking and XRP’s future appeared first […]

  • How a single computer file accidentally took down 20% of the internet yesterday – in plain English
    by Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright on November 19, 2025 at 4:10 pm

    Yesterday’s outage showed how dependent the modern web is on a handful of core infrastructure providers. In fact, it’s so dependent that a single configuration error made large parts of the internet totally unreachable for several hours. Many of us work in crypto because we understand the dangers of centralization in finance, but the events The post How a single computer file accidentally took down 20% of the internet yesterday – in plain […]

  • Traders put 50/50 odds on Bitcoin ending 2025 below $90k amid $3B ETF outflows
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on November 19, 2025 at 3:35 pm

    The Bitcoin market is undergoing a significant transition, with traders aggressively positioning for a year-end close beneath the $90,000 threshold. This comes as the flagship digital asset briefly slid to a seven-month low of $89,970 on Nov. 18 before recovering to $91,526 as of press time. As a result, crypto traders’ sentiment has significantly shifted The post Traders put 50/50 odds on Bitcoin ending 2025 below $90k amid $3B ETF outflows […]

  • Record $2.5 billion flees Bitcoin ETFs as BlackRock’s IBIT sheds $1.6 billion
    by Gino Matos on November 19, 2025 at 1:30 pm

    US-traded spot Bitcoin ETFs hemorrhaged $2.57 billion in net outflows through Nov. 17, the funds’ worst monthly drawdown since their January 2024 launch. In the same month, Bitcoin dropped 14.7% and briefly touched $89,253.78 on Nov. 17, its lowest level since April, before recovering to $93,426.16, up 1.3% in 24 hours. The outflow wave crested The post Record $2.5 billion flees Bitcoin ETFs as BlackRock’s IBIT sheds $1.6 billion appeared […]

  • Mt Gox FUD: Bitcoin ETFs just sold more BTC than Mt Gox has left to give back
    by Gino Matos on November 19, 2025 at 11:40 am

    Mt. Gox-linked Bitcoin (BTC) wallets moved roughly 10,600 BTC on Nov. 17, breaking an eight-month silence that had lulled traders into forgetting the estate still controlled nearly $3 billion in legacy coins. The transaction routed about 10,608 BTC to a new, unlabeled address, with the remainder returning to a known Mt. Gox wallet. Timing turned The post Mt Gox FUD: Bitcoin ETFs just sold more BTC than Mt Gox has left to give back appeared […]

  • Here’s who actually bought Bitcoin’s $90k crash and who rage-sold the bottom
    by Gino Matos on November 19, 2025 at 9:21 am

    Strategy bought 8,178 BTC for $835.6 million as Bitcoin (BTC) tumbled through $90,000, locking in a $102,171 average that now sits underwater. Harvard Management Co. reported 6.8 million IBIT shares worth $442.9 million in its September 30 13F filing, triple its prior quarter and the endowment’s largest reported US listed equity holding by value. Both The post Here’s who actually bought Bitcoin’s $90k crash and who rage-sold the bottom […]

  • Why Adam Backs thinks Bitcoin’s 20-year quantum runway matters more than today’s headlines
    by Gino Matos on November 18, 2025 at 11:00 pm

    For years, quantum computing has served as cryptocurrency’s favorite doomsday scenario, a distant but existential threat that periodically resurfaces whenever a lab announces a qubit milestone. The narrative follows a predictable arc where researchers achieve some incremental breakthrough, social media erupts with “Bitcoin is dead” predictions, and the news cycle moves on. But Adam Back’s The post Why Adam Backs thinks Bitcoin’s […]

  • Solana and XRP ETFs just had record-breaking launches — so why are prices crashing anyway?
    by Gino Matos on November 18, 2025 at 9:30 pm

    Bitwise’s Solana Staking ETF (BSOL) pulled in $56 million in volume on its launch day, while Canary Capital’s spot XRP ETF (XRPC) posted $58 million, the highest two volumes for any ETF launched in 2025. Yet, SOL traded near $205 one day before the ETF launch and slumped to $165 within a week, a 20% The post Solana and XRP ETFs just had record-breaking launches — so why are prices crashing anyway? appeared first on CryptoSlate.

  • ‘Massive Shift’ In US-Korea Relations After Trump Gets Seoul To Stop Targeting Tech
    by Tyler Durden on November 19, 2025 at 8:05 pm

    ‘Massive Shift’ In US-Korea Relations After Trump Gets Seoul To Stop Targeting Tech Last month we noted that South Korea has been effectively running a racket to extract money from Big Tech through the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) – which, taking a note from the EU, has repeatedly targeted US firms with massive fines over various business practices. For years, the targeted industries have argued that Korean “network usage […]

  • “This Is A National Emergency” – US Govt To Buy 10 Large, New Nuclear Reactors
    by Tyler Durden on November 19, 2025 at 7:45 pm

    “This Is A National Emergency” – US Govt To Buy 10 Large, New Nuclear Reactors Hot on the heels of news that it will invest “hundreds of billions” in loans to the nuclear power industry, including one already disbursed loan for $1BN to restart Three Mile Island, Bloomberg reported that the US government also plans to buy and own as many as 10 new, large nuclear reactors that could be paid for using Japan’s $550BN funding pledge, […]

  • US Pressuring Ukraine To Make Serious Territorial Concessions In First: Report
    by Tyler Durden on November 19, 2025 at 7:29 pm

    US Pressuring Ukraine To Make Serious Territorial Concessions In First: Report Update(1429ET): It looks like for the first time Washington is getting serious about ending the Ukraine war, now apparently offering territorial concessions. And the Trump White House is reportedly leaning on President Zelensky to accept, per the FT: “According to people with direct knowledge of the document, the draft plan would require Ukraine to […]

  • Trump Urges Adoption Of Single Federal Standard On AI Regulation
    by Tyler Durden on November 19, 2025 at 7:25 pm

    Trump Urges Adoption Of Single Federal Standard On AI Regulation Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump said the United States should adopt one federal standard for governing artificial intelligence (AI), saying it’s important for the United States to stay ahead of China in the race for AI dominance. In a Truth Social post on Nov. 18, Trump said the United States needs a single AI standard […]

  • FOMC Minutes Expose Fractured Fed; “Many” See No Tariff Inflation, “Several” Fear Disorderly Drop In Stocks
    by Tyler Durden on November 19, 2025 at 7:05 pm

    FOMC Minutes Expose Fractured Fed; “Many” See No Tariff Inflation, “Several” Fear Disorderly Drop In Stocks Since the last FOMC meeting (Oct 29th), gold is the best performing asset (along with the dollar) as bonds, stocks, and oil are all down notably… Source: Bloomberg Rate-cut odds for the December meeting continued to tumble after Powell’s hawkish comments (and the follow-up FedSpeak). Today saw BLS confirm no more […]

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  • Army Announces Next Steps On Janus Program For Next-Generation Nuclear Energy
    by Tyler Durden on November 19, 2025 at 6:45 pm

    Army Announces Next Steps On Janus Program For Next-Generation Nuclear Energy As part of next steps for the Janus Program, the Department of Army said that it has selected nine installations for consideration in which to site microreactor power plants, and the Defense Innovation Unit released an Area of Interest to solicit commercial solutions for advanced nuclear power technologies. The Janus Program, the Army’s […]

  • Ugly, Tailing 20Y Auction Sees Slide In Bid To Cover, Foreign Demand, As Directs Soar To Record
    by Tyler Durden on November 19, 2025 at 6:40 pm

    Ugly, Tailing 20Y Auction Sees Slide In Bid To Cover, Foreign Demand, As Directs Soar To Record In this week’s lone coupon auction, which just happens to print an hour before the release of the October FOMC minutes, moments ago the US sold $16BN in 20Y bonds at a high yield of 4.706%, up 20bps from 4.507% last month and the highest since August. The auction also tailed the When Issued 4.704% by 0.2bps, the first tail since June. […]

  • Government Intervention, Not BlackRock, Is To Blame For The Housing Crisis
    by Tyler Durden on November 19, 2025 at 6:25 pm

    Government Intervention, Not BlackRock, Is To Blame For The Housing Crisis Authored by Diyar Kasymov via The Mises Institute, Is building more homes not enough? Recently, there have been more and more Gen-Z memes about boomers selling their overvalued houses to BlackRock instead of to young couples, and then the corporation rents the house to the couple for 2x the price. The housing crisis is not a false alarm. The median rent […]

  • As Energy Costs Remain High, Utility Debt Builds For Millions Ahead Of Winter
    by Tyler Durden on November 19, 2025 at 5:45 pm

    As Energy Costs Remain High, Utility Debt Builds For Millions Ahead Of Winter Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), An increasing number of American households are falling behind on their utility bills as energy costs remain elevated heading into winter, according to a new analysis from two nonprofits. Steam rises from a coal power plant in Adamsville, Ala., on April 11, 2021. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via […]

  • Michael ‘Big Short’ Burry Goes Stealth Mode, Still “Active In Markets” 
    by Tyler Durden on November 19, 2025 at 5:25 pm

    Michael ‘Big Short’ Burry Goes Stealth Mode, Still “Active In Markets”  Bloomberg’s Claire Ballentine caught up with “Big Short” investor Michael Burry following last week’s news that he had deregistered Scion Asset Management with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Burry told Ballentine in an email that Scion’s latest iteration functioned essentially as a “friends and family” fund, not a traditional asset-gathering […]

  • NATO Scrambles Jets Amid One Of Deadliest Russian Attacks On Western Ukraine
    by Tyler Durden on November 19, 2025 at 4:45 pm

    NATO Scrambles Jets Amid One Of Deadliest Russian Attacks On Western Ukraine Russia overnight carried out its typical aerial and drone strikes on Ukraine, but this time escalated attacks in Ukraine’s West, which apparently were close enough to the border to cause alarm in nearby Poland and Romania. The two NATO member countries scrambled jet fighters in response amid the massive Russian and drone and missile strikes which killed […]

  • “What Has Become Of Us”: Rosie O’Donnell May Have Just Handed Trump A Golden Defamation Lawsuit
    by Tyler Durden on November 19, 2025 at 4:30 pm

    “What Has Become Of Us”: Rosie O’Donnell May Have Just Handed Trump A Golden Defamation Lawsuit Authored by Jonthan Turley, I have previously expressed skepticism over some defamation cases against the media brought by President Donald Trump under existing case law. However, comedian Rosie O’Donnell may have supplied the President with a another defamation case if she cannot back up sensational claims made against the President […]

  • Cloudflare Blames Database Error For Outage That Took Down 20% Of The Web
    by Tyler Durden on November 19, 2025 at 3:45 pm

    Cloudflare Blames Database Error For Outage That Took Down 20% Of The Web Authored by Brayden Lindrea via CoinTelegraph.com, Internet services provider Cloudflare says that a fault in its bot detection system triggered an outage that took down around 20% of webpages, including several crypto platforms. Cloudflare said in a post-mortem statement on Tuesday that a “feature file” used by its Bot Management System to fight off […]

  • Surprise Crude Draw Stabilizes Oil Prices After Early Plunge On Russia Peace Talk Headlines
    by Tyler Durden on November 19, 2025 at 3:38 pm

    Surprise Crude Draw Stabilizes Oil Prices After Early Plunge On Russia Peace Talk Headlines Oil prices tumbled overnight following API’s report suggesting a large build in crude inventories, , which would take oil stored in commercial tanks to the highest level in more than five months, if confirmed by official data this morning. The supply buildup may help cushion the impact of US sanctions against Russian producers Rosneft PJSC […]

  • Rearranging The Chairs
    by Tyler Durden on November 19, 2025 at 3:20 pm

    Rearranging The Chairs By Michael Every of Rabobank Rearranging the Chairs Tuesday was another down day for most markets as the US weekly ADP jobs report suggested the labor backdrop is weakening and housing starts sagged. As the FT puts it, ‘Oracle’s astonishing $300bn OpenAI deal is now valued at minus $60bn.’ Here Is The Batshit Insane Chart That Sent Oracle Stock Soaring 25% After Hours https://t.co/Haus5Ueybg — […]

  • MP Materials Stock Spikes After JV Deal With Saudi Arabia’s Flagship Mining Company
    by Tyler Durden on November 19, 2025 at 2:50 pm

    MP Materials Stock Spikes After JV Deal With Saudi Arabia’s Flagship Mining Company MP Materials stock is up more than 6% heading into the cash open after the company announced a rare earth refinery joint venture with Saudi Arabia’s flagship mining company. MP, the U.S. Department of War, and Saudi Arabia’s state mining giant Maaden have announced a joint venture to build a rare earth refinery in Saudi Arabia, marking one of the […]

  • “There’s No Emergency Here”: Blue Owl CEO Says As Private Credit Provider Abandons Merger Plan
    by Tyler Durden on November 19, 2025 at 2:40 pm

    “There’s No Emergency Here”: Blue Owl CEO Says As Private Credit Provider Abandons Merger Plan Less than 24 hours ago, we noted that Goldman’s Delta-One Desk head, Rich Privorotsky, warned, “while we’re all laser-focused on ORCL CDS and NVDA, maybe what we should have been watching was OWL and COF,” following up on our extensive writing on the subject of private, as far back as March 2024 “What’s Behind The Recent Explosion In […]

  • Leading Advanced Nuclear Companies Announce More Progress Toward Commercialization
    by Tyler Durden on November 19, 2025 at 2:30 pm

    Leading Advanced Nuclear Companies Announce More Progress Toward Commercialization With the US badly lagging China in nuclear power plant rollout, and the Trump admin slow-playing its Industrial Policy in this most critical sector, the private sector is taking matters into its own hands, with two notable developments announced this morning by two of the leading companies in the space, as they pursue commercial rollout.  We start […]

  • Larry Summers Resigns From OpenAI Board; Harvard Launches Investigation After Epstein Revelations
    by Tyler Durden on November 19, 2025 at 2:20 pm

    Larry Summers Resigns From OpenAI Board; Harvard Launches Investigation After Epstein Revelations Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has resigned from the board of OpenAI following the release of messages in which Summers was asking Jeffrey Epstein for dating advice to try and bed a female mentee whose father was a former CCP official.  Then-Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers speaks at the University’s 2004 Commencement […]

  • TJ Maxx Hikes Outlook As Consumers Trade Down In Ominous Economic Signal 
    by Tyler Durden on November 19, 2025 at 2:10 pm

    TJ Maxx Hikes Outlook As Consumers Trade Down In Ominous Economic Signal  We’ve been hammering on the same theme for months: low- and middle-income consumers are getting financially squeezed.  Goldman has flagged imploding sentiment, UBS has revealed the tale of two consumer worlds, and consumer behavior and spending trends show a pullback in discretionary spending, from restaurants to big-box retailers.  The strain has become […]

  • As ‘Golden Toilet’ Corruption Scheme Rocks Ukraine, Support For Zelensky Plunges Below 20%
    by Tyler Durden on November 19, 2025 at 1:55 pm

    As ‘Golden Toilet’ Corruption Scheme Rocks Ukraine, Support For Zelensky Plunges Below 20% Via Remix News, After Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s close associate, Timur Mindich, fled to Israel after allegedly masterminding a €100 million corruption scheme, it appears the Ukrainian public is turning on their leader — at least according to polls cited by a Ukrainian member of parliament. “According to the polls […]

  • Futures Rebound After 4 Day Slide With Nvidia Earnings On Deck
    by Tyler Durden on November 19, 2025 at 1:43 pm

    Futures Rebound After 4 Day Slide With Nvidia Earnings On Deck After 4 days of steep declines, futures are finally higher ahead of Nvidia earnings, with AI bulls hoping for strong numbers to provide respite from the market selloff. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures are 0.3% higher and Nasdaq futs gains 0.4%, both bracing for big moves later: NVDA alone has accounted for almost 20% of S&P 500 gains this year. FOMC minutes and a […]

  • This Was A Major Red Flag In 2008, And Now It Is Happening Again!
    by Tyler Durden on November 19, 2025 at 1:20 pm

    This Was A Major Red Flag In 2008, And Now It Is Happening Again! Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, The alarms are getting even louder each week.  It has become exceedingly clear that the U.S. economy has entered a crisis that is similar to what we experienced in 2008 and 2009, and a lot of people are really starting to freak out.  For those that cannot see the stunning parallels between the Great […]

  • First Home Depot, Now Target Reports Soft Demand 
    by Tyler Durden on November 19, 2025 at 1:05 pm

    First Home Depot, Now Target Reports Soft Demand  At the start of the week, Goldman’s top consumer specialist Scott Feiler pointed out this would be a “very important week” for earnings across the consumer sector. Home Depot set the tone on Tuesday by cutting its full-year outlook as big-ticket spending and home-renovation demand continue to fade. Now, the next major earnings report just hit the tape, and it’s delivering […]

  • Dutch Retreat: Beijing Wins Control Fight Over Nexperia After Chip Shipments Squeezed
    by Tyler Durden on November 19, 2025 at 12:45 pm

    Dutch Retreat: Beijing Wins Control Fight Over Nexperia After Chip Shipments Squeezed The Dutch government has fully withdrawn its emergency powers over chipmaker Nexperia, returning control to Chinese parent Wingtech and ending the tense standoff that had led Beijing to halt key automotive-chip shipments, Bloomberg reported. If tensions persisted, this would’ve sparked snarled automotive supply chains worldwide. The reversal […]

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