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  • Why Bitcoin traders have to price tariffs like surprise rate hikes while waiting on social media posts for the next $175B trigger
    by Andjela Radmilac on February 28, 2026 at 2:50 pm

    The US Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs under IEEPA on Feb. 20, and markets immediately inherited a large cash flow question. The amount at stake was more than $175 billion in tariff collections that could be subject to refunds, with the Court offering no step-by-step plan for how refunds should be The post Why Bitcoin traders have to price tariffs like surprise rate hikes while waiting on social media […]

  • Bitcoin price projected to bottom at $35,000 in December by model that timed the last two market tops
    by Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright on February 28, 2026 at 11:35 am

    Since it’s pretty clear we’ve now seen this cycle’s bull market high, I’ve created an updated halving-cycle model built on four Bitcoin cycles. The model projects a cycle low near $35,000 in December 2026 after a 72.5% drawdown from a $126,219 cycle high. Inside the halving-cycle framework My last model correctly marked both the 2021 The post Bitcoin price projected to bottom at $35,000 in December by model that timed the last two market tops […]

  • XRP Ledger nearly shipped a feature that could drain accounts without owners signing
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on February 28, 2026 at 9:25 am

    A security flaw in a proposed XRP Ledger (XRPL) upgrade could have enabled unauthorized transactions, but researchers flagged the issue before it could reach the blockchain’s main network. The XRPL Foundation said Feb. 26 that the vulnerability was found in the proposed “Batch” amendment, a feature intended to let users bundle multiple actions into a The post XRP Ledger nearly shipped a feature that could drain accounts without owners […]

  • SBI Holdings is dangling XRP to sell a plain three year bond, but the numbers show how small
    by Gino Matos on February 27, 2026 at 8:15 pm

    Japan’s SBI Holdings will issue a ¥10 billion retail bond on March 24, but the story is the XRP perk dangled in front of buyers, conditional on opening an account at SBI VC Trade and completing receipt procedures by noon on May 11. Pricing drops on March 10, subscription runs from March 11-23, and secondary The post SBI Holdings is dangling XRP to sell a plain three year bond, but the numbers show how small appeared first on CryptoSlate.

  • Google Cloud and MoneyGram just signed on to run launch Midnight nodes for new privacy network banks want
    by Gino Matos on February 27, 2026 at 5:20 pm

    Google Cloud, MoneyGram, Vodafone’s Pairpoint, and eToro will run launch-phase nodes on Midnight, a zero-knowledge privacy network targeting a mainnet launch at the end of March 2026. The pitch isn’t anonymity, but selective disclosure. It’s the ability to prove compliance or settlement eligibility without broadcasting raw customer data onto a public ledger. Midnight describes these The post Google Cloud and MoneyGram just signed on to run […]

  • Bitcoin drops 3% as inflation hots up again, and a quiet services spike just changed the rate cut story
    by Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright on February 27, 2026 at 4:10 pm

    Bitcoin drops 3% as PPI beats forecasts, and a tiny detail could skew the next macro trade Bitcoin traded lower after January producer inflation came in above consensus. That sets up a longer stretch in which rate expectations may steer crypto pricing ahead of the next producer price index (PPI) print on March 18. January The post Bitcoin drops 3% as inflation hots up again, and a quiet services spike just changed the rate cut story appeared […]

  • Bitcoin sees $1B ETF inflows after brutal outflow streak, setting up the clearest path to $90,000
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on February 27, 2026 at 3:15 pm

    Bitcoin has rebounded from an early-February slide that briefly pushed it to $60,000 and produced its most oversold signal on record, easing some of the pressure that has weighed on crypto markets. According to CryptoSlate’s data, the flagship digital asset has steadied in recent days and briefly approached the $70,000 mark before settling around $67,300 The post Bitcoin sees $1B ETF inflows after brutal outflow streak, setting up the clearest […]

  • Bitcoin price rally is riding record $1.2 trillion margin debt, and the unwind could be here already
    by Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright on February 27, 2026 at 1:30 pm

    Bitcoin’s rally is riding record $1.279 trillion margin debt, and the unwind could arrive without warning Bitcoin’s next phase is being shaped by a record build in U.S. market leverage, recession-leaning survey data and an expanding Treasury buyback program that is aimed at bond-market plumbing rather than monetary easing. Those inputs show up across FINRA’s The post Bitcoin price rally is riding record $1.2 trillion margin debt, and the […]

  • Bitcoin pioneer Jack Dorsey wants 50% staff cut to feel “awkwardly human” as AI-era reset begins at Block
    by Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright on February 27, 2026 at 11:35 am

    Block shares jumped more than 20% in premarket trading after CEO Jack Dorsey told employees the company will cut more than 4,000 roles and reorganize around an “AI-era” operating model. The reduction takes Block from more than 10,000 employees to just under 6,000 (“nearly half,” in Dorsey’s wording), while the company’s 8-K describes a “Workforce The post Bitcoin pioneer Jack Dorsey wants 50% staff cut to feel “awkwardly […]

  • Bitcoin rallies on Nvidia’s monster quarter but its tech beta means the next AI scare hits harder
    by Gino Matos on February 27, 2026 at 9:58 am

    Nvidia printed a monster quarter, with $68.1 billion in revenue and its Data Center business alone delivering $62.3 billion. The company is expected to have roughly $78 billion in revenue next quarter. The crypto angle is mechanical, not mystical: Bitcoin has been behaving like a leveraged expression of tech risk appetite, so when AI “risk-on” The post Bitcoin rallies on Nvidia’s monster quarter but its tech beta means the next AI scare […]

  • The Inflation Spark That Could Become A Deflation Shock
    by Tyler Durden on February 28, 2026 at 2:20 pm

    The Inflation Spark That Could Become A Deflation Shock Authored by Robert Burrows via BondVigilantes.com, Memory chips have quietly become the most important commodities in the global economy. DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) is considered the workhorse of the digital world. It functions as the operating memory when a device is turned on, and this memory is lost when a device is switched off.  These chips are used in almost […]

  • Pentagon Picks OpenAI To Replace Anthropic
    by Tyler Durden on February 28, 2026 at 1:50 pm

    Pentagon Picks OpenAI To Replace Anthropic Update (2345ET): Sam Altman on Friday night announced that OpenAI and Department of War have struck a deal in which the DoW will be able to use the company’s AI for military applications, and has agreed to abide by the company’s red lines regarding safety (which were similar to rival Anthropic).  “Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass […]

  • Operation Epic Fury: New Satellite Image Shows U.S.-Israeli Strike On Iranian Supreme Leader’s Compound
    by Tyler Durden on February 28, 2026 at 1:45 pm

    Operation Epic Fury: New Satellite Image Shows U.S.-Israeli Strike On Iranian Supreme Leader’s Compound Update (0845ET): Iranian military officials said they would deliver a “historic lesson” to Israel and the U.S. in response to the strikes, as Operation Epic Fury, the U.S.-Israeli campaign designated by the Department of War, continues to hit military infrastructure, top army leaders, and other high-value targets across multiple […]

  • Iran Strikes Should End In Regime Change, Senate Majority Leader Says, Ahead Of War Powers Vote
    by Tyler Durden on February 28, 2026 at 1:45 pm

    Iran Strikes Should End In Regime Change, Senate Majority Leader Says, Ahead Of War Powers Vote Senate Majority Leader John Thune has made the maximalist hawkish US case on Iran, saying that any authorized strikes should result in nothing less than regime change in Tehran. “In my view, if you’re going to do something there, you better well make it about getting new leadership and regime change,” the leading Republican Senator […]

  • France’s Le Pen Says She Will Not Run In 2027 Election If Under House Arrest, Names Successor
    by Tyler Durden on February 28, 2026 at 1:10 pm

    France’s Le Pen Says She Will Not Run In 2027 Election If Under House Arrest, Names Successor Via Remix News, In March 2025,  Le Pen was convicted on charges dating back years ago, in a move that was widely contested and seen as a highly political attempt to keep her from running in next year’s presidential election. Now, she says she has no intention of running if her ban from running is lifted, if it means she must wear an […]

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  • Rare Local Ceasefire In Ukraine At Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant For Urgent Repairs
    by Tyler Durden on February 28, 2026 at 12:35 pm

    Rare Local Ceasefire In Ukraine At Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant For Urgent Repairs The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed in a Friday announcement that a local ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia is in effect around the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant to urgently allow crews to restore the facility’s backup power supply. In a local, mutual agreement along the front lines, the UN nuclear watchdog confirmed both […]

  • 92% Of Illegal Arrivals At Spain’s Canary Islands Are Men, And Half Of ‘Unaccompanied Minors’ Are Adults
    by Tyler Durden on February 28, 2026 at 12:00 pm

    92% Of Illegal Arrivals At Spain’s Canary Islands Are Men, And Half Of ‘Unaccompanied Minors’ Are Adults Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, A European Parliament fact-finding mission to the Canary Islands has revealed that around half of migrants who claimed to be unaccompanied minors upon arrival were ultimately determined to be adults. The Committee on Petitions conducted the visit in September 2025 to assess the impact […]

  • China’s Biological Weapons Labs In America
    by Tyler Durden on February 28, 2026 at 4:25 am

    China’s Biological Weapons Labs In America Authored by Gordon Change via The Gatestone Institute, China has been maintaining at least two facilities — one in California and the other in Nevada — that are part of a biological weapons program. A Declaration of Arrest Report, issued by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department in connection with the detention of Ori Solomon on January 31, states that there is a “deeper […]

  • Are You Being Watched By Smart Glasses? Here’s How To Check
    by Tyler Durden on February 28, 2026 at 4:00 am

    Are You Being Watched By Smart Glasses? Here’s How To Check Meta’s Ray-Bans are seeing growing adoption among everyday consumers, highlighting an affordability sweet spot for AI-powered wearables as Apple is expected to enter the space with its own smart glasses following its failed Vision Pro launch. Yet, as AI-powered glasses gain popularity, they introduce new privacy and security concerns, with one smartphone app emerging as an […]

  • The Clash Of Civilizations Restarts History
    by Tyler Durden on February 28, 2026 at 3:35 am

    The Clash Of Civilizations Restarts History Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, Western globalists won’t last long. Thirty-five years ago, American political scientist Francis Fukuyama made a name for himself by advancing the proposition that the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union promised the ascendency and universalization of so-called Western liberal democracy.  As a Marxist-Hegelian […]

  • ICE New Orleans Reports 11,000 Deportations In January
    by Tyler Durden on February 28, 2026 at 3:10 am

    ICE New Orleans Reports 11,000 Deportations In January Look no further than the reason unhinged Democrats want to rein in, or even abolish, ICE: these left-wing politicians have championed nation-killing open borders under a globalist framework, flooding their sanctuary cities with illegal aliens to build a new voter bloc. That voter bloc then translates into voting power, and ICE is now reversing that power through deportations […]

  • Will China Come To Iran’s Rescue?
    by Tyler Durden on February 28, 2026 at 2:45 am

    Will China Come To Iran’s Rescue? Via Middle East Eye As tensions between Iran and the US-Israeli alliance approach a critical juncture, a question echoes through global capitals, newsrooms and policy circles: will China come to Iran’s rescue? And if so, what would that assistance look like? The answer defies the binary expectations of traditional military alliances. China is unlikely to dispatch troops or engage directly […]

  • Israel Launches Wave Of Strikes On Lebanon In Precursor To Potential Iran War
    by Tyler Durden on February 28, 2026 at 2:20 am

    Israel Launches Wave Of Strikes On Lebanon In Precursor To Potential Iran War Some analysts fear Israel is testing out a precursor for another multi-front war as the US appears poised to attack Iran. Technically a ceasefire has been in effect in southern Lebanon, but the IDF military has been testing – or more like blowing straight past – these truce barriers. The Israeli Army carried out at least eight airstrikes in eastern […]

  • Google Disrupts China-Tied Cyber Campaign That Hacked 42 Countries
    by Tyler Durden on February 28, 2026 at 1:55 am

    Google Disrupts China-Tied Cyber Campaign That Hacked 42 Countries Authored by Catherine Yang via The Epoch Times, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) said on Feb. 25 that Google and its cybersecurity partners disrupted a global espionage campaign that the group confirmed had hacked 42 countries and suspects infected at least 20 more. GTIG has tracked the group as UNC2814/Gallium since 2017 and suspects it to be Chinese. […]

  • AI Can Now Unmask Anonymous Internet Users, New Study Finds
    by Tyler Durden on February 28, 2026 at 1:30 am

    AI Can Now Unmask Anonymous Internet Users, New Study Finds It looks like AI can now unmask any anonymous account on the internet. That’s according to a new study by Simon Lermen (MATS), Daniel Paleka (ETH Zurich), Joshua Swanson (ETH Zurich), Michael Aerni (ETH Zurich), Nicholas Carlini (Anthropic), and Florian Tramèr (ETH Zurich), published on arXiv. In the paper, “Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs,” the […]

  • A Montreal Narco Network Busted For Allegedly Smuggling Super Fentanyl Into America
    by Tyler Durden on February 28, 2026 at 1:05 am

    A Montreal Narco Network Busted For Allegedly Smuggling Super Fentanyl Into America Submitted by The Bureau’s Sam Cooper, An elite Montreal-based narco network allegedly exported carfentanil and next-generation synthetic opioids 100 times deadlier than fentanyl to American consumers via the dark web, leading to the arrest of four yesterday, after 13 months of joint surveillance by U.S. federal agencies and Quebec police, and a […]

  • Lululemon Founder Blasts Board Again Amid Stock Collapse
    by Tyler Durden on February 28, 2026 at 12:40 am

    Lululemon Founder Blasts Board Again Amid Stock Collapse Lululemon Athletica founder Chip Wilson blasted the board in a fiery message to shareholders earlier and ramped up calls for activism as the athletic apparel retailer is set for a lost year, lagging behind competitors, losing market share, and entangled in multiple see-through-leggings quality-control controversies with customers. The nearly 70% collapse in Lululemon’s […]

  • Soaring Electricity Demand Meets Gas Turbine Shortage
    by Tyler Durden on February 28, 2026 at 12:15 am

    Soaring Electricity Demand Meets Gas Turbine Shortage Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, AI-driven power demand is surging far faster than expected, but a shortage of heavy-duty gas turbines is creating a bottleneck. Turbine makers like Siemens, GE Vernova, and Mitsubishi are ramping up production, but expansion projects could take up to 5 years. Without enough gas capacity, AI growth could slow or grids may turn […]

  • Vance Says ‘No Chance’ Strikes On Iran Would Become A Prolonged War
    by Tyler Durden on February 27, 2026 at 11:50 pm

    Vance Says ‘No Chance’ Strikes On Iran Would Become A Prolonged War Just to underscore how close we are to witnessing an American military attack on Iran, this is the current scene at Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport… I don’t think that people understand how unusual this picture is #Iran https://t.co/72itsQunEn — Nadav Pollak (@NadavPollak) February 27, 2026 On Thursday Vice President JD Vance issued some curious […]

  • Bad Bets: Massive EV Subsidies Not Paying Off
    by Tyler Durden on February 27, 2026 at 11:25 pm

    Bad Bets: Massive EV Subsidies Not Paying Off Authored by James Varney via RealClearInvestigations, The future was supposed to have arrived this year in a cluster of counties just east of Atlanta in the form of a state-of-the-art factory that would churn out 400,000 electric vehicles a year. But when JoEllen Artz looks about her lifetime neighborhood, all she sees are holes. “Those shovel holes they made in the ground? […]

  • Democrats Slam Democrats For ‘Rigging’ Democrat Primaries
    by Tyler Durden on February 27, 2026 at 11:00 pm

    Democrats Slam Democrats For ‘Rigging’ Democrat Primaries The party that won’t stop lecturing America about democracy is once again rigging its own primary by endorsing – thereby biasing voters – towards certain candidates over others. On Monday, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) endorsed 12 candidates through its “Red to Blue” program to help Democrats win back the majority in the House of […]

  • Border, Ballots, Birthrights: Top Supreme Court Cases To Watch
    by Tyler Durden on February 27, 2026 at 10:40 pm

    Border, Ballots, Birthrights: Top Supreme Court Cases To Watch Authored by Joseph Lord, Stacy Robinson, Troy Myers via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Supreme Court is poised to hear arguments on major constitutional and legal issues over the next several months. The Supreme Court in Washington on Feb. 21, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times Birthright Citizenship One of the term’s most consequential cases arises from a […]

  • Iran Reportedly Agrees To Give Up Nuclear Material In Breakthrough: ‘Peace Deal Within Reach’
    by Tyler Durden on February 27, 2026 at 10:39 pm

    Iran Reportedly Agrees To Give Up Nuclear Material In Breakthrough: ‘Peace Deal Within Reach’ Update(1737ET): Absolutely huge late Friday developing news, if it’s confirmed and assuming it sticks, via CBS: “Iran has agreed to give up its stockpile of enriched material – zero accumulation – and allow for full verification by the IAEA of its nuclear program according to US-Iran talks mediator, Oman’s foreign minister Badr al […]

  • SpaceX Readies IPO Paperwork For March, Targeting $1.75 Trillion Valuation
    by Tyler Durden on February 27, 2026 at 10:20 pm

    SpaceX Readies IPO Paperwork For March, Targeting $1.75 Trillion Valuation SpaceX is preparing to confidentially file for an initial public offering as early as next month, people familiar with the matter said, advancing plans for what could become the largest listing ever, according to Bloomberg. The Starbase, Texas-based rocket and satellite company is expected to submit draft IPO paperwork to the US Securities and Exchange […]

  • ‘Sense-Making Seems Impossible…’
    by Tyler Durden on February 27, 2026 at 10:00 pm

    ‘Sense-Making Seems Impossible…’ Authored by James Howard Kunstler, The Man Who Might Wreck the Country “That a government’s primary responsibility is to its citizens should not be a controversial proposition.” – Coddled Affluent Professional on X The zeitgeist is a rough beast, hard to ride as it slouches into the unknown. Our country is trying to hang on while a party of goblins vexes and needles the beast from […]

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