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  • Crypto market adds $150 billion in 24 hours: Why is Bitcoin up today?
    by Gino Matos on December 10, 2025 at 9:57 am

    Bitcoin (BTC) trades at $92,900, up 4% on the day, as $150 billion flowed into the total crypto market cap, a 3% gain as of press time. The price briefly touched $94,600 before pulling back, capping a session that saw adoption news from traditional finance converge with macro easing expectations and forced liquidations of leveraged The post Crypto market adds $150 billion in 24 hours: Why is Bitcoin up today? appeared first on CryptoSlate.

  • Allora Integrates the TRON Network, Bringing Decentralized AI-Powered Forecasts to Developers
    by News Desk on December 10, 2025 at 2:12 am

    New York, December 8, 2025 — Allora, the intelligence network that combines many AI models into a smarter, adaptive system, today announced that Allora Predictive Intelligence is now live on the TRON network. With this integration, TRON developers can now access decentralized, AI-powered forecasts natively on-chain, unlocking more adaptive, capital-efficient DeFi and financial infrastructure on The post Allora Integrates the TRON Network, […]

  • Zcash is discreetly sitting in US government wallets, creating a bizarre conflict for the regulators attacking privacy
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on December 9, 2025 at 10:30 pm

    The US government appears to hold a significant amount of Zcash, a privacy-focused digital asset, according to a new analysis by Arkham Intelligence. The position, valued at approximately $1.5 million, reportedly stems from assets seized during the 2017 takedown of the AlphaBay darknet market. Arkham said it linked the funds to government-controlled wallets through transfers The post Zcash is discreetly sitting in US government wallets, […]

  • Bitcoin liquidity has vanished into a “shadow” system where corporate debt cycles now dictate the crash risk
    by Gino Matos on December 9, 2025 at 8:15 pm

    As of Dec. 8, Bitcoin ETFs hold 1,495,160 BTC and public companies hold 1,076,061 BTC. Combined, that’s roughly 2.57 million BTC, substantially more than the 2.09 million BTC sitting on centralized exchanges. The most price-sensitive inventory in Bitcoin’s 19.8 million circulating supply has migrated out of exchange wallets and into structures that respond to different The post Bitcoin liquidity has vanished into a “shadow” system where […]

  • China’s $71 billion Treasury dump exposes a critical gap between Bitcoin’s narrative and central bank reality
    by Gino Matos on December 9, 2025 at 6:20 pm

    The BRICS bloc now counts 11 members, and several of the largest holders have trimmed their US Treasury positions over the past year. China cut its stake by $71.5 billion between September 2024 and September 2025, dropping from $772 billion to $700.5 billion. India reduced holdings by $44.5 billion, Brazil by $61.9 billion, and Saudi The post China’s $71 billion Treasury dump exposes a critical gap between Bitcoin’s narrative and central […]

  • Bitcoin’s new “self-bribe” code lets you build sobriety wallets that pay your enemies if you break a promise
    by Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright on December 9, 2025 at 4:35 pm

    When the ball drops this New Year’s Eve, you could look to Bitcoin to help you keep your New Year’s resolutions. Bitcoin can enforce promises with code and collateral. That unlocks a class of “self-bribes,” in which a person escrows funds today under conditions only future behavior can satisfy, with payout paths encoded in script The post Bitcoin’s new “self-bribe” code lets you build sobriety wallets that pay your enemies if you […]

  • Has Congress quietly forced the Department of War to use Bitcoin to bankrupt Chinese hackers?
    by Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright on December 9, 2025 at 2:20 pm

    The House’s new fiscal 2026 defense bill directs the Pentagon to develop options to impose costs on state-backed hackers who target defense-critical infrastructure in cyberspace. Section 1543 of the chamber’s amendment orders the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, highlighted by Jason Lowery, in consultation with The post Has Congress quietly forced the Department of War to use Bitcoin to […]

  • The CFTC just authorized Bitcoin, ETH, USDC only for US leverage, leaving XRP, SOL stranded in risky limbo
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on December 9, 2025 at 12:35 pm

    The United States has signaled a clear distinction between crypto assets suitable for trading and those best suited for use as collateral in the derivatives markets. On Dec 8, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) authorized Futures Commission Merchants (FCMs) to accept Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USDC as eligible margin under a digital assets pilot program. The post The CFTC just authorized Bitcoin, ETH, USDC only for US leverage, leaving […]

  • Binance confirmed a rogue employee used the company account to pump a personal token 4,600% in minutes
    by Gino Matos on December 9, 2025 at 10:31 am

    On Dec. 7, at 05:29 UTC, someone deployed a token called “year of yellow fruit” on-chain. Less than one minute later, the Binance Futures official account posted text and images promoting the token. Within two hours, the token surged 4,600% and reached nearly $4 million in market cap. Binance’s internal audit confirmed an employee used The post Binance confirmed a rogue employee used the company account to pump a personal token 4,600% in […]

  • The “infinite money glitch” fueling Strategy and BitMine has evaporated, forcing a desperate pivot to survive
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on December 9, 2025 at 1:34 am

    The two largest crypto treasury companies, Bitcoin-focused Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) and Ethereum-heavy BitMine, executed significant expansions of their digital asset treasuries this week despite their falling premium. On Dec. 8, Strategy revealed that it acquired 10,624 BTC last week for $962.7 million, its largest weekly outlay since July. This purchase effectively ignored the broader signal The post The “infinite money glitch” […]

  • Turkey Plans Drone Facility In Pakistan
    by Tyler Durden on December 10, 2025 at 9:15 am

    Turkey Plans Drone Facility In Pakistan Turkey, long a pioneer in military drone development and production, plans to set up a facility in Pakistan to assemble combat drones, part of Ankara’s drive to boost its defense industry in international markets, Bloomberg reported citing Turkish officials. Talks over the project, which would see Turkey export stealth and long-endurance drones to be put together in Pakistan, have […]

  • Rosneft Oil Cargo Wanders For Weeks As Sanctions Mount
    by Tyler Durden on December 10, 2025 at 8:30 am

    Rosneft Oil Cargo Wanders For Weeks As Sanctions Mount By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com A cargo of crude oil from sanctioned Russian giant Rosneft has made an 11-week-long meandering trip around Europe and Asia in search of buyers and although it has anchored off a sanctioned Chinese import port, it’s not certain it has reached its final destination yet. The Fortis tanker with about 700,000 barrels of now sanctioned Russian […]

  • Germany Plans Largest Single-Year Investment In Arms, Equipment In Its History
    by Tyler Durden on December 10, 2025 at 7:45 am

    Germany Plans Largest Single-Year Investment In Arms, Equipment In Its History At a moment the Russia-Ukraine war grinds on, and as Trump-led efforts to find peace have been frustrated – largely as Zelensky and his backers have balked at agreeing to any territorial compromise as the bases of a deal – Germany is busy transforming its military with an aim to boost Bundeswehr numbers and meet NATO targets. That news dominated […]

  • Europe’s Brown New Deal
    by Tyler Durden on December 10, 2025 at 7:00 am

    Europe’s Brown New Deal Authored by Dmitry Orlov via ForumGeopolitica.com, As living standards in Europe decline, the elites are inventing a fictional enemy: Russia. With staged provocations and historical distortions, they want to divert people’s anger and justify higher military spending. The result of the Green New Deal is steadily decreasing living standards throughout Europe stemming from the root cause of lower amounts of […]

  • Modern Warfare: Lessons From Ukraine
    by Tyler Durden on December 10, 2025 at 4:25 am

    Modern Warfare: Lessons From Ukraine Authored by Adam Sharp via DailyReckoning.com, Before Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, we had very little insight into what modern warfare would look like. How would hypersonic and cruise missiles perform? What impact would drones have on the battlefield? How important is artillery in modern warfare? How relevant are tanks? And what about electronic warfare? All these questions have […]

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  • Western Colleges Help Build China’s Digital Dragnet With Taxpayer Funds, Study Warns
    by Tyler Durden on December 10, 2025 at 3:35 am

    Western Colleges Help Build China’s Digital Dragnet With Taxpayer Funds, Study Warns Submitted by The Bureau’s Sam Cooper, Over the past five years, some of the world’s most technologically advanced campuses in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom — including MIT, Oxford and McGill — have relied on taxpayer funding while collaborating with artificial-intelligence labs embedded in Beijing’s security state, including […]

  • Israel Launches New Wave Of Huge Airstrikes On Lebanon
    by Tyler Durden on December 10, 2025 at 3:10 am

    Israel Launches New Wave Of Huge Airstrikes On Lebanon Israel’s military has confirmed it carried out new waves of air attacks in southern Lebanon that damaged several homes and buildings, which the IDF said primarily targeted Hezbollah training camps. The largescale attacks occurred despite what’s supposed to be a agreed upon truce in effect going all the way back to November 2024. Prior to that, Hezbollah had been engaged in […]

  • ‘Iryna’s Law’ And The Bad Decisions That Make It Necessary
    by Tyler Durden on December 10, 2025 at 2:45 am

    ‘Iryna’s Law’ And The Bad Decisions That Make It Necessary Authored by Daniel McCarthy via The Epoch Times, What will it take to get crime under control in our subways and public transit systems? On Monday, Dec. 1, news broke of another passenger set on fire in New York City’s subway—although this story wasn’t all it seemed. The homeless man who at first said he was the victim of an attack turned tight-lipped when police […]

  • Mississippi Has The Highest Credit Card Delinquency Rate, Florida The Lowest
    by Tyler Durden on December 10, 2025 at 2:20 am

    Mississippi Has The Highest Credit Card Delinquency Rate, Florida The Lowest The map, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, highlights how credit card delinquency varies widely across the U.S. in 2025. These figures represent the share of credit card accounts that became 30 or more days past due from Q1 to Q2. The data for this visualization comes from WalletHub. Southern States Lead in Delinquencies The Deep South stands out […]

  • New York Archdiocese Agrees To Mediation For Settling 1,300 Claims Of Sexual Abuse
    by Tyler Durden on December 10, 2025 at 1:55 am

    New York Archdiocese Agrees To Mediation For Settling 1,300 Claims Of Sexual Abuse Authored by Melanie Sun via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Roman Catholic Church in New York and more than 1,300 people who have accused its priests and lay employees of sexual abuse have agreed to enter mediation to resolve the claims. Archbishop of New York cardinal Timothy Dolan holds his homily during a Mass in his own titular Church […]

  • Oil Trading Giant Warns Of Looming “Super Glut” Due To Supply Surge
    by Tyler Durden on December 10, 2025 at 1:30 am

    Oil Trading Giant Warns Of Looming “Super Glut” Due To Supply Surge Echoing what has become a now daily refrain by commodity bears everywhere, Saad Rahim, chief economist of commodity-trading giant, Trafigura, said that the oil market faces a “super glut” next year as a burst of new supply collides with weakness in the global economy. According to Rahim, new drilling projects and slowing demand growth would weigh further on […]

  • Conrad Black: Trump’s Approach To Curbing Crime Is Proving Effective
    by Tyler Durden on December 10, 2025 at 1:05 am

    Conrad Black: Trump’s Approach To Curbing Crime Is Proving Effective Authored by Conrad Black via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), There’s no doubt that President Donald Trump’s campaign to reduce urban crime is fundamentally popular. The overwhelming majority of Americans oppose crime, particularly violent crime that threatens them in their homes or while engaging in daily activities on city streets and sidewalks. Some […]

  • Washington, DC Has The Highest Share Of Renters In America, Nearly Double National Average
    by Tyler Durden on December 10, 2025 at 12:40 am

    Washington, DC Has The Highest Share Of Renters In America, Nearly Double National Average About one in three U.S. households rents, a ratio that has stayed surprisingly steady over the past six decades. But with mortgage rates soaring from 2.7% in 2020 to almost 7% today – and home prices continuing to climb – the share of renters has edged up. Today, it takes $121,400 to afford a typical home, or 43% higher than the average […]

  • Aussie Data Centers Could Swallow 40 Million Litres Of Water Per Day, That’s About 80,000 Households
    by Tyler Durden on December 10, 2025 at 12:15 am

    Aussie Data Centers Could Swallow 40 Million Litres Of Water Per Day, That’s About 80,000 Households Authored by Jerry Zhu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Australia’s utility industry warns the country’s current water supply is not enough to accommodate the explosive growth of data centres and artificial intelligence (AI). A photo of the Global Switch data centre in Ultimo of Sydney, Australia taken on May 9, 2025. […]

  • “Godless Demons”: Teen Commits Suicide After “Sextortion” As International Crime Ring Targets American Children
    by Tyler Durden on December 9, 2025 at 11:50 pm

    “Godless Demons”: Teen Commits Suicide After “Sextortion” As International Crime Ring Targets American Children Federal authorities are investigating the death of a 15-year-old West Virginia boy as part of a broader examination into sextortion networks that have increasingly targeted American teenagers, resulting in what experts describe as a national crisis of online predation, the New York Post reported. Bryce Tate, 15 Bryce […]

  • Trump Warns Of ‘Severe’ Tariffs On Canadian Fertilizer If Needed
    by Tyler Durden on December 9, 2025 at 11:25 pm

    Trump Warns Of ‘Severe’ Tariffs On Canadian Fertilizer If Needed Authored by Jennifer Cowan via The Epoch Times, U.S. President Donald Trump says he is considering “very severe” tariffs on fertilizer imports from Canada as the United States readies a $12 billion aid package for farmers grappling with the repercussions of the ongoing trade war. Trump mentioned the increased levy on Canada while responding to reporters’ […]

  • US Army Looks To Build Small Refineries For Critical Minerals
    by Tyler Durden on December 9, 2025 at 10:40 pm

    US Army Looks To Build Small Refineries For Critical Minerals By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com The U.S. Army will develop small-scale refineries to ensure domestic supply of critical minerals for defense and military purposes as the United States and the Western allies look to reduce their dependence on China.  “We need to come up with a way to ‌make our own (critical minerals) domestically that we can actually monitor […]

  • Tony Blair ‘Dropped’ From Trump’s Gaza ‘Board Of Peace’
    by Tyler Durden on December 9, 2025 at 10:00 pm

    Tony Blair ‘Dropped’ From Trump’s Gaza ‘Board Of Peace’ Via Middle East Eye Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is no longer being considered for a seat on a “board of peace” for Gaza chaired by US President Donald Trump. According to the Financial Times, Blair’s name was dropped under pressure from several Arab and Muslim states. The status of the “board of peace” remains unclear and while the idea has received wide […]

  • Rich People, Poor Morals: Wealthy Are The Most Likely To Rip Off Self-Checkout Machines
    by Tyler Durden on December 9, 2025 at 9:40 pm

    Rich People, Poor Morals: Wealthy Are The Most Likely To Rip Off Self-Checkout Machines Rich people, poorer morals? A new LendingTree report claims the shoppers most likely to rip off the self-checkout machine aren’t the desperate — they’re the well-off, according to the NY Post. Americans making over $100,000 a year are twice as likely to steal at self-checkout compared to low-income shoppers. A hefty 40% of six-figure […]

  • Question Everything
    by Tyler Durden on December 9, 2025 at 9:20 pm

    Question Everything Authored by Jeff Thomas via InternationalMan.com, The average person in the First World receives far more information than he would if he lived in a Second or Third World country. In many countries of the world, the very idea of twenty-four hour television news coverage would be unthinkable, yet many Westerners feel that, without this constant input, they would be woefully uninformed. Not surprising, then, […]

  • Adam Schiff Laments Trump Wasn’t Jailed Sooner As DOJ Turns On Him
    by Tyler Durden on December 9, 2025 at 8:20 pm

    Adam Schiff Laments Trump Wasn’t Jailed Sooner As DOJ Turns On Him Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., lamented that the Biden administration did not move more quickly to incarcerate President Donald Trump, suggesting that even more aggressive action could have thwarted his 2024 electoral prospects.  Schiff, who himself is facing a federal investigation into allegations of […]

  • Goldman Reminds Clients Where Travel & Leisure Cracked First Ahead Of 2008 Crisis
    by Tyler Durden on December 9, 2025 at 8:00 pm

    Goldman Reminds Clients Where Travel & Leisure Cracked First Ahead Of 2008 Crisis Goldman analysts led by Lizzie Dove examined how different segments within travel and leisure reacted to, and ultimately recovered from, the 2008-09 recession. Her analysis offers a valuable framework for identifying where consumer stress tends to appear first inside the travel space and whether today’s warning signs in a K-shaped, bifurcated […]

  • Clinton-Appointed Federal Judge Tosses Trump’s Order Halting Wind Energy Projects
    by Tyler Durden on December 9, 2025 at 7:40 pm

    Clinton-Appointed Federal Judge Tosses Trump’s Order Halting Wind Energy Projects Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, A federal judge on Dec. 8 vacated President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order that halted federal permitting and leasing for wind energy projects, saying it violated U.S. law. U.S. District Judge Patti Saris of the District of Massachusetts ruled in favor of a coalition of state attorneys […]

  • Zelensky Says ‘Ready For Elections’ After Trump Indicated He’s An Obstacle To Peace
    by Tyler Durden on December 9, 2025 at 7:35 pm

    Zelensky Says ‘Ready For Elections’ After Trump Indicated He’s An Obstacle To Peace Update(1435ET): Is this finally the end of the road for Zelensky? President Trump has really ramped up the pressure, in a fresh Politico interview signaling that the Ukrainian leader must begin to accept reality and make compromises, starting with holding elections. According to a fresh audio statement being circulated, Zelensky has newly responded […]

  • Trump Threatens Tariff Increase On Mexico Over Rio Grande Water Dispute
    by Tyler Durden on December 9, 2025 at 7:20 pm

    Trump Threatens Tariff Increase On Mexico Over Rio Grande Water Dispute President Donald Trump weighed in on a decades-old border water dispute on Monday, saying he would impose a 5 percent tariff hike on Mexican imports if the country fails to swiftly deliver the water it owes from the Rio Grande. The ultimatum is designed to help struggling U.S. farmers, especially in Texas, amid alleged treaty violations over the past five […]

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