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EU crypto reporting goes live and Netherlands immediately votes on 36% Bitcoin tax – even if you don’t sell
The scoop: The Netherlands has just moved to tax Bitcoin like a stock, marked to market. Lawmakers in the Dutch House ba...

Bitcoin eyes $7.7T sidelined dollars as Wall Street runs out of cash to “buy the dip”
I came across some analysis that's relevant to Bitcoin this morning that cut through the usual stream of charts and market takes with a stark claim: there is “almost no cash on the sidelines.” If ...

CLARITY Act is turning into a proxy war over who pays Americans for holding “digital dollars”
The fight over CLARITY has always been sold as a battle for rules, a way to finally give the U.S. crypto market a clean lane to run in. That story still matters. The past week made something else clea...

XRP holds 63% of this T-bill token supply but barely any of the trading, and that’s a problem
Tokenized US Treasuries are close to $11 billion, but the chain war is shifting from issuance to distribution and utility. Where yield tokens actually sit, how often they move, and whether they plug i...

Wall Street tries to copy crypto’s prediction markets as Cboe files for “Yes/No” options
Cboe wants to bring back all-or-nothing options, a contract that pays a fixed amount if a condition is met and pays zero if it isn't. While that might sound like a small product refresh, the timing ma...

Bitcoin hit $60,000 because two different groups finally surrendered — on-chain data shows who blinked
Bitcoin’s February drop to about $60,000 was the kind of single-day panic people will remember as a bottom. But the more accurate reading of this washout is harder and more useful: this cycle quit i...

Robinhood’s $221 million crypto revenue drop shows crypto winter isn’t on chain and retail already moved
Crypto winter has a branding problem. The phrase makes it sound like the chain goes quiet, wallets stop moving, and the whole machine turns cold. However, the cleanest proof of retail pulling back rar...

Bitcoin shorts just hit their most extreme level in years as BTC defiantly holds above $70k
Bitcoin derivative traders are increasingly positioning for further downside rather than a clean bounce as the leading cryptocurrency continues to trade in a tight range below $70,000. According to Cr...

Token Escrow on XRPL could force new XRP demand, but only if this adoption hurdle breaks
On Feb. 12, RippleX, Ripple's development arm, announced that Token Escrow is now live on the XRP Ledger’s (XRPL) mainnet. The change, labeled Token Escrow (XLS-85), extends conditional locking and ...

Tether quietly stacked 27 tons of gold, now it’s wiring $150M to sell it to crypto users
Gold back over $5,000 is a market tell: fear is back. Tether just paid $150 million for the last mile. By taking ~12% of Gold.com and integrating XAU₮, Tether is buying distribution, so a USDT holde...