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Banks sell Bitcoin, crypto exchanges buy banks… Why do they want each other's business?

On Oct. 14, Standard Chartered let affluent professional investors in the UAE trade bitcoin inside the bank, custody included, while Kraken's parent agreed to buy Lithuania's Saldo Bank. An exchange...
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Korean stocks fell over 5%. Why did bitcoin hold up?

While the KOSPI fell 5.46% on Oct. 13, bitcoin dipped just below $81,000 in the morning and soon climbed back above $83,000. The day's bad news was tied to chips...
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France moves to make crypto self-custody wallets report holdings: can coins kept off exchanges still avoid tax?

A French parliamentary finance committee adopted an amendment requiring people to declare crypto held in personal wallets if it is worth €100,000 (about $112,000) or more on Dec. 31. If it...
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Bitcoin ETFs lost $681M in a week. Why do rising rates hurt crypto?

In the week U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs lost a net $681 million (Oct. 5-9), the 30-year U.S. Treasury yield hit 5.70%, its highest since 2002, and...
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A U.S. crypto bill failed. Why isn't Coinbase the loser?

After the Clarity Act was blocked 49 to 50 in a procedural Senate vote on Sept. 15, the SEC and the CFTC rolled out three actions in 20 days, an exemption, a proposed rule and a request for comment, but the...
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Why did 99.6% of 87,000 crypto loan liquidations hit one exchange?

Of the 87,110 forced liquidations of crypto loans at South Korean exchanges from January 2025 to August 2026, 99.6% happened at Bithumb, yet Bithumb's August liquidation rate relative to loans taken out (3.67%) was lower than Coinone's and DigitalX's (4.94%)...
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XRP's supply is fixed. So how did free XRP almost appear?

XRP was designed so that all 100 billion coins were created at once in 2012 and no more would ever be added, but developers found that payment math written in 2015 hid an error for...
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Thailand opens Bitcoin ETFs next week. Why is Korea still waiting?

Korea has 11.13 million active crypto exchange accounts but no Bitcoin ETF. That's because the Capital Markets Act leaves crypto off the list of assets an ETF can hold, and the...
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Why did $86 million vanish from the "safest" crypto wallet?

Crypto wallet maker Ledger told buyers who got devices in the last 90 days from CryptoBilis, an official reseller in Southeast Asia, not to start setting them up, and blockchain...
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Apple stock as a crypto token pays dividends, but your name isn't on the shareholder register

The tokens for 12 US stocks, including Apple and Nvidia, that Securitize announced on Oct. 8 are, by the company's account, issued one per real share and designed to carry dividends and voting...
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Binance vs. Coinbase

83% of the bitcoin Binance holds sits at addresses whose public keys are already exposed; at Coinbase it is 10% (Glassnode data, Oct. 8). The two exchanges, one first in trading volume and the other first in an...
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US rates are 4%, a crypto dollar pays 10%. Who pays the difference?

On a day when three-month U.S. Treasury bills yielded 4.14% (Oct. 6), crypto exchange OKX unveiled an app paying up to 10% a year on the dollar coin USDG without...
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Bitcoin fell 30% in a year. Why did Zcash jump 24x?

While Bitcoin fell about 31% in a year, Zcash rose about 2,300% from September 2025 to September 2026, and about 29% of all Zcash mined sits in a space for hidden...
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Bitcoin used to be down 70-80% a year after a peak. Why only 32% this time?

A year after past peaks, bitcoin was down 69.7% to 82.3%, but this time it is down 32%, and even the deepest point, on June 30, was only -53%. As institutional money that keeps a set...
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Metaplanet sold 1 trillion won of bitcoin and bought it back for 1.3 trillion. Why?

Metaplanet bought bitcoin back at an average of about 9% above its sale price, paying about 99.4 billion won extra on the 10,000 coins it sold...
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Why NYSE's owner is teaming up with a crypto exchange to sell stocks 24/7

Korean brokerages reopened daytime trading in November 2025, already offering about 23 hours of U.S. stock trading on weekdays. What NYSE parent ICE and...
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Is Mt. Gox's $2.88 billion in Bitcoin really bad news if it is released at the end of this month?

In July 2024, the month Mt. Gox began returning Bitcoin, Bitcoin slid to $53,600 on July 5 but ended the month up 3.1%. The variable this time is not only the remaining 34,387.51 coins...
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Circle and Coinbase got bank charters without taking deposits. Why are they in court?

A US community bank group sued the regulator that gave crypto firms trust bank charters on Oct. 2. Banks argue the problem isn't deposits but a 'national bank' label that comes without deposit...
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Bitcoin nears 60% dominance. Why do altcoins lag?

On Oct. 2, as Bitcoin's share of the market neared 60%, Ether, XRP, Solana and BNB rose too. That day major altcoins didn't fall; they rose less than Bitcoin, and two possible reasons...
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Exchanges were supposed to earn in any market. Crypto -33%, their profit -78%

Crypto exchanges are supposed to earn fees every time people buy or sell, even in a downturn. Yet while Bitcoin fell 33%, operating profit at Korea's 17 exchanges, including Upbit and Bithumb, fell...
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Citi opens the door to stablecoin payments. So who makes the money?

Citi says business clients using its merchant payments service will be able to accept stablecoin payments. The coins are converted into dollars automatically, so shops...
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Kakaopay is tokenizing Korean stocks. Will more foreign money come in?

Kakaopay Securities is researching a structure to distribute tokens tied 1:1 to underlying Korean shares overseas. But there are no Korean stock tokens yet, and all tokenized...
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Strategy bought back more of its own preferred stock than bitcoin. Why?

Strategy spent $641.3 million buying back its own STRC preferred stock in the four weeks to Sept. 27, about 2.9 times what it spent on bitcoin. The preferred...
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The US raised rates. So why did Bitcoin ETFs get their biggest week of the year?

The week after the Fed raised rates, Bitcoin ETFs took in $2.4 billion, flipping the year-to-date total from minus $5.8 billion in July to positive. But...
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