For the first time in more than a century, America is about to go dark on its inflation stat. With Bureau of Labor Statistics staff furloughed due to the shutdown, there will be no Consumer Price Index and no official measure of the cost of living, nor a baseline for the markets. What the hell? … Read more
The crypto market saw another tense session on Wednesday as Bitcoin briefly dumped to $115,000 before recovering hours later back to the key $118K support level: a battle that’s been going on for days now. Traders are watching closely as BTC holds this level with its teeth, despite increasing macro pressure. While the broader market … Read more
Nearly $58 million in USDC has been frozen in connection with the LIBRA memecoin scandal, deepening the legal and political fallout from one of this year’s biggest crypto scandals. On May 29, blockchain analytics firm Arkham reported that Circle, the issuer of USD Coin (USDC), froze two Solana (SOL) wallets tied to the LIBRA deployer … Read more
Talk about a rough wake-up call for crypto traders. In the early hours of April 15, Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a network hiccup at one of its Tokyo data centers, and the ripple effect was instant. The AWS crypto outage raised questions about the reliability centralized exchanges, but first let’s start with actually happened. … Read more