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  • The four times Bitcoin price fell by Independence Day each year
    by Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright on July 4, 2025 at 11:49 am

    Bitcoin’s price history shows four instances of year-over-year declines on July 4, interrupting its general uptrend. These decreases occurred during broader market corrections and periods of distress for the digital asset industry. The most recent drop was in 2022, when the price fell to $19,750, a sharp contrast to the $34,973 level seen one year The post The four times Bitcoin price fell by Independence Day each year appeared first on […]

  • Polymarket bettors forecast 75% chance Bitcoin reaches $120k in 2025 as prediction volume jumps 30%
    by Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright on July 4, 2025 at 10:30 am

    Prediction market data shows traders are wagering millions on the price of Bitcoin reaching levels above $120,000 in 2025. On the decentralized platform Polymarket, a market asking what price Bitcoin will hit in 2025, has attracted over $15.5 million in volume. Traders assign a 75% probability that the asset will exceed $120,000 by the end The post Polymarket bettors forecast 75% chance Bitcoin reaches $120k in 2025 as prediction volume jumps […]

  • MARA’s $5.4B Bitcoin treasury grows to 50k BTC as miners adopt a HODL strategy
    by Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright on July 4, 2025 at 9:10 am

    MARA (formerly Marathon Digital) reports its Bitcoin holdings have increased to 49,940 BTC, bringing the digital asset miner to the edge of a major corporate milestone and reinforcing a broader market trend of miners retaining their produced assets. MARA’s holdings position it as the second-largest public corporate holder of Bitcoin, with a treasury valued at The post MARA’s $5.4B Bitcoin treasury grows to 50k BTC as miners adopt a HODL […]

  • Dormant Bitcoin holder moves $2 billion BTC from 2011 for potential 14,000,000% gain
    by Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright on July 4, 2025 at 8:09 am

    Two Bitcoin wallets inactive for 14 years transferred a combined 20,000 BTC, valued at approximately $2.18 billion, on July 4. The transactions originated from separate addresses that held 10,000 BTC since April 3, 2011, when the asset price was roughly $0.78. The analytics account Lookonchain first flagged the on-chain movements, which detailed the two separate The post Dormant Bitcoin holder moves $2 billion BTC from 2011 for potential […]

  • DeFi TVL breaks above $116B as lending roars back
    by Andjela Radmilac on July 4, 2025 at 1:00 am

    The DeFi market has rebounded at the beginning of July, with total value locked (TVL) rising to $116.416 billion, a level last seen in April. The 24-hour increase of 4.95% reflects rising crypto asset prices and renewed deposit flows into lending protocols, restaking services, and yield-bearing primitives. As Ethereum and Solana continue to absorb most The post DeFi TVL breaks above $116B as lending roars back appeared first on CryptoSlate.

  • TRON DAO Joins EthCC as WAGMI Sponsor, Co-Hosts Events with MetaMask and Arkham
    by News Desk on July 4, 2025 at 12:45 am

    Geneva, Switzerland, July 3 2025 — TRON DAO, the community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet via blockchain technology and decentralized applications (dApps), proudly participated as a WAGMI Sponsor at the Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC), held from June 30 to July 3 in Cannes, France. As Europe’s largest annual Ethereum-focused event, EthCC The post TRON DAO Joins EthCC as WAGMI Sponsor, […]

  • Pantera, Ondo launch $250M fund to drive RWA tokenization
    by Assad Jafri on July 4, 2025 at 12:00 am

    Ondo Finance and Pantera Capital have launched a $250 million fund to accelerate investments in tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), Axios reported on July 3. According to the report, the fund, named Ondo Catalyst, will invest in equity stakes and tokens of projects developing tokenized versions of traditional financial assets. Ian De Bode, chief strategy officer The post Pantera, Ondo launch $250M fund to drive RWA tokenization appeared first […]

  • Post-maintenance mishap on Solana’s Backpack triggers incorrect futures orders, balance reports
    by Gino Matos on July 3, 2025 at 11:15 pm

    Backpack halted trading for scheduled maintenance at 10 a.m. UTC on July 3 and reopened two hours later, but the restart triggered account errors that forced CEO Armani Ferrante to promise reviews and compensation. Backpack had warned users on X that the platform would go offline at 10 a.m., enter post-only mode at noon, and The post Post-maintenance mishap on Solana’s Backpack triggers incorrect futures orders, balance reports appeared first […]

  • Russian insurance firms unveil investment life policies tied to Bitcoin
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on July 3, 2025 at 10:30 pm

    Two major Russian insurance firms, Renaissance Life and BCS Life Insurance, have launched investment life insurance policies (ILIPs) linked to Bitcoin, according to a July 2 local media report. According to the report, the innovative policies allow investors to gain exposure to BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), the largest Bitcoin ETF by assets under management. The post Russian insurance firms unveil investment life policies tied to […]

  • BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF rapidly climbs to third in revenue, nears top spot
    by Assad Jafri on July 3, 2025 at 9:45 pm

    BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund IBIT has become the asset manager’s third-highest revenue-generating ETF just 18 months after its launch, according to data shared by Bloomberg senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas. Strategy Chairman Michael Saylor responded to the milestone by predicting that IBIT will soon become BlackRock’s number one revenue-generating ETF. The IBIT fund has The post BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF rapidly climbs […]

  • US Patriotism Among Democrats Crashes As Marxist Demands Grow Louder
    by Tyler Durden on July 4, 2025 at 10:45 am

    US Patriotism Among Democrats Crashes As Marxist Demands Grow Louder Ahead of the Fourth of July, new polling shows a sharp decline in U.S. national pride, driven mainly by crazed Democrats, some of whom have increasingly spewed anti-American rhetoric, with talking points that sound straight from adversarial regimes like the Communist Party of China. Democrats are mostly in opposition to President Trump’s “Make America Great […]

  • Professor Warns UK Gov’t Is Preparing For Civil War, Using Russian Invasion Threat As Cover
    by Tyler Durden on July 4, 2025 at 10:10 am

    Professor Warns UK Gov’t Is Preparing For Civil War, Using Russian Invasion Threat As Cover Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A prominent academic in London has warned that the UK government is actively preparing for the break out of a civil war, but is using the “logically absurd” cover of a Russian invasion to put contingencies in place. Pointing to remarks made in the 2025 National Security Strategy paper […]

  • Swiss To Vote On 50% Inheritance Tax That Risks Exodus Of The Super-Rich
    by Tyler Durden on July 4, 2025 at 9:35 am

    Swiss To Vote On 50% Inheritance Tax That Risks Exodus Of The Super-Rich In a national referendum set for November, the people of Switzerland will vote on whether the country should impose a 50% inheritance tax on the wealthiest of people — under a regimen so harsh that not even surviving spouses would be spared from the rapacious confiscation. Naturally, this is triggering predictions of a mass-exodus of wealthy people, with […]

  • Why’d Erdogan Decide To Expand Turkiye’s Sphere Of Influence Eastwards?
    by Tyler Durden on July 4, 2025 at 9:00 am

    Why’d Erdogan Decide To Expand Turkiye’s Sphere Of Influence Eastwards? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Assad’s downfall set into motion a fast-moving sequence of events that now threatens Russian influence in the South Caucasus, the Caspian Sea, and Central Asia; i.e. its entire southern periphery… The latest developments in the South Caucasus are connected to the expansion of Turkiye’s sphere of influence […]

  • The 1775 Two Step That Led To American Independence
    by Tyler Durden on July 4, 2025 at 3:35 am

    The 1775 Two Step That Led To American Independence Authored by Jim Bovard As Americans prepare to celebrate the 249th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we should also toast the 250th anniversary of a savvy political two-step that paved the way to formally breaking with Britain the following year. “We, your Majesty’s faithful subjects…” began the petition beseeching reconciliation with King George from the […]

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  • Bi-Partisan Seattle Citizens Group Launches Campaign To Ban Homeless Encampments
    by Tyler Durden on July 4, 2025 at 3:00 am

    Bi-Partisan Seattle Citizens Group Launches Campaign To Ban Homeless Encampments A new bipartisan group, the Quality of Life Coalition, is pushing a ballot initiative to address King County’s growing homeless encampment crisis — a problem they say local politicians have let spiral out of control, according to 770 KTTH.  On Tuesday, the group filed the “Compassionate Public Safety Act,” which would ban unauthorized public […]

  • CCP Leaders Propose Regulations To Rein In Xi’s Superagencies
    by Tyler Durden on July 4, 2025 at 2:25 am

    CCP Leaders Propose Regulations To Rein In Xi’s Superagencies Authored by Dorothy Li via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), China’s top leaders are proposing new rules to regulate a set of powerful commissions and groups established nearly a decade ago by communist Party chief Xi Jinping to centralize his power. A Chinese paramilitary policeman stands guard in Tiananmen Square before the introduction of the Communist Party of […]

  • “We’ve Become Serfs On Our Own Land”: The USDA Trap, Foreign Land Sales, And The Collapse Of American Farming
    by Tyler Durden on July 4, 2025 at 1:50 am

    “We’ve Become Serfs On Our Own Land”: The USDA Trap, Foreign Land Sales, And The Collapse Of American Farming Source: Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry, March: the Château de Lusignan 77 family farms vanish every day in the U.S. But what’s really killing them? A CHD.TV interview with rancher and Beef Initiative policy fellow Breeauna Sagdal reveals the trap: USDA regulations, monopolized meatpacking, foreign land grabs, and […]

  • Why US Banned Transfer Of Genetic Samples To China
    by Tyler Durden on July 4, 2025 at 1:15 am

    Why US Banned Transfer Of Genetic Samples To China Authored by Leo Timm via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Food and Drug Administration has halted a program that allowed the transfer of U.S. citizens’ biological samples to China and other “hostile countries.” The U.S. Food and Drug Administration building in White Oak, Md., on June 5, 2023. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times The FDA’s ban and review are a necessary […]

  • North Korea Sending Up To 30,000 Troops To Bolster Russia’s Forces: Reports
    by Tyler Durden on July 4, 2025 at 12:40 am

    North Korea Sending Up To 30,000 Troops To Bolster Russia’s Forces: Reports North Korea is reportedly preparing to triple the number of its troops fighting for Russia along the front lines with Ukraine, sending an additional 25,000 to 30,000 soldiers to assist Russian forces. This is based on an intelligence assessment from Ukrainian officials. According to CNN, “The troops may arrive in Russia in the coming months, according to […]

  • Choice Tax Breaks: The GOP’s Federal Plan To Transform Education
    by Tyler Durden on July 4, 2025 at 12:05 am

    Choice Tax Breaks: The GOP’s Federal Plan To Transform Education Authored by Vince Bielski via RealClearEducation, Buried in the 940-page “big, beautiful” budget blueprint is an unprecedented tax credit that, if approved, will be a long-sought victory for the private school choice movement in its drive to expand and break into Democratic states that for decades have blocked its path. The tax credit program, which would […]

  • Social Media Especially Harms Girls’ Sleep & Mental Health
    by Tyler Durden on July 3, 2025 at 11:30 pm

    Social Media Especially Harms Girls’ Sleep & Mental Health June 30 was World Social Media Day. In a survey conducted between September and October 2025, 50 percent of 13- to 17-year-old girls said that social media has hurt their sleep, versus 40 percent of boys the same age. As Statista’ Anna Fleck reports, teenage girls are more likely than boys to report negative impacts from social media on their sleep, self confidence, […]

  • Huawei To Stand Trial In US On Charges Of Bank Fraud, Sanctions Violations, Theft
    by Tyler Durden on July 3, 2025 at 10:55 pm

    Huawei To Stand Trial In US On Charges Of Bank Fraud, Sanctions Violations, Theft Authored by Austin Alonzo via The Epoch Times, Chinese company Huawei Technologies will stand trial on multiple charges after a federal judge denied its bid to dismiss a long-running case against it. On July 1, District Judge Ann Donnelly of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York ruled that there was sufficient evidence to […]

  • China’s ‘Fentanyl King’ Plunges Into “Corruption Fueled Bankruptcy”
    by Tyler Durden on July 3, 2025 at 10:20 pm

    China’s ‘Fentanyl King’ Plunges Into “Corruption Fueled Bankruptcy” Ai Luming was once a symbol of China’s entrepreneurial rise — its ‘fentanyl king’ and a philosophy graduate who turned a urine-based drug startup into a sprawling private empire spanning pharma, real estate, and finance, according to Caixin. But by 2025, after nearly four decades, his business collapsed under mounting debt, defaulted investments, and a […]

  • Federal Officials Warn Of ‘Lone Wolf’ Terror Threats On July 4, NY Governor Says
    by Tyler Durden on July 3, 2025 at 9:45 pm

    Federal Officials Warn Of ‘Lone Wolf’ Terror Threats On July 4, NY Governor Says Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has confirmed that federal officials informed her about a possible terrorist threat ahead of the July 4 Independence Day holiday. “Our federal partners reiterated yesterday that lone wolf actors remain the greatest potential threat including during the upcoming July 4th […]

  • DOJ Arrests Two Chinese Nationals For Spying, Trying To Recruit U.S. Military Members To Work For PRC
    by Tyler Durden on July 3, 2025 at 9:10 pm

    DOJ Arrests Two Chinese Nationals For Spying, Trying To Recruit U.S. Military Members To Work For PRC Two Chinese nationals, Yuance Chen of Happy Valley, Oregon, and Liren Lai, who entered the U.S. on a tourist visa in April 2025, have been charged with acting as agents for China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS). According to a Monday report, the Department of Justice alleges the men gathered intelligence on U.S. Navy personnel […]

  • Trump Says June 2025 Border Statistics Are Lowest In US History
    by Tyler Durden on July 3, 2025 at 8:35 pm

    Trump Says June 2025 Border Statistics Are Lowest In US History Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump said on July 2 that the previous month’s border statistics were the lowest in the nation’s history, with Border Patrol reporting zero releases of illegal immigrants into the United States and just over 6,000 arrests at the Southwest border. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said […]

  • Planetary Defenders Track Fast-Moving “Interstellar Object” Through Solar System
    by Tyler Durden on July 3, 2025 at 8:00 pm

    Planetary Defenders Track Fast-Moving “Interstellar Object” Through Solar System On Wednesday, the European Space Agency revealed that its Planetary Defenders are tracking a fast-moving “interstellar object” zipping through the solar system. While some might hope it’s an alien spacecraft—finally giving Paul Krugman a win—chances are it’s just another space rock.  “Astronomers may have just discovered the third interstellar […]

  • Antifa Rioters Charged With Arson And Assault In Portland
    by Tyler Durden on July 3, 2025 at 7:30 pm

    Antifa Rioters Charged With Arson And Assault In Portland Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, The Trump-led DOJ has charged four individuals in connection with the violent anti-ICE riots that broke out in June in Oregon.  The defendants, some allegedly caught on video, spent several weeks targeting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and assaulting federal officers, prosecutors said in a press […]

  • Leftist Activist Calls For Sanctions On America, Has Deep Ties To Democrat NGO Network
    by Tyler Durden on July 3, 2025 at 7:00 pm

    Leftist Activist Calls For Sanctions On America, Has Deep Ties To Democrat NGO Network Far-left and unhinged social justice warrior Elie Mystal has sparked controversy with remarks suggesting that America “needs to be sanctioned,” and calling the country “a menace to peaceful people” and “the bad guys.” His comments reflect an alarming trend on the left toward anti-American rhetoric—resembling propaganda straight out of the […]

  • Fracking Is America’s (Not So) Secret Weapon
    by Tyler Durden on July 3, 2025 at 6:30 pm

    Fracking Is America’s (Not So) Secret Weapon Authored by Jim Welty, Rob Burndrett & Charlie Burd via RealClearEnergy, America’s shale revolution and ascension to the world’s largest oil and natural gas producer has made one fact abundantly clear: energy security is national security. No longer are geopolitical and national security decisions held hostage to the threat of energy price spikes. Because of oil from Texas and […]

  • After ‘8 Hours Of Hogwash’ From Rep. Jeffries, House Republicans Pass Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
    by Tyler Durden on July 3, 2025 at 6:30 pm

    After ‘8 Hours Of Hogwash’ From Rep. Jeffries, House Republicans Pass Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Update (1430ET): The republican response to Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries’ record-breaking address was brief and to the point, as Rep Jason Smith retorted: “I come from the Show-Me State, and what we just heard can be defined in one word. A bunch of hogwash is what we’ve heard for eight hours on that side of the building.” […]

  • Deputy Head Of Russian Navy Killed In Ukraine Missile Strike
    by Tyler Durden on July 3, 2025 at 6:00 pm

    Deputy Head Of Russian Navy Killed In Ukraine Missile Strike In a rare battlefield development, a very high-ranking general officer for Russia’s military has been killed by Ukrainian forces, and it actually happened on Russian soil. Major General Mikhail Gudkov, deputy commander of the Russian Navy and a brigade leader in the Ukraine war, has been confirmed dead in Russia’s Kursk region, according to a statement Thursday by a […]

  • Four Reasons Why This 4th Of July Is Better
    by Tyler Durden on July 3, 2025 at 5:30 pm

    Four Reasons Why This 4th Of July Is Better Authored by Larry Behrens via RealClearEnergy, As Americans fire up their grills and head out on road trips, there’s something to celebrate this Independence Day: energy sanity is making a comeback. This year, there’s a little more freedom on the menu. After years of being shackled by a radical green agenda, 2025 is shaping up to be the year we finally hit the brakes and throw it […]

  • CIA Memo: Obama Team ‘Excessively Involved’ In Fueling Trump-Russia Narrative
    by Tyler Durden on July 3, 2025 at 4:40 pm

    CIA Memo: Obama Team ‘Excessively Involved’ In Fueling Trump-Russia Narrative Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, A newly declassified CIA memo revealed that top officials within the Obama administration deliberately manipulated intelligence to exaggerate Russia’s purported 2016 election interference. This set the stage for the years‑long Trump‑Russia collusion probe.  The review, commissioned by CIA Director […]

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