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  • Crypto has a native version of the M2 money supply that’s falling and killing Bitcoin liquidity
    by Andjela Radmilac on February 21, 2026 at 9:00 am

    Stablecoin supply is crypto’s deployable cash. With a total stablecoin market cap of around $307.92 billion and down -1.13% in the past 30 days, the pool has stopped growing month over month. When supply stalls, price moves get sharper, and Bitcoin feels it first in thin depth and bigger wicks. Stablecoins sit in a strange The post Crypto has a native version of the M2 money supply that’s falling and killing Bitcoin liquidity appeared first […]

  • ECB slaps a €1.3B price tag on the digital euro amid leadership change rumors
    by Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright on February 20, 2026 at 10:15 pm

    European Central Bank President, Christine Lagarde, runs an institution that trades in certainty, and she does it in a moment that rewards ambiguity. Earlier this week, the story around her took on a familiar European shape: official silence wrapped around very specific timing. The FT reported Lagarde is expected to step down before her term The post ECB slaps a €1.3B price tag on the digital euro amid leadership change rumors appeared first […]

  • Bitcoin may tumble toward $30,000 next year unless it shows real progress toward quantum proof upgrades
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on February 20, 2026 at 8:05 pm

    Bitcoin’s current bear market could worsen over the next year if the flagship digital asset fails to address concerns about quantum computing. In a Feb. 20 report, Charles Edwards, Capriole founder, claimed that Bitcoin’s market value should already be discounted for quantum risk and warned that the discount could deepen quickly if the network does The post Bitcoin may tumble toward $30,000 next year unless it shows real progress toward […]

  • If Bitcoin stays near $67k, it breaks the Power Law floor by mid-December
    by Gino Matos on February 20, 2026 at 6:05 pm

    Bitcoin has until the end of the year to recover, or the Power Law will be invalidated. The Power Law model isn’t a prophecy. It’s a time-based regression that treats Bitcoin’s long-run price path as a power curve, and the “deadline” talk centers on a rising floor. Better yet, a lower band that rises every The post If Bitcoin stays near $67k, it breaks the Power Law floor by mid-December appeared first on CryptoSlate.

  • Ethereum’s 2026 roadmap just hit — but ETH won’t recover until one metric flips
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on February 20, 2026 at 4:10 pm

    Ethereum’s new roadmap lands in a market that is less interested in vision and more interested in evidence. That is the core tension behind the Ethereum Foundation’s Protocol Priorities Update for 2026, which breaks the network’s next phase into three tracks, including Scale, Improve UX, and Harden the L1. The roadmap is technical, but the The post Ethereum’s 2026 roadmap just hit — but ETH won’t recover until one metric flips […]

  • Bitcoin-backed loans with sub-prime-style incentives, but with liquidation triggers hit Wall Street
    by Gino Matos on February 20, 2026 at 2:15 pm

    Ledn’s $188 million securitization marks the moment Bitcoin-backed consumer credit started looking like mainstream asset-backed debt. Ledn Issuer Trust 2026-1 packages 5,441 fixed-rate balloon loans into rated, tradable notes with investment-grade and subordinated tranches, custody arrangements, liquidity reserves, and all the structural scaffolding that allows institutional investors to buy Bitcoin-linked yield without ever touching spot The […]

  • Sui ETFs just launched — and the volume is collapsing because nobody’s showing up
    by Gino Matos on February 20, 2026 at 12:15 pm

    Two spot Sui ETFs began trading in US markets on Feb. 18. Canary’s SUIS is listed on Nasdaq, while Grayscale’s GSUI appeared on NYSE Arca. Both products offer staking-enabled exposure to Sui, the layer-1 blockchain positioned as a high-throughput alternative to Ethereum. By the end of the first trading session, GSUI had moved roughly 8,000 The post Sui ETFs just launched — and the volume is collapsing because nobody’s showing up appeared […]

  • The Bitcoin CME gap will now close forever in May leaving a return to $84k hanging
    by Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright on February 20, 2026 at 10:11 am

    CME Group has spent most of its life as the financial plumbing moving the gears behind wheat hedges, rate bets, equity futures, the quiet machinery that keeps risk moving. Now it is taking a very public step into crypto’s always-on world. On May 29, CME says it will launch 24/7 trading for its cryptocurrency futures The post The Bitcoin CME gap will now close forever in May leaving a return to $84k hanging appeared first on CryptoSlate.

  • Bitcoin eyes new liquidity as the Fed’s $18.5 billion repo spike reignites money printer chatter
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on February 19, 2026 at 9:10 pm

    Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, continued its price struggles as traders weighed two stress-tinged signals from the US financial ecosystem. This week, there was a sudden $18.5 billion Federal Reserve overnight repo operation, and Blue Owl Capital has decided to permanently halt redemptions from a retail-focused private credit fund. In another era, either The post Bitcoin eyes new liquidity as the Fed’s $18.5 […]

  • XRP sentiment hits a 5-week high as money rotates away from Bitcoin and Ethereum
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on February 19, 2026 at 7:35 pm

    XRP is attracting institutional money and a burst of bullish positioning, even as much of the crypto industry remains stuck in a risk-off tape. According to a CoinShares report, XRP is the best-performing crypto token this year, attracting around $150 million in fresh capital, while Bitcoin and Ethereum have registered cumulative outflows of around $1.5 billion. The The post XRP sentiment hits a 5-week high as money rotates away from Bitcoin […]

  • Ed. Dept. Scraps “Unconstitutional” Race Preferences In Federal PhD Grant Program
    by Tyler Durden on February 21, 2026 at 10:30 pm

    Ed. Dept. Scraps “Unconstitutional” Race Preferences In Federal PhD Grant Program Authored by Jennifer Kabbany via The College Fix, The U.S. Department of Education has agreed to rewrite the exclusionary race-based eligibility rules of a federal student scholarship program, resolving a lawsuit filed against the program. “That means the McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program–a federal program distributing roughly $60 […]

  • “It’s Not Going To End Well For Them”: Susan Rice Joins Call For Revenge Purge After Democrats Re-Take Power
    by Tyler Durden on February 21, 2026 at 9:20 pm

    “It’s Not Going To End Well For Them”: Susan Rice Joins Call For Revenge Purge After Democrats Re-Take Power Authored by Jonathan Turley, As Democrats plan for the possible takeover in the midterms and 2028 election, they are already openly discussing their push for radical changes in our political system, including packing the Supreme Court to guarantee that those changes are allowed. Many are also pledging trials, […]

  • White House Ready To Offer Iran “Token” Nuclear Enrichment Instead Of All-Out War
    by Tyler Durden on February 21, 2026 at 8:45 pm

    White House Ready To Offer Iran “Token” Nuclear Enrichment Instead Of All-Out War When it comes to the potential of achieving a lasting US-Iran deal centered on the country’s nuclear program, headlines have been changing rapidly, on a daily basis – as the specter of another US-led regime change war in the Middle East looms. Axios is reporting that the latest big diplomatic option the Trump White House is mulling is a proposal that […]

  • Syria Asks Germany Not To Deport Its Citizens Back Home, Fearing It Would Make Country ‘Unsafe’
    by Tyler Durden on February 21, 2026 at 8:10 pm

    Syria Asks Germany Not To Deport Its Citizens Back Home, Fearing It Would Make Country ‘Unsafe’ Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, Syria has formally asked Germany for patience over the deportation of Syrian nationals, warning that the return of thousands could lead to insecurity in the country and worsen the country’s fragile humanitarian situation. As reported by Welt, Mohammed Yaqub al-Omar, director of the consular […]

  • These Are The Most Dangerous Fields Of Work
    by Tyler Durden on February 21, 2026 at 7:35 pm

    These Are The Most Dangerous Fields Of Work Fatal workplace injuries remain a pressing issue in the United States, with stark disparities across occupational fields. Statista’s Tristan Gaudiaut reports that, according to data published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in February 2026, farming, fishing and forestry are still by far the most dangerous fields of work, recording around 22 fatal injuries per 100,000 workers […]

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  • Welcome To The Lowest-Common-Denominator Society
    by Tyler Durden on February 21, 2026 at 7:00 pm

    Welcome To The Lowest-Common-Denominator Society Authored by James Hickman via SchiffSovereign.com, For decades, Germany operated its rail system on an honor model. There were no turnstiles, no barriers. Passengers bought tickets, boarded trains, and conductors performed random spot checks to make sure everyone had paid. It was a system built on trust— and for a long time, it worked, because Germany was a fundamentally […]

  • ‘Incubator Babies’ Are Back, With Iran In Crosshairs
    by Tyler Durden on February 21, 2026 at 6:25 pm

    ‘Incubator Babies’ Are Back, With Iran In Crosshairs Tehran is once again pointing the finger at “terrorists” for last month’s bloodshed, rejecting outside estimates and doubling down after President Trump just issued his own high estimate. Trump told reporters Friday that 32,000 people were killed in the unrest, declaring that “the people of Iran have lived in hell” under the ruling clerical regime of the Ayatollah. Source: […]

  • Was Climate Change The Greatest Financial Scandal In History?
    by Tyler Durden on February 21, 2026 at 5:50 pm

    Was Climate Change The Greatest Financial Scandal In History? Authored by Stephen Moore via The Epoch Times, Environmental scholar Bjorn Lomborg recently calculated that across the globe, governments have spent at least $16 trillion feeding the climate change industrial complex. And for what? Arguably, not a single life has been or will be saved by this shameful and colossal misallocation of human resources. The war on safe […]

  • Cantor Fitzgerald Slammed Over Tariff Trades Which Never Happened
    by Tyler Durden on February 21, 2026 at 5:43 pm

    Cantor Fitzgerald Slammed Over Tariff Trades Which Never Happened In retrospect, if only Cantor Fitzgerald was called PolyCantor, none of this would have happened. Ever since September, the upstart online betting marketplace PolyMarket has been offering traders the opportunity to make money by betting whether the US Supreme Court would rule in favor or against Trump’s tariffs, with millions of bets placed for either outcome (of […]

  • Trump Hikes Global Tariffs To 15%, Blasts “Ridiculous, Anti-American” SCOTUS Ruling
    by Tyler Durden on February 21, 2026 at 5:15 pm

    Trump Hikes Global Tariffs To 15%, Blasts “Ridiculous, Anti-American” SCOTUS Ruling Hell hath no fury like a Donald scorned… One day after ‘The Supremes’ struck down his IEEPA tariffs, President Trump has announced, in a statement issued on Truth Social, that he will raise his new, global tariff to 15% (the maximum allowed under a separate trade law), a day after he took hiked global tariffs to 10% (in response to the SCOTUS […]

  • What Have You Learned In The Last 6 Hard Years?
    by Tyler Durden on February 21, 2026 at 4:40 pm

    What Have You Learned In The Last 6 Hard Years? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, The last six years have been a time of astonishing revelation about many features of public life that had been previously hidden. I’m not just speaking of the Epstein files though they are part of it. We’ve all seen and experienced things over these years that (at least to me) would have been nearly inconceivable before. It’s […]

  • If ‘Cash Is King’, Berkshire Hathaway Leads The World
    by Tyler Durden on February 21, 2026 at 4:05 pm

    If ‘Cash Is King’, Berkshire Hathaway Leads The World The cash that companies hold is important for paying employees, funding operations, and as a measure of financial health. This chart, via Visual Capitalist’s Boyan Girginov, shows the 50 companies with the largest cash holdings, using data from TradingView to highlight who is sitting on the largest war chests. This metric captures a company’s most liquid assets: cash plus […]

  • 9 Tips To Cut Your 2025 Tax Bill And File Smoothly Under New Rules
    by Tyler Durden on February 21, 2026 at 3:30 pm

    9 Tips To Cut Your 2025 Tax Bill And File Smoothly Under New Rules Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), With tax season underway and the April 15 filing deadline approaching, taxpayers are being encouraged to review new changes introduced by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act to help minimize their tax bills and avoid filing delays. The IRS in Washington. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times The law, signed in July […]

  • Precrime: Months Before Massacre, OpenAI Worried About Canada’s Trans Mass Killer
    by Tyler Durden on February 21, 2026 at 2:55 pm

    Precrime: Months Before Massacre, OpenAI Worried About Canada’s Trans Mass Killer Months before a Canadian man in a dress went on a Feb 10 rampage, killing his mother and half-brother at home before slaughtering five students and an education assistant at a secondary school where he was formerly a student, employees at OpenAI were deeply troubled by his interactions with the firm’s ChatGPT AI chatbot.    As first reported by the […]

  • No Laughing Matter: John Cleese Declares “I’m Afraid They Are Going To Have To Arrest Me”
    by Tyler Durden on February 21, 2026 at 2:20 pm

    No Laughing Matter: John Cleese Declares “I’m Afraid They Are Going To Have To Arrest Me” Authored by Jonathan Turley, In the classic movie comedy, A Fish Called Wanda, John Cleese lamented, “do you have any idea what it’s like being English? Being so correct all the time, being so stifled by this dread of, of doing the wrong thing.” Now 86, Cleese has a more pressing concern about being English: whether his exercise of […]

  • California Dominates America’s AI/Data-Center Jobs
    by Tyler Durden on February 21, 2026 at 1:45 pm

    California Dominates America’s AI/Data-Center Jobs The AI boom isn’t just about chatbots and software. It’s also creating thousands of jobs tied to the physical infrastructure that powers large-scale computing. As companies race to build data centers and expand AI capacity, employment tied to AI infrastructure has climbed to 482,716 jobs nationwide, according to 2025 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). This map, […]

  • Deporting Censorship: US Targets UK Government Ally Over Free Speech
    by Tyler Durden on February 21, 2026 at 1:10 pm

    Deporting Censorship: US Targets UK Government Ally Over Free Speech Authored by Paul D. Thacker via RealClearInvestigations, As ICE sweeps in Minneapolis have drawn wide attention, a little-noticed immigration case playing out in a New York federal court has significant implications for America’s relationship with Britain and the ongoing debate over global censorship.   In late December, the State Department announced its […]

  • Here’s What People Value Most In The US, UK, & Germany
    by Tyler Durden on February 21, 2026 at 12:35 pm

    Here’s What People Value Most In The US, UK, & Germany If you had to choose just three things that matter most in life, what would they be? Across the U.S., UK, and Germany, family and health dominate. But after that, national differences emerge. Germans lean toward security and stability. Americans stand out for money, growth, and faith. In the UK, work-life balance comes into the fold as a top priority. The data for this […]

  • Macron’s India Trip Exposes EU Tech Overreach And Policy Failures
    by Tyler Durden on February 21, 2026 at 12:00 pm

    Macron’s India Trip Exposes EU Tech Overreach And Policy Failures Submitted by Thomas Kolbe At times, it seems almost absurdly comical when senior European Union officials make conspicuous efforts to court local business on foreign trips. Didactic in tone, nearly arrogant in their demands toward potential trade partners, and buoyed by a taste for moral superiority, the EU takes the global stage. It still attempts to force large […]

  • Is It Time To Reopen The Franklin Child Prostitution Case After Epstein Revelations?
    by Tyler Durden on February 21, 2026 at 4:25 am

    Is It Time To Reopen The Franklin Child Prostitution Case After Epstein Revelations? Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us The seriousness of a conspiracy can often be quantified by the amount of energy the establishment expends trying to bury it. Consider for a moment the fact that Jeffery Epstein’s monstrous club of elites faced near zero mainstream exposure for over 20 years, despite his arrest for human trafficking in […]

  • AI Content ‘Incidents’ Skyrocket: A Growing Threat In The Digital Age
    by Tyler Durden on February 21, 2026 at 4:00 am

    AI Content ‘Incidents’ Skyrocket: A Growing Threat In The Digital Age The latest data from the OECD’s AI Incidents and Hazard Monitor reveals a staggering boom in monthly media-reported AI-related content incidents: from just about 50 in early 2020, to over 200 in early 2024 and nearly 500 by January 2026, representing a tenfold increase over the period. As Statista’s Tristan Gaudiaut details in the infographic below, the rise […]

  • Riyadh Seeks To Replace Israel With Syria For EU Fiber-Optic Cable Route
    by Tyler Durden on February 21, 2026 at 3:35 am

    Riyadh Seeks To Replace Israel With Syria For EU Fiber-Optic Cable Route Via Middle East Eye Saudi Arabia wants to replace Israel with Syria as the transit country for a fiber-optic cable designed to connect the kingdom to Greece through the Mediterranean Sea, two regional officials familiar with the project told Middle East Eye. Saudi Arabia’s insistence that it be connected to Greece through Syria, and not Israel, as […]

  • Iranian Starlink Black Market Prices Soar As War Risks Rise
    by Tyler Durden on February 21, 2026 at 3:10 am

    Iranian Starlink Black Market Prices Soar As War Risks Rise Iran’s black market for Starlink terminals has rapidly repriced, with reported street quotes of $4,000 per terminal, up from $700 to $1,000 last summer, as war risks surge and renewed fears grow over stricter internet censorship and another blackout. Bloomberg spoke with Starlink terminal sellers and human rights groups that said satellite internet via Starlink terminals […]

  • A Year Into Trump’s 2nd Term: When Does Accountability For The Deep State Begin?
    by Tyler Durden on February 21, 2026 at 2:45 am

    A Year Into Trump’s 2nd Term: When Does Accountability For The Deep State Begin? Authored by Jeff Dornik via American Greatness, We were told this time would be different. We were told that a second Trump administration would not repeat the mistakes of the first, that hard lessons had been learned, and that the Deep State would finally be confronted rather than tolerated. One year into President Trump’s second term, it is both […]

  • Washington Post Editorial Board Brutally Mocks Mamdani
    by Tyler Durden on February 21, 2026 at 2:20 am

    Washington Post Editorial Board Brutally Mocks Mamdani Margaret Thatcher once said, “The trouble with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money,” and New York City’s new socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, is learning just how right she was, and New Yorkers are going to pay a hefty price for it. On Tuesday, a mere two months after declaring he would “replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the […]

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