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Adam Back Says He Isn’t Satoshi — and Lays Out the Only Two Ways We’ll Ever Find Out Who Is
The question never goes away. Every few months, a new candidate surfaces, a new piece of circumstantial evidence gets circulated, a new documentary lands on streaming, and the altcoin community runs the same cycle of speculation it’s been running since…
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Home-Style Bitcoin Mining: Still Worth It in 2026?
“Solo mining a block today is like winning the lottery — but people still win the lottery.” 🏠 The Reality of Home Mining The Bitcoin mining landscape has dramatically shifted since the early days of CPU/GPU mining. Here’s where things stand: FactorEarly…
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NYT’s 18-Month Investigation into Satoshi Nakamoto’s Identity
For 17 years, the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto — the mysterious creator of Bitcoin — has been one of the most enduring mysteries in the tech and financial world. The New York Times recently concluded an exhaustive 18-month investigation attempting to unmask the person (or persons)…
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Study: 58% of Crypto Traders Make Decisions Based on Social Media Hype
Traders Union has published new research into the behavior of retail altcoin investors, revealing that 58% of crypto traders rely heavily on social media when making investment decisions. The study highlights a troubling pattern: many traders act in a highly reactive, emotion‑driven way, entering positions…
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Polymarket Is Building Its Own Stablecoin — and It’s Not Really About Prediction Markets Anymore
Polymarket has spent the last few years becoming the altcoin ecosystem’s most credible answer to the question of what decentralized platforms can do better than their traditional counterparts. Election forecasting. Sports outcomes. Macro event probabilities. On-chain prediction markets that, at…
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Standard Chartered’s $2 Trillion Stablecoin Call Is Holding — and the Velocity Data Is Why
When Standard Chartered first put a $2 trillion figure on the stablecoin market by 2028, the reaction from traditional finance was predictable: polite skepticism wrapped in carefully worded caveats. The bank hasn’t blinked. Its forecast stands — and the data…
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For British Gen Z, Bitcoin Is More Recognizable Than an ISA — and That Rewrites the Financial Literacy Playbook
Sixty-five percent. That’s the share of Britons aged 16 to 25 who know what Bitcoin is. Compare that to the 43% who’ve heard of an ISA — the Individual Savings Account that the UK government has been actively promoting for…
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Google Just Moved the Quantum Threat Deadline — and Bitcoin Wallets Are in the Crosshairs
The quantum computing threat to blockchain security has always carried an asterisk: eventually. A problem for future engineers, future regulators, future protocol developers. Google’s latest research just yanked that asterisk out of the sentence. Researchers at Google have published findings…
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JPMorgan’s Kinexys Just Landed One of Japan’s Biggest Corporations — and That’s a Bigger Deal Than It Sounds
Mitsubishi Corporation, one of Japan’s most powerful conglomerates with tentacles across energy, food, chemicals, and financial services, has just signed up for JPMorgan Chase’s blockchain-based payment infrastructure. The platform is called Kinexys. And if you’ve been paying attention to where…
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Latin America’s 60% Crypto Surge: Why Stablecoins Are Killing the Bank Transfer
Sixty percent. That’s how much altcoin adoption exploded across Latin America heading into 2025 — and the numbers behind that figure tell a story the traditional financial system really doesn’t want you reading. For years, the dominant narrative around altcoins…
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Trust Wallet Deploys AI Agents Inside Your Crypto Wallet — Self-Custody Meets Autonomous Execution
The line between holding altcoins and actively managing them just got dramatically thinner. Trust Wallet has integrated AI agents directly into its platform, giving users access to automated execution capabilities that were previously the exclusive domain of sophisticated traders, hedge funds,…
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GameFi Is in Crisis: Why Blockchain Games Burned Billions and What It Would Take to Actually Recover
When the president of the Solana Foundation declares that blockchain games are dead, it’s not a throwaway comment designed to generate controversy. Lily Liu’s statement landed because it confirmed what the data, the charts, and the empty servers had been saying for years. GameFi…