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Hollywood Has a Take on Bitcoin — and Jeffrey Epstein Is Somehow Involved
Ben McKenzie wants you to believe that the altcoin industry is a pyramid scheme, that crypto exchanges are unregulated casinos, and that somewhere in the founding mythology of Bitcoin there’s a thread that connects back to Jeffrey Epstein. The actor best known for playing a cop on The O.C. and Gotham has spent the last…
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A Bitcoin Developer Just Proposed Taking Satoshi’s Coins — and the Community’s Response Was Exactly What You’d Expect
There are proposals that push boundaries. There are proposals that start important conversations. And then there are proposals that detonate a grenade in the middle of the most ideologically charged space in the altcoin ecosystem and stand back to watch what happens. Paul Sztorc’s eCash hard fork proposal is the third kind. A Bitcoin developer…
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Western Union Spent 150 Years Moving Money the Hard Way — Now It’s Building a Stablecoin
There is a specific type of institutional conversion that carries more weight than the average corporate pivot into digital assets. It’s not the hedge fund that allocated 2% of its portfolio to Bitcoin as an inflation hedge. It’s not the regional bank quietly offering crypto custody through a white-label partner. It’s the company whose entire…
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What If Satoshi Was Never One Person? A New Documentary Says It Was Two — and Both Are Gone
The mystery of Satoshi Nakamoto has sustained an entire industry of speculation for over fifteen years. Journalists have chased it. Cryptographers have analyzed it. Courts have litigated adjacent questions about it. Craig Wright built a fraudulent career around it. Adam Back has repeatedly denied his way through it. And through all of it, the assumption…
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Uzbekistan Just Built a Mining Zone — and It’s Studied Kazakhstan’s Playbook Carefully Enough to Avoid Repeating It
Central Asia is quietly becoming one of the most consequential regions in the global altcoin mining map. The story didn’t start there — it started in China, when Beijing’s 2021 mining ban displaced an estimated 50% of global Bitcoin hashrate overnight and sent mining operations scrambling across borders for cheap power, regulatory tolerance, and infrastructure…