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  • Bitcoin is stalling, but this low-key “absorption signal” shows a violent supply shock could be inevitable
    by Gino Matos on January 9, 2026 at 9:47 am

    Bitcoin (BTC) opened 2026 with the kind of price action that tests conviction, with the first five days taking BTC close to $95,000, only for it to test the $90,000 footing again. The movement follows weeks of choppy trading, failed breakout attempts, and a Fear & Greed Index reading of 28, firmly in “Fear” territory. The post Bitcoin is stalling, but this low-key “absorption signal” shows a violent supply shock could be inevitable […]

  • Bitcoin is not the king of the dark web – and the reason why is a $154 billion crypto nightmare
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on January 8, 2026 at 10:35 pm

    The era of the hooded hacker hoarding Bitcoin in a dark web wallet is over. In 2025, the center of gravity in the illicit cryptocurrency economy shifted decisively away from the volatility of the original cryptocurrency and toward a dense, dollar-linked shadow system. According to new Chainalysis data shared with CryptoSlate, stablecoins accounted for 84% The post Bitcoin is not the king of the dark web – and the reason why is a $154 billion […]

  • How United States could use Greenland for 10,000 EH/s Bitcoin mining hub from stranded energy
    by Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright on January 8, 2026 at 8:05 pm

    Talk of the United States buying Greenland has returned to Washington, and miners are tracking the power projects on the island. The White House said a U.S. purchase of Greenland is an “active discussion,” according to Reuters. For Bitcoin miners, the more actionable clock is Greenland’s industrial power planning. How Greenland’s hydropower translates into real The post How United States could use Greenland for 10,000 EH/s Bitcoin […]

  • Zcash crashes 20% as entire team walks out, exposing a boardroom battle over the project’s assets
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on January 8, 2026 at 6:15 pm

    Zcash (ZEC) suffered the steepest decline among top-tier digital assets on Jan. 8, plunging approximately 20% amid a collision of governance turmoil and a leverage-driven market flush. According to CryptoSlate data, Zcash fell to a month-low of $382, making it the day’s biggest loser on the Top 100 leaderboard. This price performance decoupled violently from The post Zcash crashes 20% as entire team walks out, exposing a boardroom battle over […]

  • Trump’s WLFI is pivoting to “narrow banking,” a move that exposes the fatal flaw of competitors
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on January 8, 2026 at 4:35 pm

    On Jan. 7, Donald Trump’s World Liberty Financial (WLFI) formally applied for a national banking charter to establish the “World Liberty Trust Company.” This is a proposed national trust bank specifically designed to handle USD1 stablecoin issuance, custody, redemption, and reserve management. USD1 is WLFI’s flagship product, with more than $3.3 billion in supply across The post Trump’s WLFI is pivoting to “narrow banking,” a move […]

  • Polymarket seems riddled with insider trading yet a massive Dow Jones partnership just validated prediction markets
    by Gino Matos on January 8, 2026 at 2:40 pm

    Dow Jones announced an exclusive partnership to distribute Polymarket prediction data across The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, and MarketWatch on the same day Kalshi claimed it had hit $100 billion in annualized trading volume. The juxtaposition captures where prediction markets sit at the start of 2026: simultaneously legitimized as a financial data product and mired The post Polymarket seems riddled with insider trading yet a massive Dow […]

  • Solana is becoming settlement rail for Visa and JPMorgan but one metric still scares insiders
    by Gino Matos on January 8, 2026 at 12:20 pm

    Wyoming launched a state-backed stablecoin on Solana, and Morgan Stanley filed for a Solana trust product this week. Last month, Visa expanded USDC settlement to run on Solana rails, and JPMorgan tokenized commercial paper using Solana for part of the settlement stack. These are not rumors or roadmap promises. They happened over 60 days, and The post Solana is becoming settlement rail for Visa and JPMorgan but one metric still scares insiders […]

  • Bitcoin is trapped in a $54 billion Nvidia gamble that could trigger a sudden institutional sell-off
    by Gino Matos on January 8, 2026 at 10:23 am

    Beijing’s reported request for Chinese tech firms to halt orders of Nvidia’s H200 chips arrives at a moment when Bitcoin has become uncomfortably tethered to AI equity sentiment. As The Information and Reuters reported on Jan. 7, the move affects “some” Chinese companies and may presage a mandate requiring domestic purchases of AI chips. For The post Bitcoin is trapped in a $54 billion Nvidia gamble that could trigger a sudden institutional […]

  • Crypto firms like Ripple are betting on a Senate deal that is rapidly unraveling behind closed doors
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on January 8, 2026 at 6:30 am

    The US crypto industry has launched a unified push for Congress to pass federal market-structure legislation, known as the “Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025” (H.R. 3633). The legislation is viewed by industry proponents as the necessary “missing layer” of federal law to allow the industry to thrive. While the “GENIUS Act” established baseline The post Crypto firms like Ripple are betting on a Senate deal that is rapidly […]

  • Strategy saved from Index expulsion, yet a hidden clause effectively kills the infinite money loop for investors
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on January 7, 2026 at 10:35 pm

    The threat of a massive forced sell-off in crypto-linked equities has been averted. However, that reprieve comes with a structural catch that fundamentally alters the economics of the “Bitcoin Treasury” trade. On Jan. 6, the dominant benchmark provider for global equity and ETF markets, MSCI Inc., announced it will retain “Digital Asset Treasury Companies” (DATCOs) The post Strategy saved from Index expulsion, yet a hidden clause […]

  • “Appalling”: Debanking Explodes To Record High In Britain
    by Tyler Durden on January 9, 2026 at 9:15 am

    “Appalling”: Debanking Explodes To Record High In Britain An estimated 453,230 accounts were shut down in the United Kingdom in the last year, a stunning figure that has drawn outrage from the country’s leading conservative lawmaker. Nigel Farage Reform UK leader Nigel Farage called the shocking figure “appalling” and slammed European rules that he believes “makes it cheaper for banks to close accounts over unusual […]

  • Stolen Soil And Corporate Welfare: The Global Scam Of ‘Feeding The World’
    by Tyler Durden on January 9, 2026 at 8:30 am

    Stolen Soil And Corporate Welfare: The Global Scam Of ‘Feeding The World’ Authored by Colin Todhunter via Off-Guardian.org, Supermarket shelves have never been fuller, yet diets have become poorer. Across the world, food systems praised for their productivity now deliver an abundance of calories alongside widespread micronutrient deficiency, ecological collapse and rural precarity. This is the outcome of an agricultural model […]

  • German Prez Gets Schnitzel In A Twist, Says Trump Destroying World Order
    by Tyler Durden on January 9, 2026 at 7:45 am

    German Prez Gets Schnitzel In A Twist, Says Trump Destroying World Order German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier is absolutely freaked out about Donald Trump, and says the ‘world order’ is at risk of disintegrating into a “den of robbers” where the unscrupulous simply take what they want.  Wait, you mean:  – Like Ukrainian oligarchs busted embezzling $100M IN US taxpayer money (for starters)? – Like the Panama papers? – […]

  • Swedish Migration Board Employee Blows Whistle On Agency Run By Migrants Who Refuse To Integrate, And Serve Their Own
    by Tyler Durden on January 9, 2026 at 7:00 am

    Swedish Migration Board Employee Blows Whistle On Agency Run By Migrants Who Refuse To Integrate, And Serve Their Own Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, The Swedish Migration Board, the authority charged with deciding who may live in Sweden and under what conditions, has been described by internal sources as an organization largely staffed by personnel with a migration background who often speak their own languages and seek […]

  • Guyana: The Little Caribbean Country With A Big Role To Play In Trump’s Regional Shift
    by Tyler Durden on January 9, 2026 at 4:30 am

    Guyana: The Little Caribbean Country With A Big Role To Play In Trump’s Regional Shift Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times, With the U.S. capture of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro in a bold Jan. 3 military raid and a large naval force still prowling the southern Caribbean to ensure that Maduro’s successors cooperate with the Trump administration, other subtle, but key, developments in the region can be overlooked. […]

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  • Where People (Don’t) Reach For Alcohol-Free Alternatives
    by Tyler Durden on January 9, 2026 at 4:00 am

    Where People (Don’t) Reach For Alcohol-Free Alternatives 2026 has arrived, and like every year, many around the world will be using this new beginning to take New Year’s resolutions, often centered around health: exercising more, eating healthier, losing weight, or maybe drinking less. Dry January, a month-long break from alcohol, was officially launched as a campaign in 2013 by Alcohol Change UK, a charity specialising in […]

  • Watch: NYC Protesters Chant “Kristi Noem will Hang!” and “Save a Life, Kill an ICE”
    by Tyler Durden on January 9, 2026 at 3:00 am

    Watch: NYC Protesters Chant “Kristi Noem will Hang!” and “Save a Life, Kill an ICE” The fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis has sparked outrage, and, predictably, a wave of protests dominated by the far-left’s inflammatory rhetoric. While the incident itself remains under investigation, with federal authorities asserting that Good charged at agents with her […]

  • Monsanto Sues COVID-19 Vaccine Manufacturers, Alleging Copyright Infringement
    by Tyler Durden on January 9, 2026 at 2:30 am

    Monsanto Sues COVID-19 Vaccine Manufacturers, Alleging Copyright Infringement Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Bayer and its Monsanto division are suing COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers, alleging they used technology Monsanto developed and patented in the 1980s in their vaccines. Bayer said in lawsuits that Pfizer, its partner BioNTech, and Moderna wrongly used technology Monsanto developed and used to make plants […]

  • US Control Of Venezuela Could Last For Years, Trump Says
    by Tyler Durden on January 9, 2026 at 2:00 am

    US Control Of Venezuela Could Last For Years, Trump Says The White House issued two interesting, and somewhat perplexing new statements on Venezuela amid the post-Maduro ‘transition’. First, the White House said Wednesday that the US would be “dictating” future decisions made by the Venezuelan government – which is now officially headed up by Acting President Delcy Rodriguez, who was Maduro’s VP since 2018, and is seen as a […]

  • Kimmel Claims Trump Wants To ‘Kill Americans’
    by Tyler Durden on January 9, 2026 at 1:35 am

    Kimmel Claims Trump Wants To ‘Kill Americans’ Authored by Steve Watson via modernity.news, Talk show loser Jimmy Kimmel unleashed another unhinged rant against President Trump during a monologue Wednesday, peddling the absurd narrative that Trump is out to “kill” citizens through ICE operations.  Fresh off a justified self-defense shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, Kimmel twisted the facts to fuel leftist outrage, […]

  • Doug Casey On The Death Of Privacy… And What Comes Next
    by Tyler Durden on January 9, 2026 at 12:45 am

    Doug Casey On The Death Of Privacy… And What Comes Next Via International Man International Man: In practically every country, the allowable limit for cash withdrawals and transactions continues to be lowered. Further, rampant currency debasement is lowering the real value of these ridiculous limits. Why are governments so intent on phasing out cash? What is really behind this coordinated effort? Doug Casey: Let me draw […]

  • Border Patrol Agents Shoot Two People In Sanctuary City Portland
    by Tyler Durden on January 9, 2026 at 12:26 am

    Border Patrol Agents Shoot Two People In Sanctuary City Portland U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents shot two individuals in the sanctuary city of Portland on Thursday evening, according to local media. The incident comes one day after the ICE-involved shooting of an “ICE Watch” left-wing activist in Minneapolis on Wednesday. While details surrounding the Portland shooting remain scarce, the risk of overnight protests or riots […]

  • Pilot Who Landed Plane After Panel Blew Out Sues Boeing, Claims Company Unfairly Blamed Him
    by Tyler Durden on January 9, 2026 at 12:20 am

    Pilot Who Landed Plane After Panel Blew Out Sues Boeing, Claims Company Unfairly Blamed Him An Alaska Airlines pilot who was universally praised as a hero after safely landing a Boeing jet after a door plug panel flew off shortly after takeoff is suing the company because he says the plane maker wrongly tried to blame him and the rest of the crew. The section of a Boeing 737 Max where a door plug fell while Alaska Airlines Flight […]

  • Woman Killed In Minneapolis Was “ICE Watch” Left-Wing Activist Trained To Resist Fed Agents: Report
    by Tyler Durden on January 8, 2026 at 11:58 pm

    Woman Killed In Minneapolis Was “ICE Watch” Left-Wing Activist Trained To Resist Fed Agents: Report Update (1858): The New York Post reports that Renee Nicole Good was an anti-ICE “warrior” and part of a network of left-wing activists who worked to “document and resist” ICE operations in Minnesota.   Key details from the NYPost report: Good, who moved to the city last year, linked up with the anti-ICE activists through her […]

  • Trump Seeks $6 Million Legal Fee Reimbursement For Dismissed Georgia Election Case
    by Tyler Durden on January 8, 2026 at 11:55 pm

    Trump Seeks $6 Million Legal Fee Reimbursement For Dismissed Georgia Election Case Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump is asking the state of Georgia to reimburse $6.26 million in attorney fees and costs he incurred defending against his now-dismissed election interference case in the state. (Left) Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis at the Atlanta Police headquarters in Atlanta […]

  • NBC News Analysis Of ICE Shooting Video Opens Door To Self-Defense
    by Tyler Durden on January 8, 2026 at 11:30 pm

    NBC News Analysis Of ICE Shooting Video Opens Door To Self-Defense On Wednesday morning, during an immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis, 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good accelerated towards an ICE agent with her car, and he responded with lethal force. Good was shot and killed. Democrats and media figures rushed to condemn the shooting as an unjustified murder.  Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey claimed to have watched the […]

  • Trump Launches His Own QE: Directs GSEs To Purchase $200 Billion In Mortgage Bonds
    by Tyler Durden on January 8, 2026 at 11:05 pm

    Trump Launches His Own QE: Directs GSEs To Purchase $200 Billion In Mortgage Bonds First, Trump short-circuited the Fed’s rate-cut process. Now he is going after QE by launching his own version of it.  In a post on late Thursday post on Truth Social, President Trump said he was directing the purchase of $200 billion in mortgage bonds, which he framed as his latest effort to bring down housing costs ahead of the November midterm […]

  • Iran Plunged Into Internet Blackout, Protests Spread, As Trump Issues Fresh Warning
    by Tyler Durden on January 8, 2026 at 10:40 pm

    Iran Plunged Into Internet Blackout, Protests Spread, As Trump Issues Fresh Warning By all accounts, protests and unrest have been spreading rapidly in Iran, now over a week-and-a-half into economic and anti-government protests which have begun to grind the country to a halt. On Thursday the demonstrations have disrupted life in the capital in a big way, and there are reports of nationwide internet and cellular outages. […]

  • US Online Holiday Shopping Hits Record $257.8 Billion: Adobe
    by Tyler Durden on January 8, 2026 at 10:15 pm

    US Online Holiday Shopping Hits Record $257.8 Billion: Adobe Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), U.S. online holiday shopping was a record in 2025, fueled by a strong Cyber Week, according to new data released on Jan. 7 by Adobe. Shoppers on Black Friday at a mall in Bethesda, Md., on Nov. 28, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times Consumers spent $257.8 billion from Nov. 1 to Dec. 31, representing a 6.8 […]

  • Tulsi Gabbard Reportedly Kept In Dark On Venezuela Operation As Nation’s Intelligence Chief
    by Tyler Durden on January 8, 2026 at 9:50 pm

    Tulsi Gabbard Reportedly Kept In Dark On Venezuela Operation As Nation’s Intelligence Chief Longtime Tulsi Gabbard supporters have wondered why she has seemed to be missing in action in terms of weighing in on Trump’s militarily invading Venezuela to oust longtime socialist leader Nicolás Maduro, given that as a prior member of Congress before taking up the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) position, she had been quite vocal […]

  • How Dare You Fight Back Against Communists!
    by Tyler Durden on January 8, 2026 at 9:25 pm

    How Dare You Fight Back Against Communists! Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us When we examine the historic nature of communist revolution, we have to look beyond our disgust for their motives and consider their strategies and the reasons why they tend to succeed. Because it is simply a fact that the western experiment of individual liberty and self determination is being systematically eroded by a storm of socialist […]

  • India Is Set To Be The G20 Growth Leader In 2026
    by Tyler Durden on January 8, 2026 at 8:45 pm

    India Is Set To Be The G20 Growth Leader In 2026 The latest OECD Economic Outlook (December 2025) revealed that the global economy has proved resilient last year, even though fragilities remain, with a range of risks including “elevated policy uncertainty and rising barriers to trade”. According to the organization’s forecasts, global GDP growth is projected to slow down from 3.2 percent in 2025 to 2.9 percent in 2026. As Tristan […]

  • Texas Issues Warning About Unsolicited Seed Packages From China
    by Tyler Durden on January 8, 2026 at 8:25 pm

    Texas Issues Warning About Unsolicited Seed Packages From China Authored by Dorothy Li via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Texas has warned residents not to plant what it calls “mysterious seeds” that arrived in unsolicited packages from China, as authorities investigate thousands of such reports across the state. Packages containing unknown seeds from China. Texas Department of Agriculture State authorities first became […]

  • Black Harvard Dean Fired After Anti-White, Anti-Police Social Media Posts Resurface
    by Tyler Durden on January 8, 2026 at 8:05 pm

    Black Harvard Dean Fired After Anti-White, Anti-Police Social Media Posts Resurface A Harvard University dean has been removed after a student-run news outlet, the Yard Report, dug up old social media posts slamming whiteness, the cops, and advocating for looting and rioting.  eh… Gregory Davis, the former Dunster House Allston Burr resident dean, wrote the posts in question between 2019 and 2024 – mostly on X. He became dean […]

  • Lebanese Army Says Plan To Limit Weapons To State Forces At Advanced Stage
    by Tyler Durden on January 8, 2026 at 7:45 pm

    Lebanese Army Says Plan To Limit Weapons To State Forces At Advanced Stage Authored by Evgenia Filimianova via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Lebanese armed forces said on Jan. 8 that their plan to restrict weapons to official security agencies had entered an “advanced stage,” after expanding their presence across southern Lebanon. Members of the Lebanese army secure the area near the site of an Israeli strike, after […]

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