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China Brings Out the Stimulus Bazooka

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Defeated-Seeming Gensler Takes Congressional Shellacking

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Judge Agrees with Coinbase in Public Hearing

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Kamala's First Comments on Crypto Spark Yet More Controversy

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A Contentious House Hearing on the SEC

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Was the Jumbo Rate Cut "Normalization" or Signs of Trouble Ahead?

407

Genius or Grifter: World Liberty Financial

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SEC Backs Off But Gaslights on "Crypto Asset Securities" Terminology

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Why Data Needs Decentralization

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The Five Most Important Stories in Crypto This Week

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What the CPI Says About The Fed's Next Moves

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What Happened in the First Ever Congressional DeFi Hearing

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The Story in the Latest Bitcoin Price Action

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Recession or Soft Landing?

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Crypto's Pervasive Quiet Quitting

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Uniswap Settles with CFTC

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The SEC's Vicious "Qualified Custodian" Trap

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What September Has In Store For Bitcoin

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Bitcoin as a DeFi Platform

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Crypto and the Fight for Freedom

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Is This the SEC's Most Brazen Crypto Attack Yet?

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The State Department's Unconscionable Abandonment of an American Citizen

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What We Learned (If Anything) From Powell's Jackson Hole Speech

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Just How Big a Deal is the Arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov?

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The Five Most Important Stories in Crypto This Week

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Jobs Revision Clears the Way for Fed Cuts

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The Most Important Stories in Crypto You Probably Missed Recently

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What the Gensler Treasury Secretary Rumors Say About Crypto's Current Mindset

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Crypto Advocate Howard Lutnick to Head Trump Transition Team

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Crypto's Critics Seem to Be Getting Nervous

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What the Crypto Town Hall Told Us About the Democrat Pivot

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VP Harris' Likely Economic Appointments Seem to Spell Doom for Crypto

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Poll Numbers Show What Dems Really Think of Crypto

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The SEC Goes After Crypto VCs

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The Great American Bitcoin Mining Plan

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The Five Most Important Stories in Crypto This Week

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The Ripple-SEC Case is Finally Over

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What the Walz VP Pick Says About the Dem Approach to Crypto

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What Was That -- A Market Crash for Ants?

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What Drove the Market Crash

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Powell Signals Rate Cuts Finally Coming in September

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The Debate Around the Bitcoin Reserve

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Is the US Preparing to Sell Silk Road BTC?

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The Political Class Bends the Knee to Bitcoin

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Senator Bill Hagerty on the Stakes of the Election for Bitcoin

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The Worst Day in Stonks Since 2024

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ETH's Successful First Day ETF Launch

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Ethereum ETFs Go Live!

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Does Biden Dropping Out Change Anything for Bitcoin?

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Vitalik on Crypto Single Issue Voting

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Should Bitcoiners Trust Politicians?

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Mt. Gox Distribution Begins and Honeybadger Don't Care

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Republican VP Nominee on Bitcoin, Crypto and Gensler

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The SEC Backs Off Another Crypto Enforcement Action

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The Theory and Practice of Bitcoin Politics

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The Five Most Important Stories in Crypto This Week

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Trump Speaking At Bitcoin Conference

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Powell Inches Towards Rate Cuts

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For the First Time Ever, Crypto is an Official Part of a Major Political Party Platform

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Mt. Gox Unlocks Send BTC Crashing

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Agriculture and the State of Tokenization

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Software Creates New Nations

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Polkadot Courts Controversy with Ad Spend

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Circle Becomes First European Licensed Stablecoin Issuer

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The SEC's Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

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Is there Danger in Politicizing Crypto?

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The Five Most Important Stories In Crypto This Week

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The US Gov't Sells Its BTC Stack

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Fairshake Helps Hand Anti-Crypto Army a Loss

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The Saga of Wikileaks' Julian Assange is Finally Coming to an End

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Why So Gloomy? Mt. Gox Unlocks Latest Bummer in Downward Sentiment Spiral

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Does Crypto Need Memecoins?

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The Five Most Important Stories in Crypto This Week

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The Incredibly Weird Certik-Kraken Exploit

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Is the Trump Solana Memecoin Real?

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How Stablecoins Could Extend Dollar Dominance

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The Future of Web3 is Functionality

478

The Top 5 Stories in Crypto This Week

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After Inflation Improvement, a Quiet FOMC

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PleaserDAO Sues Martin Shkreli Over Wu-Tang Album

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Massive Expansion of Crypto Sanctions Power Snuck into Senate Budget Proposal

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Questions about Bitcoin and Macro to Start the Week

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Getting Crypto Regulation Right

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The Five Most Important Stories in Crypto This Week

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The Bank of Canada Cuts Rates; Will the Fed Follow?

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The Surprise Second Biggest Bitcoin ETF Inflow Day Ever

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The Modular Integration Spectrum | Keone & Zon

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Roaring Kitty Roars Back, But Can the New Gamestop Madness Recapture the Magic?

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The Biden SAB121 Veto Undermines Claims of a Democrat Crypto Pivot

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How Serious is the Democrat Crypto Pivot?

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Biden Joins the Pro-Crypto Pivot

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Mt. Gox Unlock FUD Will Soon Finally Come to An End

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Trump Doubles Down on Crypto and Pledges to Commute Ross Ulbricht

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The Growing Political Force of Crypto

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SEC Approves ETH Spot ETF

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71 Democrats Break Ranks to Vote for Commonsense Crypto Regulation

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A Presidential Campaign Crypto Milestone

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SHOCKER: Is the SEC About to 180 and Approve ETH ETFs?

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A Preview of Crypto's Big Week in Washington

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A Congressional Letter Pushing Back on Gensler's Rogue SEC