Coins, wallets and the slow move of money onto the internet, explained in plain language and read with a skeptical eye.
Michael Saylor's Strategy, the company that turned 'never sell your Bitcoin' into a creed, has sold Bitcoin repeatedly in 2026, some of it below cost. That is a real regime change. But it is discretionary, not a forced fire sale, and the deeper story is the collapse of the premium that made the whole model work. Here is the careful version.
More than 100 crypto projects have shut down, gone bankrupt or gone dark this year, and in one late-July week four big names fell at once, capped by BitMEX, the exchange that invented the contract most of crypto trades on, announcing it will close. This is not simply a price crash. It is a shakeout that is clearing out the speculative wave and leaving the projects that earn real money. Here is what is happening and who is surviving.
US spot Ethereum funds can finally stake the ETH they hold, paying investors a reported yield of roughly 3%, something Bitcoin funds structurally cannot do. Meanwhile the 'ETH is flipping Bitcoin' headlines are mostly hype: Ethereum has actually fallen further than Bitcoin this year. Here is what is real, what is narrow, and what is just narrative.
On Friday the SEC votes on whether to propose 'Regulation Crypto,' a set of token-fundraising rules it has been sketching since 2025, now arriving as the CLARITY Act sits stalled in the Senate. Here is what tomorrow's vote actually decides (less than the headlines suggest), what the rules would do, and why nothing changes on Friday.
In August 2026, Wells Fargo became the latest giant to say it will tokenise customer deposits, joining JPMorgan, Citi and Bank of America in a shared network due in 2027. Wall Street calls this 'tokenisation,' and the plumbing really is being rebuilt. But a tokenised deposit is not a stablecoin, and the revolution is a lot smaller than the word suggests. Here is what is actually happening.
The Coldcard hack of July 2026 emptied cold-storage wallets that never went online. The culprit was not a phishing link or a stolen device, but a randomness flaw that quietly sat in the firmware since 2021. Here is exactly what happened, who is affected, and what it does and does not mean for self-custody.
Bitcoin has fallen from a $126,000 record to the low $60,000s, and $2 trillion has been wiped off the crypto market. It feels like a crash. It is also, by Bitcoin's own brutal history, the mildest big drawdown it has ever had. Here is what actually drove it, and the honest case on both sides.
AI plus crypto is the hottest narrative in the market, and most of it is nonsense. A handful of projects solve a genuine problem, the rest borrowed the letters A and I to pump a token. Here is how to tell the difference, with no hype and no financial advice.
In Venezuela, Argentina, Nigeria and Turkey, dollar-pegged crypto has quietly become everyday money for salaries, savings and groceries. Here is where it is happening, the real numbers, and the catch nobody advertises.
Buying crypto is easy. Buying it without getting robbed is the part that trips people up, and in 2025 that cost Americans over $11 billion. This is the safe way to do it, step by step, plus the scams that actually get people. It is a how-to, not investment advice.
Wallet-drainer phishing still stole $83.85 million from 106,000 people in 2025, and almost all of it was signed away, not hacked. We tested the popular self-custody wallets on the moment that decides everything: the signature.
The right exchange depends on two things above all: where you live, and what you want to do. We compare the five that matter on fees, safety and regulation, and say plainly which is not available where. This is a tool comparison, not investment advice.