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  • Bitfinex’s options playbook: Ardoino on building rails that won’t snap
    CryptoSlate - 17:00 Dec 01, 2025
    When crypto sells off, the market doesn’t so much walk down the stairs as it slips on the first step and discovers there never were any handrails. Everyone knows why: perps are a stadium, options are a side alley, and insurance in a storm is hard to buy. Paolo Ardoino, the CTO of Bitfinex, knows […] The post Bitfinex’s options playbook: Ardoino on building rails that won’t snap appeared first on CryptoSlate.
    Tags: Ardoino Bitfinex
  • If Bitmain gets hit, what breaks first in the US mining machine?
    CryptoSlate - 16:00 Dec 01, 2025
    The US government has opened a security review into Bitmain, the Beijing-based manufacturer that sells most of the world’s Bitcoin mining rigs. A months-long federal investigation, known internally as Operation Red Sunset, has been probing whether Bitmain’s machines can be remotely steered for spying or used to interfere with the American power grid. The question […] The post If Bitmain gets hit, what breaks first in the US mining machine? appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • $36 million Upbit hack revives the quiet truth about hot-wallet ‘insurance’
    CryptoSlate - 15:00 Dec 01, 2025
    When Upbit detected unauthorized withdrawals of roughly $36 million in Solana tokens from a hot wallet on Nov. 27, CEO Oh Kyung-seok went on record within hours. He stated: “The entire amount will be covered by Upbit’s holdings, with no impact on customer assets.” Six years earlier, Upbit said the same thing after losing 342,000 […] The post $36 million Upbit hack revives the quiet truth about hot-wallet ‘insurance’ appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Bitcoin ETFs end brutal November with a late $70M inflow
    CryptoSlate - 14:08 Dec 01, 2025
    US-listed Bitcoin ETFs capped their second-heaviest month of redemptions with a rare late-month shift back into positive flows. According to SoSo Value data, the 12 US-listed spot Bitcoin funds recorded net creation of roughly $70 million in the final days of November, after four weeks of relentless selling pressure that totalled more than $4.3 billion […] The post Bitcoin ETFs end brutal November with a late $70M inflow appeared first on CryptoSlate.
    Tags: Bitcoin ETFs November
  • $150B wiped: Bitcoin drops below $87k on Japan yield shock
    CryptoSlate - 10:34 Dec 01, 2025
    Bitcoin price erased recent gains, shedding nearly 5% to below $87,000 in early Asian trading hours on Dec. 1. This came as a surge in Japanese government bond yields triggered a broad risk-off sentiment, shattering a fragile, low-volume market structure. According to CryptoSlate data, BTC fell from a consolidation range near $91,000, wiping out approximately […] The post $150B wiped: Bitcoin drops below $87k on Japan yield shock appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Why Pro Traders Choose Crypto Prop Firms
    CryptoSlate - 15:00 Nov 30, 2025
    The digital asset landscape has matured significantly over the past several years. Simple spot holding is no longer the only viable strategy for generating substantial returns. Today’s market rewards precision, algorithmic discipline, and above all else, liquidity. For skilled traders, the barrier to entry is rarely knowledge. Instead, it is capitalization. A trader may possess […] The post Why Pro Traders Choose Crypto Prop Firms appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Bitcoin’s bull market: A slowdown, not a breakdown
    CryptoSlate - 13:04 Nov 30, 2025
    Bitcoin’s big buyers seem to have stepped off the gas. For the better part of the last year or so, it felt like there was a constant tailwind behind Bitcoin’s price. ETFs vacuumed up coins, stablecoin balances kept climbing, and traders were willing to go to insane levels of leverage to bet on more upside. […] The post Bitcoin’s bull market: A slowdown, not a breakdown appeared first on CryptoSlate.
    Tags: Bitcoin
  • Grayscale’s Zcash ETF: Regulated privacy, or privacy in name only?
    CryptoSlate - 00:00 Nov 30, 2025
    A privacy coin is headed for Wall Street, and the wrapper says everything about what happens when a technology built for discretion tries to move through the most surveilled pipes in global finance. Grayscale’s bid to list a Zcash ETF on NYSE Arca (ticker ZCSH) marks the first serious attempt to wrap a privacy coin […] The post Grayscale’s Zcash ETF: Regulated privacy, or privacy in name only? appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • How Trump’s crypto empire became the center of a new influence economy
    CryptoSlate - 13:29 Nov 29, 2025
    A new staff report released by House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin alleges that President Donald Trump has significantly utilized the presidency to expand his personal wealth through cryptocurrency ventures. The report, titled Trump, Crypto, and a New Age of Corruption, outlines a series of findings suggesting that the Administration’s policy decisions, including the […] The post How Trump’s crypto empire became the center of a new influence economy appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • The 5 signals that really move Bitcoin now—and how they hit your portfolio
    CryptoSlate - 22:31 Nov 28, 2025
    From net flows to perp funding, the metrics that explain this bull cycle better than “number go up.” Bitcoin (BTC) price movements are now being pulled by off-chain flows and leverage, not just by classic on-chain signals. Since January 2024, when US spot Bitcoin ETFs launched, the variables that explain why BTC rips or dumps […] The post The 5 signals that really move Bitcoin now—and how they hit your portfolio appeared first on CryptoSlate.
    Tags: Bitcoin
  • Comparing Crypto Exchanges vs. Brokers: Which Is Better for Active Traders?
    CryptoSlate - 15:00 Nov 28, 2025
    The crypto landscape in 2025 looks nothing like the manic ICO days of 2017 or the “DeFi summer” of 2020. Volumes are deeper, spreads are tighter, and regulatory lines, while still blurry, are finally being drawn. Research indicates that execution quality is improving, with improved order‑book depth and tighter spreads in major markets. Yet one […] The post Comparing Crypto Exchanges vs. Brokers: Which Is Better for Active Traders? appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Bitcoin is redrawing where cities and data centers rise as it competes for wasted energy, not cheap labor
    CryptoSlate - 11:45 Nov 28, 2025
    For two centuries, factories chased cheap hands and dense ports. Today, miners roll into windy plateaus and hydro spillways, asking a simpler question: where are the cheapest wasted watts? When computing can move to energy rather than energy to people, the map tilts. Heavy industry has always chased cheap energy, but it still needed bodies […] The post Bitcoin is redrawing where cities and data centers rise as it competes for wasted energy, not cheap labor appeared first on CryptoSlate.
    Tags: Bitcoin
  • Bitcoin on Wall Street will never be the same after a quiet Nasdaq move
    CryptoSlate - 09:13 Nov 28, 2025
    On Nov. 26, Nasdaq’s International Securities Exchange quietly triggered one of the most important developments in Bitcoin’s financial integration. The trading platform asked the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to raise the position limit on BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) options from 250,000 contracts to one million. On the surface, the proposal looks procedural. […] The post Bitcoin on Wall Street will never be the same after a quiet Nasdaq move appeared first on CryptoSlate.
    Tags: Nasdaq Wall Street Bitcoin
  • Solana tokens rip on Upbit after $32M hack due to halted arbitrage
    CryptoSlate - 20:50 Nov 27, 2025
    As of mid-afternoon South Korea time, Solana-based tokens traded with double-digit gains on Upbit following a hack that stole roughly 44.5 billion won ($32 million). CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju noted that Korean traders began bidding up altcoin prices as arbitrage bots, which normally keep Korean and international prices aligned, stopped operating. The service suspension […] The post Solana tokens rip on Upbit after $32M hack due to halted arbitrage appeared first on CryptoSlate.
    Tags: Upbit Solana
  • Could Bitcoin’s 10-minute block time replace our traditional calendar?
    CryptoSlate - 18:45 Nov 27, 2025
    The US Securities and Exchange Commission approved spot Bitcoin ETFs at block 826,565. By block 840,000, those funds held more than 800,000 BTC. By block 925,421, U.S. spot ETFs collectively held **≈5–6%** of circulating BTC (per live trackers at the time). Only after reading does the translation arrive: those blocks correspond to January 2024, April […] The post Could Bitcoin’s 10-minute block time replace our traditional calendar? appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Why Bitcoin pumped today: How US liquidity lifted BTC above $90,000 and ETH over $3,000
    CryptoSlate - 16:30 Nov 27, 2025
    The crypto markets staged a convincing comeback on Nov. 27, snapping a prolonged period of stagnation as a critical shift in the United States’ liquidity forced capital back into risk assets. While the headline price action saw Bitcoin surge 5% to reclaim the psychologically vital $90,000 threshold and Ethereum clear $3,000 for the first time […] The post Why Bitcoin pumped today: How US liquidity lifted BTC above $90,000 and ETH over $3,000 appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • How long can miners hold out as revenue hits record lows while Bitcoin’s security is at record highs?
    CryptoSlate - 14:45 Nov 27, 2025
    Bitcoin’s hashrate is near record levels, yet miner revenue per unit of compute has fallen to record lows, pushing the network into a ‘high-security, low-profitability’ phase. While the network’s hashrate has pinned itself above the one-zettahash watermark, which is a record for aggregate computing power, the revenue underpinning that security has disintegrated to historic lows. […] The post How long can miners hold out as revenue hits record lows while Bitcoin’s security is at record highs? appeared first on CryptoSlate.
    Tags: Bitcoin
  • ‘We wear your loathing with pride:’ Why S&P downgraded Tether after it bought more gold than any country
    CryptoSlate - 12:50 Nov 27, 2025
    Tether, the issuer of the USDT stablecoin, has spent the past year accumulating Bitcoin and gold at a pace that puts it on par with several sovereign treasuries. For context, the firm purchased more gold than every central bank combined over the last quarter alone, pushing its total holdings to 116 tons of physical bullion. […] The post ‘We wear your loathing with pride:’ Why S&P downgraded Tether after it bought more gold than any country appeared first on CryptoSlate.
    Tags: Tether
  • Pick a side: JPMorgan opens leveraged Bitcoin access to retail while closing crypto CEO’s account
    CryptoSlate - 10:49 Nov 27, 2025
    Market chop aside, Wall Street is rolling out Bitcoin (BTC) exposure to advisors through structured notes and ETF-collateralized lending. The bank simultaneously faces debanking blowback after Strike CEO Jack Mallers said his personal Chase accounts were shut. The juxtaposition spotlights institutionalization for clients versus risk-control for crypto-native principals. On one side, JPMorgan moves BTC exposure […] The post Pick a side: JPMorgan opens leveraged Bitcoin access to retail while closing crypto CEO’s account appeared first on CryptoSlate.
    Tags: Pick Bitcoin JPMorgan
  • Alien BTC findings: If humans vanished, Bitcoin’s block time and difficulty would preserve our collapse
    CryptoSlate - 22:15 Nov 26, 2025
    This is a speculative report translated for non-specialists. The narrator is an investigator who arrived long after humans were gone. Everything described as measured relies on real Bitcoin mechanics: block intervals, difficulty/target, timestamp rules, and data available from block headers and the coinbase transaction. We arrived on a silent planet. The last clocks still ticking […] The post Alien BTC findings: If humans vanished, Bitcoin’s block time and difficulty would preserve our collapse appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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