Bitcoin’s three-month uptrend against gold appears to have ended, as ETF flows shift toward gold and other precious metals. This is evident from the bitcoin/gold ratio, which measures the dollar price per coin of BTC compared to the dollar price per ounce of gold. This is the chart that tells you which “store of value” […]
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XRP continues to move in circles around the same range that has controlled price action for months, and the latest failed breakout near $1.36 has only reinforced how difficult it has become for buyers to build sustained momentum. The market continues to compress below resistance, although the lack of aggressive selling below $1.30 also suggests
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Bitcoin fell to $75,498 on Tuesday, leaving crypto markets out of step with the stock market rally that pushed global stocks to record highs overnight. XRP, Ether and Solana each fell as much as 1% over the past day, according to CoinDesk data, while Zcash (ZEC) fell 9% to $564, the largest move among the
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On a warm spring day in 2012, Xi Jinping, then Chinese vice president, met with Bill Gates in Beijing. As the men filed out of the meeting room, the conversation turned to smoking in a country that consumes nearly half of the world’s cigarettes. Mr. Xi, a former smoker, said he felt much better after
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NASA on Tuesday awarded contracts to two companies to develop 21st-century versions of the moon buggies driven by astronauts during the Apollo missions of the early 1970s. Lunar Outpost of Golden, Colorado, and Venturi Astrolab of Hawthorne, California, will each receive about $220 million to build the vehicles. Carlos García-Galán, who leads NASA’s program to
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This is getting tough for crypto bulls. Crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs), including ETFs, have fallen out of favor with investors as the U.S. Treasury market reports higher long-term interest rates. Digital asset investment products saw $1.47 billion in outflows last week, the second consecutive week of redemptions and the third-largest weekly outflow of 2026, according
US President Donald Trump said it was “critically important” that the CFTC retain “exclusive authority” over prediction markets, echoing CFTC Chairman Michael Selig in a post on Truth Social, his social media platform, on Tuesday afternoon. “Under my leadership, we are establishing ‘rules of conduct’ that are the benchmark for states,” he said. “We can’t
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Bitcoin BTC$75,900.59 the rebound faces a demand problem. CryptoQuant’s 30-day apparent demand measure fell to minus 147,000 BTC, its lowest value since December 2025, even as Bitcoin remains in the mid-$70,000s after rebounding from its April low near $65,000. The metric compares the supply of new miners and older coins put back into circulation with
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The Spanish Ministry of Consumer Affairs has opened disciplinary proceedings against the prediction market platforms Polymarket and Kalshi and ordered Internet service providers to block access to these platforms. In notices published in the country’s Official Gazette, Spain’s gambling regulator, the General Directorate of Gambling Regulation (DGOJ), said the companies were offering betting products linked
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Joel Kruger, market strategist at LMAX Group, said crypto markets remain stuck in a low-volatility holding pattern after weeks of consolidation, leaving the sector vulnerable to an outsized move if sentiment changes. Kruger pointed to compressed trading ranges and lighter market positioning, noting that bitcoin’s average daily range has narrowed to around $1,891, while ether’s
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