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What the 2024 Halving Means for Miner Revenue, According to Network Data
The April 2024 halving cut bitcoin's block subsidy from 6.25 to 3.125 BTC. Network data show how miners absorbed the revenue shock and what to watch next.
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Limit Orders vs. Market Orders: How Each One Actually Fills on a Crypto Exchange
A market order fills immediately at the best available price while a limit order fills only at your price or better — and the difference shows up directly in…
Bitcoin
How Bitcoin ETF Creation and Redemption Actually Work, After the SEC's In-Kind Order
The mechanism that keeps a spot bitcoin ETF's share price tied to bitcoin itself, and what changed when regulators let authorized participants trade the coin…
Altcoins
How Proof-of-Stake Rewards Work, and What the SEC's 2025 Guidance Changed
A look at the mechanics behind staking rewards on proof-of-stake networks, and why U.S. securities regulators concluded in 2025 that those rewards are…
Finance News
How Proof-of-Reserves Audits Actually Verify What an Exchange Holds
Bitcoin
What Bitcoin Improvement Proposals Are and How They Change Bitcoin
Bitcoin Improvement Proposals are the numbered design documents through which the protocol evolves — from wallet backup words to SegWit and Taproot — reviewed…
How Many Confirmations a Bitcoin Transaction Actually Needs
A bitcoin transaction is never declared final by decree; each added block multiplies the cost of reversing it, and the conventional answer for large amounts is…
Trading
How Market, Limit, and Stop Orders Work on Crypto Exchanges
A breakdown of how market, limit, stop, and stop-limit orders execute on crypto exchanges, and the tradeoffs traders weigh between execution speed, price…
What Paper Trading Teaches Crypto Traders — and What It Cannot
Paper trading executes simulated orders against live prices with no money at risk, which makes it excellent for testing mechanics and worse than useless for…
Altcoins
What Smart Contract Audits Prove — and What They Quietly Don't
An audit is a time-boxed review of specific code by a specific firm — valuable, but not a guarantee: most major exploits happened in audited or partially…
How Memecoins Launch and Why They Collapse
Memecoins are pure attention assets — launched in minutes, priced entirely by narrative flow, and structured so that early holders sell to later arrivals until…
Crypto News
Spot Bitcoin ETFs Passed $100 Billion in Combined Assets in Their First Year, Filings Show
US spot bitcoin ETFs accumulated over $100 billion in combined net assets within roughly their first year of trading, per issuer filings and exchange data…
How the GENIUS Act Regulates Payment Stablecoins: Reserves, Licensing and the 2027 Start Date
Public Law 119-27 caps reserve tenor at 93 days and puts monthly reserve figures under an outside examiner and officer certification. Treasury's August 2026…
Finance News
Fed Holds at 3.50-3.75 Percent in July on an Unusually Divided 9-3 Vote
The July 29 statement kept the range unchanged for the year's fifth straight hold — with three dissents marking the Committee's widest split of 2026.
Strategy's May Purchase: 24,869 BTC for $2.01 Billion at $80,985 Average
The May 18 disclosure — 24,869 bitcoin at an average 80,985 dollars — continues the one-buyer pattern that now defines corporate treasury demand.
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Bitcoin ETFs Draw $1.6 Billion in Four Days as Fed Holds Rates Steady
A $606.3 million single-day inflow into spot bitcoin ETFs, led by BlackRock's IBIT, followed a week in which the same funds shed $389.7 million amid miner…
Crypto News
Bitcoin Reclaims $64,000 After the June Washout — a Milder Cycle So Far
Bitcoin entered recovery mode in July, reclaiming about 64,000 dollars after June's washout to the high-50,000s — a drawdown near 50 percent from cycle highs…
Crypto News
Crypto Hacks Hit a Record 207 Incidents in H1 2026 While Losses Fell Below $1 Billion
Attack count reached an all-time high in the first half of 2026 even as dollar losses dropped to 972 million — a quarter of 2025's haul — per TRM Labs.
Trading
How Cross-Exchange Crypto Arbitrage Works
The same bitcoin trades at different prices on different venues at the same moment; arbitrage is the business of capturing that gap, and the gap is mostly a fee…