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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • ‘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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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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  • Struggling to sleep? You’re not alone – How Bitcoin’s recent price crash is affecting other traders IRL
    CryptoSlate - 20:07 Nov 26, 2025
    Bitcoin’s recent slide below $80,000 has triggered a wave of sleep disruption across the retail trading community, according to a new report from CEX.io. The flagship digital asset has since rebounded to about $88,000, but the roughly 31% drawdown from its recent peak left many investors monitoring prices through the night. This behavior has moved […] The post Struggling to sleep? You’re not alone – How Bitcoin’s recent price crash is affecting other traders IRL appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Why Texas is buying Bitcoin from BlackRock before building a real reserve
    CryptoSlate - 18:12 Nov 26, 2025
    Texas has taken the first formal step toward becoming the first US state to hold Bitcoin as a strategic reserve asset. On Nov. 25, Lee Bratcher, president of the Texas Blockchain Council, reported that the world’s eighth-largest economy, valued at $2.7 trillion, purchased $5 million worth of BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF, IBIT. He added that a […] The post Why Texas is buying Bitcoin from BlackRock before building a real reserve appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • US growth projected at 2.4% for 2026: Does this protect Bitcoin from harsh crypto winter?
    CryptoSlate - 16:03 Nov 26, 2025
    Bank of America forecasts US real GDP growth of 2.4% in 2026, propelled by five different tailwinds. Meanwhile, JPMorgan stressed various headwinds for the macroeconomic landscape next year. The OBBBA fiscal package adding roughly half a point through consumer spending and capex, lagged Fed cuts boosting activity in the second half, more growth-friendly trade policy, […] The post US growth projected at 2.4% for 2026: Does this protect Bitcoin from harsh crypto winter? appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Next week could decide whether SEC lets your Apple shares live on-chain — with the same protections
    CryptoSlate - 14:09 Nov 26, 2025
    The Dec. 4 meeting of the SEC’s Investor Advisory Committee opens with a question the agency has spent years avoiding: “What does it actually look like when publicly traded equities live on a blockchain?” Not as wrapped derivatives on offshore exchanges, not as speculative tokens detached from shareholder rights, but as registered securities trading inside […] The post Next week could decide whether SEC lets your Apple shares live on-chain — with the same protections appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • 3x damages threat from a 284-page Binance terror-financing case puts exchanges on notice
    CryptoSlate - 12:00 Nov 26, 2025
    A 284-page complaint filed Nov. 24 against Binance in North Dakota federal court represents 306 American families who lost relatives in the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks. The lawsuit demands roughly $1 billion from Binance, former CEO Changpeng Zhao, and executive Guangying “Heina” Chen, with the amount automatically tripling to $3 billion if the plaintiffs […] The post 3x damages threat from a 284-page Binance terror-financing case puts exchanges on notice appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Why Wall Street is blocking Strategy’s S&P 500 entry — even with its $56B Bitcoin empire
    CryptoSlate - 10:16 Nov 26, 2025
    Strategy Inc. (formerly MicroStrategy) spent 2025 building the largest corporate Bitcoin reserve the public markets have ever financed, but the scale of that ambition ended up colliding with the logic of its own stock. What began as an aggressive accumulation strategy, powered by the company’s appetite for leverage and a willingness to dilute existing shareholders, […] The post Why Wall Street is blocking Strategy’s S&P 500 entry — even with its $56B Bitcoin empire appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Bitcoin whale’s $2 billion wager hints at dramatic market rebound as retail sells off
    CryptoSlate - 23:30 Nov 25, 2025
    A high-conviction Bitcoin whale placed a $2 billion wager that the worst is over and the market bottom might be in after a brutal leverage washout stripped speculative froth from the crypto market. On Nov. 24, Deribit, the Coinbase-owned crypto options trading platform, reported a 20,000 BTC notional block trade, which appears to signal that institutional […] The post Bitcoin whale’s $2 billion wager hints at dramatic market rebound as retail sells off appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • XRP breaks market trend as altcoin ETF leader by key metric, outpacing Solana
    CryptoSlate - 22:00 Nov 25, 2025
    XRP is leading the race for altcoin supremacy in the US crypto exchange-traded fund (ETF) market with its record performance since last month. In less than 10 trading days, the new crop of US spot XRP ETFs has registered cumulative inflows of roughly $587 million, compared with approximately $568 million for their Solana counterparts. This […] The post XRP breaks market trend as altcoin ETF leader by key metric, outpacing Solana appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Custody shuffle continues as 87,464 more Bitcoin leaves institution-tagged wallets in 24 hours
    CryptoSlate - 20:30 Nov 25, 2025
    Timechain Index founder Sani reported 87,464 BTC flowing out of institution-tagged wallets between Nov. 21 and Nov. 22, adding that he hadn’t seen such movement in months. The raw data showed over 15,000 BTC leaving tracked cohorts on Nov. 21 alone, the largest single-day outflow since June 26. Yet, as Sani clarified in a note, […] The post Custody shuffle continues as 87,464 more Bitcoin leaves institution-tagged wallets in 24 hours appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Inside the JPMorgan boycott drama defending Bitcoin treasuries being kicked off major indexes
    CryptoSlate - 18:10 Nov 25, 2025
    American financial services company MSCI’s October consultation on “digital asset treasury companies” arrived at a time when the mechanics of Bitcoin (BTC) exposure had already begun to fracture. By mid-2025, three roughly equal-sized channels funneled institutional capital into BTC: regulated spot ETFs managing north of $100 billion, mining operations with embedded BTC exposure, and a […] The post Inside the JPMorgan boycott drama defending Bitcoin treasuries being kicked off major indexes appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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