Meme Coin History: How a 2013 Joke Became a $150B Market 1. Introduction: The $150 Billion Joke, Twelve Years On In December 2013 two engineers built a cryptocurrency to make fun of cryptocurrency. Eleven years later, in December 2024, the asset class they accidentally founded was worth more than $150 billion. Today, on 1 September…
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Bitcoin at $80K: Anatomy of a $3 Billion Short Squeeze Bitcoin has just delivered its strongest week in more than two years, clearing $80,000 on 25 August 2026 after six weeks of going nowhere. The headlines credit a White House crypto meeting, a pending Senate vote and a Treasury liquidity announcement. Those things all happened,…
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Coldcard Hack Explained: The Seed Flaw and Self-Custody 1. Introduction: A Wallet Failure, Not a Bitcoin Failure The Coldcard hack is the largest self-custody loss event Bitcoin has seen. Beginning on 30 July 2026, attackers swept coins out of thousands of addresses whose owners had done what the industry told them to do: buy a…
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