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VPN Malware Steals Crypto Data, Threatens User Wallets Fake VPN apps are infecting phones and putting crypto wallets, exchange accounts, and banking data at risk. The pitch is usually boring on purpose: "free VPN," "unlimited VPN," maybe a rushed message from a familiar ...

Oil Prices, Iran-US Tensions: Qatar Steps In, Crypto Watches Qatar is trying to lower the temperature between Tehran and Washington. My take: that gives risk assets a little breathing room, not a free pass. Oil prices and Iran-US tensions are still the chart crypto trad ...

Cashcat Meme Coin Early Sale Loss: A $3.6M Lesson in Market Psychology A CASHCAT holder sold too early and missed a reported $3.6 million gain. That is the whole painful punchline. One crypto investor got out before the meme coin kept climbing, turning what may have fel ...

Trump Iran crypto impact: ceasefire collapse tests Bitcoin's safe haven story Donald Trump's claim that the Iran ceasefire is "NO LONGER IN EFFECT" puts Bitcoin's safe haven story under pressure. My take: this is the kind of headline that exposes whether the "digital gol ...

Pavel Durov's "banana republic" jab: EU Chat Control sparks crypto privacy debate Pavel Durov, Telegram's founder, did not nibble around the EU's Chat Control proposal. He compared the bloc to a "banana republic." Subtle? No. Effective? Unfortunately for Brussels, yes. My take: crypto pe ...

Trump Iran threats negotiations: Bitcoin's safe haven story gets a real test Donald Trump's threat of "unprecedented strikes" against Iran, plus intelligence reports about an alleged plot to assassinate the US President, put crypto traders on edge fast. The timing is awkward. Talks are ...

Privacy Crypto Dev Activity: Santiment's Top 10 Signals Market Shift Santiment says ChainLink led privacy crypto developer activity over the past 30 days. Odd result, right? ChainLink is not the name most traders put beside Monero or Zcash. Still, it ranked above projec ...

US sanctions Russia oil gas bill: Bitcoin gets another safe-haven test The US Senate says it has reached a deal with the Donald Trump administration on a revised Russia sanctions bill. The target is blunt: countries still buying Russian oil and gas. For Bitcoin, this is another safe-hav ...

Fear and greed index: stock neutral, crypto extreme fear The Fear and Greed Index is not whispering the same thing in both markets. Stocks are at 48, basically neutral. Crypto is at 23, deep in "extreme fear." My take: that spread matters more than either number on its own. Crypto trade ...

Kazakhstan POS terminals accept crypto: Binance Pay signals adoption surge Kazakhstan is giving crypto payments a proper checkout-counter test. Alatau City Bank now has 5,000 POS terminals that accept cryptocurrency through Binance Pay, according to Changpeng Zhao. I'll be honest: this m ...