Bitcoin’s &#8220;miners are dumping&#8221; story is comforting in the way simple stories 
always are. Price slides, miners run out of oxygen, coins hit exchanges, and 
the price is shoved around by a single, easy villain. But miners are not a 
single actor, and selling pressure isn&#8217;t just a mood. It&#8217;s math, contracts, 
and deadlines. When […]
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Bitcoin miners are bleeding at $90,000, but the “death spiral” math hits a hard ceiling

David Sacks announced on Dec. 18 that Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott and 
Senate Agriculture Chair John Boozman confirmed a January 2026 markup for the 
CLARITY Act. &#8220;We look forward to finishing the job in January!&#8221; The problem: a 
January markup isn&#8217;t finishing anything. It&#8217;s the opening move in a multi-year 
pipeline where the most […]
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CLARITY Act explicitly leaves DeFi rules blank, risking a total retail protection collapse if negotiations fail

On Dec. 15, Elizabeth Warren put two names at the top of a letter that signals 
where she thinks US crypto policy is actually written: Treasury Secretary 
Scott Bessent and Attorney General Pamela Bondi. The ask is simple on paper 
but awkward in practice. Are their departments investigating what she calls 
“national security risks” tied […]
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Elizabeth Warren is using PancakeSwap to force Trump’s regulators into a conflict trap they can’t escape

When a network brags about throughput, it’s really bragging about how much 
chaos it can swallow before it chokes. That’s why the most interesting part of 
Solana’s latest “stress test” is that there’s no story at all. A delivery 
network called Pipe published data that put a recent barrage against Solana at 
roughly 6 terabits […]
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shaping protocol that makes spam impossible to scale appeared first on 
CryptoSlate.

How Solana neutralized a 6 Tbps attack using a specific traffic-shaping protocol that makes spam impossible to scale

Bitcoin (BTC) walks to close 2025 with more than $112 billion locked in US 
spot ETFs, exchange reserves at a record low of 2.751 million BTC, and 
perpetual futures open interest of nearly $30 billion. Every single one of 
those data points would have sounded constructive in 2022. In late 2025, they 
map to the […]
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