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30.04.26 - 01:45
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Billionaire Tim Draper: You Should Be Scared If You Don′t Own Bitcoin (ZeroHedge)
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Billionaire Tim Draper: You Should Be Scared If You Don't Own Bitcoin
Authored by Micah Zimmerman via Bitcoin Magazine,
Speaking on the Nakamoto Stage, Tim Draper told attendees that bitcoin has entered the financial mainstream and that governments now roll out “the red carpet” for the industry. He said the community is “starting to feel like something is happening” as adoption grows, and he cast that shift as the early phase of a larger transition in the money system.
In his view, people will move in stages: first from dollars to stablecoins, then from stablecoins to bitcoin as the final store of value and unit of account.
Draper praised Satoshi Nakamoto's design of BTC as a system with no government control, no middleman banks, and no traditional account records. He described his own early journey with the asset, including buying large amounts of BTC, then losing those holdings amid front-running and failures at Mt. Gox. That episode led him to question whether the experiment w...
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29.04.26 - 21:27
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Your Bank Is Becoming A Casino: River CEO Frames Bitcoin As The Alternative (ZeroHedge)
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Your Bank Is Becoming A Casino: River CEO Frames Bitcoin As The Alternative
Authored by Micah Zimmerman via Bitcoin Magazine,
Bitcoin 2026 speaker Alex Leishman used his Nakamoto Stage talk, titled “We're Not Fixing Money to Build More Casinos,” to deliver a sharp warning that modern finance is drifting toward a gambling model and away from basic banking.
Leishman, CEO of River, said the American dream feels out of reach for many people as housing costs rise, student debt lingers, and wages lag, and argued that this pressure helps explain why prediction markets and betting features are spreading through mainstream financial apps.
In his view, a system that once promised stable savings now pushes people toward risk if they want a shot at financial freedom.
Leishman opened by describing a growing belief that “more and more people are coming to the conclusion” that they need to gamble to get ahead. He said finance and entertainment have merged on the phone screen, with products tha...
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29.04.26 - 17:24
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Cryptos Firm Ahead Of Fed Decision (AFX)
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WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) - Cryptocurrencies are trading on a firm note ahead of the interest rate decision by the Federal Reserve, to be announced on Wednesday afternoon. The Fed is widely expected to......
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29.04.26 - 14:21
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Ripple mit Mega-Deal: Neuer Rückenwind für XRP? (Der Aktionaer)
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Ripple treibt die Expansion seines Stablecoins RLUSD weiter aggressiv voran – und stärkt damit indirekt auch die Position von XRP. Gemeinsam mit der Krypto-Börse OKX hat das Unternehmen am Mittwoch eine strategische Partnerschaft angekündigt, die den Zugang zu RLUSD massiv erweitert....
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29.04.26 - 11:48
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Krypto-Update: Geopolitik trifft Krypto – wie stabil ist Bitcoin wirklich? (Das Investment)
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Geopolitische Spannungen bringen den Kryptomarkt in Bewegung. Bitcoin schwankt zwischen Risikoanlage und digitalem Goldersatz – doch institutionelle Käufer halten dagegen.Die geopolitischen Spannungen, insbesondere zwischen den USA und dem Iran, prägen die Lage an den Anlagemärkten. In solchen Phasen ist häufig ein sogenanntes Risk-Off-Verhalten zu beobachten. Darunter versteht man eine Marktphase, in der Investoren Kapital aus risikoreicheren Anlageklassen wie Kryptowährungen abziehen und stattdessen in vermeintlich stabilere Werte wie Gold oder den US-Dollar investieren. Da der Kryptomarkt im Gegensatz zu traditionellen Börsen rund um die Uhr geöffnet ist, reagiert er besonders schnell auf neue Nachrichten und fungiert so als Frühindikator für Marktstimmung – was......
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