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As PBS NewsHour documented with its usual gravitas, Harris drew the likes of Pete Buttigieg to campaign in northwest Georgia-a gesture of national attention more akin to sending a ballet troupe to a cornfield. Greene had exited the stage in January after a rather combustible disagreement with Trump over the Epstein files. Fuller, by contrast, paraded his fealty to the former president during a March 23 debate, while Trump himself made an appearance at Coosa Steel in Rome, Georgia, like a theatrical deus ex machina.

The launch crowned Morgan Stanley the first major U.S. bank to fling its hat into the Bitcoin ETF ring under its own distinguished moniker, leaving competitors looking like deer in the headlights of a particularly aggressive Tesla.

So, the internet’s buzzing with a claim this week: “Only 0.03% of XRP is exposed to quantum computing risk!” Sounds like a neat, tidy, worry-free number, right? If you’re crypto’s version of a casual bystander, that might just make you breathe a little easier. But if you’re even remotely serious about security (or math), brace yourself – this is more of a narrow truth than an actual comfort blanket.

Today’s price increase for Zcash (ZEC) appears to be driven by institutional investment. The Grayscale Zcash Trust recently bought around $46 million worth of ZEC using the coin’s privacy feature, which hides transaction details like sender, receiver, and amount. This choice to prioritize private transactions suggests a long-term commitment to Zcash’s core function – preserving privacy – and the market seems to be reacting positively to this signal, viewing it as more than just a short-term bet.

Well, I say, Enjin’s native token ENJ has been on a bit of a tear lately, hasn’t it? Up about 50% to $0.02866 in the last 24 hours, with daily trading volume surging to $88.6 million, according to the ever-reliable Coingecko. This little rally has hoisted the token’s market capitalization to a tidy $54.37 million, putting this old gaming and NFT token back on the radar of the trading chaps.

The overall Bitcoin supply situation supports this idea. Around 3 to 4 million of the roughly 19.7 million Bitcoin currently available are effectively lost forever – stuck in wallets people can’t access, due to lost passwords or other issues. When you also factor in the Bitcoin held by long-term investors who aren’t trading, less than half of all Bitcoin that will ever be created is actually available for buying and selling. This isn’t a short-term situation; it’s a lasting decrease in available supply that gets worse over time.

Apparently, Iran has decided that if you can’t beat the sanctions, you might as well bitcoin them. According to the Financial Times, Tehran is demanding that shipping companies cough up the fee in digital assets, primarily bitcoin, because nothing says “hard-to-trace” like a cryptocurrency transaction. Hamid Hosseini, the spokesperson for Iran’s Oil, Gas, and Petrochemical Products Exporters’ Union, explained that the system is designed to slow traffic on Iran’s terms. Because, you know, nothing says “we’re in control” like making tankers pay in a currency that fluctuates more than my mood on a Monday.

Stablecoins, once the quirky side project of the crypto world, have quietly become the prom queen of global finance. In 2025, they processed $33 trillion in on-chain transactions, outpacing Visa and Mastercard’s combined efforts. According to Morph, these digital dollars have evolved from speculative playthings to the backbone of institutional payments. And they did it all without a single commercial featuring a celebrity or a catchy jingle. Take that, legacy systems.

This financial ballet, valued at a mere £11 million (or so the plebians claim), follows their oh-so-serious treasury management framework, unveiled in the sweltering summer of June 2025. How quaint.

Now, Todd, the ever-diplomatic Bitcoin pioneer, has decided to share his thoughts on the whole fiasco, offering a masterclass in how not to be misrepresented by modern journalism. You see, in his latest post on X (formerly known as Twitter, because we’ve all decided we need to keep rebranding things to sound fresher), Todd has accused the creators of the HBO documentary “Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery” of a little something called “manipulation.” Oh, how charming.