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PowerCompute's $18M Bitcoin Loan Deadline Passes With No Disclosure

LeoDex·Aug 3, 2026PowerCompute's $18M Bitcoin Loan Deadline Passes With No DisclosureGood Morning Lions, PowerCompute's US Digital subsidiary borrowed $18.07 million from Arch Lending on a 4-day bridge note that matured August 1,...

Coldcard Firmware Exploit Drives Bitcoin Holders Back to Exchanges

LeoDex·Aug 2, 2026Coldcard Firmware Exploit Drives Bitcoin Holders Back to ExchangesGood Morning Lions, A firmware vulnerability in Coldcard hardware wallets triggered $70–$90 million in losses and reversed one of crypto's most...

1,082 BTC Drained From Coldcard Wallets via Weak Seed Flaw

LeoDex·Aug 1, 20261,082 BTC Drained From Coldcard Wallets via Weak Seed FlawGood Morning Lions, Galaxy Research mapped a 41-minute attack on July 30 that drained 1,082.65 BTC from 1,196 Coldcard wallets. The attacker never...

BlackRock Bitcoin ETF Inflows Surge Past July Levels

LeoDex·Jul 31, 2026BlackRock Bitcoin ETF Inflows Surge Past July LevelsGood Morning Lions, BlackRock just moved $183.41 million into Bitcoin following a surge of inflows into its spot BTC ETF — the biggest single-day...

Solana block capacity rises 66% after SIMD-0286 activation

LeoDex·Jul 29, 2026Solana block capacity rises 66% after SIMD-0286 activationGood Morning Lions, Solana activated SIMD-0286 this morning, raising maximum block compute units from 60 million to 100 million — the largest...

Apple Left Fake Bitcoin Wallet on App Store After $875K Theft

LeoDex·Jul 28, 2026Apple Left Fake Bitcoin Wallet on App Store After $875K TheftGood Morning Lions, A federal lawsuit filed in July alleges Apple kept a fraudulent Bitcoin wallet app on the App Store even after a customer...

Ethereum Whale Stacks $50M in ETH as Price Reclaims Key Resistance

LeoDex·Jul 27, 2026Ethereum Whale Stacks $50M in ETH as Price Reclaims Key ResistanceGood Morning Lions, A whale just dumped $50 million into Ethereum in two hours flat. Three recently established wallets — likely the same entity —...

Businesses Buy 115K BTC in Q2 as Retail Sells 78K

LeoDex·Jul 24, 2026Businesses Buy 115K BTC in Q2 as Retail Sells 78KGood Morning Lions, Business entities acquired 115,000 BTC in Q2 while individual investors dumped 78,000 — a 37,000 BTC net inflow into corporate...

UK Parliament Investigates Banking Barriers Blocking Crypto Firms

LeoDex·Jul 21, 2026UK Parliament Investigates Banking Barriers Blocking Crypto FirmsGood Morning Lions, A UK parliamentary group is probing whether banking restrictions on crypto businesses and consumers are proportionate. The...

Armstrong Rejects AI Mining Exodus as Bitcoin Difficulty Adjusts

LeoDex·Jul 20, 2026Armstrong Rejects AI Mining Exodus as Bitcoin Difficulty AdjustsGood Morning Lions, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong just pushed back hard on Chamath Palihapitiya's prediction that AI profits will drain Bitcoin...

Hyperliquid Flips XRP to Claim Fourth-Largest Crypto Futures Open Interest

LeoDex·Jul 19, 2026Hyperliquid Flips XRP to Claim Fourth-Largest Crypto Futures Open InterestGood Morning Lions, Hyperliquid just flipped XRP to claim the fourth-largest futures open interest globally, holding $1.45 billion compared to XRP's...

Cardano van Rossem Hard Fork Activates July 18 with Plutus Upgrades

LeoDex·Jul 18, 2026Cardano van Rossem Hard Fork Activates July 18 with Plutus UpgradesGood Morning Lions, Cardano's van Rossem hard fork activates today at 21:44 UTC after ratification cleared every voting threshold — a real milestone...

Bitcoin Holds $63K as Risk-Off Wave Wipes $43B in Crypto Capitalization

LeoDex·Jul 17, 2026Bitcoin Holds $63K as Risk-Off Wave Wipes $43B in Crypto CapitalizationGood Morning Lions, Bitcoin got knocked back overnight. A risk-off wave rolled through equities and crypto at the same time — tech stocks bleeding...

Onchain Pokémon Gacha Hits $324M as Bitcoin Sinks to 21-Month Low

LeoDex·Jul 16, 2026Onchain Pokémon Gacha Hits $324M as Bitcoin Sinks to 21-Month LowGood Morning Lions, Users spent a record $324 million on onchain Pokémon gacha packs in June, even as Bitcoin fell more than 20% and spot ETFs bled...

x402 Protocol hits $24M in July; BTC rallies 3% as ETFs flow in

LeoDex·Jul 15, 2026x402 Protocol hits $24M in July; BTC rallies 3% as ETFs flow inGood Morning Lions, I've been watching the machine-to-machine payments space for a while now, and something just clicked. The x402 Foundation —...

$200K from a $150 miner — and Tether's $20B gold play

LeoDex·Jul 14, 2026$200K from a $150 miner — and Tether's $20B gold playGood Morning Lions, I woke up to something that caught my attention — not because it's shocking, but because it's the opposite. A hobbyist just...

MicroStrategy's Bitcoin Sale + Oil Surge on Iran Tensions

LeoDex·Jul 13, 2026MicroStrategy's Bitcoin Sale + Oil Surge on Iran TensionsGood Morning Lions, Michael Saylor's cryptic X post about MicroStrategy's Bitcoin portfolio landed like a gut punch yesterday. A $216 million forced...

Ripple's SEC fight — and why Brad Garlinghouse almost quit

LeoDex·Jul 12, 2026Ripple's SEC fight — and why Brad Garlinghouse almost quitGood Morning Lions, Brad Garlinghouse just dropped something I haven't heard him say before — that he and Chris Larsen seriously considered shutting...

CBDC ban becomes law tonight — JPMorgan warns on private blockchains

LeoDex·Jul 11, 2026CBDC ban becomes law tonight — JPMorgan warns on private blockchainsGood Morning Lions, A four-year federal ban on digital-dollar issuance just became law at midnight — and Trump didn't even sign it. The housing bill...

ETFs bleed as institutions step back; FBI warns of $11B crypto scam surge

LeoDex·Jul 10, 2026ETFs bleed as institutions step back; FBI warns of $11B crypto scam surgeGood Morning Lions, The institutional bid just vanished. Thursday's ETF redemptions — $95 million out of Bitcoin funds, $52 million out of Ether —...