Michael Saylor calls Bitcoin’s new BIP-110 proposal ‘a bad idea’
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Michael Saylor, executive chairman and co-founder of Strategy, has come out swinging against a new proposal to clean up Bitcoin’s ‘spam,’ arguing that it could fundamentally alter how the world’s largest blockchain operates. The Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) 110, aimed at temporarily restricting arbitrary data to focus on the core monetary functions, is a threat […]

France orders country’s internet service providers to block Polymarket
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France’s gambling regulator, the Autorité Nationale des Jeux (ANJ), ordered internet service providers to block Polymarket on July 16, treating the prediction market as an illegal gambling site rather than a financial trading venue. The ANJ said earlier restrictions had failed to keep French users off the platform. Polymarket drew 578,751 visits from 205,057 unique […]

$2.5 billion in BTC call spreads target $72,000 by the month end when the Fed meets
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“This week we have seen some large blocks in BTC topside call spreads,” Jean-David Péquignot, chief commercial officer at Deribit, told CoinDesk. Options flow of this size and repetition often reflects institutional positioning rather than retail activity, given the capital required and the precision of the strike selection. The timing is notable for two reasons. […]