Bitcoin Becomes Méliuz’s ‘Escape Hatch’ From Brazil’s 22% Rates

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When Brazilian fintech firm Méliuz (CASH3) reviewed its balance sheet in late 2024, it found something startling: it was profitable, debt-free, and growing, yet the market had valued its business at zero. “If you excluded the cash on hand,” Diego Kolling, Head of Bitcoin Strategy at Méliuz, told CoinDesk at the Blockchain Conference Brasil 2025. […]

Yen-Backed Stablecoin Can’t Come at a Better Time as BOJ Seen Raising Rates

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One of the biggest stories emerging from the Far East this month is the imminent launch of a blockchain-based version of the Japanese yen, one of the world’s major fiat currencies. The timing for this development couldn’t be better, as the Bank of Japan (BOJ) is widely expected to raise interest rates soon, a move […]

No Relief From Prospect of Lower Rates

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Soft U.S. July jobs numbers released Friday morning combined with shocking revisions lower to June and May prints to produce the weakest three-month period of employment growth since the Covid shutdowns of 2020. The data seems likely to put an end to the wait-and-see approach of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and set the central […]

Coinbase Premium, Not Bank of Japan Rates, Might be the Metric to Watch for BTC

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Bitcoin is trading at $109.7K as the Wednesday trading day begins in Asia, according to CoinDesk market data. While the world’s largest digital asset is trading flat in the early hours of the session, CoinDesk market data shows that it’s up 4% on the week. An expected Bank of Japan rate cut isn’t doing that […]

Slow-Moving Fed Should Cut Rates as There is ‘No Inflation’, Trump Says

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President Donald Trump reiterated calls for Fed rate cuts, saying there is no inflation. “Oil prices are down, interest rates are down (the slow moving Fed should cut rates!), food prices are down, there is NO INFLATION, and the long time abused USA is bringing in Billions of Dollars a week from the abusing countries […]