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Bitcoin

Bitcoin under $80,000: $987 million of ETFs, YTD still red

On Sunday Bitcoin sits just under $80,000. The week of US spot ETFs took in nearly a billion. Year to date the tally is still negative. CPI on the 11th, the Fed on the 16th.

Antoine M. · 6 Sept 2026 · 6 min

Mining

Mining: $40 per PH, a difficulty retarget this Saturday

On 5 September spot hashprice is $40.10 per PH per day. The network runs near 936 EH/s. A difficulty retarget is estimated this Saturday. The miner cashes dollars. The network cashes hashes.

Antoine M. · 5 Sept 2026 · 6 min

Orange-gold digital dollar, Bitcoin blurred behind.

Stablecoins

Stablecoins hold, and so does the dollar

Bitcoin loses $80,000. On-chain dollars do not lose the peg. USDT remains the pipe. Holding $1.00 is not a feat. It is the job.

Magali B. · 5 Sept 2026 · 6 min

Capitol at night, orange glow on marble.

Regulation

CLARITY Act: the Senate is back, the text is still not law

The bill passed the House in 2025, Senate Banking in the spring. It is not a statute. In Europe, MiCA already applies.

Magali B. · 5 Sept 2026 · 6 min

Ministry at night, files turning digital, red alert.

News

Tax-office hack: a suspected ZeroBytes member charged and jailed

Paris prosecutors charged and remanded an 18-year-old, suspected in the theft of DGFiP data tied to the ZeroBytes group. A charging is not a conviction. A leak of tax files is not “just crypto”.

Antoine M. · 4 Sept 2026 · 6 min

Frozen chain cubes, one dark block, orange-green neon.

Ethereum

A few minutes down on Robinhood Chain

On 4 September Robinhood Chain’s explorer stopped showing new blocks. L2BEAT logged 6 min 12 s without data to Ethereum. The sequencer is a single point. A few minutes is not a death. It is a design.

Antoine M. · 4 Sept 2026 · 6 min

Night robotaxi, orange cabin screen, satellite dish, city.

Cybercab: Tesla wires Starlink V5 into the robotaxi

Tesla promises a 22-inch cabin screen in the Cybercab, and soon factory Starlink V5. Starlink confirms: fleet and passenger, including off the 5G map. A press note is not a robotaxi in Paris.

Antoine M. · 4 Sept 2026 · 7 min

Data center, orange emergency lights, one dark aisle.

Grok: SpaceXAI blames Memphis, 3 h 37 of downtime

The official account tied Grok’s 3 September incident to the Memphis compute site and apologised to compute partners. What we hold is a duration and a place. Not a saboteur.

Antoine M. · 3 Sept 2026 · 6 min