Apr 6, 20264m 52s
Rwanda Tells Bybit Its Franc Is Off-Limits for Crypto Trading
Rwanda's central bank warned that P2P crypto trading with the Rwandan franc is illegal after Bybit launched RWF support on its platform.
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Narrated analysis on crypto policy, stablecoins, payments, and market structure.
Listen to narrated articles from the SpendNode Journal. The feed covers crypto policy, payment rails, stablecoins, market structure, and crypto cards, with each episode linking back to the full written analysis. The full RSS feed lives at /audio.xml if you want to pull it into an app that accepts external feeds.
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Apr 6, 20264m 03s
Bitcoin Shorts Lose 197 Million Dollars as BTC Reclaims 69,000 on Ceasefire Hopes
A 3-to-1 short squeeze wiped $274M in crypto positions as Bitcoin jumped to $69,350 on reports of a 45-day US-Iran ceasefire framework.
Apr 6, 20264m 32s
Apple Pulls Jack Dorsey's Bitchat From China's App Store After Government Order
China's Cyberspace Administration ordered Apple to remove Bitchat, Jack Dorsey's Bluetooth mesh messaging app with Bitcoin relay capabilities.
Apr 5, 20265m 48s
Iran Is Charging Crypto Tolls at the Strait of Hormuz, Up to 2 Million Dollars Per Tanker
Iran's IRGC now demands stablecoin or yuan payments for safe passage through Hormuz. A single tanker transit can cost $2 million.
Apr 5, 20264m 56s
Nearly 6 Billion Dollars in ETH Is Waiting to Stake, and Nobody Wants to Leave
2.89 million ETH sits in a 50-day entry queue while Ethereum's exit queue stays near zero. What the one-sided demand means for supply and yield.
Apr 5, 20264m 36s
Ledger CTO Says AI Is Driving the Cost of Crypto Attacks Toward Zero
Ledger CTO Charles Guillemet warns that AI is making crypto exploits faster, cheaper, and harder to stop, with $1.4 billion already lost this year.
Apr 5, 20264m 53s
The Labor Department Just Gave 401(k) Plans a Legal Path to Bitcoin
A new DOL proposed rule creates a six-factor safe harbor for fiduciaries who want to add crypto and alternative assets to $10.1 trillion in 401(k) plans.
Apr 5, 20264m 45s
Drift Traces Its $270 Million Exploit to a Six-Month North Korean Intelligence Operation
Drift Protocol says the April 1 exploit was carried out by UNC4736, a North Korean state-backed group that spent six months building trust before draining $270M.
Apr 5, 20265m 38s
RWA On-Chain Market Cap Hits 22.8 Billion Dollars, a New Record, While Crypto Sits in Fear
Tokenized real-world assets reach a $22.8B all-time high led by Tether Gold, even as Bitcoin trades at $67K and the Fear and Greed index reads 30.
Apr 4, 20264m 58s
Crypto Hit 20 Trillion Dollars in Q1 Volume, and 90% of It Was Derivatives
Crypto markets processed $20T in Q1 2026 volume per Coinglass, with roughly 90% in derivatives. Binance dominated. Spot markets shrank to a two-year low.