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In recent days, BlackRock has been at the center of extreme crypto-market turbulence, as its iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) and related options saw record trading activity amid theories of leveraged hedge fund blowups and institutional hedging feedback loops.
These events spotlight how a single, rapidly growing bitcoin ETF can influence broader digital-asset price moves and risk management behavior across the market.
We’ll now examine how the crypto-driven volatility around BlackRock’s IBIT ETF shapes the company’s investment narrative and perceived risk profile.
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Blue Origin pauses trips on rocket that carried Jeff Bezos, Katy Perry and William Shatner to ******* e

Blue Origin announced Friday that it is pausing flights aboard its suborbital ******* e tourism rocket New Shepard. Since 2021, New Shepard has provided 10-minute flights to the edge of ******* e for wealthy thrill seekers, celebrities and special guests.
The company, founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, said in a Friday statement that it’s halting the joyrides for at least two years in order to “shift resources to further accelerate development of the company’s human lunar capabili

Microsoft Stock Takes Most Massive Single-Day Loss Since Pandemic as Its AI Efforts Flail

Microsoft is taking a pounding in the stock market.
On Thursday, the Redmont giant’s share price collapsed by nearly 12 percent after it released its latest quarterly results, making it not only its biggest single day slide since March 2020, according to Bloomberg, but also one of the worst drops in the company’s history.
The Wile E. Coyote-worthy cliff-plunge, which wiped out over $400 billion in valuation, was despite Microsoft actually exceeding some key expectations, including its net income, whi

(WHNT) — Blue Origin has announced that it plans to put a pause on its New Shepard program for at least two years.
On Friday, the company announced it will pause its ****** e tourism flights to free up resources to accelerate development of its lunar program.
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“The decision reflects Blue Origin’s commitment to the nation’s goal of returning to the Moon and establishing a permanent, sustained lunar presence,” the company said.
Blue Origin touts the New Shepard launch system as the first reusable ****** eflight system that can land vertic

KALIDA — Unverferth Manufacturing Company has announced that its Air Command Section Control System, designed for Unverferth Pro-Force dry fertilizer spreaders, has received the prestigious AE50 Award.
This award recognizes the year’s most innovative products in agriculture, food and biological systems, honoring advancements that demonstrate exceptional engineering achievement and meaningful impact in the markets they serve.
Unverferth’s Air Command Section Control technology was selected as one of approximately 50 award recipients for its ability to enhance application accuracy and help pro

Despite the current downturn for crypto, Strategy added even more Bitcoin to its collection. The company bought more than 2,900 Bitcoin last week, bringing its total to over 712,000, according to an X post by cofounder Michael Saylor. The move follows a more than $2 billion purchase earlier this month.
Strategy is the first and biggest digital **** et treasury, or a type of company that acquires and holds on to large amounts of crypto. Saylor’s company began investing in Bitcoin in 2020 and now holds more than 3% of the total supply. This business model has confronted major challenges in the

Another former crypto miner is quietly making the case that pivoting to AI may be the smartest survival move in today’s market.
This time, the proof point is CoreWeave (NASDAQ: CRWV), a firm that began life as a Bitcoin mining operation and is now pulling in billions from Big Tech.
Related: What is Bitcoin mining? Explained
CoreWeave didn’t start out as an AI darling.
The company was founded in 2017 under the name Atlantic Crypto, initially focused on Bitcoin mining. But after the 2018 crypto crash exposed how fragile mining economics could be, the team made a decisive pivot.

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A box full of viruses and bacteria has completed its return trip to the International **** e Station, and the changes these 'bugs' experienced in their travels could help us Earthlings tackle drug-resistant infections.
A team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and US biotech company Rhodium Scientific Inc. pitted Escherichia coli bacteria against its viral arch-nemesis, the T7 bacteriophage. This pair has been locked in an evolutionary 'arms race' for as long as we've been looking, but never in microgravity – until they were sent to the ISS in 2020.
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Saylor Says 'Opportunists' Pushing for BTC Changes Are Its Biggest Threat

Major changes to the Bitcoin protocol should be well-thought-out and rare, Strategy co-founder Michael Saylor previously said.
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The biggest threat to the Bitcoin network is “ambitious opportunists” who want to push through protocol changes, according to Michael Saylor, the co-founder of Bitcoin
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Saylor’s comments sparked a debate online. Bitcoin maximalist Justin Bechler said the comments were directed toward software developers pushing for n

GameStop has transferred its entire Bitcoin stash to Coinbase Prime, triggering fresh speculation that the video game retailer may be preparing to unwind its short-lived Bitcoin treasury strategy.
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GameStop moved its entire 4,710 BTC stash to Coinbase Prime, sparking speculation of a potential exit from its Bitcoin treasury.
If sold near current prices, the company would realize an estimated $75M–$85M loss on its Bitcoin holdings.
The transfer comes as corporate crypto treasury strategies face pressure amid falling digital **** et prices.

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Real estate guru Grant Cardone has added nearly $70 million worth of Bitcoin in two tranches to his company’s balance sheet.
Cardone on Monday announced the purchase of $10 million worth of Bitcoin and 650 BTC, most recently worth $58 million, for Cardone Capital’s real estate and Bitcoin hybrid fund model.
The announcement of the purchases came a day after Cardone touted Bitcoin as the only scarce minable resource.
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Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk responded to reports about him funding the GOP for midterms and has expressed his concerns about the future of the U.S. if the “radical left” comes to power.
Late Thursday, Musk, in a post on his social media platform X, warned that the U.S. would be in dire straits if the Democrats take control. He predicted that this would lead to an influx of illegal immigration and fraud, which would fundamentally change the country.
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Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin-focused company Strategy is once again edging toward a key valuation threshold, as its market-to-net-asset-value multiple, or mNAV, hovers just above levels that could undermine the logic of holding its stock as a proxy for Bitcoin exposure.
In early trading on January 2, Strategy shares rose modestly, offering brief relief after months of pressure.
Even with the bounce, the stock remains down roughly 66% from its July peak.
The company’s mNAV, a measure comparing its market valuation to the value of its Bitcoin holdings, stood near 1.02, leaving little margin befor

Institutional adoption continues to be the No. 1 factor pushing Bitcoin higher.
If both Wall Street and the White House continue with their pro-crypto initiatives, the price of Bitcoin is likely to rise.
A splashy new move, such as the adoption of Bitcoin by a major Silicon Valley tech company, could propel Bitcoin higher.
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At the beginning of 2025, ***** ody could have predicted this: Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) fell about 7% last year and is still trading well below the psychologically important $100,000 level.

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Peter Schiff has once again criticized Strategy’s Bitcoin-heavy corporate approach, raising fresh questions about whether the company’s performance would even qualify it for inclusion in the S&P 500.
In a post on X, the economist argued that if Strategy were part of the benchmark index, its 47.5% decline in 2025 would place it among the worst performers of the year.
Schiff said the company’s aggressive Bitcoin accumulation has come at the expense of shareholders, adding that Strategy’s stock collapse undercuts claims that buying Bitcoin is the best possible corporate strategy.
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Driver impersonating legitimate carrier allegedly steals $400,000 worth of lobster

Someone’s going to need a ton of melted ****** er.
A whopping $400,000 shipment of lobster was stolen as it was headed for Costco stores, according to the freight company’s president.
Dylan Rexing, the president and chief executive of supply chain company Rexing Companies, said in a statement that he believes the driver was impersonating a legitimate carrier and stole the seafood. The lobsters, which were not alive, were on their way to Costco stores in Illinois and Minnesota, he said.
“This theft wasn’t r

Scientists are taking a step toward developing a nearly limitless power source.
As Interesting Engineering detailed, researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany designed materials that can withstand conditions in the innermost chamber of future fusion reactors.
The team collaborated with laser-fusion company Focused Energy on the project.
The goal was to design more durable materials for the first wall of fusion reactors. That's the part of the reactor that holds plasma and protects the rest of the device from conditions formed by the plasma.
Fusion occurs naturally in

David Schassler, head of multi-asset solutions at VanEck, presented a constructive outlook on Bitcoin, projecting that the largest crypto would recoup next year despite its current “lag.”
“Bitcoin is lagging the Nasdaq 100 Index by roughly 50% year-to-date, and that dislocation is setting it up to be a top performer in 2026,” he wrote in the company’s 2026 outlook report.
Further, VanEck’s lead of Digital ******* ets Research Matthew Sigel pointed out that Bitcoin’s historical four-year cycle “remains intact” following the early October 2025 high.
“That pattern suggests 2026 is more likely

Bitcoin financial services company Fold Holdings will be added to the Russell 2000, a primary US small-cap benchmark index.
The announcement comes as MSCI considers excluding crypto-holding companies from its indexes, drawing significant industry attention.
Fold Holdings (NASDAQ: FLD) officially announced its inclusion in the Russell 2000 on December 22. The company describes itself as the first publicly traded Bitcoin financial services firm, with over 1,500 BTC in its treasury. Its product lineup includes the Fold App, Fold Bitcoin Gift Card, Fold Debit Card, and the upcoming Fold Bitcoin

(Bloomberg) -- Michael Saylor’s Strategy Inc. bolstered its cash reserve to $2.19 billion and paused purchases of Bitcoin over the past week as the largest digital ******* et treasury company appears to be settling in for a long crypto winter.
The Tysons Corner, Virginia-based firm raised $748 million through the sale of common shares in the seven days ended Dec. 21, according to a filing Monday with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. It had purchased about $2 billion in Bitcoin over the previous two weeks, bringing its total holdings to around $60 billion.
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Investment products tied to cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) registered an outflow of $952 million last week.
CoinShares said the outflow after three consecutive weeks of inflows is indicative of the regulatory uncertainty due to the delay of the Clarity Act, the digital ******* et investment company said on Dec. 22.
Related: JPMorgan Chase reportedly eyes crypto trading amid debanking claims
The fear of whale selling during the market slide also led to the outflow, it added.
The U.S. led with an outflow of $990 million, though the inflows in Canada and Germany helped

Michael Saylor is signaling another aggressive Bitcoin accumulation for Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy).
This signals that the firm is down on its high-stakes treasury strategy even as its MSTR stock falters.
On December 21, Saylor posted a cryptic image to X captioned "Green Dots ₿eget Orange Dots," referencing the company’s "SaylorTracker" portfolio visualization.
The post continues a year-long pattern Saylor has used to hint at a new BTC purchase. Notably, such a weekend teaser is usually followed by a Monday morning SEC filing confirming a significant acquisition.
Meanwhile, a new pu

Russian Cosmonaut Removed From ******* eX's Crew 12 ISS Mission, And It's Clear Why

A Russian cosmonaut scheduled to fly on the next trip to the International ******* e Station with ******* eX has been removed, apparently for violating U.S. national security regulations. As reported by Russian news outlet The Insider on December 2, Oleg Artemyev from Roscosmos allegedly used his phone to photograph restricted ******* eX documentation, as well as engine designs and other sensitive details during his training visit to the company's headquarters in Hawthorne, California. That mission, *******

A Blue Origin rocket will soon launch carrying an unconventional passenger in a history-making moment made possible by a high-profile former employee of the company’s biggest rival.
Michaela Benthaus, an aerospace and mechatronics engineer at the European ******* e Agency, will be aboard the mission, known as NS-37, and become the first wheelchair user to travel to ******* e. The unprecedented opportunity came together after encounter between Benthaus and Hans Koenigsmann, a former executive at ******* eX — Blue Origin’s chief competitor.
Koenigsmann, like Benthaus, is German, and the two of

Getty Images tried to sue an AI company for copyright infringement, but its claim was rejected in court.
Getty Images is widely known for the array of stock images it offers, but the multi-million dollar company recently faced a disappointing court ruling when it tried to protect its intellectual property from the company, Stability AI.
Reporting by Reuters investigated the lawsuit, in which Getty Images accused Stability AI of "training" its image generators from copyrighted Getty Images stock pictures. However, the major corporation largely lost its lawsuit, exposing a lack of protection f

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are racing to put humans back on the moon for the first time in 50 years.
New NASA boss Jared Isaacman said the agency will pick whichever company finishes its lunar lander first.
Acting NASA head Sean Duffy reopened ******* eX's contract in October, saying Musk's company was "behind schedule."
NASA's new boss has reiterated the stakes for the lunar race between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.
On his first day in the job, Jared Isaacman said the ******* e agency would pick whichever company finished its moon lander first, out of Musk's ******* eX or Bezos' Blue Origin.

Babbel reveals the most mispronounced words of 2025

DALLAS (AP) — From the election of Zohran Mamdani to the intrigue surrounding the jewel heist at the Louvre, keeping up with this year's news also left some Americans struggling with **** unciations. That's put both the name of New York City's incoming mayor and the famed Paris museum on a list of the most mispronounced words in 2025.
The language-learning company Babbel and closed-captioning company The Captioning Group on Thursday released a list of the words that news anchors, politicians and other public figures in the U.S. struggled

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) — The world of crime and DNA has evolved significantly over the past decade, including the use of phenotyping to help solve cases.
In the Lowcountry, a 40-year-old cold case was solved recently with the help of new DNA testing.
WSAV reached out to Parabon NanoLabs, a company that does bioinformatic testing and genealogy testing to better understand how they are able to use their technology to help law enforcement.
Director of Bioinformatics Ellen Greytak told WSAV that they’re able to predict certain physical traits through phenotyping.
“We started with a very large da

The Bitcoin price volatility is once again drawing attention to MicroStrategy, the company whose strategy has become a major market...
Bitcoin has been struggling to build momentum in recent weeks, and the return of cash into the system is raising...
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In recent remarks at the “Revitalizing America’s Markets” event, SEC Chair Paul Atkins laid out a plan that would fundamentally redefine what it means to be a public company in the United States. He framed it as a plan to “make IPOs great again,” but beneath the rhetoric lies something far more consequential: a shift toward a marketplace where public companies behave like private ones — shielded from disclosure, insulated from shareholder input, and increasingly detached from the long-term health of the broader economy. In essence, it is a move toward absolute control by CEOs and their boards