Bo Nichols

Oct 23, 2025

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Bitcoin and Gold Split the Screen

October’s 0.1 correlation shows how the “digital gold” story fractures when two assets stop sharing the same clock.

Bo Nichols

Oct 21, 2025

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5 min read

America Just Rewired Crypto’s On-Ramp

The SEC’s new “generic listing” standard turns crypto ETFs from one-off battles into a rule-based highway—compressing timelines and inviting a wave of mainstream products.

Bo Nichols

Bitcoin’s Hedge Narrative Collapses After $19B Liquidation

Oct 17, 2025

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3 min read

Bitcoin’s Hedge Narrative Collapses After $19B Liquidation

Bitcoin’s slide below $110K shows it still trades like a risk asset. Gold’s record surge and ETF divergence make clear which store of value markets trust when panic hits.

Bo Nichols

The Day $300 Trillion Appeared on Ethereum

Oct 16, 2025

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3 min read

The Day $300 Trillion Appeared on Ethereum

A single key error at Paxos minted 300 times global GDP, then erased it in minutes. What the surreal PYUSD glitch revealed about how fragile stablecoin infrastructure still is.

Bo Nichols

Corporations Are Quietly Turning Bitcoin Into a Treasury Standard

Oct 15, 2025

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3 min read

Corporations Are Quietly Turning Bitcoin Into a Treasury Standard

Public companies now hold over $117 billion in Bitcoin, with balance-sheet exposure up nearly 40% in one quarter. Favorable regulation, ETF inflows, and new accounting clarity are pushing digital assets from hedge to policy.

Bo Nichols

Musk Reignites the “Energy = Bitcoin” Debate

Oct 14, 2025

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3 min read

Musk Reignites the “Energy = Bitcoin” Debate

After years of silence, Elon Musk’s comments on Bitcoin as “impossible to fake energy” hint at a philosophical return — and renew a link between digital assets, power, and innovation.

Bo Nichols

Oct 13, 2025

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3 min read

Inside Crypto’s $20B Liquidation Shock

A single day erased $65B in open interest — but what failed, what held, and why the system ultimately absorbed the blow tells a deeper story about the maturing market’s stress mechanics.

Bo Nichols

Tether’s Treasury Empire: The Next Top 5 Foreign Holder?

Oct 10, 2025

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3 min read

Tether’s Treasury Empire: The Next Top 5 Foreign Holder?

With $127B in Treasuries, Tether is already bigger than many nations. Continued accumulation could place the stablecoin issuer among America’s largest creditors by 2033.

Bo Nichols

Staking Inside ETFs? A Quiet Shift with Big Implications

Oct 9, 2025

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2 min read

Staking Inside ETFs? A Quiet Shift with Big Implications

Bitwise and 21Shares just added staking language to their SEC filings — a subtle move that could bridge DeFi yield and regulated finance, reshaping how crypto ETFs earn returns.

Bo Nichols

CME’s Next Chapter: Institutions Pile Into Solana and XRP

Oct 8, 2025

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3 min read

CME’s Next Chapter: Institutions Pile Into Solana and XRP

CME’s latest crypto contracts have crossed the $1B liquidity line — fast. It’s the clearest sign yet that institutional desks are building multi-asset crypto portfolios beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Bo Nichols

Institutional Liquidity Surges as Crypto Trading Volume Reaches $9.7 Trillion

Oct 7, 2025

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3 min read

Institutional Liquidity Surges as Crypto Trading Volume Reaches $9.7 Trillion

The strongest month of 2025 shows how derivatives-led growth is reshaping the crypto landscape. Centralized exchanges hit a new yearly high, signaling deepening institutional validation.

Bo Nichols