15 Dec Bitfinex Alpha | 2026 WILL BE THE YEAR OF LIQUIDITY Posted at 16:34h in Bitfinex Alpha by Lya Rodriguez Subscribeto Bitfinex Alpha! Want to receive Alpha from Bitfinex every week? Subscribe Welcome to our final edition of Bitfinex Alpha 2025. In this edition we look back at what influenced the market in 2025, and what we believe will determine performance in 2026.In what was an end of an era, we saw a clear structural break from Bitcoin’s traditional four-year, halving-driven framework. With annual BTC issuance now below 1 percent, the marginal supply shock from each halving has diminished,…
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Ten years ago, Jessica Spencer was on a six-hour trip to Atlanta. Like many road trip warriors, she decided to pass the time with a podcast. That was the first time Jessica heard The Smart Passive Income Podcast, a show that’s still up and running weekly with Pat Flynn behind the mic. She was taken by Pat’s approach to customer-centric marketing. What Jessica didn’t know, as her car floated gently down the Georgia highway, was where the podcast would lead her. Nine years later, she found SPI’s All-Access Pass community and her entrepreneurial journey would never be the same. An…
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is genuinely useful. It gives people who develop AI tools a standardized way to call functions and access data from external systems. Instead of building custom integrations for each data source, you can expose databases, APIs, and internal tools through a common protocol that any AI can understand.However, I’ve been watching teams adopt MCP over the past year, and I’m seeing a disturbing pattern. Developers are using MCP to quickly connect their AI assistants to every data source they can find—customer databases, support tickets, internal APIs, document stores—and dumping it all into the AI’s context.…
Bitcoin is trading near $86,000 as losses build across ETFs, treasury companies, and miners.According to Checkonchain’s Dec. 15 “System Stress” note, investors are carrying about $100 billion in unrealized losses.Bitcoin system stress (Source: Checkonchain)Miners are pulling back hashrate, many treasury-company stocks are trading below their Bitcoin book value, and about 60% of spot Bitcoin ETF inflows are underwater.Checkonchain’s chart of ETF average inflow cost basis and ETF market value to realized value (MVRV) places the ETF cost basis and the True Market Mean in the same area, around $80,000–$82,000.That puts a large share of institutional positioning near breakeven.Those anchors matter…
Introduction In today’s rapidly evolving financial landscape, more transactions and users are shifting towards on-chain and self-custody solutions. This trend is driven by enhanced blockchain infrastructure that offers a Web2 user experience on-chain, combined with growing mistrust of centralized platforms. Wirex Pay is at the forefront of this shift, providing a unique bridge between traditional payment systems and the emerging Web3 ecosystem. Market trend The market is witnessing two distinctive movements: centralized and custodial platforms are moving on-chain due to increased regulatory pressure, while users are moving on-chain due to a lack of trust in centralized platforms. This dual shift…
Video hosting may seem simple until a team actually relies on it. What starts as “we just need a place to upload videos” turns into buffering complaints, access confusion, and the question that always comes next: Did anyone watch this all the way through?
Bell Labs is already highly recognized, but in its centennial year, the organization hoped to add more awards to burnish its reputation as one of the world’s leading centers of technical innovation.On 21 October, IEEE representatives, Nokia Bell Labs leaders, and alumni of the storied institution gathered to celebrate seven technological achievements recognized as IEEE Milestones:The large number of milestones granted at once is due to an extraordinary effort to achieve the recognitions during Bell Labs’ 100th anniversary year, which IEEE Fellow Peter Vetter, president of Nokia Bell Labs core research, told the attendees was always intended as a full…
Veteran market trader Peter Brandt has reignited debate around XRP after issuing sharp remarks about the token’s most loyal supporters. Drawing from a career that spans more than five decades, Brandt grouped XRP alongside silver when describing markets where bullish belief often holds firm despite repeated price swings and long periods of disappointment. Related Reading According to people familiar with his comments, Brandt grounded his criticism in personal trading history. He said he has handled thousands of contracts across commodities, equity benchmarks, and digital assets, and argued that the “perma bulls who I find most uneducated and biased are those…
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OK, if you live somewhere where it’s really cold, you should just get a great big puffer (see below) or learn to layer well. However, if you just want to pop on a jacket and be warm instantly (like, if you’re a hockey or soccer mom who has to sit in a cold bleacher seat), an electric heated jacket is the way to go. I have tried several of these electric apparel company brands. Unfortunately, there are a ton of them on Amazon, and most are very crappy. The fabric is very thin, or maybe the heat zones are uneven…
