Ryan Cohen’s unsolicited $55.5 billion unsolicited bid to absorb eBay into GameStop has the corporate world doing a double-take. Cohen’s pitch sounds seductive on paper: he promises to slash $2 billion in bloated overhead …
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Crypto traders spend $9.7B on fees as the next Bitcoin drawdown will expose which on-chain costs are real
by adminby adminMake CryptoSlate preferred on Users paid $9.7 billion in on-chain fees in the first half of 2025, up 41% year over year and the second-highest total on record. 1kx projects more than $32 billion …
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US rising war costs further boosts Bitcoin’s financial refuge status
by adminby adminThe United States spent in the first six days of its war with Iran an amount equal to nearly half the current market value of the Bitcoin held by the federal government. The administration …
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Class Action Alleges Microsoft Choked AI Supply to Lift ChatGPT Costs
by adminby adminIn brief Microsoft allegedly used an exclusive Azure agreement from 2019 to control compute supply to OpenAI, keeping ChatGPT prices artificially high while developing competing AI products. When OpenAI began buying compute from Google …
What are gas fees, and why do they matter so much when sending crypto? If you have ever tried to move tokens or swap coins, you have likely noticed an extra charge added to …