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Author: Ada, DeepTide TechFlow
Original Title: Two Weeks When the Safe Haven King Failed, Bitcoin Quietly Outperformed Everything
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Early morning on February 28, U.S. and Israel launched a joint military strike against Iran.
The textbook says: War is coming, buy gold.
But this time, the textbook seemed to be wrong.
Gold surged briefly from $5,296 to $5,423, then fell all the way to around $5,020, closing down for two consecutive weeks. Bitcoin rebounded from a panic low of $63,000 to $75,000, gaining over 20%, outperforming gold, the S&P 500, and Nasdaq.
Same war, same timeframe, gold fell, and Bitcoin rose.
What exactly happened?
Gold: Held Down by Interest Rates
On the day war broke out, gold's performance was still relatively normal. On the 28th, gold prices surged

Author: Eric, Foresight News
Original Title: How Much Money Does It Take to Get a President to Promote a Meme Coin? Milei: $5 Million
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On March 17 Beijing time, Argentine local media El Destape broke an exclusive bombshell: data recovered by investigators from the phone of an Argentine cryptocurrency lobbyist showed that Argentine President Milei posted on Twitter to promote LIBRA a year ago in exchange for a $5 million bribe, with the instigator being Hayden Davis as previously speculated by the public.
Opposition lawmakers pushing for this investigation domestically have called it an "explosive scandal" and demanded further investigation. However, as of press time, neither Milei nor the presidential office has responded to this.
Promoting Meme Gets Backlash, Blames "Political Struggle"
February 15, 2025

Author: Sam Schneider
Original Title: What's Kalshi's revenue?
Compiled and organized by: BitpushNews
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Suppose it's now 2005, and you founded a company called "Meth Labs, Inc." You start recruiting clients, raising venture capital, and before you know it, the company has gone public on the NYSE with the ticker symbol $METH. People can buy and sell your stock, and even construct iron condor options strategies. The NYSE provides a centralized marketplace where buyers and sellers trade, and prices adjust in real-time as information is disclosed.
I just mentioned the NYSE, but there are many other stock exchanges in the world (such as NASDAQ, London Stock Exchange, Shanghai Stock Exchange, etc.), and they all facilitate the buying and selling of securities. In fact, markets are so important to society that even if you're not a

The U.S. prediction market has sparked political controversy due to Iran-related contracts, with investors and regulators facing issues of trust and fairness. As the market expands amid financing booms and mainstream media partnerships, it faces increasingly stringent regulatory requirements. Washington must balance legitimacy with restrictions to prevent military actions from being commercialized and to mitigate insider trading risks.

Author: KarenZ, Foresight News
Original Title: Mine Owners, New Landlords of the AI Era
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Global mineral reserves will eventually reach the point where they become difficult to extract and ultimately depleted. California's gold, the Ruhr's coal, Cornwall's tin—when mineral veins exhaust, industry restructuring inevitably follows.
Bitcoin mining is no exception.
On March 9, 2026, the 20 millionth Bitcoin was officially "mined," with less than 1 million BTC remaining to be extracted. As the shadow of the block reward halving in 2028 looms ahead, mining companies are caught in existential anxiety.
Yet unexpectedly, the explosion of the AI wave has opened a "second growth curve" for mining enterprises.
Starting in 2024, AI companies and cloud providers began frantically competing for mining companies' electricity and data centers. From the second half of 2025 to now, this

315 exposed Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), a business model that involves publishing soft articles to prioritize AI recommendations. This behavior is similar to early Search Engine Optimization (SEO), both manipulating information to gain traffic. Although the 315 incident revealed AI "poisoning," the GEO concept received enthusiastic backing in the capital markets, generating substantial wealth. Ultimately, GEO demonstrated the complexity of information circulation, prompting reflection on the integrity of AI recommendations.

OpenClaw founder questions Tencent's copying of its project, claiming that SkillHub was launched directly without prior communication, affecting community autonomy. Tencent responded that it is a localization platform that did not drain resources from the original platform. The article points out that major tech companies are seizing the opportunity to capture market share, which could potentially restrict users' and developers' choices in the future, bringing potential risks.

# Author: David, Deep Tide TechFlow
**Original Title: The Person Who Exited at the Peak of NFTs Is Now the Most Secret Winner Behind OpenClaw**
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OpenClaw is on fire, but the one quietly making money from this wave is a company you've probably never heard of:
OpenRouter.
To use OpenClaw, you need to integrate various AI models to actually get work done—Claude, GPT, DeepSeek all have different fees and interfaces. What OpenRouter does is bundle these models together, you use them uniformly through it, and it profits from the spread.
The person running this business is called Alex Atallah. His company just raised

JPMorgan report shows that since the escalation of the Iran situation, Bitcoin ETFs have attracted inflows while traditional gold ETFs have experienced outflows. CME warns that if the US government intervenes in the oil market, it will cause a market confidence crisis. The US SEC Chair stated it will consider innovation exemptions for tokenized securities trading. The US Senate passed a bill prohibiting CBDC issuance, with unclear prospects for the legislation. Ark Invest report warns that approximately one-third of Bitcoin faces quantum computing risk.

This article explores the development potential of the crypto agent economy, emphasizing the necessity of combining AI with blockchain technology. Although current crypto asset growth is slow, the rise of AI agents provides possible momentum for the future economy. The article analyzes how the agent economy operates and its impact on DeFi, and looks forward to rapid growth in agent intelligence. Overall, technological progress will drive the rise of this emerging economic model.

The article discusses the current state of Crypto, pointing out that its biggest problem is not "harvesting retail investors," but rather fundamental logical errors: a lack of understanding of distributed trust structures, loss of incremental markets, declining community trust, and the rush to financialize before technology maturity. Additionally, the shift in attention is identified as an important factor in Crypto's decline. Old OGs conclude that this narrative cycle has ended, and the future requires rebuilding trust.

The cryptocurrency options market is rapidly expanding, with Bitcoin options open interest expected to reach $65 billion in 2025, gradually replacing futures open interest. The decentralized options market remains in its infancy, with projects like DeriveXYZ showing strong performance. As the regulatory environment improves, institutional investor demand continues to grow, and on-chain options are expected to achieve greater breakthroughs in the future.

# Author: David Dobrovitsky
Compiled by: Luffy, Foresight News
Original Title: The Only Two Moats That Keep Startups Alive
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The vast majority of startup ideas are easily copied.
Founders rarely admit this publicly, but anyone who has spent enough time in product development will eventually discover: ideas spread instantly, code can be rewritten, features can be copied, and designs can be imitated.
The market doesn't reward ideas. The market rewards moats.
Setting aside all the noise in startup circles, there are actually only two paths for a startup to go the distance.
First, possess truly difficult-to-replicate technology. Second, tightly grip eternal human needs before competitors appear.
Almost all startups that survive long-term cannot escape these two forces. You need to figure out which path you're on.

Podcast: David Lin
Compiled & Edited by: Yuliya, PANews
Original Title: Economists Warn: Stock Market Bubble More Fragile Than Repeating the 50-Year-Old Oil Crisis
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The Strait of Hormuz is under threat, oil prices are surging, and the world is trembling, waiting for the "1979 Crisis" to repeat itself?
Don’t be fooled by appearances! In his latest podcast, Johns Hopkins University professor Steve Hanke poured cold water on the panic: the real crisis isn’t in oil prices, but in the Fed’s out-of-control money printing machine and the overvalued bubble in the US stock market. Additionally, this episode discusses the current bubble risks in the stock market, the impact of war, and the geopolitical and global repercussions of the Iran conflict.
PANews has compiled and organized the dialogue into text.
Repeating the 1979 Oil Crisis? The Actual Risk Is Lower
David: Are we currently