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Bitcoin Perps' Algorithmic '0.01%' Scythe: How The Funding-Rate Mechanism Explains Your "Mystery" Liquidations
Bitcoin Perps' Algorithmic '0.01%' Scythe: How The Funding-Rate Mechanism Explains Your "Mystery" Liquidations
Authored by danny (@agintender) via WuBlockchain's Aki Chen,
Why is derivatives trading the exchange’s money printer? Why do some venues dare to take the other side of their customers’ trades? By unpacking the funding-rate mechanics of Bitcoin perpetual futures (perps) and the surrounding market dynamics, we show how traders are led—step by step—into a fatal trap meticulously engineered by the exchange.
The so-called “0.01% equilibrium” in perps - akin, in spirit, to the 0.618 Fibonacci motif - operates as a...
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Human Smuggler Extradited From Brazil To US: DOJ
Human Smuggler Extradited From Brazil To US: DOJ
Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
A Bangladeshi national, alleged by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to be a “prolific” alien smuggler, made his first appearance Monday in a Laredo, Texas, federal courtroom following his extradition from Brazil, according to a DOJ statement.
Illegal immigrants who are believed to have crossed the border from Mexico into the United States are seen after the truck they were being transported in was interdicted by law enforcement officers in Laredo, Texas, on Sept....
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Jul 13, 2026 / Tyler Durden
China's Memory-Chip Challenger Faces A Test Of How Far US Curbs Can Reach
China's Memory-Chip Challenger Faces A Test Of How Far US Curbs Can Reach
ChangXin Memory Technologies is approaching a turning point.
The Chinese memory-chip maker has advanced far enough to draw interest from some of the world's largest technology companies, including Apple Inc., which has considered using its chips. But the same growth that has raised CXMT's commercial standing has also made it a more prominent target in the widening technology confrontation between Washington and Beijing.
The Pentagon has blacklisted the state-backed company over alleged links to China's military. In South Korea,...
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Feb 22, 2026 / Tyler Durden
"Potentially Worst Blizzard In Decade" Set To Hammer Mid-Atlantic And Northeast
"Potentially Worst Blizzard In Decade" Set To Hammer Mid-Atlantic And Northeast
A potentially historic winter storm is set to slam the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast beginning Sunday, bringing heavy snow, damaging winds, and coastal flooding.
As of Sunday morning, 35 million people are under Blizzard Warning alerts from the Mid-Atlantic through New England, according to a post on X from the National Weather Service Prediction Center.
Meteorologists are already labeling the nor'easter as potentially historic and warn it could be the most intense blizzard to hit the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast in a decade.
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