Jason Jones

AI-driven deepfakes now sit behind roughly 11% of fraud worldwide, and they are one piece of a much larger machine. This article looks at the schemes doing real harm and what can be done to stop them.

Anthropic released the most powerful AI model ever made available to the public on Tuesday. That sentence has been written before, about other models, and it will be written again, probably within weeks. What makes this release different — and worth the attention of anyone holding crypto assets, running a software business, or simply trying to keep up — is not the capability headline. It is the structure of the release itself.

Veteran chartist Dave the Wave posted a single, loaded caption to X on Friday — "#btc back to the 200 WMA…" — over a weekly Bitcoin chart that says more than the four words do. After the worst week of 2026, Bitcoin has fallen all the way back to its 200-week moving average, the long-term trendline (the green curve on his chart) currently sitting around $61,800.

Bitcoin's weekly close near $63,300 leaves it more than 50% below its October peak. The trend is still down — but one respected contrarian's chart argues the correction may be closer to its end than its beginning.

Bitcoin slid below $70,000 on Tuesday for the first time since April, touching an intraday low near $67,300 and extending a grind that has now erased roughly 45% of the asset's value since its $126,198 record last October. ZCash meanwhile, continues to outperform.

Michael Saylor is back to his old tricks. On Sunday morning, the Strategy chairman posted a single phrase — "Working Better" — alongside a bubble chart of the firm's Bitcoin purchases, the kind of cryptic social-media flourish that has reliably preceded an acquisition announcement from the world's largest corporate holder of the asset. The timing, however, is anything but incidental: it lands just a week before a shareholder vote that Strategy needs retail investors to actually show up for.

There is an increase in the conversation surrounding privacy with respect to cryptocurrency. More regulations spring up in the landscape as governments try to regulate digital currency, and traders who use centralized exchanges face stricter regulations that they must follow. Subsequently, many crypto users seek other ways of trading – they aim to ensure their data remains private and secure.

Washington moved on two parallel tracks this week to put the U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve on a permanent footing, as a bipartisan group of lawmakers reintroduced legislation to codify the reserve in federal statute while the White House signaled that a separate executive-branch announcement is imminent.

An investment thesis used to require a deck. Then it required a thread. On Wednesday, crypto trader Ansem (@blknoiz06) compressed his entire 2026 view into two TradingView screenshots: ETH breaking down through the $1,600 shelf it has defended since 2022, and ZEC breaking up through $700 toward something north of $7,000. The market is already voting with him on at least one of the two.

Bitcoin perpetual futures just closed out the longest stretch of negative funding rates in a decade. According to K33 Research data cited by CoinDesk, the 30-day average funding rate stayed negative for 67 consecutive days — the longest streak in 10 years, eclipsing the run from March to May 2020.