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Antonio Quinn

Antonio Quinn is the Director and Founder of The Chain Journal, covering the intersection of Bitcoin and global power structures — sanctions, sovereign adoption, and the political economy of sound money. His work focuses on how geopolitical fragmentation and currency instability are accelerating the adoption of decentralised money. He founded The Chain Journal to connect these themes in a rigorous, accessible, and multilingual way.

Bitcoin’s Next Move Could Punish Shorts

Bitcoin price analysis sees new short squeeze as open interest nears $25B

Derivatives Are Setting the Trap Bitcoin is entering a familiar but dangerous phase for leveraged traders. Open interest has climbed back toward the $25 billion area, while funding rates remain soft enough to suggest that many traders are still leaning…

AI optimism is outrunning hiring reality

Reality of AI’s impact on employment clashes with C-suite optimism

The optimism gap in AI hiring The corporate story around artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly polished, but the labor market is telling a more restrained tale. In many boardrooms, AI is still framed as a productivity engine that will expand…

Bitcoin Holds Firm as Oil Shock Spreads

Oil price surges 8% on Iran tensions: Five things to know in Bitcoin this week

A Geopolitical Shock With Crypto Consequences Bitcoin spent the latest weekly close defending the $70,000 area while traders reassessed a fast-moving geopolitical backdrop centered on US-Iran tensions and the Strait of Hormuz. The move matters because crypto rarely trades in…

BOK Wants Crypto Circuit Breakers

Bank of Korea floats crypto ‘circuit breakers’ after Bithumb blunder

A Mistake That Exposed a Bigger Problem Bithumb’s February blunder was not a hack, a market rumor, or a software exploit. It was something more embarrassing for the industry: a human error so large it briefly turned a small promotional…

Bitcoin Mining and AI Move in Opposite Directions

Bitcoin mining and AI may be on opposite decentralization paths: Researcher

The Two Compute Economies Are Splitting Bitcoin mining and artificial intelligence are increasingly telling two very different stories about how power is organized. In Bitcoin, the economics of scale, cheap electricity, and industrial hosting continue to push mining toward larger…

Crypto Today: Bitcoin Holds the Line

Here’s what happened in crypto today

Bitcoin’s Market Structure Still Leads the Tape Bitcoin remains the reference asset for the entire crypto complex, and the market is still trading like that matters. After a volatile first quarter, recent weekly flow data showed U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs…

Bitcoin Recovery Looks Fragile in 2026

BTC recovery fragile, Iran war fallout to ‘dominate’ markets in 2026: Analyst

Geopolitics Is Back in the Driver’s Seat Bitcoin’s latest rebound has not erased the fragility underneath the market. The deeper issue is not only price action, but the macro backdrop shaping it. A growing number of traders are treating the…