Local Opposition Stalls $68 Billion in US Data Center Projects

Data center opposition blocked or delayed 45 US projects worth $68 billion between April and June, according to research group Data Center Watch.   Public sentiment keeps souring, and statehouses are catching up with moratoriums on new construction and tighter rules.  Sponsored  Sponsored  30 Statehouses Move on Data Center Rules  Some 30 statehouses introduced or adopted measures covering siting, electricity, and water issues, Watch said. Communities increasingly move before developers can file for permits.  The pace of disruption has eased since the start of the year. The firm recorded 75 blocked or delayed projects worth roughly $130 billion between January and March.  Even so, the 45 projects made up more than half of all new large-scale developments tracked during the quarter. That squeeze has turned Bitcoin miners into unlikely landlords, because their already-permitted power sites are some of the few places an artificial intelligence (AI) developer can plug in without waiting years for a grid connection.  Notably, active opposition groups now number 843 across 49 states, with Hawaii the only exception. Online organizing is amplifying the pressure. One Tennessee petition drew more than 500,000 signatures on Change.org.  Amazon data centers consumed 2.5 billion gallons of water in a single year. That volume is sufficient to fill roughly 3800 Olympic

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Is the M&A Boom Real? BCG Says Yes at the Top, Not Below $1 Billion

Global mergers and acquisitions (M&A) value ran 11% above its 10-year average in the first eight months of 2026, according to Boston Consulting Group (BCG).  The gains sit almost entirely at the top of the market. Deal volumes below $1 billion remain under longer-term norms.  Sponsored  Sponsored  Megadeals Clear a Record Set in 2021  Aggregate deal value rose 15% year over year through August, BCG said. Deal value reached $2.09 trillion between January and August, up from $1.82 trillion a year earlier.  Global M&A Value and Deal Volume in the First 8 Months of 2026. Source: BCG  Follow us on X to get the latest news as it happens  Transactions worth $10 billion or more climbed to 37, up from 24 a year earlier. That count cleared the 32 megadeals announced over the same period in 2021.  Total deal value has not caught up, however. The 2021 figure reached $2.91 trillion across those eight months, leaving 2026 about 28% lower despite the higher megadeal count.  Sponsored  Sponsored  Meanwhile, 27 of this years megadeals involved a US buyer, a US target, or both. Deals between $250 million and $1 billion stayed below average. Transactions under $250 million did too, and those counts exclude inflation.  “Deal volumes in these segments remain below their longer-term averages,

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ZWTC 2026 Squad Competition Opens With Prize Pool Up To 2.5 Million USDT

Zoomex, a global cryptocurrency trading platform focused on derivatives, has opened regular registration for the ZWTC 2026 Squad Competition, moving its annual trading championship from the launch phase into active team formation.  Traders can now select and join participating squads, with regular registration remaining open until October 3, 2026, at 10:00 UTC. Captain registration will close on September 21 at 10:00 UTC, when the official Squad Competition begins. The competition will run until October 11 at 10:00 UTC.  The Squad Competition carries a prize pool of up to 2,500,000 USDT, accounting for half of the maximum 5,000,000 USDT prize pool announced for ZWTC 2026. Rather than using a single ranking to determine team performance, the competition divides rewards across three categories:Up to 1,500,000 USDTfor the Squad Profit Rate rankingUp to 700,000 USDTfor the Squad Trading Volume rankingUp to 300,000 USDTfor the Squad Popularity category  Sponsored  Sponsored  The three-part structure gives squads different ways to compete, whether through trading results, sustained eligible trading activity, or their ability to build an active community around the competition.  Three Rankings, Three Ways for Squads to Compete  The Squad Profit Rate rankingplaces trading performance at the center of the competition. Participating squads will be ranked according to the profit-rate calculation and eligibility

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Zoomex to Host Traders After Party During TOKEN2049 Singapore, Connecting Traders and the Web3 Community

Global cryptocurrency derivatives platform Zoomex will host the “ZOOMEX TRADERS AFTER PARTY @ TOKEN2049 SINGAPORE” on October 7, 2026, at the Echo Live Party in Singapore.   Organized as an official side event during TOKEN2049 Singapore, the gathering invites traders, Web3 founders, creators, and partners to connect beyond the main conference floor, exchange market insights, and expand their industry networks. (Luma)  Centering on the theme “CRYPTO TRADING · WEB3 · LIVE MUSIC · NETWORKING,” the event seamlessly blends market discussions with an elevated party experience. Guests can engage directly with industry KOLs and the Zoomex team, participate in special guest Q Final entry details and agenda are subject to the official event listing. (Luma)  About Zoomex  Founded in 2021, Zoomex is a global cryptocurrency trading platform focused on derivatives trading. The platform serves over 3 million users across 35+ countries and regions, offering access to 590+ trading pairs. Built around easy to use, transparency, fairness, and speed, Zoomex provides a clear and efficient trading experience for users worldwide.  Through its high-performance matching engine, clear asset and order displays, and transparent fee and rule mechanisms, Zoomex helps users better understand their account status, order execution, trading costs, and results. Zoomex maintains registrations, licenses, and regulatory statuses

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Why truly decentralized DeFi needs no legal exemption according to SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce drew a sharp line around decentralized finance on Sept. 17. She said investors need no exemption to use permissionless smart contracts for peer-to-peer trading. The SEC and CFTC actions examined here set separate limits on intermediary control.  Related Person Hester Peirce Commissioner · U.S. SEC  The unresolved question is how much control a software provider can retain before it begins to resemble a regulated intermediary.  Peirce‘s statement expressed her own position. A binding definition from the US Securities and Exchange Commission would require Commission action. The SEC’s tokenized-securities order and a separate staff statement leave her phrase “truly decentralized” undefined. Their specific provisions focus on custody, access, software parameters, fees, recommendations, routing and execution.  Each action operates under a different statute and carries a different legal effect. Together, they show how federal regulators are examining the authority that identifiable providers retain. A unified federal decentralization test remains absent.  The SEC traces control from the market to the frontend  The SECs Sept. 17 tokenized-securities order is an order of the Commission. It creates temporary, conditional relief for a defined Tokenized Securities Venue, or TSV, using automated market maker pools for permissioned trading in Tokenized NMS Stocks.  A TSV under the order performs two functions:

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Sota Watanabe Says October Will Be Great: Bitcoin Bulls Stack $100,000 Bets

Bitcoin has to climb nearly 20% in four days for the biggest bets on the options market boards to pay off. Traders stacked them anyway.  Roughly $16.07 billion in Bitcoin (BTC) options expire Friday. The heaviest bullish positions sit at $90,000 and $100,000. Bitcoin trades near $81,292.  Sponsored  Sponsored  \Bitcoin Options Market for Contracts Expiring Friday. Source: DeribitThe Money Sits Well Above the Price  A call pays out when the price rises past a set level. A put pays out when it falls. Fridays expiry holds 121,676 calls against 68,333 puts, Deribit data shows. That works out to a put/call ratio of 0.56. Close to two bullish contracts for every bearish one.  The single biggest call cluster sits at $85,000, about 5% above the current Bitcoin price. Stacks at $90,000 and $100,000 follow. A few reach $125,000, which would take a 54% rally.  The largest put cluster sits at $70,000, a level Bitcoin cleared last week.  Bitcoin (BTC) Price Performance. Source: TradingViewEvery Call Has a Seller on the Other Side  Here is what the chart does not show. Open interest counts contracts still alive. It says nothing about who is winning. Somebody bought each of those calls. Somebody sold them.  Sponsored  Sponsored  Max pain for Friday sits at $73,000. That is the

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Why Thousands of Identical $5,500 Trades Put Kalshi in the Spotlight

Thousands of identical $5,500 trades on Kalshis ether futures market have triggered accusations that the exchange inflates its crypto volume. Kalshi denies wash trading.  Kalshi is a US exchange regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). It runs prediction markets and, since June, futures contracts tied to crypto prices.  Sponsored  Sponsored  Kalshi Wash Trading Claims Center on One Order Size  Beni, a former quantitative trader and co-founder of research firm Stealth Neolab, pulled trade records from Kalshis public data feed. One order size dominated the tape.  uh guys  Ive been made aware that if @Kalshi itself participated in, directed, or knowingly incentivized the kind of activity described in my post below, it could potentially amount to fraud or market manipulation  Congratulations   We did it   (I am still not done tho) https://t.co/SC4OcbLN30  — Beni (@beniduboss) September 21, 2026  He counted roughly $539 million of 24-hour volume in the ether perpetual market against about $3.1 million of open interest. Open interest measures the value of positions still held open.  “On ETH the exact same $5500 trade size keeps appearing over and over again… it literally made up 48%-58% of ALL ETH PERP volume on 4 separate days,” said Beni.  Those numbers cannot be rebuilt exactly after the fact because the trading data changes

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MicroStrategy Ends Two-Week Pause With 950 Bitcoin: Is the Buying Engine Stalling?

Strategy, formerly MicroStrategy, added 950 Bitcoin (BTC) in the week to September 20 and repurchased $174 million of its own preferred stock over the same stretch. Total holdings now sit at 846,000 BTC.  The buy ends a two-week gap in accumulation. At the $81,200 bitcoin price Strategy used in Mondays filing, the 950 coins are worth roughly $77 million.  MicroStrategy Bitcoin Holdings. Source: Strategy  Sponsored  Sponsored  How the MicroStrategy Bitcoin Purchase Compares With August  The company‘s previous acquisition landed on August 31, when it ended a 10-week pause with 4,603 BTC bought for $369.7 million at an average of $80,318 a coin. In dollar terms, last week’s purchase is about 79% smaller.  Strategy has acquired 950 $BTC and repurchased $174M of $STRC. As of 9/20/26, we hold 846,000 BTC and $6.09B of USD Assets. $MSTRhttps://t.co/FhbTcblJOi  — Strategy (@Strategy) September 21, 2026  Executive Chairman Michael Saylor teased the buy on Sunday with a post reading “A little more orange.”  Bitcoin has since climbed above the level Strategy used in its own math. The asset traded near $85,020 on Monday, up almost 6% over 24 hours.  Sponsored  Sponsored  Bitcoin Price Performance. Source: BeInCryptoWhy the Preferred Buyback Cost More Than the Bitcoin  The $174 million went to Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Stretch Preferred Stock (STRC), a

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Tom Lee Says Institutions Are Still Underweight Crypto After Latest BitMine ETH Buy

BitMine bought another 27,562 ether last week. It now holds 5.98 million of the tokens, worth about $16.3 billion. However, they still cannot reach the 5% of Ethereum (ETH) supply it has chased for 15 months.  Chairman Tom Lee says large investors are still underinvested in crypto and will pile in before the year ends. The stock market values his company at less than the crypto it already owns.  BitMine Buys Ether Every Week and the Finish Line Keeps Moving  BitMine describes itself as a company built to accumulate crypto for the long term. It has bought ether every single week since June 30, 2025, and says it is 98% of the way to owning 5% of every ether in existence.  Sponsored  Sponsored  ????  1/  BitMine provided its latest holdings update for September 21, 2026  $17.1 billion in total crypto + “moonshots”:  – 5,983,940 ETH at $2,688 per ETH (per @coinbase)  – 212 Bitcoin (BTC)  – $180 million stake in Beast Industries @MrBeast  – $105 million stake in Eightco Holdings…  — Bitmine (NYSE-BMNR) $ETH $BMNP (@BitMNR) September 21, 2026  However, ether has no supply limit. New tokens are minted constantly, so the 5% mark climbs while BitMine runs at it.  BeInCrypto flagged this in August. Back then, BitMines push toward 5% was roughly 251,000 tokens short

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Claude AI Predicts Bitcoin's Next Target as Saylor's Strategy Buys

Bitcoin (BTC) is back above $85,000 for the first time in eight months, and Michael Saylor is buying again. Claude AI Predicts that this breakout rests on firmer ground than the failed rallies earlier this year, with ETF demand, corporate buying, and a clean technical break all pointing the same way. BTC is trading near $85,200, up almost 6% in 24 hours.  Strategy has acquired 950 $BTC and repurchased $174M of $STRC. As of 9/20/26, we hold 846,000 BTC and $6.09B of USD Assets. $MSTR https://t.co/hP4yLlKlOE  — Michael Saylor (@saylor) September 21, 2026  The move comes just days after a brutal week for crypto. The Senate blocked the CLARITY Act and the Federal Reserve raised rates for the first time since 2023, briefly pushing Bitcoin below $75,000. Instead of breaking down, BTC recovered fast, and todays rally has carried it through the resistance that capped every rebound since spring. The volume backs it up: $44 billion traded in 24 hours, with the market cap back at $1.71 trillion. Short sellers were caught out, with more than $260 million of short positions liquidated in a single hour.  Supercharge Your Trading in 2026 With BloFin AI Trading BotsWhy Are Saylor and ETF Investors Buying Bitcoin Again?  Over

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