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More Than 90% of Crypto Market Capital Is Now Concentrated in Seven Coins

11 Sep 2026 1 minute read 0 comments SovietStories $0.11

Capital in the crypto market is piling into fewer and fewer names. The concentration of money in the largest crypto assets has reached its highest level in five years, according to data from CryptoRank. The broader altcoin market is attracting a much...

Chukotka in the USSR: How a Soviet Industrial World Appeared in the Tundra

2 Sep 2026 4 minute read 0 comments SovietStories $0.01

Today, it is difficult to imagine Chukotka as a place where tens of thousands of people once lived and worked in cities that had schools, hospitals, cinemas, apartment buildings and even a nuclear power plant. The region is now one of the least popul...

Magadan in the USSR: The Soviet City People Once Moved North For

1 Sep 2026 3 minute read 1 comment SovietStories $0.05

Today, Magadan is usually imagined as a remote northern city from which people try to move back to the mainland. But a few decades ago, the situation was almost the opposite. People came to Magadan from different parts of the Soviet Union, sometimes...

Could You Choose Not to Work in the USSR?

31 Aug 2026 2 minute read 0 comments SovietStories $0.01

I remember how ordinary the question "Where do you work?" sounded in the Soviet Union. Nobody needed to explain why they were asking. A person's job was simply part of how people understood one another. That may seem strange now, especially in a worl...

In the USSR, a Factory Worker Could Have More Authority Than His Boss

28 Aug 2026 2 minute read 0 comments SovietStories $0.01

There was a particular kind of person on a Soviet factory floor who didn't need an important title to be taken seriously. He might have spent twenty years working with the same machines. He knew the production line, understood how the equipment behav...

The End of Hyper-Globalization: How Trade Fragmentation is Reshaping the World Economy

18 Aug 2026 5 minute read 0 comments FKlivestolearn $0.25

After decades of accelerating globalization, trade is shifting toward regional supply chains, friend-shoring, industrial policy and economic security.  For roughly four decades, globalization appeared to follow an almost unstoppable trajectory. From...

Bitcoin’s $63K Drop: Cleaning the Leverage Before the Next Move?

4 Aug 2026 3 minute read 0 comments Technology Era $0.09

Quick Takeaways What Happened: A sudden drop wiped out over $510 million in leveraged long positions after traditional stock markets pulled back. The Macro Factor: The Federal Reserve kept interest rates steady, making investors cautious acr...

USD/JPY Crashed Hard Did US and Japan Secretly Kill the Yen Bull Run?

3 Aug 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Muhammad Rizqi Musthofa Maruf $0.07

The global currency market went wild after USD/JPY suffered massive sell offs due to a joint intervention between the United States and Japan. For those of you tracking the charts, the Yen was getting beaten past the ¥163 per dollar level, but it imm...

Fed Rate Hike Off the Table, Yet Market Fear Persists

28 Jul 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Muhammad Rizqi Musthofa Maruf $0.12

Navigating current macro conditions feels like walking a tightrope for both traditional and crypto traders. A recent report from Bank of America (Bofa) via yahoo finance highlighted that the federal reserve is almost certain to hold interest rates st...

The Dollar Debasement Problem Behind the AI Stock Boom

3 Jul 2026 14 minute read 0 comments Heath Muchena $0.13

The AI bubble debate often measures stocks, Bitcoin and crypto against the U.S. dollar without first asking how much the dollar itself has been diluted. This guide explains the denominator illusion, the true debasement rate, why equities look differe...