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HODL FM Monday Edition — July 13
Happy Monday, Hodlers!
Bitcoin opened the week near its lowest range since 2024 after Iran shut the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend, and traders are now bracing for CPI, PPI, and Fed Chair Warsh testimony this week.
Meanwhile Japan just took its biggest step yet toward everyday stablecoin payments, Apple and OpenAI are now suing each other over stolen trade secrets, and Cambridge has new numbers on just how little electricity Ethereum actually uses these days. Let's get into it.

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Why is Bitcoin down this week?
Bitcoin slid toward $62,500 after Iran declared the Strait of Hormuz closed, sending oil back above $74 a barrel and pushing short term Treasury yields to a 16 month high. On top of that, a wallet dormant for seven years moved $188 million worth of BTC on Sunday, and mid sized holders logged their biggest single day sell off since February. There is a silver lining though: US spot Bitcoin ETFs just posted their first positive week after eight straight weeks of outflows, and long term holders have started buying again. All eyes now turn to Tuesday's CPI print and Fed Chair Warsh's testimony to Congress.
Lawson to test yen stablecoin payments at checkout
Japanese convenience store giant Lawson will trial JPYC stablecoin payments in August at its Tokyo flagship store, in a partnership with HashPort and KDDI. Customers will pay by showing a barcode from a non custodial wallet app, which staff scan through the existing POS terminal, no crypto wallet needed on the store side. Lawson runs nearly 14,700 stores nationwide, so this is a real test of whether stablecoins can work at everyday retail speed. On the same day, a separate company called Netstars opened its own multi stablecoin merchant service charging under 1 percent in fees, well below typical card processing costs.
Apple sues OpenAI over stolen hardware secrets
Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing former Apple employees, including OpenAI's own chief hardware officer, of taking confidential hardware designs to help build OpenAI's consumer device business. The complaint alleges one former engineer kept a company laptop and used an unknown security flaw to access Apple's internal files after he left. It marks a sharp turn for two companies that stood together in 2024 to bring ChatGPT into Apple's operating systems. OpenAI says it is reviewing the filing and denies any interest in using other companies' trade secrets.
Cambridge confirms Ethereum's energy use fell over 99 percent
A new Cambridge study puts Ethereum's continuous power draw at just 0.90 megawatts, down from about 2.4 gigawatts before the 2022 Merge to proof of stake, a drop of more than 99.9 percent. The network now uses roughly 7.87 gigawatt hours a year, less electricity than the British Museum. Ethereum still ranks second lowest for energy use per dollar of market value among proof of stake networks studied, trailing only BNB Chain, while Solana used over eight times more per dollar of value. Researchers say local power grids, not the protocol itself, now decide most of Ethereum's carbon footprint.
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