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Bitcoin has had its best week since two thousand twenty three, climbing twenty four percent since Monday to top seventy seven thousand dollars. The surge is pulling altcoins along with it, and institutional appetite appears to be growing — evidenced by Laser Digital Japan, backed by Nomura, becoming the first firm to win crypto regulatory approval in Japan in four years. The firm will initially offer liquidity services to domestic providers, with full institutional trading to follow. It's a signal that one of the world's most cautious financial markets may be warming up again.
Meanwhile, the economics of AI infrastructure are getting harder to ignore. Enterprise solid state drives now cost eighteen point six times more per terabyte than traditional hard drives, with a thirty terabyte flash drive running twenty two thousand six hundred dollars. Building a twenty five petabyte all-flash AI storage system would cost over fifty one million dollars — compared to under thirteen million with a hybrid approach. Hard drive supply is sold out through two thousand twenty seven, leaving data center operators caught between cost and performance with very few good options.
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