The new president of Bolivia supports using blockchain for public procurement to reduce corruption in the government
- Zero Hedge, 22 October 2025
Nihon considers allowing banks to hold and trade bitcoin as cryptocurrency adoption grows
- Zero Hedge, 20 October 2025
October, usually bullish for bitcoin, could have the worst return for bitcoin in 10 years
- Coindesk, 19 October 2025
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Two brothers (Anton and James Peraire-Bueno), graduates of MIT, allegedly Googled "money laundering" before stealing $25 million in cryptocurrencies using crypto-bots.
- Futurism, 18 October 2025
Bitcoin falls more than 8% in a week as crypto pullback continues: CNBC Crypto World
- Comcast's CNBC, 18 October 2025
[Not] safer than cash? The real risks that cryptocurrencies pose to Southeast Asia. Using up-to-date data, cryptocurrencies are 5-times more likely to be used in illegal transactions than cash. Not a surprise, given the secrecy behind many blockchain transactions.
- Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 18 October 2025
The latest victim of cryptocurrencies? Western Union, whose stock has declined 70% since 2021. Stablecoins are a much faster, cheaper, paperwork-free method of sending money around the world. Who needs to waste a lot of money on Western Union's fees?
- RiskHedge, 17 October 2025
From betting on sports to betting on AI, the USA is bubbling in gambling fever. Working-class investors are flocking to [KM: three 'casinos'] stocks, gambling and cryptocurrencies - beneficiaries of a new age of democratic finance, or the last invitees/['suckers'] to a party that is going to end in a crash
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 17 October 2025
The price of bitcoin declines with investors in 'safe havens' "clearly favoring gold" after a cryptocurrency washout
- Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 16 October 2025
[The grifter] Trump and his family have exploited the presidency to reap more than $1 billion in cryptocurrency cash deal over the past year, thanks to an industry boom fueled by the administration's own cryptocurrency-friendly policies.
- The Daily Beast, 16 October 2025
Binance is launching a $400 million relief program for traders hurt by losses across its ecosystem during Friday's cryptocurrency sell-off, despite saying it does not accept liability for user losses, for traders who suffered forced liquidations
- CoinTelegraph, 15 October 2025
Friday's cryptocurrency liquidation (due to Trump's trade tantrum with Zhōngguó) cleaned out every stop loss order and destroyed anyone who was overleveraged
- Zero Hedge, 13 October 2025
Zhōngguó vows to stand firm against Trump's latest tax/tariff threat. [The confrontational] Trump urges [begs?] Zhōngguó to be less ... confrontational.
- Associated Press, 12 October 2025
Trump's confrontational new threats of taxes/tariffs on imports from Zhōngguó threaten the fragile economy of Zhōngguó
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 12 October 2025
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Cryptocurrency investor known as 'bitcoin Jesus' reaches deal with prosecutors. In the Trump administratoin's latest example of dialing back cryptocurrency enforcement, Roger Ver agreed to pay about $48 million to end a tax fraud case, but [being white], will not have to go to jail.
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 11 October 2025
Bitcoin drops 10%, and ethereum drop 11%, and other cryptocurrencies dropped, after Trump said that the USA would impose a new tariff of 100% on imports from Zhōngguó "over and above any tax/tariff that they are currently paying", starting on November 1st. The move is in retaliation for new export controls that Zhōngguó imposed on rare earths minerals.
- Barclay's The Telegraph, 10 October 2025
Institutions plan to double cryptocurrency exposure by 2028, State Street research finds. Institutions are expected to double their digital asset portfolio exposure from 7% to 16% within three years.
- Zero Hedge, 10 October 2025
The currency debasement trade: selling currencies such as the dollar, yen and euro, and buying gold and bitcoin
- Zero Hedge, 08 October 2025
A record $10 billion in Ethereum awaits exit as validators queue to cash out - is an ETH price crash coming?
- CryptoNews, 08 October 2025
3 altcoins at risk of major liquidations in the second week of October: ETH, XRP, BNB
- Be(in)Crypto, 06 October 2025
"Not one market moved notably on the USA government shut down news... except for one" - bitcoin. The USA dollar index barely budged on the shutdown news. The Swiss franc strengthened slightly, and the yen as well. Treasury Bond prices moved imperceptibly higher.
- Zero Hedge (locked), 05 October 2025
The stablecoin market boom to $300 billion is 'rocket fuel' for cryptocurrency rally. The $300 billion record stablecoin supply may act as 'rocket fuel' for the cryptocurrency market, while signaling a growing integration/infection with global finance.
- Zero Hedge, 05 October 2025
Why the Bank of England's new arguments on stablecoins could be a big deal. Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey signalled a notable shift in tone on cryptocurrencies this week, suggesting that the digital assets pegged to real-world currencies could play a bigger role in the UK's financial system than previously thought.
- Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 05 October 2025
Stocks overcome the economic effects of the government shutdown, with bitcoin rising in price, and gold declining in price
- Zero Hedge, 02 October 2025
Visa is opening its cross-border real-time payments network, Visa Direct, to a stablecoin prefunding pilot that will allow companies to move money to accounts in different countries instantaneously, even when banks are closed.
- American Banker, 02 October 2025
Prediction: bitcoin is undervalued by at least $50,000 to $60,000. "A volatility-adjusted comparison shows that Bitcoin is currently undervalued by $50k compared to gold."
- Zero Hedge, 02 October 2025
Cryptocurrencies continue their part to being just another financial asset: Tether expands its hard asset strategy by buying more bitcoin, gold and real estate
- Zero Hedge, 02 October 2025
Tokenization of real world assets is an unstoppable 'freight train' coming to major markets: Robinhood CEO
- Comcast's CNBC, 02 October 2025
Race to the financial dung heap. I thought cryptocurrencies would be the catalyst for the next collapse, but private credit, subprime auto and commercial real estate give it a run for its money.
- QTR's Fringe Finance (substack), 01 October 2025
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A woman from Zhōngguó, Zhimin Qian, is convicted of international fraud in the United Kingdom, with police seizing $6.7 billion worth of bitcoin. Between 2014 and 2017 Qian led a large-scale scam in China which involved cheating more than 128,000 victims and storing the stolen funds in bitcoin assets.
- BBC, 30 September 2025
SWIFT and Big Banks are building a blockchain network that could transform global money transfers - and leave outdated systems behind
- Benzinga, 29 September 2025
[VIDEO]: Bitcoin rises to around $114,000, recovering some of last week's losses
- Comcast's CNBC, 29 September 2025
Do we really want to trust cryptocurrency interests with the future of money?
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 29 September 2025
A Goldman Sachs trader: "Monday's bitcoin flash crash was the first sign .. but we are headed for a meltup"
- Zero Hedge, 26 September 2025
Unusual trading ahead of crypto-treasury deals draws scrutiny from regulators in the USA. The SEC and Finra reached out to companies whose shares moved sharply before they announced plans to buy bitcoin and other digital assets.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 26 September 2025
How gold, bitcoin are moving beyond market hedge to become income-generating investments
- Comcast's CNBC, 26 September 2025
Gold and silver prices soar, and stock and bond prices pushed down, and cryptocurrencies crash
- Zero Hedge (locked), 25 September 2025
Banks in Europe to launch a euro-based stablecoin in bid to counter dominance by the USA
- Thomson's Reuters, 25 September 2025
The CFTC plans to allow stablecoins as collateral in derivatives markets
- Zero Hedge, 24 September 2025
Stablecoins versus credit cards: the coming $100 billion payments battle in the USA. Can stablecoins disrupt Visa and Mastercard? Can blockchain payments may capture billions in fees from US credit card networks.
- Zero Hedge, 24 September 2025
BitMine Immersion Technologies, a cryptocurrency treasury company focused on Bitcoin and Ether, said it controls more than 2% of the total supply of Ether, after amassing 2.4 million ETH.
- Zero Hedge, 23 September 2025
Cryptocurrency startup Zerohash raises $104 million from Morgan Stanley, SoFi, Apollo and others. Zerohash provides banks and fintech firms with the ability to offer blockchain-based products in three major areas: cryptocurrency trading, stablecoins and tokenization.
- Comcast's CNBC, 23 September 2025
BofA's Michael Hartnett: with the Fed reducing interest rates - with gold, cryptocurrencies and stocks at all time highs - here is how to gamble this bubble
- Zero Hedge, 22 September 2025
Christians in the USA temporarily have a new golden idol to worship, a golden statue of Trump in Washington DC, the statute holding a money-changing bitcoin in one hand.
- USA Today, 19 September 2025
New Grayscale ETF holds multiple cryptocurrencies together, combining bitcoin, Solana and others
- Comcast's CNBC, 19 September 2025
Welcome to big brother's digital prison, part i: central bank digital currencies. "We are talking about a very dystopian future if we allow central banks to issue central bank digital currencies...I think the power would be abused."
- Zero Hedge, 18 September 2025
A new cryptocurrency super PAC garners $100 million to help push the industry's moneychanging agenda [KM: yeah, to further undermine the USA dollar with stablecoins, and make it easier to commit crimes with cryptocurrencies]. The [lobbying/donating/bribing] fund, called the Fellowship PAC, is the cryptocurrency's latest move to help elect legislators that will force through its moneychanging interests in the [temples of democracy in] Washington.
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 17 September 2025
Hong Kong to explore boosting tokenised gold trading in city. Move can help shield city against US-dollar dominance amid rising geopolitics, sources say.
- Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 16 September 2025
Google launches an AI payments platform with stablecoin support, in partnership with Coinbase and over 60 major organizations
- Coin Speaker, 16 September 2025
From DOGE to SHIB: why are meme coins crashing today, as $2.4 million is stolen from the Snhibarium network?
- Coin Speaker, 16 September 2025
An 8-year bitcoin holder offloads another $136 million following massive $4 billion ETH - whales dumping again, and why?
- Cryptonews, 15 September 2025
Shares of Bitmine Immersion (BNMR) rise 31%, not on innovation, but rather becuase it raises its ETH treasury to $9 billion. More fun in the cryptocurrency casino.
- Insider Monkey, 15 September 2025
More cryptocurrency corruption: an anatomy of two giant deals: the United Arab Emirates got AI processor chips. The grifting Trump family's cryptocurrency company got richer.
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 15 September 2025
Bitcoin is hot, but gold is hotter. Here is how these two worlds collide.
- Barron's, 13 September 2025
Spot bitcoin ETFs see strong demand; cryptocurrency market tops $4 trillion as Gen-A shuns gold. Still cryptocurrencies are less of a bubble than AI.
- Zero Hedge, 12 September 2025
Tether plans to launch a new stablecoin based in the USA, which could further undermine the USA dollar
- Thomson's Reuters, 12 September 2025
Ant Group has distanced itself from the business of issuing cryptocurrencies, pledging to focus on tokenization to support the "real economy", as the fintech giant strives to maintain a delicate balance between technological advancement and regulatory compliance.
- Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 12 September 2025
BlackRock is reportedly exploring tokenized ETFs after Bitcoin fund success, as Wall Street giants tout tokenization as a game-changer for finance. As there is no trust issue with current trading of ETFs, there is no honest need for tokenizations of ETFs.
- CoinTelegraph, 11 September 2025
Corporate treasuries might stored in cryptocurrencies are losing momentum, with growing doubts about the sustainability of their gmabling business model.
- Zero Hedge, 11 September 2025
Wall Street giant Cantor Fitzgerald launches a bitcoin fund with gold insurance.
- Zero Hedge, 09 September 2025
Tether denies bitcoin sell-off rumors, confirms buying bitcoin, gold, and land.
- Zero Hedge, 08 September 2025
Estimates from on-chain analyses suggest that between 2.3 million and an incredible 7.8 million BTC (roughly between 11% to 37% of total supply), may have vanished forever, trapped in lost wallets or in addresses abandoned due to death
- Zero Hedge, 07 September 2025
Digital gold could enter the multi-billion dollar precious metal markets in London, after the World Gold Council proposed rolling out tokens backed by physical bars held in the gold vaults of London.
- Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 07 September 2025
Stablecoins are entering a new phase, shifting from simple payment rails to yield-bearing, user-centric financial instruments, a threat to banks
- Benzinga, 05 September 2025
Ether exchange reserves fall to 3-year-low as ETFs, corporate treasuries soak up supply. Ether supply on centralized exchanges has plunged around 38% since 2022, as billions flow into spot ETFs and corporate treasuries ramp up their ETH holdings.
- Zero Hedge, 04 September 2025
Cryptocurrency yield products continue to provide lower returns. DeFi gold products deliver sub-1% yields while traditional finance earns 3%-5% on the same asset.
- Zero Hedge, 03 September 2025
Residents outraged as crypto mining facility terrorizes them around clock: "Just terrible", with relentess noise all day and all night.
- The Cool Down, 02 September 2025
Momentum traders/gamblers in South Korea sell $657 million of Tesla stock in August, as they pivoted to cryptocurrencies instead
- Zero Hedge, 02 September 2025
Gold prices rise to $3500 as cryptocurrency 'whales' sell their lackluster bitcoins for Ether
- CoinDesk, 02 September 2025
European regulator says tokenised stocks risk "investor misunderstanding", as such tokens typically do not make the buyer a shareholder in the underlying company, but rather are tokens linked to the price of stocks.
- Thomson's Reuters, 01 September 2025
A court in Bharat sentences 14 people to life in prison for the 2018 abduction of a Surat businessman in a plot to seize over 750 Bitcoin. 11 of the convicted people were police officials.
- CoinTelegraph, 30 August 2025
Ether ETFs capture 10-times more inflows than bitcoin in the last 5 days. "Ether is very much what I call the Wall Street token."
- Zero Hedge, 28 August 2025
Zhōngguó's control over cryptocurrency liquidity and its buying power gives Beijing unprecedented leverage over the Trump family's digital fortune.
- CoinTelegraph, 27 August 2025
Bitcoin is "hanging by a thread" after slipping below the $112,000 support level, according to pseudonymous analyst Ali, who highlighted both technical and on-chain signals suggesting the market could face further downside pressure
- Benzinga, 26 August 2025
A Citi bank executive warns stablecoin yields could drain bank deposits. Citi's Ronit Ghose warned that paying interest on stablecoin holdings could trigger bank outflows akin to the 1980s, driving up funding costs and credit prices.
- CoinTelegraph, 25 August 2025
Shares of Ethereum treasury firm ETHZilla Corporation (backed by Peter Thiel) drop 16% after the gambling company (formerly a biotech company) announced a stock repurchase program of up to $250 million
- The Street, 25 August 2025
Long-dormant bitcoin whale gambles big on Ethereum upside
- Zero Hedge, 25 August 2025
Bitcoin has just suffered a so-called 'flash crash' that knocked $4,000 from the bitcoin price in a matter of minutes. The crash has been blamed on a single large holder cashing out 24,000 bitcoin worth over $2 billion.
- Forbes, 25 August 2025
Silicon Valley is pouring million into pro-AI PACs to buy politicians favorable to their misanthropic love of billions to be made from AI
- TechCrunch, 25 August 2025
Struggling small biotech firms are pivoting into cryptocurrencies, rebranding as "crypto treasuries" or stockpiling digital assets like Ether and Litecoin as a last-ditch effort to boost share prices amid stalled funding and weak drug pipelines
- Bloomberg, 25 August 2025
A group representing the world's biggest stock exchanges has called on securities regulators to clamp down on so-called tokenised stocks, arguing that the blockchain-based tokens create new risks for investors and could harm market integrity
- Thomson's Reuters, 25 August 2025
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A mysterious exploit is draining the wallets of influential cryptocurrency community members. "I just had $650,000 drained/stolen". Somehow hackers are accessing the passwords of bitcoin holder's Axiom wallets.
- Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 24 August 2025
Bitcoin's staying power and growth are due to regulatory failure, a rise in illicit activity and brazen corruption by the Trump administration, according to Harvard Economics Professor Kenneth Rogoff
- Benzinga, 24 August 2025
If bitcoin treasury gmabling companies are buying billions, why is the price not going up?
- Benzinga, 22 August 2025
Another financial crime of the grifters Trump and Melanie: their meme token coins, $TRUMP and $MELANIA, have plunged in value since their peak prices in January
- The Daily Beast, 22 August 2025
Zhōngguó considers a yuan-backed stablecoins in major policy shift
- CoinTelegraph, 20 August 2025
Bitcoin analysts blame "manipulation" as BTC price falls to 17-day low. Analysts say bitcoin's price action is looking increasingly orchestrated, as BTC taps its lowest levels since August 3 amid ongoing selling in the USA, pushing it below $113,000 from $118,000.
- CoinTelegraph, 20 August 2025
The Banking Policy Institute wants lawmakers to further fine-tune the GENIUS Act to prevent any possibility of interest-bearing stablecoins
- CoinTelegraph, 19 August 2025
In an attempt to undermine its currency, Nihon will launch a yen-based stablecoin
- Zero Hedge, 19 August 2025
In an attempt to undermine its currency, Nihon will launch a yen-based stablecoin
- Zero Hedge, 19 August 2025
Hartnett: raise allocations to gold and crypto because bond yield curve control is coming
- Zero Hedge, 18 August 2025
Ricardo Salinas Pliego, the third richest person in Mexico, holds 80% of his wealth in bitcoin, and plans to make that 100%
- Benzinga, 18 August 2025
Bitcoin sinks to $115,000 after hitting its newest record, as macroeconomic concerns spark a large volume of liquidation
- Comcast's CNBC, 18 August 2025
Bitcoin at $140,000? Traders invest over $1 billion into option contracts that price will surge in September
- DL News, 18 August 2025
The belief that "anything goes" in the world of digital assets / cryptocurrencies under Trump's SEC is probably overblown hype
- Barron's, 16 August 2025
Fundstrat predicts that Ethereum is the "biggest macro trade" for the next 10-15 years, and also predicts a price range of $12,000 to $15,000 for Ether by the end of 2025
- Zero Hedge, 15 August 2025
Bitcoin and gold dumped as a hot PPI prompts plunge in bonds
- Zero Hedge, 15 August 2025
Macroeconomist and technical analyst Henrik Zeberg warns of "horrendous" crash in the value of cryptocurrencies - but says that big profits can still be made before valuations drop below $1 trillion
- Benzinga, 13 August 2025
Ethereum nears record high amid massive ETF inflows; Standard Chartered predicts a price of $25,000.
- Zero Hedge (locked), 13 August 2025
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Do Kwon, who created the Luna and TerraUSD cryptocurrencies that collapsed in 2022, pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud. He agreed to forfeit more than $19 million in proceeds from his crypto dealings. In May 2022, Luna and TerraUSD collapsed, tanking the price of Bitcoin and accelerating the loss of $300 billion in value across the crypto economy.
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 13 August 2025
Ether ETFs experience a record $1 billion of inflows as ETH flashes bull signals. Spot Ether ETFs had their biggest net inflow day ever on Monday, outpacing their Bitcoin counterparts amid ETH's recent rally.
- Zero Hedge, 12 August 2025
A publicly traded tech firm, ALT5 Sigma, plans to sell $1.5 billion of shares to fund the purchase of a cryptocurrency created by World Liberty Financial, which the Trumps control
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 12 August 2025
How "Know Your Customer IDs" wrecks one of the lies of cryptocurrencies: being anonymous
- Zero Hedge, 11 August 2025
Any new financial market collapse could come at the hands of cryptocurrency and/or stablecoins, which have in many ways become an essentially unregulated $4 trillion slush-y money market fund reminiscent of 2008
- QTR's Fringe Finance (substack), 10 August 2025
National socialism: since December 2023, the price of bitcoin has pretty much tracked the M2 Money Supply of the USA - lagging by 3-months, the government printing money to make the rich richer
- Zero Hedge, 10 August 2025
Everyone is now playing in the cryptocurrency casino, even if it ends badly. The guardrails are off as cryptocurrency prices soar. The next crash will be financially destructive. Except for the rich.
- Barron's, 09 August 2025
A major historical four-year cycle in bitcoin that dictates its price might be breaking
- Comcast's CNBC, 08 August 2025
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Paxos Trust reached a $48.5 million settlement to resolve New York charges the virtual currency company failed to police illegal activity related to cryptocurrency exchange Binance
- Thomson's Reuters, 07 August 2025
The White House Press Office confirmed that Trump will sign an executive order allowing risky cryptocurrency exposure in 401(k) retirement plans
- Zero Hedge, 07 August 2025
If bitcoin were a publicly traded company, it would be the sixth-largest in market trailing only Nvidia (NVDA), Microsoft (MSFT), Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG), and Amazon (AMZN)
- Risk Hedge, 04 August 2025
Tom Lee's BitMine Holdings rise above $3 Billion in largest global Ethereum treasury strategy
- Zero Hedge, 04 August 2025
Trump's new rates of taxes/tariffs, and the Fed not changing interest rates, caused the cryptocurrencies to lose $150 billion in value, with bitcoin dropping to its lowest level in three weeks at $114,400
- DL News, 01 August 2025
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies fell early Friday after new announcements of Trump's taxes/tariffs shook financial markets. The price of bitcoin dropped 2.2% in 24 hours.
- Barron's, 01 August 2025
Robinhood reports greater-than-expexted second-quarter earnings with revenue climbing 45%
- Comcast's CNBC, 31 July 2025
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A businessman in Zhōngguó was convicted of embezzling $19.5 million from his employer, who laundered the money using ... cryptocurrencies
- Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 29 July 2025
Ethereum is becoming more popular. In just the past month, Ethereum has risen 59% while bitcoin has risen just 11%.
- RiskHedge.com, 28 July 2025
Short-term USA Treasury Bond yields jump 0.06% to 0.08% during big outflows from stablecoin funds, and fall when there are large purchases of stablecoins by these funds
- TheStreet, 28 July 2025
PayPal expands cryptocurrency payments for merchants in the USA to lower cross-border fees
- Silicon Angle, 28 July 2025
Another non-cryptocurrency company bets its finances in the cryptocurrency casino. A little-known Canadian vape company called CEA Industries saw shares surge nearly 550% after it announced a plan to enter the cryptocurrency treasury game.
- Comcast's CNBC, 28 July 2025
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A Christian pastor and his wife in Denver are charged with a $3.4 million cryptocurrency scam, and pathetically tried to justify the crime by the pastor saying that "God told him" to defraud his parionishers and spent the money on vacations
- The Independent, 28 July 2025
Interactive Brokers considers launching new stablecoin for customers
- Thomson's Reuters, 28 July 2025
The yuan of Zhōngguó is reshaping international finance - but stablecoins backed by the USA dollar are seen as a threat to the yuan's success
- Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 28 July 2025
Quantum Solutions, based in Nihon, plans to buy 3,000 bitcoin over the next 12 months, another company becoming entering the cryptocurrency casino
- CoinDesk, 26 July 2025
Another useless use of AI: AI-fueled cryptocurrency scams are a booming part of the bitcoin industry, having increased 456% from May 2024 to April 2025, and no one is safe, thanks to lax security in the bitcoin world and AI world
- Murdoch's New York Post, 26 July 2025
Ether ETF inflows outpace bitcoin for 6 straight days as global liquidity soars
- Zero Hedge, 25 July 2025
The head of cryptocurrencies for BlackRock has quit to join SharpLink Gaming, Ethereum's second-biggest treasury company, joining the cryptocurrency casino world
- DL News, 25 July 2025
Tesla sold 75% of its bitcoins at one of the worst times, losing billions of dollars
- Comcast's CNBC, 24 July 2025
The rise of stablecoins and the signing of the Genius Act sets the stage for a steeper yield curve, wider swap spreads and higher inflation. But it will make rich moneychangers richer.
- Zero Hedge, 24 July 2025
Spot ether ETFs attract $533 million, and extend their 13-day inflow streak to over $4 billion
- Zero Hedge, 23 July 2025
Goldman Sachs and Bank of New York Mellon have created the ability for institutional investors to purchase tokenized money market funds. Clients of BNY, the world's largest custody bank, will be able to invest in money market funds whose ownership will be recorded on the blockchain platform of Goldman Sachs.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 23 July 2025
Trump and the USA are passing cryptocurrencies laws to turn stablecoins into a financial weapon for the USA to deal with its out-of-control national debt. The bubble in cryptocurrency values could 'reduce' the debt of the USA if the national government was allowed to own cryptocurrencies, turning the federal economy into a casino.
- Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 23 July 2025
While Trump/Republicans oppose a central bank digital currency for the USA, Brazil has successfully is planning to create a central bank digital currency to interact with Brazil's central bank's digital payment system, Pix, introduced in 2020
- Paul Krugman (substack), 22 July 2025
The trader who predictde a bottom in the prices of bitcoin, ethereum, solana in April is now warning that we will have a short-term top in August
- Benzinga, 22 July 2025
Western Union is exploring stablecoin integration for cross-border transfers, conversions and digital wallets, positioning it as an innovation opportunity
- Zero Hedge, 22 July 2025
The TON Wallet for cryptocurrencies goes live to the 87 million users of Telegram in the USA
- Comcast's CNBC, 22 July 2025
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Two men are arrested in Hong Kong for using stablecoins to launder $146.5 million to smuggle cash out of Hong Kong
- Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 22 July 2025
The Ether Machine, a cryptocurrency treasury startup, is vying to be the MicroStrategy (which plays in the bitcoin casino) but exploiting the Ethereum cryptocurrency. It will trade under the symbol ETHM, and hopes to generate yield by 'staking' - letting others use its cryptocurrency holding
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 21 July 2025
Michael Saylor's Strategy owns 3% of all bitcoin in circulation after latest purchases
- Bloomberg, 21 July 2025
Shares of Trump Media rise over 5% after it purchases $2 billion of bitcoin
- Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 21 July 2025
A lot of companies that are not in the banking business are suddenly applying for new US banking charters, from automakers General Motors and Stellantis to cryptocurrency firms Circle and Ripple. Banks, not surprisingly, aren't happy about any of this, because these corporations banks may end up being unfairly less regulated.
- Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 20 July 2025
Trump pledges to prevent a USA central bank digital currency
- Zero Hedge, 20 July 2025
Shares of Block soar 10% on entry into the SP500, replacing Hess which is being bought out by Chevron. This makes the SP500 even more tech-heavy, and thus more linked to the AI/cryptocurrency bubbles.
- Comcast's CNBC, 18 July 2025
The market cap of Tether's USDt, the world's largest stablecoin, has surpassed $160 billion for the first time
- CoinTelegraph, 17 July 2025
XRP is about to hit $200B market cap for first time; price nears record
- CoinTelegraph, 17 July 2025
Cryptocurrency theft is booming as criminals increasingly turn to physical attacks
- Comcast's CNBC, 17 July 2025
Shares of Bitmine Immersion Technologies shares jumped nearly 15% in early trading on Wednesday after tech billionaire Peter Thiel disclosed a 9.1% stake in the cryptocurrency mining and services company
- Thomson's Reuters, 16 July 2025
Want to trade sahres of Amazon on a cryptocurrency exchange? The price might be off by 300%. Digital tokens tracking popular stocks such as Apple deviate wildly from underlying prices and raise concerns about a lack of regulatory oversight.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 16 July 2025
Citigroup may issue its own stablecoin in an effort to facilitate digital payments
- Thomson's Reuters, 15 July 2025
XRP declines 8% as the token encounters resistance at a price of $3, ahead of a ProShares launch of an XRP ETF
- Coindesk, 14 July 2025
Memecoins, such as those of the Trump family, are "an asset class about nothing". Unlike Bitcoin, which is a powerful form of money insurance.
- Zero Hedge, 14 July 2025
As the People's Bank of Zhōngguó seeks a bigger role for the yuan on the global stage, ignoring stablecoins could put the yuan at a disadvantage.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 14 July 2025
How lobbying/bribing by the cryptocurrency industry bought the support of Trump
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 13 July 2025
As Trump's Truth Social social media companies continues to be a failure, Trump Media goes more criminal by strongly embracing cryptocurrencies exploiting Trump's presidential clout
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 12 July 2025
Cryptocurrency giant Binance helped create and promote the Trump family's stablecoin just months before its founder applied for a presidential pardon
- The Daily Beast, 12 July 2025
The USA dollar is weakening because other countries are moving away from global financial transaction systems (such as SWIFT) that rely on the dollar, in part because many countries are upset with the USA's authoritarian actions against them. Blockchain technology and government cryptocurrency systems are making it easier to much more rapidly abandon the dollar.
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 12 July 2025
Over 1000 stores and vendors in Bhutan accept cryptocurrency payments
- Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 12 July 2025
DeFi tokens are soaring, leaving behind OG coins such as LTC, BTC and XMR
- CoinDesk (locked), 11 July 2025
Analyst Tom Lee argues that Ethereum, not Solana, is the preferred cryptocurrency for JPMorgan, Robinhood and Circle to biuld financial applications
- Benzinga, 11 July 2025
Wall Street is using its bitcoin tactics to make a big risky investment in Ethereum
- Murdoch's New York Post, 11 July 2025
The grifting Trump family has exploited the power of the USA presidency to $500 million from its World Liberty cryptocurrency platform they launched after Trump got re-elected. One person based in the United Arab Emirates bought/bribed-with $100 million of World Liberty's cryptocurrency tokens.
- Thomson's Reuters, 11 July 2025
Wall Street is using its Bitcoin playbook to take a big risk on Ethereum
- Murdoch's New York Post, 11 July 2025
Bitcoin rises to an all-time over $118,000, as financial institutions invest heavily in cryptocurrency ETFs
- Comcast's CNBC, 11 July 2025
Bitcoin rises to an all-time over $118,000, as financial institutions invest heavily in cryptocurrency ETFs
- Zero Hedge, 11 July 2025
The state-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission in Zhōngguó suggests that state-backed firms study the role of digital assets, such as stablecoins, in trade
- Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 11 July 2025
The Attorney General of Florida is investigating Robinhood Crypto, alleging that the platform may have misled customers by promoting itself as the least expensive way to buy cryptocurrencies
- Thomson's Reuters, 10 July 2025
The Attorney General of Florida is investigating Robinhood Crypto, alleging that the platform may have misled customers by promoting itself as the least expensive way to buy cryptocurrencies
- Bloomberg, 10 July 2025
The USA needs a weaker dollar to boost exports without undermining global appetite for USA Treasury Bonds. Stablecoins make that balancing act possible. The criminalization of the USA national debt.
- Zero Hedge, 10 July 2025
The SEC commissioner heading the SEC's take force on cryptocurrencies says that 'tokenized' stocks are financial securities subject to federal securities laws
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 09 July 2025
With trust lacking in cryptocurrencies (ironic, huh!, because cryptocurrencies were invented to increase trust), central bank digital coins might dominate
- Real Clear Markets, 09 July 2025
BNY Mellon will have custody of Ripple's new stablecoin as big banks and financial institutions become more involved with cryptocurrencies
- Comcast's CNBC, 09 July 2025
BioSig and Streamex have secured $1.1 billion in growth financing to support their pivot into onchain commodities, starting with gold
- Coin Telegraph, 08 July 2025
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Federal prosecutors criminally charged two men in connection with a sprawling cryptocurrency investment scheme that allegedly defrauded victims of more than $650 million
- Comcast's CNBC, 08 July 2025
ETFs controlled by BlackRock own more bitcoin than (Micro)Strategy - which is effectively a bitcoin-proxy pretending to be a company
- Zero Hedge, 08 July 2025
Leveraged ETFs had some of the best returns in the second quarter of 2025
- Barron's, 05 July 2025
The CEO of the largest bank in Rossiya, Sberbank, had no idea why the government wants to create a digital rouble. His bank and others can already handle digital payments and cross-border payments. Why risk the real rouble with a digital one?
- Thomson's Reuters, 02 July 2025
Ripple joins Circle in applying to the Federal Reserve for a trust bank charter in the USA, to manage its stablecoin operations.
- CoinTelegraph, 01 July 2025
Circle applies to the Federal Reserve for a trust bank charter in the USA, to manage its stablecoin operations. Such a bank cannot accept deposits or grant loans, but act as a custodian.
- Zero Hedge, 01 July 2025
Publicly traded companies bought more bitcoin than bitcoin ETFs did for the third quarter in a row. [KXnote: can't innovate? Gamble on cryptocurrencies.]
- Comcast's CNBC, 01 July 2025
Publicly traded companies bought more bitcoin than bitcoin ETFs did for the third quarter in a row. [KXnote: can't innovate? Gamble on cryptocurrencies.]
- Zero Hedge, 01 July 2025
Stablecoins are now the "default settlement layer for the internet", surpassing Visa and Mastercard in onchain transaction volume
- Zero Hedge, 30 June 2025
The future of stablecoins in a weak economy. If the Federal Reserve reduces its baseline interest rate down to 0% again, regional banks will be competing more directly with the digital token.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 30 June 2025
The cryptocurrency gambling world increases: Wall Street strategist Tom Lee is aiming to create the MicroStrategy of Ethereum
- Comcast's CNBC, 30 June 2025
The cryptocurrency gambling world increases: Wall Street strategist Tom Lee is aiming to create the MicroStrategy of building a corporate treasury based on Ethereum
- Zero Hedge, 30 June 2025
Americans are finding ways to use digital currencies to help them buy homes, and new companies are forming to help people gamble in cryptocurrency casinos by borrowing money based on their value of their homes
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 28 June 2025
The criminalization of society continues: financial advisor Ric Edelman suggests that people use 10% to 40% of the investment portfolios to gamble in the world of cryptocurrencies
- Comcast's CNBC, 28 June 2025
The stablecoin advantage for Zhōngguó? WeChat and Alipay, says a top economist. As calls grow for Beijing to embrace digital currencies, e-payment giants seen as aiding the global push for use of the yuan.
- Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 28 June 2025
Coinbase's stock is up over 40% this month as Wall Street projects amazing profit growth. The cryptocurrency-trading platform is expected to put up big numbers through 2027 at least.
- Murdoch's MarketWatch, 27 June 2025
Bhutan, a remote kingdom in the Himalaya mountains, bet big on bitcoin mining. So far, it has been profitable. Bhutan now own $1.3 billion of bitcoin.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 27 June 2025
Coinbase Global shares closed at $375, the highest level ever since 2021 a few months after it went public
- Bloomberg, 26 June 2025
The Federal Housing Finance Agency is working to let borrowers use cryptocurrencies as part of their federal mortgage applications without converting it to cash. Only digital assets held on USA-regulated, centralized exchanges will qualify under the new guidance.
- Comcast's CNBC, 26 June 2025
The Bank of International Settlements argue that stablecoins fail as money, and calls for strict limits on their uses in the economy
- Zero Hedge, 25 June 2025
The big loser from the "Genius Act" is $156 billion cryptocurrency giant Tether. A bill laying out rules for stablecoins would force issuers like Tether to be audited and end risky practices.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 25 June 2025
Are stablecoins the future? Do not bank on it, warns the bank for central banks. The Bank for International Settlements releases 'advance chapter' on stablecoins ahead of its Annual Economic Report that paints a future picture of a different financial system.
- Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 24 June 2025
Trump's media company plans to buy back up to $400 million of its stock, which have lost 46% of their value this year
- The Hill, 23 June 2025
Oil prices crash, stock prices soar, gold and bitcoin prices rise - as a muted 'scripted' retaliation by Iran against USA military bases gladdens markets
- Zero Hedge, 23 June 2025
Anthony Pompliano's ProCap raises over $750 million, goes public via SPAC as bitcoin treasury bubble/grifting grows. The company plans to hold up to $1 billion in bitcoin and offer services like lending, trading, and capital markets - the latest bitcon casino.
- Comcast's CNBC, 23 June 2025
Bitcoin drops below $100,000 after Trump orders the USA to enter into the war between Israel and Iran with bombing attacks
- Bloomberg, 22 June 2025
The government of Norway is considering a ban on cryptocurrency mining amid concerns about energy supplies for its citizens
- Zero Hedge, 21 June 2025
Watch these stock price levels as stablecoins threaten to bypass the credit card fees earned by Visa and Mastercard
- Investopedia, 20 June 2025
Stablecoin legislation will increase demand for Treasury Bonds - to a point. Issuers of digital currencies need Treasury bills for their reserves, but analysts say the consequences are uncertain.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 20 June 2025
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The Justice Department seizes a record $225 million in cryptocurrencies tied to global 'pig butchering' scams. Victims were tricked into believing they were investing in legitimate crypto ventures, only to be scammed by criminal networks often operating overseas.
- Comcast's CNBC, 18 June 2025
Bitcoin will never circulate as money, but stablecoins sponsored by Amazon and Walmart will be as useful as money.
- Real Clear Markets, 18 June 2025
The GENIUS proposed law, , will cause economic chaos as it undermines the USA dollar
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 17 June 2025
JPMorgan moves further into cryptocurrencies with its stablecoin-liek token JPMD
- Comcast's CNBC, 17 June 2025
Despite political chaos, bitcoin falls to $104,000 as the war between Iran and Israel escalates
- Comcast's CNBC, 17 June 2025
Bluebird, a gold mining company in the UK, will convert its revenues into bitcoin, adopting the latest management tactic of the non-innovative to gamble in the bitcoin casino.
- Zero Hedge, 17 June 2025
Trump's media company, Truth Social, files an S-1 registration for a dual bitcoin and ether ETF, to further exploit the office of the Presidency for personal gain
- Zero Hedge, 16 June 2025
Prices of oil, gold and bitcoin swing wildly on the latest headlines about the war between Iran and Israel
- Zero Hedge, 16 June 2025
More bitcoin corruption: El Salvador buys 250 bitcoins after it signed an agreement in December with the Intertional Monetary Fund to NOT buy more bitcoins
- Zero Hedge, 16 June 2025
3 reasons why bitcoin in your 401(k) is still a terrible idea: too much hype and confusion, an index fund is just as profitable, and bitcoin prices are too volatile for pension plans
- Boston University, 14 June 2025
Trump removed cryptocurrency warnings from retirement plans. Will that affect 401(k)s?
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 14 June 2025
Singapore imposed more regulations on cryptocurrencies. Singapore's tightening may spell opportunity for rival cryptocurrency centers, particularly Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
- Barron's, 14 June 2025
Shares of fintech Meliuz in Brazil fall 5% after planning to raise $32.4 million to gamble (the latest management tactic of the non-innovative) in the bitcoin casino.
- CoinDesk, 13 June 2025
Shares of SharpLink remain 66% lower after the company buys $463 million in Ether cryptocurrency, to gamble (the latest management tactic of the non-innovative) in the bitcoin casino.
- CoinDesk, 13 June 2025
Shares of SharpLink (a sports betting platform) remain 66% lower after the company buys $463 million in Ether cryptocurrency, to gamble (the latest management tactic of the non-innovative) in the bitcoin casino.
- CoinDesk, 13 June 2025
Prices of bitcoin decline about 2% while the price of gold rises about 1%. Why cryptocurrencies are no haven for political events.
- Barron's, 13 June 2025
Walmart and Amazon are exploring issuing their own stablecoins. Corporate stablecoins could take payments activity away from banks and the traditional financial system.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 13 June 2025
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies decline in price, after Israel attacks military and nuclear facilities in Iran
- Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 13 June 2025
Coinbase introduces its first branded credit card in partnership with American Express
- Comcast's CNBC, 13 June 2025
Here is why stocks, bitcoin and gold are rising to record highs at the same time. This [bubbling] has not happened in over 10 years.
- Murdoch's MarketWatch, 12 June 2025
Coinbase to launch CFTC-compliant trading of perpetual futures contracts on cryptocurrencies in the USA
- Thomson's Reuters, 12 June 2025
Shopify partners with Coinbase and Stripe in landmark stablecoin deal
- Jiaravanon's Fortune, 12 June 2025
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Shaquille O'Neal to pay $1.8 million to settle FTX investor lawsuit. Plaintiffs allege O'Neal helped promote unregistered securities by presenting FTX as a safe and legitimate platform at events and on social media.
- Comcast's CNBC, 12 June 2025
"I invested in a Ponzi scheme": people in Nigeria are victims of cryptocurrency scams. Experts say financial illiteracy, lax regulations, greed and economic hardship make people susceptible to scam companies.
- AL Jazeera, 11 June 2025
Momentum-trading meltdown quietly accelerates as bonds, bitcoin and gold prices don't change much
- Zero Hedge, 10 June 2025
Staked Ethereum hits all-time high as ETH ETF inflows surge
- Zero Hedge, 10 June 2025
Businesses are binge gmabling on cryptocurrencies, increasing risks in the financial markets. More than 60 companies with no prior ties to the cryptocurrency market are gambling on the so-called bitcoin treasury strategy/hype popularized by Michael Saylor.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 10 June 2025
The rise in the price of bitcoin to over $108,000 means that all of Strategy's purchases of bitcoin are now a profitable gamble
- Bloomberg, 09 June 2025
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Iurii Gugnin is accused of using stablecoin transactions and falsified documents linked to sanctioned banks in Rossiya to launder $500 million
- Comcast's CNBC, 09 June 2025
Tether's USDT stablecoin is seen on retail pricetags in Bolivia
- Zero Hedge, 09 June 2025
Shares of stablecoin issuer (and legal counterfeiter) Circle surge 15%, extending gains for three days in a row since its IPO
- Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 09 June 2025
Shares of Robinhood drop after the online brokerage fails to get approval to join the SP500
- Comcast's CNBC, 09 June 2025
A buyer with ties to the Communist Party of Zhōngguó received VIP treatment at Trump's corrupt cryptocurrency dinner where Trump invited moneychangers into the White House temple of democracy. The warm welcome for a technology executive whose purchases of Trump's digital coin won him a White House tour illustrates inconsistencies in the Trump's views toward visitors from Zhōngguó.
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 08 June 2025
Why Hong Kong's stablecoin law is a smart financial move. While rivals like Singapore hedge their regulatory bets, Hong Kong is betting that institutional investors value clarity and transparency.
- Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 08 June 2025
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The Ministry of Justice of the Czech Republic laundered $45 million of bitcoin for the now-imprisoned Tomas Jirikovsky, the mastermind behind Sheep Marketplace and Nucleus, notorious cryptocurrency platforms where users bought illegal drugs, weapons, and other contraband.
- Zero Hedge, 06 June 2025
Stablecoin issuer Circle soars as much as 235% in its IPO debut on the New York Stock Exchange
- Comcast's CNBC, 05 June 2025
A trader in bitcoin uses options to bet on a 28% surge in BlackRock's Spot BTC ETF by the end of June.
- CoinDesk, 04 June 2025
Bitcoin becomes safe collateral: JP Morgan bank to offer loans financed with cryptocurrency assets as collateral
- Zero Hedge, 04 June 2025
The anti-government bitcoin world goes all-in on its support for the authoritarian MAGA-controlled government, shedding its pretend anti-government stance of the past. Moneychangers in the temple of democracy.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 03 June 2025
A euro stablecoin to be offered by AllUnity, a joint venture of asset managet DWS and Deutsche Bank, obtains regulatory approval from the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority
- CoinTelegraph, 02 July 2025
Robinhood has officially closed its $200 million acquisition of Bitstamp, which brings more than 50 global crypto licenses, a ready-made institutional client base, and new infrastructure for lending, staking and "crypto as a service"
- Comcast's CNBC, 02 June 2025
Stablecoin issuer Circle targets $7.2 billion valuation in upsized IPO in the USA
- Thomson's Reuters, 02 June 2025
Cryptocurrencies seem futuristic. The many crimes involving cryptocurrencies are not, such as the torture of a man to steal his cryptocurrency wallet.
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 01 June 2025
Shares of a fintech firm in Brazil, Meliuz, plunge over 8% after it announces that will sell $78 million in shares of its company to buy bitcoin in the bitcoin casino
- CoinDesk, 31 May 2025
$TRUMP and other meme coins will not be regulated by the SEC, making cryptocurrencies crimes easier to commit
- Comcast's CNBC, 31 May 2025
Is Asia reducing its dependance on the USA dollar? The yuan of Zhōngguó, gold and bitcoin are facilitating efforts for de-dollarization, signalling a monetary shift towards a multipolar monetary system.
- Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 30 May 2025
Digital corruption takes over Washington, DC under Trump and Republicans. It is time to call cryptocurrencies for what they are: a criminal enterprise.
- Paul Krugman (substact), 30 May 2025
Bitcoin 'whales' seem to be calling a top as BTC price consolidates. Large holders are shifting from accumulation to distribution as market is in rangebound levels.
- CoinDesk, 29 May 2025
93% of all bitcoin is already mined - here is what that means
- Zero Hedge, 28 May 2025
The growing scandal of the $TRUMP meme coin - the corruption Trump of letting moneychangers into a temple of democracy - the White House
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 28 May 2025
Shares of GameStop drop 9% despite initiating bitcoin buying plan with $500 million purchase, as the video game retailer began its crypto purchasing plan in a similar move made famous by MicroStrategy
- Comcast's CNBC, 28 May 2025
Shares of DJT (Trump Media) fall 10% as Trump Media plans to raise $2.5 billion to gamble on buying bitcoin
- Zero Hedge, 27 May 2025
Shares of DJT (Trump Media) fall 10% as Trump Media plans to raise $2.5 billion to gamble on buying bitcoin
- Comcast's CNBC, 27 May 2025
Trump Media to raise $3 billion to gamble on cryptocurrencies - $2 billion in cash and $1 billion from a convertible bond. Trump Media denies the rumors.
- Thomson's Reuters, 26 May 2025
Bullish investors in bitcoin lose $500 million, after Trump's latest tax/tariff threats agaisnt Europe and Apple Computer
- Coindesk, 24 May 2025
Cryptocurrencies are a threat to the financial system of the USA, fostering scams and sanctions evasion, generating financial risk and perhaps even allowing another currency to supplant the dollar in global trade.
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 24 May 2025
Big banks explore venturing into the cryptocurrency world, together, with a joint stablecoin. Discussions involve companies co-owned by JPMorgan and others, as lenders brace for the possibility that stablecoins could siphon away deposits and transactions.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 24 May 2025
The grifter Trump's use of the USA presidential seal at profit-seeking memecoin event raises legal questions. Trump's use of the USA presidential seal at a $TRUMP memecoin investor dinner may violate federal law.
- Coin Telegraph, 24 May 2025
The grifter Trump pumped-and-dumped his cryptocurrency backers with a dud dinner party
- Rolling Stone, 23 May 2025
At the grifter Trump's memecoin dinner, the "food sucker" and security was lax
- Comcast's CNBC, 23 May 2025
Bitcoin price drops 4% as Trump EU tax/tariff talk liquidates over $300 million in value
- Coin Telegraph, 23 May 2025
The USA dollar crashes to an 18-month low after Trump's latest tax/tariff threats against Europe and Apple, while bitcoin and gold hit record highs
- Zero Hedge, 23 May 2025
Why Tether refuses to comply with the EU's new Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation, the first major attempt by a global economic power to create clear, region-wide rules for the crypto space, and stablecoins are a big focus.
- CoinTelegraph, 23 May 2025
A cryptocurrency billionaire who feared criminal arrest in the USA returns by bribing his way into a dinner with Trump. Justin Sun, whose digital-currency network is popular with the criminals in the cryptocurrency world, is a top investor/briber in the $TRUMP memecoin.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 23 May 2025
A cryptocurrency investor from Kentucky allegedly tortured a captive Italian businessman with a chainsaw for weeks in luxe NYC pad in sadistic scheme to gain passwords to his cryptocurrency accounts
- Murdoch's New York Post, 23 May 2025
A cryptocurrency investor from Kentucky allegedly tortured a captive Italian businessman with a chainsaw for weeks in luxe NYC pad in sadistic scheme to gain passwords to his cryptocurrency accounts
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 23 May 2025
According to a new research from 10x Research, Bitcoin and MicroStrategy have entered a rare period of calm, with both assets exhibiting the lowest volatility in over a year
- The Street, 23 May 2025
The silent slump: why ethereum is still 45% below its peak while cryptocurrencies continues to increase in price
- Benzinga, 23 May 2025
Shares of Apple, Tesla and Nvidia to trade as digital tokens on cryptocurency exchange Kraken, making it easier for criminal stock transactions to occur anonymously. The platform will offer overseas customers tokenized versions of more than 50 stocks and ETFs, since stocks trading is already a highly trustworthy environment not needing blockchain trust mechanisms.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 23 May 2025
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A federal grand jury indictment and criminal complaint unsealed today charge 16 defendants who allegedly developed and deployed the DanaBot malware which a Russia-based cybercrime organization controlled and deployed, infecting more than 300,000 victim computers around the world, facilitated fraud and ransomware, and caused at least $50 million in damage, using cryptocurrencies to profit from their crimes (and by stealing people's cryptocurrency wallets).
- USA Dept. of Justice, 22 May 2025
Standard Chartered doubles down on its prediction of a $500,000 price for bitcoin, citing "wider range of institutional buyers"
- Benzinga, 22 May 2025
Bitcoin options open interest hits a record $42.5 billion on Deribit as traders predict the next bull target for bitcoin
- CoinDesk, 22 May 2025
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Incompetent management at Cetus, the biggest provider of liquidity for Sui, is hacked for $223 million, causing Sui-based tokens to plummet in value
- CoinDesk, 22 May 2025
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L3 Harris Technologies will pay $62 million to settle allegations that it lied about the prices of equipment it sold to the military of the USA. None of the white executives involved will go to jail. Sadly appropriately, L3Harris has been chosen to convert Qatar's bribery of Trump - the 'donation' of a 747 jet - into Air Force One.
- Comcast's CNBC, 22 May 2025
The increasing criminalization/casino-ing of the USA economy - bitcoin hits a record new high, with a market capitalization greater than that of Amazon
- Zero Hedge, 22 May 2025
Companies in Zhōngguó are effectively bribing Trump by buying his cryptocurrency coins, in order to seek favor to not have their companies' stocks delisted in the USA
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 22 May 2025
A shocking admission from Goldman Sachs: the only way to survive the bond-stock reflexive selling loop is to buy gold and cryptocurrencies and non-USA stocks
- Zero Hedge, 22 May 2025
To increase demand for Treasury Bonds (to offset decreased demand due to the USA increasingly huge debt), Republicans want to regulate/approve stablecoins, which use Treasury Bonds as collateral.
- Comcast's CNBC, 22 May 2025
Treasury Bond yields soar, with Big Tech stocks and oil declining in price, and gold and bitcoin rising in price
- Zero Hedge, 21 May 2025
A long-shot options trade is gambling that bitcoin to rise to $300,000 by the end of June
- Zero Hedge, 21 May 2025
The ratio between payments-focused cryptocurrency XRP and bitcoin's (BTC) dollar-denominated prices has triggered its first golden cross on the weekly chart, indicating a bullish shift in momentum
- CoinDesk, 21 May 2025
Bitcoin's rally to record high prices puts the focus on $115,000 where an 'invisible hand' may slow price increases due to the hedging activities of market makers/dealers
- CoinDesk, 21 May 2025
These six charts explain why bitcoin's recent increase over $100,000 may be more durable than january's price rise
- CoinDesk, 21 May 2025
Why are bitcon traders aggressively shorting as bitcoin rises to a new record high?
- CoinDesk, 21 May 2025
Shares of Microstrategy remain little changed even as bitcoin rises to all-time highs
- The Street, 21 May 2025
Bitcoin just surged to a new record high, $109,500
- Zero Hedge, 21 May 2025
Free-reign for financial grifters: Trump's associates and cryptocurrency entrepreneurs are rushing back to the market for the once-hot, but mostly troubled, investment vehicles called special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs).
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 21 May 2025
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission has charged crypto platform Unicoin and three of its executives, alleging they made false and misleading statements about its crypto assets that raised $100 million from investors
- CoinDesk, 20 May 2025
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has charged crypto platform Unicoin and three of its executives, alleging they made false and misleading statements about its crypto assets that raised $100 million from investors
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 20 May 2025
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Genesis has launched a pair of lawsuits against its parent company, Digital Currency Group (DCG), and its CEO, Barry Silbert, accusing them of fraud, reckless mismanagement and siphoning more than a billion dollars in value from the now-bankrupt crypto lender. Genesis is seeking over $3.3 billion from DCG, Barry Silbert and affiliates in two lawsuits alleging fraud, insider enrichment and concealed transfers.
- CoinTelegraph, 20 May 2025
Deutsche Bank outlines stablecoin's role in ensuring the supremacy of the USA dollar
- Zero Hedge, 19 May 2025
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says financial markets are too complacent on tariffs, and expects the SP500 earnings growth to collapse
- Comcast's CNBC, 19 May 2025
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says the bank will let clients buy bitcoin
- Comcast's CNBC, 19 May 2025
As bitcoin soars, investors and executives are taking their swollen digital wallets offline for safety. Criminals are coming after them, violently, with severed fingers and 'wrench attacks'.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 19 May 2025
From trying to overthrow banks to being co-opted by banks - the rise of stablecoins
- Zero Hedge, 18 May 2025
Coinbase says that hackers bribed staff to steal customer data and are demanding $20 million ransom
- Comcast's CNBC, 15 May 2025
Is the proposed law for stablecoins dead in the Senate? Democrats demand that the Treasury Department provide information on Trump's cryptocurrency deals citing risks of bribery
- Zero Hedge, 14 May 2025
Tether buys $459 million in cryptocurrency, launches a new bitcoin treasury company
- Zero Hedge, 14 May 2025
Trump's conflicts of interest with regards to profiting from bitcoin while president keep getting worse. And he is not even trying to hide them.
- Warner Brothers CNN, 14 May 2025
Summer Mersinger said on Wednesday she was resigning from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and a cryptocurrency lobby group, the Blockchain Association, announced it was making her its CEO
- Thomson's Reuters, 14 May 2025
The exposure of bitcoin to USA Treasury Bonds goes mainstream as Coinbase joins the SP500
- Zero Hedge, 13 May 2025
Shares of Coinbase jump 25% after news that the stock will be included in the SP500
- Investopedia, 13 May 2025
'Dark stablecoins' could emerge as regulations tighten
- Zero Hedge, 13 May 2025
Robinhood said on Tuesday it will buy Canadian cryptocurrency firm WonderFi for C$250 million ($178.98 million), as the popular commission-free brokerage looks to expand its international footprint.
- Comcast's CNBC, 13 May 2025
An auction to dine with Trump creates foreign influence/bribery opportunities. When the bidding stops today, the top buyers of a Trump family cryptocurrency coin will win a tour of the White House.
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 12 May 2025
KindlyMD shares skyrocket 600% after merger with Trump cryptocurrency advisor David Bailey's bitcoin investment company
- Comcast's CNBC, 12 May 2025
Editorial: more bitcoin corruption: the cryptocurrency business of the Trump family will be regulation by the ... Trump administration, a huge conflict of interest tolerated by the corruption-tolerating Christian Republican Congress allowing "moneychangers" into the temple of government.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 12 May 2025
Strategy, a Bitcoin treasury company, is accumulating Bitcoin at a faster rate than total miner output, giving the supply-capped asset a -2.33% annual deflation rate
- CoinTelegraph, 10 May 2025
Trump's plan to liberalize cryptocurrencies is being threatened by his greedy pursuit to personally profit from cryptocurrencies
- Comcast's CNBC, 10 May 2025
Arizona becomes the second state after New Hampshire to establish a strategic bitcoin reserve
- Zero Hedge, 09 May 2025
Wall Street's new bitcoin monster: Cantor Fitzgerald's $4 billion bet (forming Twenty One Capital with SoftBank and Tether Holdings) could dethrone rival Michael Saylor's Strategy
- Guru Focus, 08 May 2025
Bitcoin rises back to $100,000; StanChart sees new record high imminent
- Zero Hedge, 08 May 2025
Coinbase agrees to a $2.9 billion deal to buy a major cryptocurrency options platform. Coinbase agreed to acquire Deribit, a push into the highly profitable cryptocurrency derivatives market and a move meant to bolster its global growth.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 08 May 2025
Bitcoin approaches $100,000 as a USA/UK trade agreement lifts the market
- Comcast's CNBC, 08 May 2025
Bitcoin ETF inflows top Gold ETF inflows year-to-date
- Zero Hedge, 07 May 2025
David Bailey, a cryptocurrency advisor to Trump, will luanch a $300 million bitcoin gambling investment company
- Comcast's CNBC, 07 May 2025
Bitcoin's price surge to $104,000 liquidates nearly $400 million in bearish btc bets, opening doors to further price increases
- CoinDesk, 06 May 2025
Democrats balk at supporting a cryptocurrency proposed law, as the Trump family exploits the presidency to profit from crypto tokens. "This is a policy that would legitimize corruption."
- Huff Post, 06 May 2025
Use of Trump's meme coin (in general, mostly jokes with little serious use) generates huge fees for Trump as buyers jump at the chance to use these 'bribes' for access to the president
- Associated Press, 05 May 2025
Tether AI platform to support bitcoin and USDT payments
- Zero Hedge, 05 May 2025
With an increasing skepticism toward fiat currencies and a rising interest in decentralized assets like bitcoin, the USA could consider a new monetary system backed by bitcoin
- Zero Hedge, 03 May 2025
The European Union will ban anonymous cryptocurrencies and privacy tokens by 2027
- Zero Hedge, 03 May 2025
Trump's meme coin dinner at the White House is so obviously corrupt even MAGA Republicans have noticed. Trump appears to be auctioning off access to the presidency. The more of his cryptocurrency that people buy, the higher their chances of meeting Trump at his club.
- Comcast's MSNBC, 03 May 2025
Stablecoins on track for $2 trillion market capitalization by 2028, predicts the USA Treasury. Stablecoin adoption could accelerate global demand for US Treasury bills, the Treasury predicted.
- Zero Hedge, 02 May 2025
Tether plans a USA stablecoin launch as soon as this year
- Zero Hedge, 01 May 2025
Michael Saylor's Strategy [formerly Microstrategy] reports its fifth consecutive quarterly loss, and will double-down its bitcoin betting with a $21 billion equity offering
- Thomson's Reuters, 01 May 2025
Secret deals, foreign investments, presidential policy changes: the rise of Trump's cryptocurrnecy firm. World Liberty Financial has eviscerated the boundary between private enterprise and government policy in ways without precedent in modern American history.
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 01 May 2025
Tether was accused of criminal fraud. Now it is a cryptocurrency darling in Washington.
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 30 April 2025
A $10 T-shirt could become a $24.50 T-shirt as a key tax/tariff loophole closes. Starting Friday, goods from Zhōngguó worth up to $800 will be subject to taxes/tariffs and more paperwork under new Trump administration rules. Trump is eliminating the exemption only for goods from mainland Zhōngguó, the largest source of de minimis shipments, and Hong Kong.
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 30 April 2025
'Whales' are accumulating cryptocurrencies again; StanChart expects a fresh bitcoin all-time high in Q2 of 2025
- Zero Hedge, 29 April 2025
The legislature of Arizona passes a new law to establish a bitcoin reserve, moving closer to stockpiling cryptocurrencies
- Zero Hedge, 29 April 2025
Trump's cryptocurrency company poses unprecedented conflicts of interest. Trump's World Liberty Financial has eviscerated the boundary between private enterprise and government policy - allowing the moneychangers into the 'temple'.
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 29 April 2025
Shadowy cryptocurrency companies make inroads in the USA under Trump
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 29 April 2025
Bitcoin devotees invested $3 billion into ETFs amid a surge in cryptocurrencies
- Bloomberg, 28 April 2025
Bitcoin devotees invested $3 billion into ETFs amid a surge in cryptocurrencies
- Bloomberg, 28 April 2025
The chairman of the Swiss National Bank rebuffs bitcoin as a reserve asset
- Thomson's Reuters, 25 April 2025
Ob bitcoin resilience amid classical 60/40 portfolio panic. The market is likely re-entering the basis trade (of being long spot/ETF vs short the futures/NDF) as the large $900m inflows into the US spot bitcoin ETFs re-emerge.
- Zero Hedge, 25 April 2025
Zhōngguó may shift investments from Treasury Bonds to gold and cryptocurrencies
- Zero Hedge, 25 April 2025
Bitcoin extends gains as the Federal Reserve withdraws Biden-era guidance on bank's cryptocurrency dealings
- Zero Hedge, 25 April 2025
The iShares Bitcoin Trust, offered by BlackRock, will be the world's biggest ETF in a decade, predicts Michael Saylor
- CoinDesk, 25 April 2025
The grifter Trump offers a private dinner to the top 220 investors in his memecoin
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 24 April 2025
A sudden massive inflow of funds into cryptocurrency ETFs push the valuation of bitcoin above the valuation of Google, as the 5th largest asset in the world
- Zero Hedge, 23 April 2025
The Attorney General of Oregon sues Coinbase, accusing the cryptocurrency exchange of promoting and selling unregistered securities in violation of state law
- Investors Observer, 23 April 2025
PayPal introduces 3.7% yield on stablecoin balances to boost payments activity
- Comcast's CNBC, 23 April 2025
Bitcoin rises above $90,000 as investors seek a haven from the chaos of the declining dollar and volatile stock market, due to Trump's tax/tariff trade war
- Comcast's CNBC, 22 April 2025
Bitcoin rises above $88,000 as it outperforms the Nasdaq, amid the chaos of Trump's tax/tariff trade war
- Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 21 April 2025
Trump could crash bitcoin and cryptocurrency prices if he manages to fire Fed Chair Powell, which would greatly disrupt global financial markets
- Forbes, 20 April 2025
Panama City, Panama, approves the use of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies for payments for taxes, fees and permits
- Zero Hedge, 18 April 2025
As economy slows, Reuters reports local governments in Zhōngguó are using private companies to sell seized cryptocurrencies, violating the country's trading ban.
- Zero Hedge, 17 April 2025
Debanking is still a problem for the cryptocurrency industry, despite new regulations
- Coin Telegraph, 15 April 2025
Unleashing a wave of 'white collar' crime. Trump is ordering a reduction in white-collar criminal enforcement. The Justice Department is minimizing some cases involving foreign bribery, money laundering and cryptocurrency markets. All good news for financial criminals, thanks to Trump.
- Comcast's MSNBC, 14 April 2025
Trump is ordering a reduction in white-collar criminal enforcement. The Justice Department is minimizing some cases involving foreign bribery, money laundering and cryptocurrency markets. All good news for financial criminals, thanks to Trump.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 14 April 2025
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Actor and singer Nick Cannon helped launched a memecoin as a promoter, the WILDNOUT coin, in March 2025. It hit a market capitalization of $10 million within hours. This week, its market cap was about $67,000. A $10 million scam.
- New York Post, 12 April 2025
Binance seeks to reduce oversight by the USA while in deal talks with Trump's cryptocurrnecy company. These moves mark the progression of a growing alliance between the Trump family and Binance, which pleaded guilty to violating anti-money-laundering crime laws in 2023.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 12 April 2025
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Block to pay $40 million in settlement with the financial industry regulator of New York State for violations of anti-money-laundering laws. The agency said its investigation additionally found its lax practices allowed for largely anonymous and high-risk bitcoin transactions to proceed without proper scrutiny.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 11 April 2025
The executive of the European Central Bank renews push for a digital euro to counter the growth of stablecoins in the USA
- Zero Hedge, 10 April 2025
Bitcoin could rise to $250,000 this year, and Big Tech could adopt stablecoins, as predicted by Charles Hoskinson, the founder of the Cardano blockchain
- Comcast's CNBC, 10 April 2025
Altcoins face a wipeout of $350 billion since December (from a peak of $1 trillion), having crashed 40%. Altcoins have faced liquidity shocks and weak recovery signs amid Trump's tax/tariff trade war
- AB Crypto, 10 April 2025
Bitcoin surges more than 7%, after Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries for 90 days
- Comcast's CNBC, 09 April 2025
Gold-backed stablecoins redefine stabliity in the cryptocurrency space, by combining blockchain's transparency with gold's timeless reliability
- Zero Hedge, 08 April 2025
The Trump orders the Justice Department to disband a cryptocurrency enforcement team, ordering prosecutors to narrow crypto investigations to focus on drug cartels and terrorist groups .
- Thomson's Reuters, 08 April 2025
The Trump orders the Justice Department to disband a cryptocurrency enforcement team, ordering prosecutors to narrow crypto investigations to focus on drug cartels and terrorist groups .
- Bezos' Washington Post, 08 April 2025
The Trump orders the Justice Department to disband a cryptocurrency enforcement team, ordering prosecutors to narrow crypto investigations to focus on drug cartels and terrorist groups .
- USA Today, 08 April 2025
MicroStrategy halts Bitcoin buys amid $5.9 billion of unrealized losses reported in first quarter of 2025, as bitcoin prices drop below $80,000
- AMB Crypto, 08 April 2025
MicroStrategy expects to post loss after bitcoin price slumps. The software company said it notched $5.91 billion in unrealized losses on its digital assets for the quarter ended March 31.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 08 April 2025
The reputational bankruptcy of the American dollar. The USA dollar will likely continue to get weaker, which is inflationary for the US. Let me start with some easily identifiable reasons: too much debt in the USA, cryptocurrencies, and a stronger Europe/euro
- Intellectual Investor, 07 April 2025
Live results: US futures for the indexes are down over 4%, with crude oil dropping below $50 on fears of a recession, and bitcoin below $78,000 - all thanks to tax/tariff policies of Trump, Bessent, Lutnick and Navarro
- Zero Hedge, 06 April 2025
Bitcoin fell below the $78,000 level as investors braced for more financial market volatility after U.S. equites suffered their worst decline since 2020 on the rollout of Trump's restrictive global taxes/tariffs.
- Comcast's CNBC, 06 April 2025
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In San Pedro, Argentina, 16,000 people, a fifth of the population, signed up for a cryptocurrency exchange where everyone won. Until they didn't, losing a lot of money to pump-and-dump schemes using meme coins, the scam run by a woman called "La China". All of the trades on one exchange, RainbowEx, were fake - the nightly swaps of Tether for memecoins through the crypto exchange were pure show - a pur Ponzi scheme. Over $50 million was stolen.
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 06 April 2025
A bitcoin-powered massive international pedophile streaming network discovered and shutdown by Europol; 2 million users shared child-porn across 35 countries
- Zero Hedge, 04 April 2025
US stock markets plunge fron the shock of Trump's new taxes/tariffs, with the SP500 opening down more than 3%
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 03 April 2025
US stock markets plunge fron the shock of Trump's new taxes/tariffs, with the SP500 opening down more than 3%, Nasdaq down 5%, SP500 down 4%
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 03 April 2025
Dow futures plummet 1300 points (3%), with Nasdaq down 4.5% and SP500 down 3.73%) after Trump announces new taxes/tariffs. Gold is down 2.5%, copper down 3.4%, and bitcoin down 5.3%.
- Comcast's CNBC, 03 April 2025
The CEO of Coinbase, Brian Armstrong, says that Congress should allow stablecoin companies to pay users interest. Allowing stablecoin issuers to pay users interest could subject stablecoins to securities law.
- Comcast's CNBC, 02 April 2025
Stablecoins and tokenized assets gain in price, as investors wait for Trump's new taxes/tariffs on Wednesday
- Coin Telegraph, 31 March 2025
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink warned in an annual letter that mounting US debt could drive investors toward Bitcoin, threatening the global dominance of the dollar.
- Coin Telegraph, 31 March 2025
Shares of GameStop drop 25% after the retailer issues debt to buy bitcoin, one day after it rose 12% when it announced the new strategy, going from 26 to 30 to 22.
- Comcast's CNBC, 27 March 2025
The Trump family plunges deeper into cryptocurrencies with a new stablecoin. The token will be backed by short-term Treasury Bonds, USA dollar deposits and other cash equivalents.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 26 March 2025
The cryptocurrency market saw a major turnaround last week, with $644 million in inflows - ending five weeks of outflows. This shift is a sign of growing investor confidence, especially as institutional demand rises.
- AMB Crypto, 26 March 2025
Shares of GameStop soar 11% after its announces it will join Microstrategy in abandoning being a technology company to gamble its resources on bitcoin
- Comcast's CNBC, 25 March 2025
Replacing cash with digital dollar would pose a grave threat to our rights and freedoms
- Zero Hedge, 23 March 2025
[Locked] Bitcoin is just another technology stock, not a market hedge
- Comcast's CNBC, 23 March 2025
Stablecoins at an all-time high in price, signaling liquidity build-up and potential for a market rally. Strong stablecoin inflows into exchanges suggest investors are positioning for a potential market re-engagement.
- AMB Crypto, 23 March 2025
XRP cold rise to $10 by 2030 as Ripple ends its lawsuit with the SEC
- CoinDesk, 23 March 2025
XRP just obtained a huge break with its legal problems. Why it is worth spending $1000 to buy some XRP.
- The Motley Fool, 23 March 2025
Trump's proposal for a national cryptocurrency reserve misunderstands money, and shows why cryptocurrencies are not money
- Forbes, 23 March 2025
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Aleksei Andriunin, the founder and CEO of cryptocurrency "market maker" Gotbit, and his company entered guilty pleas in federal court in Boston to charges that they conspired to commit market manipulation and committed wire fraud. Gotbit agreed to forfeit about $23 million in cryptocurrency.
- Thomson's Reuters, 21 March 2025
Strong bitcoin transaction volumes indicate sustained buying pressure, with net taker volume hitting a 2025 high of $467 million. The upswing could mean improving sentiment and growing confidence among investors.
- AMB Crypto, 21 March 2025
The USA Treasury Bond holdings of the Tether stablecoin surpass those of Canada and Taiwan, and rank 7th globally
- Zero Hedge, 20 March 2025
XRP surges 14% to $2.57, after the SEC decides to end its lawsuit against Ripple, which controls the XRP cryptocurrency
- Comcast's CNBC, 19 March 2025
Trump's cryptocurrency strategic reserve plan is neither strategic nor a reserve
- Barron's, 19 March 2025
XRP's 8% losses in 4 days mean $2.45 is the support level to watch.
- AMB Crypto, 19 March 2025
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Hollywood writer and director Carl Erik Rinsch has been arrested, on wire fraud and moneylaundering charges, for allegedly cheating Netflix out of $11 million. He is being accused of spending the money on cryptocurrency investments, Rolls-Royces and a Ferrari.
- Murdoch's Fox News, 19 March 2025
Bitcoin whale places $368,0000,000 short bet with 40x leverage ahead of a Federal Reserve meeting on March 19th.
- CoinMarketCap, 17 March 2025
12 bitcoin ETFs in the USA lose $5.5 billion in the longest run of outflows since launched in January 2024
- Bloomberg, 17 March 2025
Oil companies in Rossiya are using bitcoin and USDT for trade with Zhōngguó and India, despite global sanctions that render such cryptocurrency use yet another illegal activity supoprted by cryptocurrencies
- Zero Hedge, 15 March 2025
The apparent demand for bitcoin, measured by the 30-day sum of daily block subsidies minus one-year inactive supply changes, signaled bearish pressure. Holders accelerated selling, reinforcing bearish market conditions.
- AMB Crypto, 14 March 2025
The Trump family has held talks with Binance, following the cryptocurrency exchange's guilty plea. The grifting Trump family is interested in investing in Binance, as founder Changpeng Zhao has pushed for the administration to pardon him for his own 2023 guilty plea.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 13 March 2025
PEPE whales buy 689 Billion tokens! Are they waiting for a reversal? PEPE whales have started accumulating the memecoin as price action shows signs of bullish reversal.
- AMB Crypto, 13 March 2025
Michael Saylor's Strategy, the world's largest public corporate Bitcoin holder, is looking to raise up to $21 billion in fresh capital to purchase more bitcoin.
- Zero Hedge, 10 March 2025
Editorial: the fool gold's of Trump's national cryptocurrency reserve. Government bitcoin and cryptocurrency reserves serve no useful (i.e., legal) purpose and will invite political mischief. But we are still glad we supported the re-election of the repeatedly-bankrupted Trump.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 10 March 2025
Bitcoin declines as much as 6.5% as volatility continues after Trump announces plans for his national bitcoin reserve, at one point trading as low as $80,650
- Comcast's CNBC, 10 March 2025
Short positions in bitcoin surge as traders bet on more losses. BTC faces growing selling pressure as spot demand contracts and bearish sentiment in futures increases.
- AMB Crypto, 10 March 2025
El Salvador closes a pet hospital funded by bitcoin, after a big animal welfare scandal
- Tico Times, 09 March 2025
Stablecoin dominance (Tether, USD Coin) to fall once again? Impact on bitcoin's market will be? Market-wide sentiment and price action in recent months have killed altcoin season hopes among participants.
- AMB Crypto, 09 March 2025
The state of Texas passes a new law to significantly aid-and-abet criminal money transactions - to create a strategic cryptocurrency reserve
- Zero Hedge, 07 March 2025
The new 'cryptocurrency Fort Knox' is as a dumb ideas as it sounds. To create a sovereign wealth fund dedicated to something five times or more as volatile as straight-up stocks is an awful idea.
- The Free Press, 04 March 2025
How the biggest cryptocurrency hack ever, nearly destroyed the world's second-largest cryptocurrency exchange. Bybit survived, thanks to emergency loans from its peers, but questions linger over the cryptocurrency industry's security.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 07 March 2025
Bitcoin is flat even after Trump officially establishes the national bitcoin reserve for the USA
- Comcast's CNBC, 07 March 2025
Bitcoin declines $3000, after Trump signs an executive order creating a cryptocurrency strategic reserve, initially with seized cryptocurrencies
- Zero Hedge, 06 March 2025
Since Trump was re-elected as president, the performance of financial assets related to Trump have not been good, the worst being Trump Media which is down 35% since November 2024, bitcoin which is down 11%, and Tesla which is up 5% (after being up as much as 100%).
- Sherwood News, 05 March 2025
The price of gold and bitcoin rise as Trump's taxes/tariffs wreak havoc across risk assets
- Zero Hedge, 04 March 2025
Bitcoin loses all of its gains that followed Trump's announcement of a federal cryptocurrency reserve
- Comcast's CNBC, 04 March 2025
Trump's announcement of a federal cryptocurrency reserve pumped bitcoin prices - but only for 24 hours, when it dumped
- Rolling Stone, 04 March 2025
Trump faces blowback over plans for a federal cryptocurrency reserve for the USA. Digital assets like bitcoin rallied on Trump's backing for a strategic holding, but even some conservatives and industry backers disapproved.
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 04 March 2025
Trump faces blowback over plans for a federal cryptocurrency reserve for the USA. Digital assets like bitcoin rallied on Trump's backing for a strategic holding, but even some conservatives and industry backers disapproved.
- Warner Brothers CNN, 04 March 2025
The grifter behind the $250 million cryptocurrency scandal in Argentina. Hayden Davis had a string of short-lived business ventures more than a decade long when he met Argentine leader Javier Milei. Together, they pumped a crypto token that has shaken the presidency of Milei.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 04 March 2025
Trump's proposal for a national cryptocurrency reserve is a new way to pay out to friends/cronies of Trump. Once again, we find that the true innovation of cryptocurrency is enabling crimes - gray-market payments.
- Noahpinion, 03 March 2025
Memecoins: from social experiment to retail theft -'value extraction' tools. Memecoins are evolving into retail investor traps, with insider trading and 'rug pulls' raising regulatory concerns, according to industry observers.
- Coin Telegraph, 01 March 2025
XRP drops below $2 as completion of a head-and-shoulders pattern signals a potential drop
- AMB Crypto, 01 March 2025
Under Trump, the USA reduces its crackdown on crimes committed in the cryptocurrency world
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 01 March 2025
Under Trump, the SEC declares that crime-plagued meme coins are not subject to regulation
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 01 March 2025
New investors pumped up the price of bitcoin ETFs. Now some are exiting, as cryptocurrency prices plunge.
- Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 8 February 2025
Bitcoin bloodbath - it drops below its 200-day moving average. BTC at the most oversold levels since August 2023. RSI at 22! [Later in the day, it rose $1000]
- Zero Hedge, 28 February 2025
Meme coins led cryptocurrencies' rally in 2024. Now meme coins may be damaging the entire cryptocurrency market.
- Murdoch's MarketWatch, 26 February 2025
Trump was supposed to be good for cryptocurrencies. So why is bitcoin in danger of falling towards $70,000?
- Murdoch's MarketWatch, 25 February 2025
As bitcoin fades, gold sees huge ETF inflows, and silver sentiment soars
- Zero Hedge, 25 February 2025
Stock futures edge up as bitcoin falls below $90,000. Major indexes swung between small losses and gains after the tech selloff on Monday.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 25 February 2025
Robinhood plans ambitious cryptocurrency expansion under the Trump administration. The trading platform made famous during meme-stock mania wants to diversify its digital-currency business into areas including the potential tokenization of equities.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 25 February 2025
Bitcoin drops to a 3-month low of around $87,000 in a risk-off move
- Comcast's CNBC, 25 February 2025
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The USA says that cryptocurrency exchange OKX enters a guilty plea to violating U.S. anti-money laundering laws and will pay nearly $505 million in fines and forfeited fees. OKX is the world'ss fourth-ranked cryptocurrency spot exchange based on traffic, liquidity, trading volumes, and confidence in the legitimacy of reported trading volumes.
- Comcast's CNBC, 25 February 2025
When it comes to cryptocurrencies, value is determined by price, utility and users. Based on these metrics, is Solana or Ethereum winning the battle to be the best blockchain?
- Zero Hedge, 24 February 2025
Solana sees 40% decline in user activity as memecoin rug pulls erode trust. Solana memecoin scams and rug pulls are driving capital outflows to Ethereum and Arbitrum as user activity declines, but analysts say it may benefit Solana long-term.
- Cointelegraph, 21 February 2025
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Cryptocurrency prices tumbled this morning - most notably BTC and ETH - on reports that incompetent cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has reportedly been hacked for over $1.4 billion in liquid-staked Ether and MegaETH (mETH)
- Zero Hedge, 21 February 2025
Stablecoin use in emerging markets soars despite the absence of crypto-friendly regulations and basic banking infrastructure. Will the US catch up to this trend?
- Zero Hedge, 19 February 2025
The president of Argentina, Javier Milei, has his government much distrupted by Milei's promotion of a cryptocurrency. An ally of Trump and darling of the global right, Javier Milei tries to deflect critics after a cryptocurrency he endorsed collapsed, wiping out $4 billion in value.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 19 February 2025
Foreign currency outflows from Zhōngguó soar as Beijing prepares for next currency devaluation, priming next bitcoin doubling
- Zero Hedge, 18 February 2025
Bitcoin buyer-dynamics are changing: StanChart outlines a pathway to $500,000 before Trump leaves office
- Zero Hedge, 18 February 2025
Investors spot signs of market froth during long bull market. Some fear growing speculation in options, meme stocks and cryptocurrencies.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 18 February 2025
Lawyers in Argentina filed fraud complaints against President Javier Milei in criminal court on Sunday for promoting a cryptocurrency on his social media. On Friday, Milei posted on X about $LIBRA. He deleted the post a few hours later and the value of the currency collapsed, causing millions of dollars in losses to its brief investors.
- Warner Brothers CNN, 17 February 2025
President Javier Milei of Argentina faces impeachment after endorsing a $107 million cryptocurrency scam. "his scandal, which embarrasses us on an international scale, requires us to launch an impeachment request against the president ...".
- Zero Hedge, 17 February 2025
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President Javier Milei of Argentina promotes a memecoin that then crashes 95% in an apparent $107 million scam.
- Web3 Is Going Great, 17 February 2025
The main stock index of Argentina falls 4% after the Milei cryptocurrency scandal
- Thomson's Reuters, 17 February 2025
Ethereum 21% decline over the past month could potentially be reversed as some level of bullish sentiment began to emerge
- AMB Crypto, 17 February 2025
Goldman Sachs boosts its Ethereum ETF holdings by 2000, while boosting its bitcoin ETFs by $1.5 billion
- Zero Hedge, 13 February 2025
With Trump fully supporting cryptocurrencies, bullish investors in bitcoin bet that the trillions in cash on the balance sheets of corporate USA are next to be invested in cryptocurrencies
- Comcast's CNBC, 13 February 2025
Shorts slammed, bitcoin battered, breakevens burst higher ahead of CPI, while the dollar, bitcoin, and gold all clubbed like a baby seal today.
- Zero Hedge, 11 February 2025
Gold, silver and bitcoin are proving to be effective hedges against currency risks
- Charts and Parts - substack, 10 February 2025
Bitcoin faces $1.3 billion liquidation risk if the price slides below $93,000 support amid trade war worries
- CoinMarketCap, 10 February 2025
Early cryptocurrency traders were able to quickly steal profits on Trump's memecoin as many others suffered financial losses.
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 09 February 2025
Banks want to crash the bitcoin party. Turmp is opening the door.
- Barron's, 08 February 2025
"Sell All Things" the market stalls ahead of the 'most important job print' ... since the last one. Everything was sold today - stocks, bonds, gold, crypto, dollar.
- Zero Hedge, 06 February 2025
BlackRock to launch bitcoin ETP in Europe
- Zero Hedge, 06 February 2025
The SEC moves to scale back its cryptocurrency enforcement efforts
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 06 February 2025
The SEC fires its top litigator who battled with cryptocurrency giants. The SEC, seeking to make peace with the cryptocurrency market, reassigned its head of litigation to a job in its information-technology office.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 06 February 2025
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Andean Medjedovic, a 22-year-old math prodigy in Canada, is charged with stealing $65,000,000 worth cryptocurrencies. He was reportedly discovered through chatting on Discord with a company they allegedly stole from. He used complex exploits on decentralized finance platforms.
- PC Gamer, 04 February 2025
Solana faces heavy selling -- can SOL potentially drop to $138?. Traders now question whether Solana will rebound or continue its descent amid negative sentiment and ETF anticipation.
- AMB Crypto, 04 February 2025
Bitcoin rallies as Trump signing an executive order to create "sovereign wealth fund" that will include holdings of bitcoin. Bitcoin rose on the news from 94200 to 99200.
- Zero Hedge, 03 February 2025
Tom Lee says but this tariff dip in stocks, but bitcoin is headed for much more short-term pain
- Comcast's CNBC, 03 February 2025
Tether is back on bitcoin - the dominance of the Lightning Network is just starting. The stablecoin issuer's choice to bring USDT back to Bitcoin is a massive win for the Lightning Network and Joltz's bet on Taproot Assets.
- Zero Hedge, 02 February 2025
El Salvador abandons the use of bitcoin as a legal tender after its experiment failed. Bitcoin was never used by most Salvadorans, its modern city was never built, and now it will cease to be legal tender in El Salvador, a complete failed economic bet by President Nayib Bukele.
- Tico Times, 02 February 2025
As of 9:30 pm, bitcoin drops 7% to 94,000, ether drops 20%, dogecoin drops 25%
- Comcast's CNBC, 02 February 2025
The end of the financial markets self-delusion, believing that Trump would introduce tariffs gradually
- Murdoch's MarketWatch, 02 February 2025
Volumes of stablecoin transactions surpassed those of Visa and Mastercard in 2024. Stablecoin's role as the lifeblood of cryptocurrency trading and DeFi outweighs their non-criminal use case for savings and remittance.
- Zero Hedge, 01 February 2025
Activist investor Elliott Management says cryptocurrencies are facing an "inevitable collapse" after perceived proximity to Trump inflated a bubble
- Jiaravanon's Fortune, 31 January 2025
The finance minister of the Czech republic, Zbynek Stanjura, warned against the central bank governnor's proposal to consider investing part of the s foreign-currency reserves in bitcoin.
- Bloomberg, 30 January 2025
The central bank of the Czech Republic may invest up to 5% of its reserves in bitcoin, potentially acquiring $7.3 billion in BTC as part of its diversification strategy
- Zero Hedge, 29 January 2025
Worldcoin, controlled by Sam Altman - CEO of OpenAI, has its supports level collapsing, down 34% in the last three weeks. Looming token unlocks fortified the bearish predictions.
- AMB Crypto, 29 January 2025
New ETFs bet investors are way too careful -- even when buying bitcoin. ETFs that cap the cryptocurrency's upside and downside are the latest example of products that remove too much risk to actually make sense.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 29 January 2025
Is a 'mini financial crisis' for cryptocurrencies going to occur in 2025. Arthur Hayes predicts bitcoin dropping to $75,000 before skyrocketing to $250,000 by the end of the year
- Benzinga, 28 January 2025
Ethereum adoption skyrockets: Is ETH's price recovery on the horizon? As prices retreat from recent highs, Ethereum tells a story of strong network growth and sustained adoption.
- AMB Crypto, 28 January 2025
Solana, Dogecoin, and XRP plunge 10% as a 'bloody' start to the week sees $770 million of long liquidations. Liquidation happens when a trader has insufficient funds to keep a leveraged trade open.
- CoinDesk, 27 January 2025
Bitcoin may be 'double topping', a bearish reversal pattern, for a price slide to $75,000
- CoinDesk, 27 January 2025
Cryptocurrencies dropped 3% to 10%, after running to a new record and pulled lower by the DeepSeek-driven sell-off in tech stocks
- Comcast's CNBC, 27 January 2025
MicroStrategy owns about $47 billion worth of bitcoin, which includes $18 billion of unrealized gains. But even if it doesn't sell a single bitcoin to obtain realized gains, it might have to pay billions in taxes on those unrealized earnings, difficult for a company with a lot of debt, and negative earnings.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 27 January 2025
Insider-selling soars as SP500 hits record high; gold and cryptocurrencies jump as dollar and crude oil prices decline
- Zero Hedge, 24 January 2025
SEC revokes unpopular banking rule that blocked Wall Street banks from adopting cryptocurrencies
- Comcast's CNBC, 24 January 2025
BlackRock CEO wants the SEC to "rapidly approve" tokenization of bonds and stocks, making the stock market even more criminal
- Zero Hedge, 24 January 2025
Cryptocurrencies surge in price as Trump signs an executive order creating a "Presidential Working Group on Digital Asset Markets"
- Zero Hedge, 23 January 2025
The latest AI hype deal, 'Stargate', sends the SP500 to a record high, with gold rising and bitcoin declining
- Zero Hedge, 22 January 2025
The cryptocurrency world through that Trump would bring it legitimacy - the fools. Then Trump (and his wife) launched their own meme coins. Industry players worry the success of Trump's meme coin will undermine the credibility they have worked hard to cultivate.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 22 January 2025
The USA dollar versus cryptocurrencies. Is Trump undermining the dollar?
- Zero Hedge, 21 January 2025
Trump's new cryptocurrency, $TRUMP, plunges over 20% as the bullish sentiment for cryptocurrencies cools. A meme token released Sunday by first lady Melania Trump also crashed. Trump's inauguration Monday lacked any concrete policy announcements regarding cryptocurrencies.
- Comcast's CNBC, 21 January 2025
Bitcoin rises to a record high of $109,200 ahead of the inauguration of Trump
- Bloomberg, 20 January 2025
Bitcoin rises to a record high of $109,200 ahead of the inauguration of Trump
- Comcast's CNBC, 20 January 2025
The grifting Trump's grifting meme coin, $Trump, sold to exploit the integrity of the presidency of the USA, immediately crashes more than 40% after the grifting Melania Trump launches her cryptocurrency
- The Daily Beast, 20 January 2025
Even conservatives think that Melania Trump's new cryptocurrency, $MELANIA, is a downright "scam" meant to exploit the integrity of the presidency of the USA. "88% of the $MELANIA meme coin is owned by 10 people. If you are buying any of this you are straight up gambling."
- The Daily Beast, 20 January 2025
Trump unveils an "official" memecoin, the $Trump - 12 hours later, it is up 16,000% to $30 billion
- Zero Hedge, 18 January 2025
Trump begins selling new cryptocurrency token - the $Trump, raising ethical concerns. The president-elect and his family have a direct and potentially lucrative stake in the sale of a cryptocurrency product that surged in value in the hours after going on sale, days before his inauguration. "It is literally cashing in on the presidency -- creating a financial instrument so people can transfer money to the president's family in connection with his office."
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 18 January 2025
Pro-bitcoin lawmakers pack Congress but partisan gridlock looms. As Trump prepares to take office, the crypto industry enjoys unprecedented support in Washington... but could partisan bickering spoil its chances?
- Zero Hedge, 18 January 2025
A first-day executive order by Trump: to build a federal stockpile of bitcoin?
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 17 January 2025
Bonds, bitcoin and gold rise in price after some comments from the Fed that they might reduce interest rates some more
- Zero Hedge, 16 January 2025
Syria, after the fall of Assad, is considering the legalization of Bitcoin, including partially backing the Syrian Pound and mining with excess energy reserves.
- Zero Hedge, 16 January 2025
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BitMEX, a cryptocurrencye exhange, is fined additional $100 million for violating the USA Bank Secrecy Act, bringing total penalties paid to $210 million, for failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering systems
- CoinMarketCap, 16 January 2025
The Financial Intelligence Unit of South Korea has ordered a suspension of operations for Upbit, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in South Korea, due to alleged violations of Anti-Money Laundering policies
- CoinMarketCap, 16 January 2025
A benign inflation report and bullish bank earnings sparks a short-squeeze across all assets: gold, bitcoin, stocks, bonds and oil rise higher in price as the dollar dips in value
- Zero Hedge, 15 January 2025
Tether is moving its operations from the British Virgin Islands to El Salvador after being granted a digital asset service provider license.
- Zero Hedge, 14 January 2025
The slump in bitcoin prices in January is nothing new in 'post-halving' years. Bitcoin has fallen 10% so far this month, but analysts say it has dropped between 25% and 30% in January in past post-halving markets.
- Zero Hedge, 13 January 2025
Bitcoin briefly dropped below the $90,000 mark on Monday, extending its slide as investors continue to dump growth oriented assets like crypto and tech stocks
- Comcast's CNBC, 13 January 2025
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A Christian pastor has been indicted on 26 counts of fraud for allegedly operating a cryptocurrency scam that defrauded investors of millions between 2021 and 2023. In total, Christian pastor Francier Pinollo is said to have targeted at least 1,500 people in the United States, including members of his Spanish church, defrauding them of at least $5,900,000.
- Bleeping Computer, 12 January 2025
Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Stanley, says that bitcoin is the cryptocurrency of choice for "sex traffickers, money launderers, and ransomware"
- Business Insider, 12 January 2025
The Justice Department is cleared to sell $6.5 billion in bitcoin seized from Silk Road
- Crypto Briefing, 09 January 2025
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An early Texas Bitcoin investor was ordered to surrender his cryptocurrency and other wallet private keys and access codes as part of a restraining order after being sentenced in December to two years in prison for tax fraud, for which he has to pay $1.1 million in restitution.
- Zero Hedge, 08 January 2025
Bitcoin drops 5% below $97,000 as Treasury Bond yields rising to almost 4.7% put pressure on risky assets. Ether dropped 8%. Coinbase dropped 8% and Microstrategy dropped 9%.
- Comcast's CNBC, 07 January 2025
Stocks shrug off Trump taxes/tariffs headline-roulette, bitcoin jumps as dollar dumps
- Zero Hedge, 06 January 2025
$19 trillion in transactions settled on the bitcoin network in 2024
- Zero Hedge, 05 January 2025
Cryptocurrencies could go rogue in 2025. When Trump returns to the White House, digital currencies may either go mainstream or be brought down by a cast of villains.
- Bloomberg, 05 January 2025
Another risk lurks for cryptocurrencies. Governments could be tempted to confiscate your coins. Mark Haefele warns in "The New Rules of Investing" that governments will not allow cryptocurrencies to threaten the existing financial system.
- Barron's, 04 January 2025
Big Tech stocks drop in price on the first trading day of 2025, while bitcoin, gold and oil rise in price
- Zero Hedge, 02 January 2025
Does fall in bitcoin dominance mean altcoin season is coming up next? Here is why analysts believe that an altcoin season rebound in January could be sooner than most think.
- AMB Crypto, 01 January 2025
The number of long-term Ether holders steadily increased to 75% throughout 2024, while the number of long-term Bitcoin holders fell over the last year to 62%, amid rising confidence in ETH heading into the new year.
- Coin Telegraph, 30 December 2024
USDT supply drops by $1.3 billion - what this means for bitcoin liquidity. Tether's $1.3B supply contraction in 10 days raises concerns about crypto liquidity and market dynamics.
- AMB Crypto, 30 December 2024
Bitcoin drops to $94,000 as the cryptocurrency market faces bearish sentiment, with analysts predicting a potential price correction to $80,000
- CoinMarketCap, 29 December 2024
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Jump Trading Group was a big winner during the last crypto bull market. Now, a unit of the high-speed trading giant has agreed to pay $123 million to settle an investigation stemming from its dealings with disgraced crypto tycoon Do Kwon.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 26 December 2024
Robinhood has decided not to hold Bitcoin as an investment
- AMB Crypto, 25 December 2024
The government of Rossiya approved a list of 10 regions and territories where cryptocurrency mining will be banned starting next year for the next six years. Russian lawmakers also approved seasonal restrictions in key cryptocurrency mining regions to prevent energy blackouts.
- Zero Hedge, 24 December 2024
Shares of Rumble surged higher as much as 55% in pre-market trading, after Tether, the issuer of the largest stablecoin USDT, agreed to purchase a $775 million stake in the 'free speech' video platform
- Zero Hedge, 23 December 2024
Rumble gets $775 million investment from cryptocurrency firm Tether. Video platform Rumble said it entered an agreement for an investment from the cryptocurrency company Tether.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 23 December 2024
Hackers in North Korea stole $1.3 billion worth of cryptocurrencies this year
- Bleeping Computer, 22 December 2024
Cryptocurrency ETFs experience a huge outflow of money, while others "buy the dip" as bitcoin drops from over 102,000 to 92,000
- Zero Hedge, 20 December 2024
Bitcoin falls 8% in volatile trade around $93,000 as sell-off intensifies
- Comcast's CNBC, 20 December 2024
Zhōngguó approves four more cryptocurrency exchanges, adding to the three already approved. Hong Kong has been promoting itself as a hub for assets such as cryptocurrencies in a effort to maintain its attractions as a financial center.
- Thomson's Reuters, 18 December 2024
Money is flowing out of bitcoin ETFs based in Canada to bitcoin ETFs based in the USA
- Bloomberg, 17 December 2024
Foreign exchange outflows from Zhōngguó soar as Beijing prepares for next currency devaluation, lpriming next bitcoin surge
- Zero Hedge, 16 December 2024
Bitcoin rises above $106,000 and goes into 'Santa Claus Mode' as optimism grows for USA reserve status. Bitcoin hits a new record high against the dollar and gold as The Fed readies another cut and speculation that Trump may make Bitcoin a USA reserve asset from "day one".
- Zero Hedge, 16 December 2024
How iShares came to dominate bitcoin ETFs
- Barron's, 14 December 2024
BlackRock, the world's biggest asset manager, suggests that up to 2% of your assets should be allocated to bitcoin
- Zero Hedge, 12 December 2024
The governor of the central bank of Bharat says that Bharat is preparing for an economy with a home-grown central bank digital currency (CBDC), the digital rupee.
- Zero Hedge, 12 December 2024
Concerns that cryptocurrency companies are being purposely cutoff from the global banking system have become a political cudgel at an opportune moment for the industry.
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 11 December 2024
IBIT, the bitcoin ETF managed by Blackrock, drops 5.3% on Monday, the most in 4 months, amid a bogus quantum computing announcement from Google that won't affect decryption (which could affect bitcoin)
- CoinDesk, 10 December 2024
What are cryptocurrencies good for? Money laundering and other crimes. The UK uncovers a vast cryptocurrency money laundering scheme for gangsters and spies from Rossiya.
- Financial Times, 07 December 2024
Bitcoin euphoria threatens to break these ETFs. Investors are piling into funds that seek to amplify the daily return of MicroStrategy shares, but the ETFs have not been working as intended in recent days.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 03 December 2024
NFTs hit a 6-month high of $562 million in monthly sales volumes
- Coin Telegraph, 01 December 2024
The 'digital gold' fallacy - why bitcoin cannot save the USA dollar - it cannot act as a currency reserve.
- Cato Instittue, 29 November 2024
Why is bitcoin going down? Analysts link the $4 billion decline to panic by bitcoin holders.
- AMB Crypto, 28 November 2024
Short-term bitcoin holders have moved nearly $8 billion worth of bitcoin to exchanges, signaling a price bottom
- CoinDesk, 27 November 2024
Bitcoin drops to $96,256 after failing to break $100,000, triggering $500 million in liquidations
- CoinMarketCap, 25 November 2024
MicroStrategy spends $5.4 billion buying another 55,000 bitcoins, causing the stock to decline over 2%
- Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 25 November 2024
Bitcoin could fall as much as 20% after breaking $100,000 as levered bets unwind, crypto billionaire Mike Novogratz says
- Business Insider, 21 November 2024
Shares of MicroStrategy plummet 16% after short seller Citron Research said it had taken a new bet against the stock, which has gained over 500% this year, which argues that shares of MicroStrategy have "completely detached from BTC fundamentals".
- Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 21 November 2024
The magical bitcoin buying strategy of MicroStrategy uses some wacky math. The BTC yield at MicroStrategy, which calls itself a "bitcoin treasury company", is not a yield as commonly understood by investors. As the company explains in its filings, it is the percentage change, from one date to another, in how many bitcoins per share MicroStrategy owns.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 21 November 2024
There is a real math problem with Microstrategy's obscene valuation premium. MicroStrategy is worth around three times as much as its bitcoin holdings.
- Sherwood News, 21 November 2024
Assets in bitcoin ETFs rise above $100 billion. Bitcoin ETFs now collectively manage approximately $104 billion, and are on track to surpass gold ETFs in net assets.
- Zero Hedge, 21 November 2024
Accolade gathers $202 million for new blockchain fund of funds as cryptocurrency market recovers. When many investors stopped backing crypto venture funds, Accolade Partners saw an opportunity to keep deploying capital. Now it is riding new tailwinds thanks to Trump's election and the expanding adoption of crypto technologies.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 21 November 2024
A court in Shanghai says cryptocurrency ownership is legal under the laws of Zhōngguó, amid bitcoin price surge. In an opinion on a recent lawsuit, a Shanghai judge wrote that cryptocurrencies have the attributes of property and thus holding it is legal.
- Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 20 November 2024
Shares of Bakkt soar over 150% as Trump Media negotiates to buy the cryptocurrency firm
- The Street, 19 November 2024
MicroStrategy announces $42 billion capital raise to expand bitcoin holdings
- The Street, 19 November 2024
Bitcoin hits a record high above $93,000 as the 'Trump rally' resumes
- Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 19 November 2024
Shares of Trump's social media company, DJT, soared 8% amid reports that it was in advanced talks to buy Bakkt, a cryptocurrency trading venue owned by Intercontinental Exchange, as it pushes to expand beyond online conversation. Shares of Bakkt soared 90%.
- Zero Hedge, 18 November 2024
MicroStrategy bought a record $4.6 billion in Bitcoin, making good on plans announced last month to tap capital markets to accelerate purchases of the cryptocurrency
- Bloomberg, 18 November 2024
So long as bitcoin is the noisy price story, it will not ever be money. Money cannot be as volatile as bitcoin.
- Forbes, 17 November 2024
Weekly sales of NFTs surge 94% as the cryptocurrency market continues a buillish run
- Coin Telegraph, 17 November 2024
Big bitcoin buyers are behind the bitcoin price surge, not smaller retail investors
- Bitcoin Magazine, 16 November 2024
Suing to recover billions in stolen monies, the court-appointed receiver for FTX discloses the stunning scale of its crimes - and stupidity
- Los Angeles Times, 15 November 2024
Bitcoin neared $90,000 in a new record high. What to know about the post-election rally of cryptocurrencies.
- Associated Press, 13 November 2024
Shares of Dogecoin spike 20% after Trump announces a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)
- Comcast's CNBC, 12 November 2024
Goldman Sachs: this can be the start of a new cryptocurrency bubble, and as always, rule #1 is "When I see a bubble forming, I rush in to buy, adding fuel to the fire."
- Zero Hedge, 12 November 2024
Small cap stocks decline, as bond yields, bitcoin and the dollar soar, as gold hits two month lows
- Zero Hedge, 12 November 2024
Bitcoin tops $89,000 as crypto euphoria over Trump win shows no sign of waning
- Comcast's CNBC, 11 November 2024
Bitcoin could be one upgrade away from overtaking Ethereum DeFi. A long-dormant string of code called OP_CAT could be the secret to unlocking the true potential of Bitcoin for DeFi and see it surge past Ethereum DeFi in the future.
- CoinTelegraph, 11 November 2024
MicroStrategy buys $2.03 billion worth of bitcoin in latest purchase
- Bloomberg, 11 November 2024
The cryptocurrency world is preparing for a renaissance under Trump. Bitcoin prices hit $80,000 for the first time on Sunday. The president-elect has vowed to ease the regulatory burden on crypto and create a reserve to hold the bitcoin supply of the USA.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 11 November 2024
Trump's re-election win pushes up the price of bitcoin over $80,000, with the value of Ethereum greater than the capitalization of Bank of America
- Zero Hedge, 10 November 2024
Is the post-election jump in cryptocurrency prices a knee-jerk reaction or sustainable momentum?
- Zero Hedge, 08 November 2024
The cryptocurrency industry invested over $130 million on the election. The spending spree fueled a string of victories on Tuesday for congressional candidates who had expressed support for cryptocurrencies. The industry will want a lot of favors in return (making it easier to commit crimec).
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 07 November 2024
The bitcoin world celebrates as a $40 million campaign defeats Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown, replacing him with Republican Bernie Moreno, a blockchain entrepreneur. Democracy once again for sale.
- Comcast's CNBC, 06 November 2024
Bitcoin hits record $75,000 as Trump victory heralds wider crypto adoption and weaker regulation.
- Comcast's CNBC, 06 November 2024
A consortium of financial technology and cryptocurrency companies including Robinhood, Kraken and Galaxy Digital, on Monday introduced a joint stablecoin pegged to the USA dollar
- Thomson's Reuters, 04 November 2024
Cryptocurrency ETFs see big inflows of money ahead of elections in the USA, as traders brace for volatility
- Thomson's Reuters, 31 October 2024
Central bank digital currencies are founding in the Western Five-Eye nations. Canada and Australia shelve plans for retail CBDCs while the US could soon become the first country to explicitly ban the central bank from issuing a CBDC.
- Zero Hedge, 30 October 2024
Visa and Coinbase offer real-time cryptocurrency purchases using debit cards
- Bloomberg, 29 October 2024
The cryptocurrency, Shiba Inu, is in trouble: is a comeback possible after a 12% plunge in the last 7 days?
- AMB Crypto, 27 October 2024
Federal investigators probe cryptocurrency firm Tether. Authorities are looking at possible violations of anti-money-laundering and sanctions rules.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 26 October 2024
Why dollar-backed stablecoins will entrech the supremacy of the USA dollar. The recently announced Stripe-Bridge stablecoin tie-up is more likely to define the future world monetary order than the BRICS Bridge CBDC one.
- Zero Hedge, 25 October 2024
MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor backpedaled on his comment that big banks should take custody of Bitcoin following a torrent of backlash from the cryptocurrency community.
- Cointelegraph, 23 October 2024
Bonds and bitcoin decline, while the USA dollar and crude oil prices jump, as leading economic index hits 8 year lows
- Zero Hedge, 21 October 2024
Bitcoin flirts with $70,000 after $2.4 billion of inflow into ETFs
- Bloomberg, 21 October 2024
Stripe is in talks to acquire stablecoin platform Bridge for a whopping $1 billion. Bridge has built an API that helps companies accept stablecoins.
- TechCrunch, 17 October 2024
Want a cryptocurrency-friendly congress? Run political ads that do not mention cryptocurrencies. A trio of crypto-funded super PACs spent $62 million on video ads last month that never mentioned digital currencies.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 17 October 2024
Gold, bitcoin, and the USA dollar surge ahead of retail sales; markets "very convinced" of an election victory by Trump
- Zero Hedge, 16 October 2024
Inflows into bitcoin ETFs rise about $500 million, but this worries investors, because it is only 3% of the overall bitcoin market
- AMB Crypto, 15 October 2024
Kamala Harris said she plans to support a cryptocurrency regulatory framework that gives protections to Black men who invest and own crypto as part of a newly released proposal to help build wealth for Black men
- Zero Hedge, 14 October 2024
Many white cryptocurrency billionaires could flip the Senate to be controlled by the Republican party and Trump. Millions are pouring into the race to unseat Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown, who has resisted loosening cryptocurrency regulations.
- The Intercept, 13 October 2024
The Securities and Exchange Commission sued the cryptocurrency unit of high-speed trading giant DRW Holdings, accusing the unit, Cumberland DRW, of violating investor-protection laws by failing to register as a securities dealer.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 11 October 2024
The SEC charged cryptocurrency market maker Cumberland DRW on Thursday with acting as an unregistered dealer for more than $2 billion in crypto assets, the agency said in a statement.
- Thomson's Reuters, 10 October 2024
The 'crypto punks' behind Trump's murky new business venture. The serial entrepreneurs behind Trump's new cryptocurrency project have left a trail of lawsuits, unpaid debt and tax liens.
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 07 October 2024
Goldman Sachs argues that Zhōngguó must do QE/moneyprinting now, "or it will end up in a bigger hold in 12 months", and once it does go all in, oil will soar, and bitcoin and gold will be orders of magnitude higher.
- Zero Hedge, 06 October 2024
Banks to join SWIFT Digital Asset trials in 2025. SWIFT said it is uniquely positioned to interlink the fragmented digital asset landscape with its forthcoming digital currency trials in 2025.
- Zero Hedge, 03 October 2024
The XRP cryptocurrency token plummets 9% in value, after the SEC appeals a court decision in the landmark Ripple case that determined that XRP is not considered a security when sold to retail investors on exchanges
- Comcast's CNBC, 03 October 2024
Unsurprisingly, the bitcoin price follows global liquidity. Over 12-month periods, bitcoin's price moves in the same direction as global liquidity a remarkable 83% of the time.
- Zero Hedge, 02 October 2024
Gold and cryptocurrencies jump as USA stocks shrug off Shanghai money-drop. The dollar dumped as alternative currencies jumped as US Sovereign risk explodes higher.
- Zero Hedge, 27 September 2024
AI tokens surge amid potential altcoin rally. The return of bitcoin to $60,000 and surging AI tokens like ICP, FET, and INJ spark discussions of a potential altcoin rally.
- AMB Crypto, 25 September 2024
Gold, oil and bitcoin soar as the Fed slashes interest rates with stocks at record highs
- Zero Hedge, 20 September 2024
BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager continues embracing Bitcoin as adoption gains mainstream acceptance, by issuing a pro-cryptocurrency report
- Zero Hedge, 19 September 2024
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency stocks rise after the Fed cuts rates by 0.5%
- Comcast's CNBC, 18 September 2024
Trump and his family jump into cryptocurrencies, which the FBI calls a hive of "pervasive" criminality, as investors account for nearly 70% of the total losses in billions suffered each year by people in the USA
- Los Angeles Times, 18 September 2024
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Prager Metis to resolve SEC fraud charges over audits of Bankman-Fried's FTX. The advisory and accounting firm agreed to pay $745,000 to the SEC to resolve negligence-based fraud charges over its past audits of Sam Bankman-Fried's trading platform FTX.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 18 September 2024
The cryptocurrency industry is bribing/donating $190 million to politicians before the 2024 elections. The industry is looking to elect pro-crypto candidates and opposes the industrywide crackdown led by SEC Chairman Gary Gensler, who was appointed by President Joe Biden.
- Comcast's CNBC, 17 September 2024
Bitcoin and Big Tech (Apple, Nvidia) are battered down, while bond yields and oil rise, as expectations for an interest rate reduction by the Fed of 0.5% soar
- Zero Hedge, 16 September 2024
Shares of MicroStrategy rise 8% after the company increases its bitcoin holdings to $14.6 billion
- Zero Hedge, 13 September 2024
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Retail trading platform eToro will stop offering nearly all cryptocurrencies to its customers as part of a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the regulator said on Thursday. eToro also agreed to pay a penalty of $1.5 million to settle charges that it operated as an unregistered broker and unregistered clearing agency in connection with its cryptocurrency offerings.
- Zero Hedge, 12 September 2024
The shadow dollar that is fueling the financial underworld. Tether, a cryptocurrency, enables a parallel economy that operates beyond the reach of USA law enforcement.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 11 September 2024
Americans lost $5.6 billion last year in cryptocurrency fraud scams, the FBI says
- Associated Press, 09 September 2024
Founder and CEO of CryptoQuant, Ki Young Ju, claims bitcoin's cycle peak will be in 2025, not 2024
- AMB Crypto, 08 September 2024
Coinbase has the worst week of the year, as cryptocurrency stocks plummet. Coinbase had its worst week of the year, and bitcoin miner Marathon Digital tumbled 20%.
- Comcast's CNBC, 06 September 2024
"A huge mistake": cryptocurrency allies of Trump cringe over the Trump family's cryptocurrency startup. The crypto venture is attracting what appear to be hacks and attempted scams ahead of its launch. [Scams beyond the scam of the startup itself?]
- Politico, 06 September 2024
Peter Thiel defends calling Warren Buffett a "sociopathic grandpa from Omaha" for being an opponent of bitcoin
- Benzinga, 31 August 2024
Cryptocurrencies are the new Trump family grift. Ethics watchdogs have concerns. The eldest sons of Trump are gearing up to launch a new cryptocurrency venture called World Liberty Financial.
- Politico, 31 August 2024
How the cryptocurrency industry is bribing everyone in Washington, and targeting anyone in Washington who wants strong regulations on the mostly criminal industry
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 30 August 2024
Speculators place massive bets on AI crypto tokens ahead of Nvidia earnings report. However, several AI tokens were slightly down at the time of writing, with NEAR declining by 4% in the past 24 hours. Will the recent AI tokens rally cool off?
- AMB Crypto, 28 August 2024
The loudest defenders of Telegram - the encrypted messaging service: the global cryptocurrency industry. When the messaging app's founder, Pavel Durov, was arrested, he received a flood of support from a multitrillion-dollar industry that relies on it to hide their (illegal) communications.
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 28 August 2024
Celsius has repaid two-thirds of its eligible customers as part of its long-awaited bankruptcy proceedings. According to an August 26 court filing, the bankrupt cryptocurrency lender has repaid approximately $2.53 billion to 251,000 creditors.
- CoinTelegraph, 27 August 2024
Cryptocurrency 'brothers' are not flipping watches. That is an issue for luxury brands. It is becoming less lucrative to speculate on luxury watches, which has a knock-on effect in the brands' stores.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 27 August 2024
Bitcoin prices have dropped significantly before the last three elections, and have risen significantly after the last three elections
- The Street, 26 August 2024
Fed Chair Powell's pivot on interest rates sparks buying panic in bonds, bitcoin, and gold as the USA dollar dumps to 2024 lows
- Zero Hedge, 23 August 2024
Gold, stocks, bitcoin and bonds surge in price as Fed Chair Powell says that the "time has come for policy to adjust", i.e., cocainized the markets with interest rate cuts
- Zero Hedge, 23 August 2024
Fed Chair Powell vows to reduce interest rates with stocks, home prices, rents and foods at all time highs. What can possibly go WRONG? The Fed will end its tightening cycle and starts the next easing cycle with stocks at all time highs, something that has never before happened in the history of capital markets! Second, this is also the first time in history when the Fed has aborted a tightening cycle having achieved zero home price easing.
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 23 August 2024
The cryptocurrency industry accounts for almost half of the corporate bribes donations in the 2024 election
- Comcast's CNBC, 23 August 2024
A cryptocurrency 'pig butchering' scam wrecks the Heartland Tri-State Bank, a small bank in Kansas, with the former CEO sentenced to more than 24 years in prison for stealing $47 million from the bank
- Comcast's CNBC, 21 August 2024
A dovish Fed on interest rates, and a dismal job-revisions (adjusted down 800,000) send bonds, big-tech, bitcoin, and gold bullion higher
- Zero Hedge, 21 August 2024
Minutes of the Fed FOMC show the "vast majority" can agree with an interest rate reduction in September
- Zero Hedge, 21 August 2024
Minutes of the Fed FOMC show the "vast majority" can agree with an interest rate reduction in September
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 21 August 2024
Revision of USA jobs data, down 818,000 jobs, is the second worst revision in USA history, and an election year shocker
- Zero Hedge, 21 August 2024
Traders aggressively betting on further moves south for Bitcoin could be caught unawares in the coming days and weeks, with the derivatives market forming a setup primed for a short squeeze
- Zero Hedge, 21 August 2024
State Street is partnering with Swiss crypto company Taurus to offer new digital asset services, including turning real-world assets into tradeable tokens, to tap growing institutional demand for such investments, the financial services provider told Reuters.
- Thomson's Reuters, 20 August 2024
The unraveling of a cryptocurrency dream. Brock Pierce arrived in Puerto Rico seven years ago, promising to use crypto magic to revitalize the local economy. Now he is mired in legal disputes and fighting with his business partners.
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 18 August 2024
Prices of stocks soar, while bitcoin and bond prices are battered down, on 'fake' data (supposedly retail sales soared in August thanks to massive historical revisions), as the VIX plunges at a record pace
- Zero Hedge, 15 August 2024
Cryptocurrencies decline in price as the government of the USA moved 10,000 seized bitcoins from the Silk Road dark web marketplace to a Coinbase wallet Wednesday, dropping $2000 from $61000 to $59000
- Coin Telegraph, 14 August 2024
45% of the supply of bitcon has not moved in 6 months. A healthy portion of Bitcoin hodlers refuse to let go of their coins no matter what BTC price action delivers.
- Coin Telegraph, 14 August 2024
AI may already use more power than bitcoin -- and it threatens bitcoin mining
- Coin Telegraph, 14 August 2024
Senator Chuck Schumer pledges pro-crypto laws if Kamala Harris is elected as the next president
- Coin Telegraph, 14 August 2024
Shares of bitcoin miner Marathon Digital Holdings drop 7% after it states that it will sell $250 million of convertible senior notes and use the proceeds to buy more bitcoin
- Bloomberg, 12 August 2024
Defunct cryptocurrency exchange Celsius has filed a lawsuit against Tether alleging misappropriation of assets and seeking approximately $3.5 billion in BTC returns, damages, and legal fees.
- CoinTelegraph, 10 August 2024
The "Strategic Bitcoin Reserve" is an absurd idea. It is understandable why bitcoin owners would want the USA government to socialistically bid up the price of their assets. That does not make it good policy.
- The Overshoot, 09 August 2024
Tether mints 1.3 billion USDT since market bottom. Can it push bitcoinl above $65,000? The newly minted stablecoins could help push bitcoin's price above the $65,000 resistance, which is the short-term whale holder realized price.
- CoinTelegraph, 09 August 2024
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The federal district court for the Southern District of New York entered a consent order against FTX Trading and Alameda Research, requiring them to pay $12.7 billion in monetary relief to cryptocurrency victims, resolving litigation filed by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The order requires the entities to pay $8.7 billion in restitution and $4 billion in disgorgement.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 09 August 2024
How bitcoin traders and miners got around the cryptocurrency ban in Zhōngguó. Investors in Zhōngguó are circumventing cryptocurrency bans with P2P trading, VPNs, apps and other innovative strategies.
- Coin Telegraph, 07 August 2024
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A federal judge imposed a $125 million fine on Ripple after finding last year that its institutional sales of XRP violated federal securities laws. The judge reiterated her view that Ripple's programmatic sales of XRP to retail clients through exchanges did not violate federal securities laws.
- CoinDesk, 07 August 2024
Supporters of bitcoin predict a new record high following the worst decline since the FTX collapse
- Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 05 August 2024
Bitcoin temporarily drops below $50,000 for the first time since February, after trading close to $70,000 one week ago. Cryptocurrency companies Coinbase and MicroStrategy were among the hardest-hit stocks. Ether erased its year-to-date gain.
- Comcast's CNBC, 05 August 2024
Morgan Stanley tells financial advisers they can pitch Bitcoin ETFs as cryptocurrency speculators bet big on Trump presidency
- Murdoch's New York Post, 02 August 2024
Most people in the USA have a negative view of crypto. So why are political campaigns rushing to embrace it?
- Los Angeles Times, 01 April 2024
More than 100 venture capitalists in Silicon Valley pledge to support Kamala Harris
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 01 August 2024
Competing factions of Democrats are pushing Kamala Harris to adopt their position on cryptocurrency policy, an issue that has taken on outsize political importance because of the industry's massive bribes spending on this elections in 2024.
- Politico, 01 August 2024
Ethereum ETFs versus Bitcoin ETFs: which one should you bet on? Ethereum witnessed four consecutive days of ETF outflows with Bitcoin ETFs experiencing positive netflows during the same period.
- AMB Crypto, 30 July 2024
Over 41.5% of Mt. Gox Bitcoin distributed as creditors continue to 'HODL'. Despite receiving over $4 billion worth of Bitcoin, which has appreciated by over 8,500% in the 10 years since Mt. Gox collapsed, the s creditors continue to hold onto their assets.
- CoinTelegraph, 30 July 2024
Bitcoin analysis warns BTC price liquidations will start below $64,000
- CoinTelegraph, 30 July 2024
Cryptocurrencies, as a political policy scam. The more that politicians talk about Bitcoin, the greater the chance they are frauds.
- Hamilton Nolan blog, 29 July 2024
Billionaire tech oligarchs and cryptocurrency giants want to buy Washington. They are bribing bankrolling Trump to make it happen.
- Rolling Stone, 27 July 2024
Kamala Harris scrambles the cryptocurrency politics of Trump. Trump has used Biden's cryptocurrency crackdown as a campaign attack. Democrats are now hopeful for a reset, given Kamala Harris' connections to Silicon Valley.
- Politico, 26 July 2024
Did Donald Trump save Bitcoin? BTC's rise to $67K excites investors. Events like the appearance of Trump at Bitcoin Conference 2024 are contributing to the optimism around BTC.
- AMB Crypto, 26 July 2024
Cryptocurrencies suffer alongside a rout in technology stock prices, with ether declining 6%
- Comcast's CNBC, 25 July 2024
Ferrari expands cryptocurrency payments to Europe after a successful launch in the USA
- Zero Hedge, 24 July 2024
Rossiya considers approving the use of cryptocurrencies for international payments to bypass Western sanctions
- The Street, 23 July 2024
The SEC approves Ethereum ETFs -- trading to start tomorrow
- Zero Hedge, 22 July 2024
Foreign currency outflows from Zhōngguó soar as Beijing dumps record a record volume of USA securities, priming the next bitcoin surge
- Zero Hedge, 21 July 2024
Ethereum ETFs are coming, but ETH derivatives markets are flat. Ethereum futures show little confidence in the chance of ETH breaking above $4,000 in the near term.
- Zero Hedge, 19 July 2024
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WazirX, a leading cryptocurrency exchange in Bharat, halted withdrawals Thursday after a security breach it called a "force majeure event" (i.e., Latin for 'incompetence') resulted in the loss of $230 million, nearly half its reserves. The Mumbai-based firm said one of its multisig wallets had suffered a security breach.
- TechCrunch, 18 July 2024
Bitcoin and ethereum lead the way as cryptocurrency market sees $1.44 billion surge
- AMB Crypto, 18 July 2024
Bitcoin cements 'legitimate' status as Wall Street struggles toward a new consensus
- Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 16 July 2024
Ethereum jumps above $3,400 on report that ETFs will start trading next week
- Zero Hedge, 15 July 2024
Bitcoin rises back above $62,000 as 'Trump trades' back in vogue after weekend attack. The weekend attack on pro-crypto presidential candidate Trump should galvanize bids for cryptocurrencies, one observer said.
- CoinDesk, 14 July 2024
As bitcoin dominance drops below 55%, is altcoin season here? The decline in Bitcoin dominance may give way to a shift in market dynamics. Will altcoins lead?
- AMB Crypto, 12 July 2024
The BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity (BUIDL) fund has reached a $500 million market cap, making it the first tokenized treasury fund to reach this milestone
- Zero Hedge, 12 July 2024
Four reasons for new tactics in investing in gold: traditional correlations are breaking down, Asia is dominating gold purchases, central banks are buying more gold, and the global debt bomb is worsening
- Von Greyerz Gold, 11 July 2024
Rebecca Chow, Head of Investment Research at ViaBTC Capital, argues that bitcoin could rise over $80,000 by the end of 2024 (but doesn't have the balls to say it "will" rise)
- Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 11 July 2024
Goldman Sachs is launching three ethereum tokenization project by the end of the year
- Zero Hedge, 10 July 2024
Bitcoin extends gains as US ETF inflows battle German government selling overhang. "Germany selling all their Bitcoin will go down as one of the most retarded things their politicians ever did."
- Zero Hedge, 10 July 2024
Peter Schiff says "smart money is selling" bitcoin in spot markets, and dumb money is buying it through ETFs: "They set up bitcoin ETF investors to be the bag holders".
- Benzinga, 09 July 2024
The price of bitcoin rebounds up, after ETF investors but the dip, with inflows of nearly $300 million into bitcoin ETFs
- Zero Hedge, 09 July 2024
"We are living in a nightmare". Inside the health crisis of a bitcoin town in Texas. A illness-inducing hum is emanating from a Bitcoin mining facility that had recently moved into the area -- and was exceeding legal noise ordinances on a daily basis.
- Marc Benioff's Time, 08 July 2024
Bitcoin continues to drop in price amid pressure of government selling (Germany) and Mt. Gox repayments (Nihon), now below $58,000
- Comcast's CNBC, 08 July 2024
The government of Deutschland owns about $2 billion in bitcoin, and it is freaking out cryptocurrency investors
- Comcast's CNBC, 08 July 2024
Spot bitcoin ETFs see record inflows after the plummeting pre-July-4th
- Zero Hedge, 06 July 2024
Over $170 billion wiped off cryptocurrencies in the last 24 hours, as the market plummets on fears of bitcoin reimbursements from Mr. Gox
- Comcast's CNBC, 05 July 2024
Shares of Coinbase (-5.0%), MicroStrategy (-5.74%), Robinhood (-2.88%), and other cryptocurrency stocks drop. Blame the bitcoin selloff.
- Barron's, 05 July 2024
Bitcoin falls to below $56,000. Why the cryptocurrency is set to tumble further.
- Barron's, 05 July 2024
Bitcoin traders predict bitcoin will drop to $50,000 as billions of dollars in bitcoin being sold pushes down the price
- Coindesk, 05 July 2024
As bitcoin plummets to $54,000, only five mining rigs remain profitable
- Coindesk, 05 July 2024
Bitcoin slumps below $54,000 as Mt. Gox reimburses $2.6 billion in bitcoin
- Coindesk, 05 July 2024
Cryptocurrency bulls rack up $580 million in liquidations as bitcoin drops 8%, ether, solana, dogecoin plunge
- Coindesk, 05 July 2024
Bitcoin at $60,000 - is this a pullback before a rise to $71,000? Bitcoin witnessed a price correction in the last 24 hours. A major reason behind this could be the rise in liquidation.
- AMB Crypto, 03 July 2024
Crytocurrency hacks and scams totaled over $500 million in Q2 of 2024
- Zero Hedge, 03 July 2024
History suggests bitcoin will likely hit a new all-time high this year, report from CCData predicts.
- Comcast's CNBC, 02 July 2024
History suggests a rebound in bitcoin prices in July as the German and USA government move $150 million in cryptocurrencies, cryptocurrencies they either own or have seized
- ZeroHedge, 01 July 2024
The IRS and the Treasury announce new cryptocurrency tax reporting rule for brokers. The new rules are part of an effort to boost tax compliance among high income individuals, said the IRS chief.
- Zero Hedge, 30 June 2024
The 'failed' breakout of ethereum - when will ETH's price rise above $3,500? Ethereum failed to break above a bullish falling wedge pattern on the charts.
- AMB Crypto, 30 June 2024
Cryptocurrencies to experience tighter tax rules starting in 2026. In a long-awaited step against tax evasion in cryptocurrency markets, the Treasury Department adopted a final rule requiring many cryptocurrency platforms to begin reporting the transactions of users to the Internal Revenue Service.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 29 June 2024
A super-PAC funded by the cryptocurrency industry is 33-2 in primary races, with $100 million available to influence House and Senate races
- Comcast's CNBC, 26 June 2024
Bitcoin is close to breaching a key support level that could trigger another 15% slide
- Business Insider, 24 June 2024
Bitcoin crashes below $61,000 overnight after now-defunct Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox said it would begin distributing assets stolen from clients in a 2014 hack starting in July
- Zero Hedge, 24 June 2024
Bearish trend hits XRP: liquidations rise as price drops below $0.5. XRP has been unable to rebound into a positive trend, and interest in it has started declining.
- AMB Crypto, 20 June 2024
How money from cryptocurrency companies is poised to influence the election. The political awakening of the industry -- and enormous pool of cash -- is already affecting high-profile races across the country
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 19 June 2024
Ethereum spikes after the SEC drops investigation
- Zero Hedge, 18 June 2024
Bitcoin fell with the broader cryptocurrency market on Tuesday amid concerns about the global economy and lower summer liquidity. The price of bitcoin was last lower by 3% at $64,680.44, according to Coin Metrics, dipping under $65,000 for the first time since May 16.
- Comcast's CNBC, 18 June 2024
Bitcoin, oil and Big Tech jump to start the week, despite bond yields rising and lower expectactions of pumping interest rate reductions
- Zero Hedge, 17 June 2024
In an inflationary recession, will bitcoin act like gold as an investment hedge?
- Zero Hedge, 17 June 2024
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In May 2022, investors in Terraform Labs lost $40 billion when its stablecoin system crashed. Terraform, and its founder, Do Kwon, have just agreed to pay a fine of $4.5 billion to the SEC.
- Zero Hedge, 17 June 2024
Bitcoin could hit $200,000 in 2025, and $1,000,000 within 10 years, Bernstein says as it initiates coverage of MicroStrategy. The broker assigned the software company an outperform rating and a $2,890 price target.
- Coindesk, 14 June 2024
Bitcoin plunges to $65,000, and altcoins decline 10% to 20% as week turns ugly. Some $180 million of leveraged derivatives positions were liquidated across all crypto assets during the shake-out, CoinGlass data shows.
- Coindesk, 14 June 2024
SEC Chairman Gensler estimates that the SEC will approve an Ethereum ETF by the "end of the summer"
- Zero Hedge, 13 June 2024
Cryptocurrencies fall as investors await Fed decision, bitcoin dips under $67,000
- Comcast's CNBC, 11 June 2024
After the last three halvings, the price of bitcoin rose. Now, we are at the beginning of the fourth halving.
- Zero Hedge, 11 June 2024
Bitcoin ETFs sucked up 2 months of BTC mining-supply in first week of June
- Zero Hedge, 10 June 2024
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New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed suit against two purported cryptocurrency companies (AWS Mining and NovaTechFX) and their top promoters - Cynthia and Eddy Petion, a married couple and Christian preachers, for allegedly operating two consecutive pyramid schemes that predominantly targeted Haitian immigrants to the USA.
- Zero Hedge, 06 June 2024
Robinhood Markets is buying crytocurrency exchange Bitstamp for about $200 million in cash as the company looks to speed up its cryptocurrency expansion globally
- Associated Press, 06 June 2024
Robinhood Markets is buying crytocurrency exchange Bitstamp for about $200 million in cash as the company looks to speed up its cryptocurrency expansion globally
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 06 June 2024
The central bank of Zimbabwe is ironing out wrinkles in new currency. The new currency, an outgrowth of the government's gold-backed token, is performing well economically but receiving mixed public reviews.
- Zero Hedge, 05 June 2024
Fidelity dominates bitcoin ETFs' second-biggest net inflow day ever, as cryptocurrencies soar
- Zero Hedge, 05 June 2024
Bond prices and bitcoin rise in price (but not stocks) as 'bad' news jolts interest rate reductions back to life
- Zero Hedge, 04 June 2024
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Dapper Labs, the company behind NBA Top Shot and other prominent on-chain collectibles, has settled a yearslong class action lawsuit with disgruntled customers who argued that Top Shot NFTs constituted illegally offered securities, court filings revealed Monday. Dapper Labs agrees to pay $4 million to settle the lawsuits.
- Associated Press, 03 June 2024
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MicroStrategy and its founder to pay $40 million in tax fraud lawsuit. Michael Saylor did not pay any income taxes to Washington despite living there from 2005 through 2020, the attorney general for the District of Columbia said.
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 03 June 2024
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DMM Bitcoin, an incompetently run cryptocurrency exchange in Nihon, confirmed on Friday that it had been the victim of a hack resulting in the theft of 4,502.9 bitcoin, or about $305 million
- TechCrunch, 31 May 2024
Beware the embrace of traditional financial firms now that they are fully embracing cryptocurrencies
- Medium, 31 May 2024
BlackRock surpasses Grayscale as the largest ETF for bitcoins in the world
- Zero Hedge, 28 May 2024
Wall Street traders are predicting that ethereum will rise to $14,000 in 2025
- Zero Hedge, 28 May 2024
A sudden lack of supply of shipping containers for ocean cargos is sending ocean freight costs soaring, setting off global trade alarm bells
- Comcast's CNBC, 23 May 2024
The SEC approves the creation of spot Ethereum ETFs, in a major victory for cryptocurrencies
- Comcast's CNBC, 23 May 2024
The SEC approves the creation of spot Ethereum ETFs, in a major victory for cryptocurrencies
- Zero Hedge, 23 May 2024
Discussions are underway at the SEC with regards to Ethereum ETFs, with S-1 approval expected within hours
- Zero Hedge, 23 May 2024
Despite cryptocurrency market swings, key indicators show early signs of a bull run. The cryptocurrency community is giving up on bulls, but they are relentless, and still coming.
- AMB Crypto, 20 May 2024
Cryptocurrencies soar on hopes for an Ethereum ETF as a politically downbeat Jamie Dimon sends gold to record high
- Zero Hedge, 20 May 2024
Venezuela bans cryptocurrency-mining to protect its electric power grid
- Zero Hedge, 20 May 2024
Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein steps down amid relentless ETF outflows. The simplest reason for the outflows is that while GBTC charges a 1.5% fee, all other bitcoin ETFs charge next to nothing.
- Zero Hedge, 20 May 2024
DTCC and Chainlink complete fund tokenization pilot with JPMorgan, Templeton and other financial giants participating
- Zero Hedge, 17 May 2024
Morgan Stanley discloses $270 million investment in the Grayscale Bitcoin ETF
- Zero Hedge, 16 May 2024
CME plans to launch a trading in spot bitcoin prices
- Zero Hedge, 16 May 2024
A soft CPI report and sloppy sales spark run to record highs for stocks, bonds, gold and bitcoin
- Zero Hedge, 15 May 2024
Stocks, bonds, gold and bitcoin soar in price as hopes for interest rate cuts rise on small CPI miss
- Zero Hedge, 15 May 2024
MIT students stole $25 million in seconds by exploiting a bug in the ETH blockchain. US Attorney Damian Williams said the scheme was so sophisticated that it "calls the very integrity of the blockchain into question."
- Condé Nast's Ars Technica, 15 May 2024
Why bitcoin hasn't joined the latest meme stock craze this week. Less free money and stronger economy than during the last bitcoin bubble.
- Comcast's CNBC, 15 May 2024
The state of Nebraska ends income taxes on gold and silver, and declares CBDCs (central bank digital coins) are not lawful money
- Zero Hedge, 12 May 2024
Bitcoin price may not retest this year's highs for another five months
- Zero Hedge, 10 May 2024
Binance pledged to thwart suspicious trading -- until it involved a Lamborghini-loving high roller. Former company insiders say the firing of an internal investigator showed that the cryptocurrency exchange neglected evidence of market manipulation.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 10 May 2024
Customers of FTX, the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, probably will recover all of the money that they lost in the collapse
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 09 May 2024
Cryptocurrency exchange FTX is the rare financial bankruptcy that will repay victims in full. The defunct cryptocurrency exchange said it will have more than enough money to fully repay its millions of swindled customers with interest.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 09 May 2024
What will central bank digital coins mean for gold?>
- Schiff Gold, 06 May 2024
After rising to 65,500, bitcoin plummets to 63,500, after Robinhood reveals it has been served with an investigative Wells Notice by the SEC related to its cryptocurrency listings
- Zero Hedge, 06 May 2024
The SEC prepares to sue Robinhood over its cryptocurrency unit. The agency could seek an order that would prevent the popular brokerage firm from trading certain crypto assets.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 06 May 2024
More than 90% of stablecoin transaction volumes are not coming from genuine users. Out of about US$2.2 trillion ($2.97 trillion) in total transactions in April, just US$149 billion originated organic payments activity.
- The Edge Singapore, 06 May 2024
Bitcoin ETFs see buying resurgence; 'Mr. 100' BTFD as Grayscale sees first inflow since January
- Zero Hedge, 04 May 2024
Fidelity, a major financial services firm, says pension funds are starting to explore investing in Bitcoin, particularly after the approval of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds earlier this year.
- Zero Hedge, 04 May 2024
Bitcoin ETFs suffer their worst day ever. We have had 6 days in a row of outflows from the US spot ETFs and, as importantly, we are now below the average ETF purchase price of around 58,000
- Zero Hedge, 02 May 2024
Bitcoin ETFs suffer their worst day ever. We have had 6 days in a row of outflows from the US spot ETFs and, as importantly, we are now below the average ETF purchase price of around 58,000
- Zero Hedge, 02 May 2024
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The USA Justice Department charges Roger Ver with tax fraud. The early cryptocurrency investor, often called 'Bitcoin Jesus' faces extradition to the USA after being charged with evading nearly $50 million in taxes.
- Zero Hedge, 30 April 2024
Disappointing volume for the launch of cryptocurrency ETFS in Hong Kong, though issuers unfazed by the SEC's 'ETH-security' debacle
- Zero Hedge, 30 April 2024
Bitcoin's bull run may be over and the next move could see it drop nearly 50%, says a market vet who predicted the token's 2018 crash
- Business Insider, 30 April 2024
Venezuela's use of digital currencies, expected to increase after the USA ordered a wind-down of oil deals with the sanctioned country by May 31, will require greater scrutiny by regulators and law enforcement, experts said on Monday.
- Thomson's Reuters, 29 April 2024
Stablecoin volumes are tracking a record $15 trillion on Ethereum alone
- Zero Hedge, 28 April 2024
The SEC is expected to deny in May the approval of spot Ether ETFs, wile Consensys sues over 'security' status. "This would bring use of the Ethereum blockchain in the US to a halt, crippling a great innovation."
- Zero Hedge, 25 April 2024
Cryptocurrencies and gold are two completely separate tools for completely separate purposes. There is no sense in debating cryptocurrencies versus gold. To me the answer is invest in both.
- Schiff Sovereign, 24 April 2024
The bitcoin-hating European Central Bank is not doing much to stop scammers. The European Central Bank is too busy attacking Bitcoin to worry about the myriad of real scams perpetrated by con artists in the industry.
- Coin Telegraph, 24 April 2024
Hong Kong bitcoin and ether ETFs officially approved to start trading on April 30
- Zero Hedge, 24 April 2024
Jack Dorsey's Block announces development of 'full bitcoin mining system'
- Zero Hedge, 24 April 2024
Venezuela's state-run oil company PDVSA plans to increase digital currency usage in its crude and fuel exports as the USA reimposes oil sanctions on the country
- Thomson's Reuters, 23 April 2024
Blackrock bitcoin ETF enters top 10 all-time for longest sequential inflows
- Zero Hedge, 23 April 2024
Solana memecoin POPCAT rises 25% in 24 hours
- AMB Crypto, 23 April 2024
The inevitable corruption of bitcoin. The story of bitcoin follows the same trajectory, a seemingly immaculate conception turned toward a different purpose, and serving again as a reminder that on this side of heaven, there will never be an institution or idea immune to compromise and corruption.
- Brownstone Institute, 19 April 2024
For years, the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust was one of the few ways to bet on bitcoin without buying the cryptocurrency itself. Now, with the sector awash in lower-cost competing funds, investors are fleeing the exchange-traded fund. The asset manager has resisted a significant fee cut, betting that rising bitcoin prices will continue to buoy its fortunes.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 19 April 2024
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Police in Hong Kong have arrested more than 70 people in connection with the HK$1.6 billion (about US $200 million) JPEX cryptocurrency scandal and frozen nearly HK$230 million (US$29.37 million) in assets so far.
- Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 18 April 2024
The bitcoin-halving crash-course -- what is it and why it matters
- Zero Hedge, 17 April 2024
How the gold ETF, GLD, laid the groundwork for the success of the bitcoin ETFS, both for the same reason - being able to handle billions in institutional investments
- Risk Hedge, 15 April 2024
Hong Kong regulators approve launch of spot bitcoin and ether ETFs
- Comcast's CNBC, 15 April 2024
Bitcoin was left for dead. Why Wall Street is bringing it back to life. An asset class left for dead is reinventing itself on Wall Street in part because there is money to be made.
- Barron's, 13 April 2024
"Zhōngguó is about to stat bidding on bitcoin" - will the approval of bitcoin ETFs in Hong Kong spark the halving rally? Mega whales with over 10,000 BTC are accumulating ahead of Hong Kong's approval of the first spot Bitcoin ETFs that could happen next week.
- CoinTelegraph, 12 April 2024
What the central bank of Zhōngguó, and Costco shoppers have in common. Hint: it is not a fondness for cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin.
- Economist, 11 April 2024
The legal system is closing in on cryptocurrencies with regulations, and things may only get worse
- Los Angeles Times, 10 April 2024
Do Kwon lost to the SEC. The USA is piling up other cryptocurrency wins, too. Courts are mostly siding with regulators who say crypto should follow the investor-protection laws of the USA. This recent decision was the latest in a series of federal court wins bolstering regulator's efforts to force the freewheeling industry to comply with the same laws that govern the stock and bond markets.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 08 April 2024
Bitcoin struggles (with dogecoin dropping 15% in a week) as gold and silver shine: is the reign of bitcoin over?
- AMB Crypto, 06 April 2024
The cryptocurrency dreams of Dubai start with new regulations. The Persian Gulf's financial nexus has formed a new regulatory body to police crypto. The city wants to make a fresh start with crypto, with uses beyond just speculation.
- Barron's, 06 April 2024
Hard to call the Russell 2000 index an index for small capitalization stocks, when two of its stocks, Super Micro Computer (AI) and Microstrategy (bitcoin) -- have a total valuation of $84 billion
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 05 April 2024
The futures market for bitcoin is signaling a 'prime buying' opportunity soon. Record-long positive Bitcoin futures funding rates signal "strong bullish sentiment" which can often precede price corrections.
- CoinTelegraph, 04 April 2024
Bitcoin versus gold: the debate continues
- Mises Institute, 03 April 2024
What meltdown? Cryptocurrencies come roaring back in the Philippines. Two years after the cryptocurrency market crashed, internet cafes for playing crypto-earning video games are opening and farmers have started harvesting virtual crops from the games for income.
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 02 April 2024
Inside the shadow trade in Rossiya for weapons parts, fueled by cryptocurrencies. How middlemen in Rossiya used the cryptocurrency tether to avoid sanctions imposed by the USA, and procure parts for drones and high-tech weapons.
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 02 April 2024
Tether adds 8,888 BTC worth $600 million to bitcoin tresury
- Zero Hedge, 01 April 2024
Bitcoin ETF assets are now nearly half those in gold ETFs
- Barron's, 30 March 2024
Trump Media is not a meme stock that might have future cash flows. It is a cryptocurrency for people gambling on Trump's reputation and racism.
- Morningstar, 28 March 2024
The founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, is sentenced to 25 years in prison
- Zero Hedge, 28 March 2024
The CEO of BlackRock is "very bullish" on bitcoin as its ETF crosses $17 billion
- Zero Hedge, 28 March 2024
The cryptocurrency world has a new villain. Billionaire Barry Silbert is accused of defrauding thousands of people. Should he get to keep their money anyway? On 18 January 2023, a special committee put Genesis, Silbert's cryptocurrency company, put the company into bankruptcy.
- New York Magazine, 27 March 2024
Comparing gold and bitcoin in 10 diffferent ways: bitcoin wins 6-4
- International Man, 27 March 2024
Bitcoin pricces decline aboput 4% after a judge rules that the SEC's lawsuit against Coinbase can proceed, a decline even as inflows into bitcoin ETFs rise
- Comcast's CNBC, 27 March 2024
The Securities and Exchange Commission scored a major win in its lawsuit against Coinbase on Wednesday, as a judge ruled that its claim that the cryptocurrency exchange engaged in unregistered sales of securities could be heard by a jury at trial.
- Comcast's CNBC, 27 March 2024
Global bank messaging network SWIFT is planning a new platform in the next one to two years to connect the wave of central bank digital currencies now in development to the existing finance system.
- Thomson's Reuters, 26 March 2024
An environmental community group, Save Carbon Country, on Tuesday sued Stronghold Digital Mining (and the state of Pennsylvania), claiming the company's bitcoin mine in northeastern Pennsylvania that burns waste coal and old tires for energy is polluting nearby communities with dangerous chemicals.
- Thomson's Reuters, 26 March 2024
BlackRock says bitcoin returns likely to come down now that it has been embraced by Wall Street
- Comcast's CNBC, 26 March 2024
Bitcoin erupts higher in price after an epic futures short squeeze
- Zero Hedge, 25 March 2024
Blackrock says that bitcoin will be a good portfolio diversifier despite its recent rally with stocks
- Comcast's CNBC, 25 March 2024
Demand for bitcoin in Argentina surges to two year highs
- Zero Hedge, 23 March 2024
Bitcoin drops 8% in a week as volatility spikes to near one-year high
- Zero Hedge, 22 March 2024
Ethereum dumps'n'pumps after 'leak' about a "SEC campaign to classify as a security"
- Zero Hedge, 20 March 2024
BlackRock seeds ethereum-backed digital liquidity fund with $100 million
- Zero Hedge, 19 March 2024
One bank sees bitcoin at $200,000, while ether hits $14,000 as it becomes JPMorgan's favorite cryptocurrency
- Zero Hedge, 19 March 2024
Bitcoin briefly slumps below $63,000 after topping a record $73,000 (a 1% drop) last week
- Comcast's CNBC, 19 March 2024
Grayscale CEO says its higher-than-average fees (1.%) on its bitcoin ETF will drop over time after outflows hit $12 billion since it became an ETF in January.
- Comcast's CNBC, 19 March 2024
The 4th bitcoin halving explained. Sometime in April 2024, the reward that cryptocurrency miners receive for mining bitcoin (BTC) will go from $6.25 tpo $3.125.
- Zero Hedge, 18 March 2024
Big Tech and oil surge in price, as bond pricesand bitcoin decline in price, all ahead of the next Fed meeting
- Zero Hedge, 18 March 2024
Shares of Microstraegy (a big bitcoin gambler) dropped 15% today, after bitcoin dropped 2% over the weekend to near $67,000, though the shares are still up 138% for the year
- FX Street, 18 March 2024
Democrats in Congress demand that the SEC block all future crypto ETFs and pressure brokers, due to "enormous risks"
- Zero Hedge, 15 March 2024
More fun at the bitcoin casino: bitcoin shows its volatility once again, tumbling back to $67,000 in overnight decline for no apparent reason, a decline of about 7%
- Comcast's CNBC, 15 March 2024
Hot new bitcoin funds are still waiting for buy-in from financial advisers. Individual investors, who are shifting their bitcoin holdings from more expensive crypto products, appear to be driving the ETF demand.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 14 March 2024
Bitcoin faces a "sell-side liquidity crisis" by September if institutional inflows continue, an industry analyst says. A new phenomenon could arise where there will not be enough BTC available to meet demand.
- Zero Hedge, 14 March 2024
Bitcoin tops $73,000 after a record-breaking inflow of money into bitcoin ETFs
- Zero Hedge, 13 March 2024
Over the last few years, digital currencies and gold have become decent barometers of speculative investor appetite. Such is not surprising given the evolution of the market into a 'casino' following the Covid pandemic.
- Zero Hedge, 12 March 2024
Bitcoin surges past silver as world's 8th largest asset after the UK greenlights crypto-backed notes
- Zero Hedge, 11 March 2024
How bitcoin made a believer out of BlackRock. Chief Executive Larry Fink's U-turn illustrates Wall Street's growing desire to capitalize on a market that has long been considered the Wild West of finance.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 11 March 2024
A cryptocurrency super PAC is investing money to influence Senate campaigns in Ohio and Montana. The group invested millions of dollars in the Democratic Senate primary in California and is looking to influence other races in the general election.
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 09 March 2024
What is bitcoin worth? Five ways to valuable the cryptocurrency.
- Barron's, 09 March 2024
Shares of Nvidia plummet 13% in the morning, after bitcoin is dumped-and-pumped
- Zero Hedge, 08 March 2024
Why Africa is the next region to waste cheap electricity on cryptocurrency mining
- Economist, 07 March 2024
The dollar declines the most in three months, as gold and bitcoin hit new record highs
- Zero Hedge, 07 March 2024
Bitcoin surpasses its all-time high of $69,000, briefly topping the market capitalization of silver
- Zero Hedge, 05 March 2024
Bitcoin and gold and inflation expectations soar as financial markets lose faith in the 'inflation fighting' Federal Reserve
- Zero Hedge, 04 March 2024
A mystery 'whale' has quietly accumulated over $3 billion in bitcoin in 15 months
- Zero Hedge, 03 March 2024
Are the 'gamma aqueezes' that sent up the Mag& stocks about to send up the bicoin ETFs?
- Zero Hedge, 02 March 2024
Bank of America, Wells Fargo offer spot bitcoin ETFs to clients. The move by these banks reflects the growing interest among investors in gaining exposure to bitcoin.
- Zero Hedge, 29 February 2024
After bitcoin plummets 8% this morning, some Coinbase accounts are glitched into a $0 blanace
- Zero Hedge, 28 February 2024
Bitcoin breaches $60,000; hits record high in a dozen other currencies
- Zero Hedge, 28 February 2024
Bitcoin tops $57,000 as ETF inflows soar, ethereum bigger than ASML and Samsung
- Zero Hedge, 27 February 2024
Nigeria blocks access to Coinbase, Binance and Kraken as the country's currency, the naira, falls to record lows
- Zero Hedge, 26 February 2024
Crypto rips, Mag7 dips, as super-short-squeeze sends small-caps soaring
- Zero Hedge, 26 February 2024
Bitcoin resumes its rally, ripping through $54,000 for the first time since December 2021
- Comcast's CNBC, 26 February 2024
Shares of Altice rise 35% on report that Charter Communications is considering to buy the broadband company
- Comcast's CNBC, 26 February 2024
Ethereum outperforms as bitcoin soars. Goldman Sachs notes that ETFs are dominating flows as liquidity improves.
- Zero Hedge, 20 February 2024
Investors push up the prices of bitcoin and oil as stagflation in the USA wrecks a 52-year-old equity streak
- Zero Hedge, 16 February 2024
Bitcoin tops $1 trillion as gold ETFs dumped in favor of cryptocurrencies
- Zero Hedge, 14 February 2024
Franklin Templeton has applied for a spot Ethereum exchange-traded fund, a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission shows
- Zero Hedge, 13 February 2024
Bitcoin soars above $50,000 for the first time since December 2021, after surge in ETF inflows. "Bitcoin appears set to resume its march up after the Grayscale outflows finally tapered off."
- Zero Hedge, 12 February 2024
Miners of bitcoin banned in Zhōngguó move their operations near to the largest dam in Africa, located in Ethiopa
- Zero Hedge, 10 February 2024
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Friday expanded her lawsuit against Digital Currency Group and other cryptocurrency defendants, tripling the size of their alleged fraud scheme to more than $3 billion. James in October sued Digital Currency, its Genesis Global Capital unit, and Gemini Capital, the exchange run by twin brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, originally for causing more than $1 billion in losses.
- Murdoch's New York Post, 09 February 2024
Bitcoin soars to post-ETF-launch highs as net inflows explode. Bitcoin appears set to resume its march up after the Grayscale outflows finally tapered off."
- Zero Hedge, 09 February 2024
Bitcoin surges over $45,000 as rising inflows into ETFs confirm an accelerating interest by investors
- Zero Hedge, 08 February 2024
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Shan Hanes, the former CEO of Heartland Tri-State Bank in Kansas, is charged with stealing $47 million to buy cryptocurrencies
- Bloomberg, 07 February 2024
New problems with a regional bank spark a bid for bonds, gold and bitcoin
- Zero Hedge, 06 February 2024
Standard Chartered sees ether hitting $4,000 by May, when ethereum ETF is approved
- Zero Hedge, 05 February 2024
Cryptocurrency mining company loses bid to force British Columbia Hydro to provide power. British Columbia says cryptocurrency mining consumes "massive amounts of electricity" by running high-powered computers around the clock.
- Vancouver Sun, 05 February 2024
Bonds, bullion, banks, and bitcoin battered as "good news is bad news" again after Powell says that interest rates will not be reduced soon
- Zero Hedge, 05 February 2024
Anxiety, mood swings and sleepless nights: life near a noisy bitcoin mining facility. Pushed by an advocacy group, Arkansas became the first state to shield noisy cryptocurrency operators from unhappy neighbors. A furious backlash has some lawmakers considering a statewide ban.
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 05 February 2024
Over 2% of the electricity in the USA is wasted on bitcoin mining
- USA Energy Information Administration, 01 February 2024
Cryptocurrency funds have arrived, but who needs them? According to one analyst: "Bitcoin is still in the price discovery stage. We are still trying to figure out what it might be worth."
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 28 January 2024
The decline in bitcoin has been driven by the bankrupt FTX estate, which has been aggressively building up cash - and selling and shorting bitcoin into every market meltup - to "hedge" and maximize recoveries for stakeholders.
- Zero Hedge, 27 January 2024
Grayscale led the fight for bitcoin ETFs. Now its fund is bleeding billions. The cryptocurrency giant's $23 billion fund has the most to lose.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 24 January 2024
Cryptocurrencies continue to decline in price as the dollar spikes, yield curve steepens with 'soft' data slumping
- Zero Hedge, 23 January 2024
Bitcoin drops below $39,000, down in a few weeks from $49,000 when the SEC approved bitcoin ETFs
- Zero Hedge, 23 January 2024
Gold-backed cryptocurrencies: the next level of protection from capital controls
- DollarCollapse.com, 22 January 2024
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A Christian pastor for an online church, based in Colorado, is accused of pocketing $1.3 million through a cryptocurrency fraud scheme told followers in a video statement that the Lord told him to do it.
- Zero Hedge, 22 January 2024
Laundromats and VPNs: how cryptocurrency traders in Zhōngguó are evading the rules. The secretive methods being used in Zhōngguó show how difficult it will be for regulators across the world, including in the USA, to police the sector.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 19 January 2024
Trump vows to "never allow" a central bank digital currency (unless there is a cut of profit for the Trump organization?)
- Zero Hedge, 18 January 2024
The bitcoin halving (the reduction of the Bitcoin supply subsidy from 6.25 BTC every block to 3.125 BTC per block): why this time could be different. The fourth Bitcoin halving is approaching, and this one has the potential to be a very different experience from prior halvings.
- Bitcoin Magazine, 16 January 2024
ETFs make the problems of bitcoin even worse. Bitcoin ETFs are likely to exacerbate its bad performance in crises by bringing in even more speculators to what is already mostly a speculative asset.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 16 January 2024
The last man standing in cryptocurrencies. Brian Armstrong has continued expanding Coinbase Global despite the industry slowdown and a long string of unprofitable quarters.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 16 January 2024
Bitcoin ETFs mark a milestone for cryptocurrencies. Now the real test begins. The industry's big win, obtaining bitcoin ETF approval, could bring a flood of new money to Bitcoin, but it still faces hurdles to going mainstream.
- Murdoch's Barron's, 13 January 2024
A 'hot' inflation report dampens hopes of interest rate reductions by the Fed, sending up the prices of cryptocurrencies and the yields of Treasury Bonds
- Zero Hedge, 11 January 2024
Bitcoin rallies to $49,000 after SEC greenlights launch of bitcoin ETFs in the USA
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 11 January 2024
The Securities and Exchange Commission authorized 11 applications to offer exchange-traded funds tied to Bitcoin
- Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 11 January 2024
The SEC approves bitcoin ETFs for everyday investors. The exchange-traded funds will allow investors to buy bitcoin as easily as stocks or mutual funds.
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 11 January 2024
Why one bank predicts that bitcoin will hit $200,000 after ETF approval
- Zero Hedge, 10 January 2024
Apple has pulled apps of at least nine cryptocurrency exchanges, including Binance and Kraken, from its App Store in Bharat, less than two weeks after most of these global firms were flagged for operating "illegally" in Bharat.
- TechCrunch, 09 January 2024
Bitcoin and Big-Tech burst higher amid bloodbath in Boeing and black gold (oil)
- Zero Hedge, 08 January 2024
Prices of bitcoin dropped 6% at the open of markets, giving back all of its gains from yesterday
- Comcast's CNBC, 03 January 2024
Prices of bitcoin dropped 6% at the open of markets, giving back all of its gains from yesterday
- Comcast's CNBC, 03 January 2024