Financial News on Bitcoin/Crypocurrencies

Welcome to the 'Wild West" of cryptocurrencies. A huge casino in the virtual sky, for those funds you want to gamble with. The fungible asset that led to the quickest onset of new financial crimes and bribes. If you are using crypto in a mostly trustworthy environment, you are probably doing some crime. And its fantasy origin in de-centralization has been destroyed. Wikipedia: Bitcoin, KukaXoco: BTC-USD stock chart, Crypto stock charts

• Bitcoin trails stocks by most since 2019 as traders get their kicks elsewhere. In the last year, bitcoin is down about 35% while the Nasdaq-100 is up about 35%, the widest gap since March 2019. In the last year, the gap with gold is 65%.
  - Versant's CNBC, 03 June 2026

• Bitcoin falls below $70,000, hitting the lowest level since April
  - Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 02 June 2026

• Shares of bitcoin juggernaut Strategy drop 6% as it sells coins for the first time since 2022
  - Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 01 June 2026

• Shares of bitcoin juggernaut Strategy drop 6% as it sells coins for the first time since 2022
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 01 June 2026

• Michael Saylor teases a buy of bitcoin after his (Micro)Strategy sells for the first time since 2022
  - Zero Hedge, 01 June 2026

• The popularity of stablecoins could soon fade, replaced by tokenised deposits, or digital versions of traditional bank deposits, Bank of England policymaker Megan Greene said on Sunday, even as some colleagues took a different view.
  - Reuters (@ YF) 31 May 2026

• Cryptocurrencies and AI could be dirty words on the 2026 campaign trail for the midterm elections. Voter attitudes toward the AI and cryptocurrency industries are not favorable in the USA, and a spotlight on how much they are spending could further alienate them ahead of the 2026 midterms.
  - Zero Hedge, 30 May 2026

• Bitcoin ETFs lose $2.8 billion in assets in a record 9-day outflow streak
  - Zero Hedge, 29 May 2026

• The CEO of JPMorgan, Jamie Dimon, insults the CEO of Coinbase, Brain Armstrong, for his lobbying efforts for cryptocurrency and stablecoins [he wants stablecoins that can offer interest]: "[Armstrong] is full of shit." "If he wants to be a bank - be a bank."
  - Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 29 May 2026

• The CEO of JPMorgan, Jamie Dimon, insults the CEO of Coinbase, Brain Armstrong, for his lobbying efforts for cryptocurrency and stablecoins [he wants stablecoins that can offer interest]: "[Armstrong] is full of shit." "If he wants to be a bank - be a bank."
  - Zero Hedge, 29 May 2026

• Bitcoin is down more than 40% since its apex in early October 2025, leaving investors in pain precisely as many other global assets and markets are surging. As a result of this disconnect, crypto investors are tossing around three arguments why Bitcoin might be finished -- and for real this time. Three reasons maybe why. But for now, bitcoin isn't dead, but it is in a funk that has cut deeper than most advocates expected.
  - Motley Fool (@ YF), 29 May 2026

• Mark Cuban dumped most of his Bitcoin, saying it "lost the plot". Experts say he panic-sold at the worst possible time.
  - Moneywise (@ YF), 28 May 2026

• $8,000,000,000 - The FBI says it has seized a record-setting $8 billion in cryptocurrency and arrested hundreds of suspects as part of an intercontinental crackdown on "scam compounds" and organized crime, including one group known as the "Democratic Karen Benevolent Army".
  - Murdoch's Fox News, 28 May 2026

• Zhōngguó's crackdown on online foreign trades will increase capital flight
  - Zero Hedge, 27 May 2026

• At last minute, the SEC suddenly delays plan to allow cryptocurrency versions of USA stocks
  - Zero Hedge, 25 May 2026

• 70% of all cryptocurrency 'wrench attacks' happen in France. Centralized data collection is a honeypot for hackers and organized criminals looking to target cryptocurrency holders and their families.
  - Zero Hedge, 25 May 2026

• The CEO of Schwab says his company will attract new customers with wealth building, instead of [addictive] meme coins and gambling
  - Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 25 May 2026

• Stablecoins are private money. That is why they are a risk to the economy.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 25 May 2026

• The 2022 bitcoin price pattern is back - and the second drop was worse than the first. Bitcoin's current price action mirrors the 2022 bear flag pattern that preceded a deeper 62% capitulation, and a breakdown below the 200-day moving average could push Bitcoin to $40K or lower.
  - 24/7 Wall Street (@ YF), 24 May 2026

• How online prediction markets /[casinos] and cryptocurrency companies steamrolled a watchdog agency, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission [which regulates investing/[gambling] in the markets). In the past 16 months of the Trump administration, the commission has shrunk its work force, purged career officials, sharply curtailed crypto enforcement and helped out prediction markets at virtually every turn, The Times found. The gutting of the agency is particularly notable because of the Trump families' deep ties to the crypto and prediction industries. The Trumps have sold their own digital currencies, generating enormous wealth for the family, while striking deals with prediction market operators as well. [KM: the rich get richer, and bribes grease the wheels]
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 24 May 2026

• "One Trade To Rule Them All": Hedge funds are panic-buying semis, South Korea flows have gone vertical, NVDA is humiliating Bitcoin, and the rest of the stock market has officially been demoted to the status of Non-Player Characters
  - Zero Hedge (locked), 23 May 2026

• $2,000,000,000+ - Iran moved billions of dollars through Binance to fund its regime. Transactions on the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange occurred despite repeated red flags.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 22 May 2026

• $700,000,000+ - Bitcoin Dept's bitcoin ATMs were supposed to be the future of finance. They went bankrupt a decade later, as BTM files for bankruptcy, and as the company's shares have declined 99% since its 2022 IPO - a loss of shareholder value of over $700 million (IPO around $70 times 11 million shares outstanding).
  - Barchart.com (@ YF), 22 May 2026

• $200,000,000+ - A newly unsealed court filing in the Terraform Labs bankruptcy case alleges Jane Street used a private Telegram channel with former Terraform intern Bryce Pratt to obtain nonpublic information before the collapse of TerraUSD. Pratt is currently a systems developer at Jane Street. "Its abuse of material non-public information from [an insider] allowed Jane Street to unwind hundreds of millions of dollars in potential exposure at precisely the right time, mere hours before the Terraform ecosystems collapsed. ..."
  - CoinTelegraph, 21 May 2026

• $1,000,000,000+ - A jury in the Southern District of Florida convicted Brett Blackman, 42, of Johnson County, Kansas, on multiple conspiracy charges related to a sprawling scheme that bilked Medicare and other federal programs out of more than $1 billion through his blockchain-based company, HealthSplash.
  - Zero Hedge, 19 May 2026

• Bitcoin Depot, a massive cryptocurrency ATM comapny, is shutting down as the whole industry is collapsing. The company has filed for bankruptcy amid legal scrutiny over allegations its ATMs were used to facilitate fraud.
  - Gizmodo, 18 May 2026

• Iran launches a cryptocurrency-based "Hormuz Safe" insurance platform for ships crossing the Strait of Hormuz
  - Zero Hedge, 17 May 2026

• The cryptocurrency industry scores a preliminary win as the 'Clarity Act' regulation proposed law clears one hurdle in the Senate. The measure is opposed by banks, unions and law enforcement agencies that say various provisions would hurt consumers and endanger financial systems.
  - Versant's CNBC, 14 May 2026

• With many cryptocurrency supporters losing interest in bitcoin, some are getting behind Zcash, a privacy token that lets users shield transaction details and remain anonymous [KM: a better tool for crime than bitcoin]
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 14 May 2026

• Four financial journalists are accused of being fake AI generated puppets that shill/tout cryptocurrencies in Forbes, HuffPost and more. And each of them, tellingly, bear striking connections to a publicity firm called MarketAcross, which on its website describes itself as offering "PR for the world's leading blockchain companies."
  - Futurism, 13 May 2026

• Wall Street market maker Jane Street reduced its exposure to Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the first quarter of 2026 while increasing positions in Ether funds.
  - CoinTelegraph, 13 May 2026

• Four signs that bitcoin has recovered to 'full' bullish momentum. Expanding Bitcoin price momentum, recovering liquidity and surging network activity all point to continued bullish control.
  - CoinTelegraph, 12 May 2026

• Five of the largest labor organizations in the USA are urging the Senate to vote against a pending cryptocurrency market structure bill (joining the banking industry in opposition), warning that the legislation would expose retirement accounts to digital asset volatility ahead of a key committee vote Thursday.
  - Bitcoin Magazine, 12 May 2026

• Triggering a bloodbath in tokenized markets, Anthropic warned investors that any unapproved sale or transfer of its private shares, including those packaged through tokenized products, is void and will not be recognized on the company's books, escalating tensions over how restricted pre-IPO equity can be repackaged for retail traders.
  - Zero Hedge, 12 May 2026

• Bankers in the USA attempt last ditch effort to kill cryptocurrency market structure bill regarding stablecoins and their ability to offer rewards/interest
  - Zero Hedge, 11 May 2026

• $500,000,000 - After a senior official in the United Arab Emirates invests/bribes $500 million in a Trump family cryptocurrency venture, three months later, the Emirates obtain permission to import advanced AI processor chips from the USA. jeopardizing/betraying USA national security. [KM: the rich must get richer - fuck national security]
  - Center for American Progress, 08 May 2026

• $101,000,000 - Estimated losses from global crypto wrench attacks reached $101 million in the first four months of 2026, with most attacks occurring in Europe, according to Web3 security company CertiK.
  - CoinTelegraph, 08 May 2026

• Coinbase posts steep first-quarter loss after slide in cryptocurrency prices, shares fall 4%. Declines in cryptocurrency prices weighed on Coinbase's major revenue driver: spot trading in digital assets.
  - Versant's CNBC, 07 May 2026

• AI tools are causing a tidal wave of people being fired at cryptocurrency companies
  - Zero Hedge, 07 May 2026

• How startup Propy is deploying $100 million to put real estate deals on the blockchain
  - CNBC (locked), 07 May 2026

• [VIDEO]: will cryptocurrencies bring the whole economy down? [KM: well, the right CryptoBros will have their riches]. One comment: "People were so disappointed by the standard banking system and the USA government in 2008 and the aftermath of the Great Recession / realestate bubble crash, that they created their own system, but worse.
  - Robert Reich - The Coffee Klatch, 06 May 2026

• Morgan Stanley launches a lower-cost cryptocurrency trading unit, charging 50bps in a pilot that undercuts rivals such as Coinbase, Robinhood and Charles Schwab.
  - Zero Hedge, 06 May 2026

• Gold advocate Peter Schiff calls (micro)Strategy's preferred stock a "most obvious" Ponzi scheme because the company is "open" about it
  - Bering Capital's Benzinga, 05 May 2026

• Bank groups says that the Senate proposal for allowing stablecoins to offer rewards "which are not interest" "falls short" of protection for banks, since it still has a loophole for allowing stablecoins to pay interest.
  - Zero Hedge, 05 May 2026

• Bank groups says that the Senate proposal for allowing stablecoins to offer rewards "which are not interest" "falls short" of protection for banks, since it still has a loophole for allowing stablecoins to pay interest.
  - Bloomberg (@ YF), 05 May 2026

• The [extremely rich] CEO of Coinbase fires 14% of its paid-human workers, as [non-paid] AI agents take over, accelerating the white-collar job apocalypse
  - Zero Hedge, 05 May 2026

• Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase to fire about 14% of the paid-humans working for the company, in a shift/restructuring to using more non-paid AI
  - Thomson's Reuters, 05 May 2026

• Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase to fire about 14% of the paid-humans working for the company, in a shift/restructuring to using more non-paid AI
  - Versant's CNBC, 05 May 2026

• Bullish said on Tuesday it will buy transfer agent Equiniti in a deal valued at $4.2 billion, as the cryptocurrency exchange looks to establish infrastructure to bridge blockchain technology with traditional capital markets. Shares of the Peter Thiel-backed exchange fell about 6% in premarket trading.
  - Versant's CNBC, 05 May 2026

• The US CLARITY Act, which aims to provide the US crypto industry with more regulatory clarity, could now move closer to becoming law after new stablecoin yield provisions were published, according to Coinbase chief legal officer Faryar Shirzad.
  - CoinTelegraph, 02 May 2026

• Tether reports a $1.04 billion profit in Q1 as its Treasury Bond holdings top $140 billion
  - Zero Hedge, 02 May 2026

• $500,000,000 - Eric Trump's American Bitcoin (ABTC) has profited him $90 million, but investors argue that it was a "money-printing machine" that caused them to lose $500 million as ABTC lost 92% of its value after going public.
  - Moneywise, 29 April 2026

• The Trump family cryptocurrency's stablecoin runs on the AB blockchain, where a planned East Timor resort was led by two men sanctioned for alleged ties to a USA-designated crime group.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 29 April 2026

• Startup Blockworks wants to become the cryptocurrency equivalent of Morningstar. How it plans to do it.
  - Versant's CNBC, 29 April 2026

• The day that the memecoin dies. It won't be much longer. And they will all be vaporized at once - because they are even more useless than cryptocurrencies.
  - QTR's Fringe Finance, 29 April 2026

• Gold advocate Peter Schiff warns of a 'death spiral' in MicroStrategy's bitcoin strategy
  - BeInCrypto (@ YF), 26 April 2026

• $344,000,000 - Tether freezes $344 million worth of USDT stablecoins flagged for illicit activity
  - Zero Hedge, 23 April 2026

• $400,000 - A USA special forces soldier is arrested after allegedly winning $400,000 on Maduro raid on Polymarket, and then sent the profits to a foreign cryptocurrency vault
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 23 April 2026

• Coinbase and Gemini accused of illegal gambling in lawsuits filed by New York State. Attorney General Letitia James said the cryptocurrency giants were illegally running gambling platforms in the state after they expanded into prediction markets, which are loosely regulated.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 23 April 2026

• Hong Kong's stablecoin roll-out puts banks at the center of digital money
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 23 April 2026

• Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent presses the Senate to pass [bought] legislation that would allow stablecoin companies to offer interest/rewards being bank-link without bank regulation
  - Zero Hedge, 22 April 2026

• [VIDEO]: Why cryptocurrencies are worse than a grift, for which the main use case is to commit crimes
  - Hasan Minhaj, 22 April 2026

• Gold advocate Peter Schiff calls Strategy's STRC (a perpetual preferred stock) an "obvious Ponzi scheme", and strongly criticizes the SEC oversight for failing to stop the promotion
  - CoinGape (@ YF), 22 April 2026

• Coinbase now lets users in the United Kingdom borrow against their cryptocurrency holdings. Users in the UK can pledge cryptocurrency as collateral to access USDC liquidity without liquidating their digital assets.
  - Zero Hedge, 22 April 2026

• $276,000,000 - A cryptocurrency billionaire has just sued the Trump family's World Liberty of "criminal extortion". Justin Sun said he lost out on $276 million when the Trump-backed company blocked him from cashing out an early investment, for Sun's refusal to invest more money with the company.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 22 April 2026

• A cryptocurrency billionaire has just sued the Trump family's World Liberty of "criminal extortion". Justin Sun said he lost out on $276 million when the Trump-backed company blocked him from cashing out an early investment, for Sun's refusal to invest more money with the company.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 22 April 2026

• Republican Senator Thom Tillis urges delay of the cryptocurrency CLARITY proposed law markup in the Senate until May. He said members of the cryptocurrency and banking industries still need more time to be heard.
  - Zero Hedge, 21 April 2026

• $1,300,000 - A grandson of John Gotti, the former leader of the Gambino crime family, is sentenced to 15 months in jail, and ordered to pay $1.3 million, for defrauding the federal government out of more than $1 million in Covid relief funds, some of which he invested in cryptocurrency
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 21 April 2026

• Trump plans a Mar-a-Lago feast for cryptocurrency grift's biggest spenders. Trump is preparing again to poke the bear of irritated voters, lawmakers, and ethics experts by throwing an exclusive Mar-a-Lago "gala" for his biggest cryptocurrency coin investors. The top 297 owners of his meme coin $TRUMP have been invited to attend an April 25 "conference" at Mar-a-Lago, including a "gala lunch", with "keynote speaker" Trump.
  - The Daily Beast, 19 April 2026

• Despite a plethora of new products and applications, Coinbase's stock price still closely follows the volatile path of bitcoin after five years on the public market.
  - Barron's, 18 April 2026

• $285,000,000 - Hackers based in North Korea stole $285 million from Drift, a derivatives exchange on the Solana blockchain
  - Bloomberg (@ YF), 16 April 2026

• Morgan Stanley's new bitcoin ETF attracts $100 million of investments in one week
  - Coindesk (@ YF), 16 April 2026

• Goldman Sachs will use options strategy for planned bitcoin income ETF. The proposed fund would invest in Bitcoin ETPs and sell call options to generate income while limiting exposure to price swings.
  - Zero Hedge, 16 April 2026

• Charles Schwab to launch direct bitcoin, ethereum trading to compete with Robinhood
  - Versant's CNBC, 16 April 2026

• Charles Schwab to launch direct bitcoin, ethereum trading to compete with Robinhood
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 16 April 2026

• $40,000,000,000 - Ethereum treasury company Bitmine Immersion Technologies has reported a $3.8 billion quarterly loss as the crypto winter continues. Since it converted to a cryptocurrency treasury in July 2025, when it stock pumped/soared to $135, it has dropped to $25, a 80% plummet, a loss of $40 billion of shareholder value
  - Cryptoprowel (@ YF), 15 April 2026

• Tether launches self-custodial wallet supporting USDT, bitcoin and tokenized gold
  - The Block, 14 April 2026

• Bitcoin jumps to $74,000, but Wall Street is "cautious" that the cryptocurrency bear market is not over
  - Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 14 April 2026

• $9,500,000 - A fake ledger app on Apple App Store is linked to a $9.5 million cryptocurrency theft across Bitcoin, Tron, Solana
  - The Block, 14 April 2026

• The bank lobby fires back at White House, saying stablecoin study ignores community bank threat. The ABA is pushing back on a White House stablecoin study, arguing it underestimates the risk that yield-paying stablecoins could drain deposits from community banks.
  - Zero Hedge, 13 April 2026

• Trump family cryptocurrency project rocked by raging investor revolt
  - The Daily Beast (@ YF), 13 April 2026

• World Liberty investor Justin Sun claims Trump crypto venture "secretly" installed tool to freeze user holdings
  - Reuters (@ YF), 13 April 2026

• Why employers may be wary of adding cryptocurrencies or private equity to 401(k)s pension plans. A proposed federal rule aims to clear the way for retirement savings plans to include alternative assets. But it may not be enough to protect employers from lawsuits.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 13 April 2026

• Trump faces renewed backlash as Trump-linked tokens crash. Democratic lawmakers and cryptocurrency investors characterized cryptocurrency projects launched by or tied to Trump as scams and political corruption.
  - Zero Hedge, 12 April 2026

• White House and the cryptocurrency industry fight bank lobby over stablecoin income. The Trump administration backed a proposal for stablecoin issuers to offer yield to investors.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 12 April 2026

• Trump-backed World Liberty Financial's token plummets to all-time low as firm calls self-dealing accusations "Fear Uncertainty Doubt"
  - DL News (@ YF), 10 April 2026

• The $7.8 billion cryptocurrency economy in Iran finds new way to grow after cease-fire. Iran is demanding oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz pay a toll in cryptocurrency, highlighting its importance to the regime and economy of Iran.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 10 April 2026

• $3,660,000 - A cyber-attack on Bitcoin Depot's internal systems has resulted in the theft of more than 50 Bitcoin, valued at approximately $3.66 million
  - Infosecurity Magazine, 09 April 2026

• Even a 1% bitcoin allocation can drastically reshape portfolio risk, Schwab finds
  - Zero Hedge, 09 April 2026

• Bitcoin going to zero, says Steve Keen, the economist who predicted the 2008 crash. Keen said that as climate concerns intensify, policymakers may be forced to cut back on high-energy activities, singling out cryptocurrencies as an easy target.
  - CCN, 08 April 2026

• [The cryptocurrency rich] Trump's White House issuses/[sells?] a report saying that stablecoins that offer interest/yield will not harm banks
  - CoinTelegraph, 08 April 2026

• Iran plans to require shipping companies to pay transit tolls in Bitcoin for vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz
  - Zero Hedge, 08 April 2026

• Bitcoin and solana cryptocurrencies surge as Iran looks to charge tolls for passage through the Strait of Hormuz, to be paid in cryptocurrency
  - Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 08 April 2026

• Iran is looking to charge fees of $1 per barrel of oil for tankers crossing the Strait of Hormuz, with payments to be made in cryptocurrency
  - Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 08 April 2026

• Iran has reportedly warned foreign ships on Wednesday that they will be "destroyed" if they attempt to cross the Strait of Hormuz without permission from Iran
  - Murdoch's New York Post, 08 April 2026

• The first two ships since the ceasefire was announced have crossed the Strait of Hormuz after Iran said it will demand that shipping companies pay tolls in cryptocurrency for oil tankers passing through the Strait, as it seeks to retain control over passage.
  - Zero Hedge, 08 April 2026

• The IMF warns that tokenization could bring cryptocurrency risks/[crimes] into global financial markets. Tokenization could amplify volatility through automated markets and smart contracts. "Stress events are likely to unfold faster, leaving less time for discretionary intervention."
  - Zero Hedge, 07 April 2026

• The risks in investing in cryptocurrencies through ETFs
  - Murdoch's New York Post, 07 April 2026

• Bitcoin could fall to $10,000 this year, predcts Bloomberg analyst, "its most traded price since 2017"
  - Decrypt, 07 April 2026

• The 7 best cryptocurrency exchanges in 2026: Kraken, Coinbase, OKX, Crypto.com, eToro, Uphold, Gemini
  - Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 07 April 2026

• People lost $11.4 billion to cryptocurrency scams in 2025, according to the FBI
  - Decrypt, 07 April 2026

• Polymarket unveils exchange overhaul, native stablecoin, as USA expansion looms
  - Zero Hedge, 07 April 2026

• New revelations reignite cryptocurrency scandal involving President Milei of Argentina. Court documents raise questions about the Argentine president's statements that he had no connection to the launch of the $Libra cryptocurrency.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 07 April 2026

• $920,000 - Police in Thailand have arrested a self-styled cryptocurrency coach and her accomplice accused of luring the public into investing in a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme, with promises of high returns but blocked withdrawals, causing losses of about 30 million baht (about $920,000)
  - Bangkok Post, 04 April 2026

• Tokenized stocks are sweeping the globe and coming soon to the USA. Overseas traders are buying tokens linked to big USA stocks during off-hours.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 03 April 2026

• The cryptocurrency ecosystem in survival mode: volumes collapse, funding dries up. Remember when cartoon rocks sold for millions? Now yields can't beat Treasuries.
  - Zero Hedge, 31 March 2026

• Will (Micro)Strategy become the only corporate buyer of bitcoin? Other BTC purchasing companies see 99% drop.
  - CCN, 30 March 2026

• XRP has plummeted in 2026, and the cryptocurrency rebound everyone is waiting for may never come
  - The Motley Fool, 30 March 2026

• Bitcoin flashes 'warning sign' with nearly half of BTC supply sitting at a loss
  - Decrypt, 30 March 2026

• $192,000,000 - Blockchain company ARA Holdings sold 15,111 bitcoin from its treasury for about $1.1 billion, to repurchase $1 billion of its convertible notes. Most likely this included 4,267 bitcoins that it bought around $110,000 now worth about $45,000 less.
  - Benzinga (@ YF), 30 March 2026

• $500,000 - Cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin pays the CFTC $500,000 to end a civil case that it ran an unregistered offshore platform that illegally let US residents trade
  - Bloomberg (@ YF), 30 March 2026

• Vanguard's brokerage arm is now offering cryptocurrency ETFs. The ETFs have been tanking, down over 20% each.
  - Barron's, 28 March 2026

• The new [extremely rich] moneyed interests [buying politicians and laws]: the AI and cryptocurrency industries
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 25 March 2026

• The Bank of Montreal plans tokenized cash platform. Bank of Montreal plans to launch tokenized cash capabilities that will allow institutional clients to move funds securely at all times.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 25 March 2026

• JPMorgan activates bitcoin and ethereum as institutional collateral
  - Zero Hedge, 20 March 2026

• Major gold trade group releases framework for tokenized gold. The World Gold Council says it will develop a platform to connect physical gold to the systems used to issue and manage tokenized gold products.
  - CoinTelegraph, 19 March 2026

• The cryptocurrency industry's/[cartel's] plan to sink unfriendly Democrats is backfiring. "What they are doing in trying to affect and buy an election by coming in and spending $10 million at the last minute -- and all it did was to turn voters against them."
  - HuffPost, 19 March 2026

• Lawmakers in the UK seek moratorium on cryptocurrency donations to political parties
  - Zero Hedge, 19 March 2026

• Stablecoins, a new generation of cryptocurrency, pegged to the dollar, is growing rapidly, promising faster payments and potentially lower interest rates. But regulators and bankers warn of risks.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 19 March 2026

• Cuban Americans will be allowed to own businesses in Cuba, but is that enough to rescue the economy?
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 19 March 2026

• Crypto.com fires 12% of the paid-humans in its workforce in latest company to cite non-paid AI in firing people
  - Versant's CNBC, 19 March 2026

• Mastercard will spend up to $1.8 billion in bet on blockchain future. A deal for stablecoin-infrastructure company BVNK would help further link digital currencies and traditional payments.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 18 March 2026

• (micro)Strategy's Michael Saylor criticizes Boris Johnson, after Johnson argues that bitcoin is a "giant Ponzi scheme", and says cryptocurrencies have "no issuer, no promoter". Johnson argues that cryptocurrencies function similarly to a Ponzi scheme because their value depends on a steady flow of new investors willing to buy in.
  - Benzinga (@ YF), 17 March 2026

• Bitcoin's ownership base is maturing, reducing reliance on retail: analysts. Bitcoin has stayed resilient through recent market turbulence as institutional investors and long-term holders continue to invest.
  - Zero Hedge, 17 March 2026

• $172,000,000 - A UK High Court judge allows a lawsuit in which a husband claims his estranged wife stole about $172 million from his hardware wallet and transferred the bitcoin without his permission
  - CoinDesk, 16 March 2026

• Catherine Austin Fitts warns financial tsunami coming because of programmable money. "It is bubble economics and also control. ... We are talking about something that is entirely demonic."
  - Zero Hedge (locked), 16 March 2026

• Wall Street is giving cryptocurrency ETF investors another reason to stay: a yield on their holdings. Asset management giant BlackRock launched the Staked Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHB), designed to give investors exposure to ethereum while potentially generating income by staking part of the fund's holdings.
  - Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 15 March 2026

• Gold is up 77% in the last year, while bitcoin is down 47% from its high in October 2025. JPMorgan argues Bitcoin is now more attractive than gold long-term because the volatility ratio between the two has dropped to a record low of 1.5, and BTC at $70,000 sits below its estimated $87,000 production cost. Goldman Sachs raised its year-end gold target to $5,400 per ounce and points to gold's track record of never losing more than 45% in a single drawdown compared to bitcoin's four drops exceeding 50% since 2017.
  - 24/7 Wall Street, 15 March 2026

• Veteran analyst Ed Yardeni foresees gold continuing to rise to $6,000 an ounce by the end of 2026 (a 20% increase from current prices) and $10,000 by the end of the decade. Not because of inflation, but a hedge against the authoritarianism of the USA and Europe in international money markets (such as when the USA and Europe froze nearly $300 billion in Russian central bank reserves following the invasion of Ukraine).
  - The Street, 15 March 2026

• The [extremely rich] cryptocurrency industry spends big in House races in Illinois to say that consumer rights supporters are corrupt [KM: the black hole pot calling the kettle black]
  - The Intercept, 15 March 2026

• Blockchain projects decline 75% as developers shift to the AI [bubble]
  - Cryptoprowl, 15 March 2026

• Turmoil from the Iran war causes stocks and bonds to decline, while oil and bitcoin rise in price
  - Zero Hedge (locked), 13 March 2026

• "Bitcoin is going to $10,000", according to Bloomberg Intelligence senior commodities strategist Mike McGlone. He argues that the cryptocurrency asset class is "dead" as as unlimited token supply and five years of underperformance versus the S&P 500 make it uninvestable for institutional risk managers.
  - Benzinga (@ YF), 13 March 2026

• South Korea abandons the KOPSI (the SP500 of South Korea) [AI bubble] ... and starts chasing bitcoin again. The Korea retail crowd appears to be rotating from KOSPI back into Bitcoin. That has mattered before.
  - Zero Hedge (locked), 13 March 2026

• JPMorgan is facing a lawsuit for allegedly enabling a $328 million crypto Ponzi scheme run by now-defunct Goliath Ventures. The California lawsuit states that despite JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon's repeated criticism of Bitcoin, the bank allegedly failed to prevent crypto scammers from carrying out fraudulent wire transactions.
  - CoinTelegraph, 13 March 2026

• $50,000,000 - One cryptocurrency whale appears to have lost nearly $50 million simply trying to swap USDT for AAVE. The whale received warning about slippage, because liquidity was weak.
  - Zero Hedge, 12 March 2026

• HSBC and Standard Chartered are expected to win Hong Kong stablecoin licences in 2 weeks
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 12 March 2026

• The Justice Department probes Iran's use of Binance to evade sanctions. The investigation is focused on money flowing through the crypto platform to a network that backs terror groups, including Yemen's Houthi militants.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 12 March 2026

• New anti-laundering rules concern digital asset firms in Thailand. The new rule can help improve traceability and accountability for digital assets in Thailand, where so-called mule accounts and financial fraud have become prominent. The head of Binance TH: "If the framework becomes overly restrictive, this may unintentionally undermine the open and decentralised nature of blockchain networks." [KM: yes, undermine using decentralization to commit crimes]
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 12 March 2026

• Binance is hoping that suing The Wall Street Journal for defamation might help shake off a fresh round of government probes into how the cryptocurrency exchange failed to detect $1.7 billion in transfers to a network that was funding Iran-backed terror groups
  - Condé Nast's Ars Technica, 12 March 2026

• Public bitcoin miners are selling their cryptocurrencies for to invest in AI stocks and AI data centers, a historic mistake
  - Zero Hedge, 10 March 2026

• Prices of bitcoin rise to $71,000 as Wall Street increases its investments in cryptocurrency
  - Bloomberg (@ YF), 10 March 2026

• While COMEX 'slept', tokenized gold revealed a signal. The 24/7 digital market for gold is doing more than adding convenience, it is creating a new layer of global price discovery.
  - Zero Hedge, 09 March 2026

• Billionaire Ray Dalio feels the debate between gold and bitcoin has a clear winner. In his opinion, the precious metal remains the ultimate safe haven, while bitcoin mostly behaves like a risk asset rather than a true store of value.
  - The Street, 09 March 2026

• A vote in Switzerland places right to use cash in the constitution of Switzerland. Switzerland joins Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia as European countries looking to make it a right to hold cold, hard cash.
  - Axel Springer's Politico, 08 March 2026

• World Liberty Financial, which raised more than $550 million on the promise that early token holders would help shape the project's future, is pushing a proposal that could reduce the voting power of early investors on key governance decisions - including when they can access the bulk of their investment. To keep some of those votes, they would have to give up the only thing they currently can sell.
  - Bloomberg, 08 March 2026

• How [whorish] political candidates are using winks and posts to seek donations/[bribes] from cryptocurrency and AI companies. Congressional candidates are finding creative - and critics say cynical - ways to signal support [to obtain donations/bribes] for two [extremely rich] industries, AI and cryptocurrencies. "These industry-aligned super PACs are now having a huge role in deciding who can run, who can compete and who can win." [KM: a cheap investment with huge returns for these industries - wise investing/bribing]
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 07 March 2026

• Circle Internet Group and Stripe are racing to build payments systems for a world that does not exist yet - one where autonomous AI agents transact millions of times a day, settling in stablecoins instead of swiping credit cards. [KM: more ways of rich AI companies to get richer removing more paid-humans from commerce
  - Bloomberg (@ YF), 07 March 2026

• $46,000,000 - John Daghita, a former USA government contractor, is arreste for stealing $46 million in cryptocurrency from the USA Marshalls Service
  - Murdoch's Fox News, 05 March 2026

• A former OpenAI[sore] researcher's new hedge fund reveals big bitcoin miner bets in a SEC filing. Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund Situational Awareness LP has scaled to $5.52 billion in equity exposure in less than a year.
  - Zero Hedge, 05 March 2026

• $10,000,000 - The SEC has settled its fraud case against cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun (based in Zhōngguó) with one of Sun's companies paying a $10 million penalty
  - Zero Hedge, 05 March 2026

• The decline in bitcoin prices disrupts Bukele's digital utopia in El Salvador
  - Bloomberg (locked), 04 March 2026

• Robinhood launches the Robinhood Platinum Card with premium benefits and a $695 fee
  - Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 04 March 2026

• Trump gives his support to the stablecoin industry, which wants to be able to pay interest to holders of stablecoins, which banks oppose because they will lose trillions of dollars in deposits, which will undermine their lending ability. Not a surprise decision, given the huge amounts of money that the Trump family is earning in the cryptocurrency world.
  - Versant's CNBC, 04 March 2026

• Kraken becomes the first cryptocurrency firm to gain access to the Fed's payment system. Kraken has become the first cryptocurrency firm to operate on the same systems as traditional financial institutions.
  - Zero Hedge, 04 March 2026

• Kraken becomes the first cryptocurrency firm to gain access to the Fed's payment system. Kraken has become the first cryptocurrency firm to operate on the same systems as traditional financial institutions.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 04 March 2026

• The banking arm of Kraken becomes the first cryptocurrency firm to gain access to the Fed's payment system. Kraken has become the first cryptocurrency firm to operate on the same systems as traditional financial institutions.
  - Reuters (@ YF), 04 March 2026

• Gold and the digital asset space are increasingly interlinked, according to Goldman Sachs
  - Zero Hedge (locked), 04 March 2026

• A Bitcoin Policy Institute study of 36 AI models found bitcoin was the top monetary choice in 48% of responses, but more than half preferred stablecoins for payment scenarios
  - Coin Telegraph, 03 March 2026

• Analysts warn bitcoin is forming a scary death cross (when the 50-day moving average falls below the 200-day moving average)
  - The Street, 03 March 2026

• Bitcoin dropping to $60,000 could crush every stock inside this $1.2 billion ETF - BLOK, companies such as Robinhood, Coinbase and Strategy
  - 24/7 Wall Street, 02 March 2026

• Bitcoin: a worthless speculative asset of a true monetary alternative?
  - Zero Hedge, 02 March 2026

• Use of stablecoins could weaken the European Central Bank's operations, siphon deposits from banks, and hamper lenders and banks, according to a new ECB study
  - Reuters (@ YF), 02 March 2026

• Will stablecoins strengthen the dollar (becoming a new hedge), and stall the rise of the price of gold? Probably not. A stablecoin creates demand for Treasuries; it does not reduce the deficit that necessitates those Treasuries. It lowers borrowing costs at the margin; it does not alter the fiscal trajectory that makes debasement inevitable. The dollar can be the strongest currency in a race to the bottom while still losing 3 to 4 percent annually against real goods and services. Gold's long-term bull case has never been primarily about the DXY index - it is about the preservation of absolute purchasing power across time. Stablecoins address the former while leaving the latter entirely intact.
  - Real Clear Markets, 02 March 2026

• Dubai of the Caribbean, with cryptocurrencies? Residents of St. Kitts are not buying it. A bitcoin/[bitcon] baron, Olivier Janssesn, wants to build a libertarian paradise on the island of Nevis. Democracy is getting in the way, as residents don't want the government to grant special, independent powers to Janssens.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 01 March 2026

• Cryptocurrencies lose their grip on its supportive army of retail investors, who are now defecting to investing more in equities. These dip-buyers, memecoin speculators and momentum traders are less and less propping up the cryptocurrency [bubble].
  - Bloomberg (@ YF) 01 March 2026

• $75,000,000,000 - Chaos in bitcoin/[bitcon] Treasury land: rebellions, mass sales and one big monopoly. Many of these bitcoin treasury ventures/[scams] now sit on billions in unrealised losses as bitcoin's price has sunk nearly 50% from its October 2025 high, a loss of about $75 billion.
  - DL News (@ YF), 28 February 2026

• Bitcoin declines in price below $64,000 after the USA and Israel attack Iran
  - Bloomberg (@ YF), 28 February 2026

• $580,000,000 - The USA government seizes over $580 million in cryptocurrencies linked to scams in Southeast Asia
  - Bitcoin Magazine, 27 February 2026

• "Bitcoin retail investors are all in", and that is why there is no floor, with retail investors being 'all in' with no cash left to buy dips, explaining the 25% year-to-date decline
  - Bering Capital's Benzinga, 27 February 2026

• Cryptocurrencies are pointless. Not even the White House can fix that. Outside of crimes and scams, the technology is useless, and its economics are even worse.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 26 February 2026

• $328,000,000 - Christopher Alexander Delgado, CEO of an company in Orlando, Florida, is arrested in connection with alleged $328,000,000 Ponzi scheme. He reportedly persuaded victims to invest large amounts of money by falsely claiming they would earn monthly returns from cryptocurrency "liquidity pools".
  - WFTV News, 24 February 2026

• "Raise your hand if you have bought or sold something with bitcoin": Minneapolic Fed Chair Neel Kashkari reportedly slams cryptocurrencies and stablecoins as "utterly useless"
  - Benzinga (@ YF), 24 February 2026

• Anthony Scaramucci says "Yes, we are in a bear market", so go buy more bitcoin [when bitcoin is dropping as well?]
  - Benzinga (@ YF), 24 February 2026

• Bitcoin's favorite twins are struggling these days, as bitcoin's crash continues to hammer their decade-old crypto exchange, Gemini Space Station. with bitcoin down by over 40 percent since its record highs in fall of 2025, Bloomberg reports that shares for Cameron and Tyler Winkelvoss' cryptocurrency marketplace have collapsed by more than 80 percent from their 2025 highs, wiping out over $3 billion in market value.
  - Futurism, 24 February 2026

• For years - literally - we have been pounding the table and pointing out market rigging and manipulation irregularities in the crypto markets which, for reasons of our own, we attributed to one of the world's foremost HFT shops and most profitable "market makers" in the world (if not India), Jane Street. Below is an example from 2023, and here are hundreds of others. As it turns out someone noticed. Jane Street was sued for alleged insider trading by the administrator winding up the affairs of Terraform Labs, the firm whose $40 billion collapse in 2022 roiled the crypto markets, contributed to the collapse of FTX and sparked a brutal crypto winter which culminated with the bankruptcy and prison sentence of Sam Bankman Fried.. who just happens to be a former Jane Street employee (along with his polycule partner Caroline Ellison) and the man many claim devised some of the most intricate crypto manipulation schemes operating to this day.
  - Zero Hedge, 24 February 2026

• Hedge funds that piled into bitcoin funds in the USA are first to exit. Bitcoin ETF allocations among the largest hedge fund holders fell 28% from the third to the fourth quarter of 2025.
  - Bloomberg (@ YF), 23 February 2026

• $1,700,000,000 - Binance fired employees who flagged $1 billion moving illegally to sanctioned entities in Iran. Weeks after Trump pardoned Binance's founder, the company dismantled a probe and suspended the investigators. Binance denied that the inquiry ended or that staff were fired for the concerns.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 23 February 2026

• Employees of Binance discover that $1.7 billion had flowed from two Binance accounts to Iranian entities with links to terrorist groups, a possible violation of global sanctions. And one of those accounts belonged to a Binance vendor.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 23 February 2026

• Bitcoin falls as much as 5% to below $65,000 as Trump's latest tax/tariff tactics raise uncertainty. "We believe that the sudden uptick in tariff rates is causing investors to sell crypto assets in anticipation of a more serious market decline."
  - Versant's CNBC, 23 February 2026

• TRUMP (down 92%) and MELANIA (down 99%) meme coins leave retail investors with a huge $4.3 billion loss
  - Be(in) Crypto, 22 February 2026

• Tokenized tyranny: how elites are digitizing our world for total control. Digital identifiers, universal ledgers, reducing all to rogrammable, monetizable units in a centralized system of power. This is tokenized tyranny in action: a quiet revolution that could redefine ownership, freedom, and existence itself.
  - Zero Hedge, 22 February 2026

• Bitcon is not "digital gold", according to a Deutsche Bank analyst, amid a decline in price in cryptocurrencies
  - Benzinga (@ YF), 20 February 2026

• Eric Trump celebrates his startup, American Bitcoin, having bought its 6000th bitcoin, while not mentioning that ABTC stock has plummeted 80% since its started trading on Nasdaq six months ago
  - Benzinga (@ YF), 20 February 2026

• "Bitcoin has failed" - cryptocurrency influencer Ran Neuner questions entire justification for bitcoin for the first time in 12 years
  - Bering Capital's Benzinga, 20 February 2026

• When Bitcoin prices turned against Michael Saylor, he quietly pivoted to a risky financial gambit at (Micro)Strategy, by selling a huge number of shares of its stocks, diluting shareholder equity as bitcoin prices dropped.
  - Jiaravanon's Fortune, 20 February 2026

• Concern grows that bitcoin's value could be entirely destroyed. "After more than 15 years of bitcoin, we are no closer to knowing what bitcoin's point is."
  - Futurism, 20 February 2026

• Sen. Elizabeth Warren urged the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve not to "use taxpayer dollars to bail out cryptocurrency billionaires and other highly leveraged cryptocurrency investors"
  - Versant's CNBC, 19 February 2026

• Wells Fargo predicts a "you only live once" trade driving $150 billion into bitcoin and other risky assets. Bigger tax refunds in the USA may revive retail risk-taking by late March, potentially sending fresh cash into Bitcoin and momentum stocks.
  - Zero Hedge, 18 February 2026

• When cash disappears, so does something else. When everything becomes digital, spending can be tracked, restricted, frozen, or flagged.
  - Zero Hedge, 17 February 2026

• Cryptocurrencies are playing a growing role in the finances of human trafficking networks [KM: of course]
  - Versant's CNBC, 16 February 2026

• Cryptocurrencies are playing a growing role in the finances of human trafficking networks [KM: of course]
  - Murdoch's New York Post, 16 February 2026

• Cryptocurrencies are losing their narrative lure to gold and silver. When capital flows decisively toward one and away from the other, it usually reflects a deeper reassessment rather than a passing mood. And the many promises of cryptocurrencies [for saving the world] remain unrealized.
  - Barron's, 14 February 2026

• Brazil proposes national bitcoin reserve, targets 1 million bitcoin over five years
  - Zero Hedge, 13 February 2026

• The plunge in the price of bitcoin should end the hype that it is 'digital gold'
  - The Hill, 13 February 2026

• The CEO of (Micro)Strategy, Michael Saylor, isn't backing down from buying more bitcoin. Why MSTR stock investors don't like that strategy, as bitcoin declines in price.
  - Barchart.com, 12 February 2026

• The former CTO of Ripple claims that bitcoin is a "technological dead end", as JPMorgan turns bullish on bitcoin despite "extreme fear" of more declines
  - CCN, 12 February 2026

• Bitcoin hovers near $65,000 as investor frustration grows over 'disconnect' with gold prices. Gold is up 16% year to date, while bitcoin is down 22% year to date.
  - Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 12 February 2026

• Is bitcoin no longer 'digital gold' as it diverges from actual gold?
  - Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 12 February 2026

• The European Union seeks to close cryptocurrency loopholes exploited by Rossiya
  - Zero Hedge, 12 February 2026

• More human trafficking gangs in SouthEast Asia use cryptocurrencies to move illegal funds. The transactions are linked to activities such as forced labour recruited by scammers and international escort services, a report says.
  - Versant's CNBC, 12 February 2026

• MrBeast buys a mobile bank app, Step, for Gen Z, just weeks after receiving a $200 million investment/gamble from BitMine
  - Zero Hedge, 11 February 2026

• (Micro)Strategy's Michael doubles down on bitcoin. Wall Street is shorting his company's stock.
  - Barron's, 10 February 2026

• Ether resumes its decline, tracking the decline of bitcoin on risk-off mood. Ether, which has recorded steeper losses than Bitcoin since a sharp October selloff, fell as much as 6.2% to $1,989. Ether is down more than 40% since cryptocurrency prices peaked just before the market selloff four months ago.
  - Bloomberg, 10 February 2026

• Bitcoin finally finds a practical use: kidnapping senior citizens for ransom. While transactions across Bitcoin wallets can be tracked, it is much easier for bad actors to obfuscate their identities with crypto compared to regular currency transferred online.
  - Futurism, 09 February 2026

• The shocking reason analyst Richard Farr says Michael Saylor and (Micro)Strategy stock will take bitcoin prices to $0. His reason? Bitcoin fails as a medium of exchange due to its environmental impact and faces multiple hurdles in institutional adoption.
  - Barchart.com, 09 February 2026

• (Micro)Strategy's stock is underperforming the SPY by the largest margin in 2 years. Should you buy the dip or run away?
  - Barchart.com, 09 February 2026

• As bitcoin slid back from recent highs, some market voices blamed outdated narratives such as four-year cycles or technical anomalies. Others argue the issue runs much deeper. Veteran technical analyst Bob Kendall said Bitcoin is no longer priced by on-chain scarcity or the fixed 21-million supply. Once financial layers were added, including futures, perpetuals, options, ETFs, lending products, wrapped BTC and swaps, Bitcoin effectively lost scarcity at the point of price discovery. Supply can now be synthetically created, making BTC trade more like gold or oil in derivatives-heavy markets.
  - Bering Capital's Benzinga, 09 February 2026

• A new cryptocurrency bear market is here and even the biggest bulls are not certain why. Some of cryptocurrency's biggest champions cannot put their finger on what went wrong.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 09 February 2026

• Is the lucrative AI bubble in Asia why cryptocurrency prices are plummeting, since Asian investors have much propped up cryptocurrencies. They could be selling their cryptocurrencies to invest in the AI bubble. Check KOPSI versus BTC - perfect substitutes?
  - Zero Hedge, 09 February 2026

• Why this crash is bitcoin's biggest test yet. Bitcoin usually fakes its own death - but it truly could be different this time.
  - Zero Hedge, 07 February 2026

• A new cryptocurrency winter is here and even the biggest bulls are not certain why. Bitcoin just suffered its largest weekly decline in three years. Some of cryptocurrencies's biggest champions can't explain what went wrong.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 07 February 2026

• Wealth families are worried about geopolitics. But they are not rushing to AI, cryptocurrencies or gold.
  - Barron's, 07 February 2026

• Minutes after Bitcoin plunged below the $70,000 on Thursday evening, Grant Cardone of Cardone Capital told followers on X that, with "Bitcoin crashing," he now has to sell his $75 million private jet.
  - Zero Hedge, 06 February 2026

• The People's Bank of Zhōngguó (PBOC), Zhōngguó's central bank, and seven regulatory agencies in Zhōngguó published a joint statement banning the unapproved issuance of Renminbi-pegged stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets.
  - Zero Hedge, 06 February 2026

• Bitcoin whales and ETFs are bailing out of the market; UBS warns that "cryptocurrences are not a [financial] asset."
  - Fortune (locked), 06 February 2026

• Bitcoin is more attractive than gold in the long-term, according to JPMorgan. The recent market correction has pushed the bitcoin price further below the estimated production cost, which has historically served as a soft price floor.
  - Zero Hedge (locked), 06 February 2026

• Bitcoin is the third most oversold ever, says one indicator, and violent upside could be next. RSI dropped as low as 17 - heavily oversold conditions that were topped in the modern BTC era by the Covid crash in 2020, when it fell to 15.6, and the 2018 market bottom, when it dropped to 9.5.
  - CoinDesk, 05 February 2026

• If bitcoin keeps tanking, it could cause a "death spiral" for the entire economy of the USA. Below $50,000, and miners could be forced to close up shop, accompanied by a catastrophic sell-off for precious metals like gold.
  - Futurism, 05 February 2026

• Michael Saylor under fire after claiming bitcoin will surge to $10 million tomorrow if "people [would onlu] agree with him". This comment, as his bitcoin-proxy company suffers multibillion-dollar unrealized losses and its share price continues to fall. As one critic sarcastically put it: "At least tulips are beautiful."
  - CCN, 05 February 2026

• Bitcoin is crashing so hard that miners are unplugging their equipment>
  - Futurism, 05 February 2026

• Bitcoin trades 20% below production cost as miner profitability drops to 14-month low. Bitcoin miners are bleeding cash as the network's hashrate has crashed 12% from its October high, and daily revenue briefly cratered to $28 million.
  - CryptoNews, 05 February 2026

• Bitcoin gets massacred: narrative dead, structure broken. This isn't extreme yet - Bitcoin's normal drawdown math still points to $38,000.
  - Zero Hedge, 05 February 2026

• Bitcoin drops 13%, breaking below $64,000 as sell-off intensifies, doubts about cryptocurrencies grow
  - Versant's CNBC, 05 February 2026

• Bitcoin is maturing, not broken as Deutsche Bank says that its "Tinkerbell effect" phase is over. "Recent price declines reflect a retreat from highly speculative gains over the past two years."
  - Zero Hedge (locked), 05 February 2026

• Is Michael Saylor behind the recent crash in the price of bitcoin? Critics blame a slowing purchase of bitcoin by (Micro)Strategy as Michael Saylor refuses to back down on his belief in bitcoin, despite the value of bitcoin owned by (Micro)Strategy is now worth less than their purchase cost.
  - CCN, 05 February 2026

• The bitcoin perpetual motion machine is starting to sputter. Cryptocurrency treasury companies quietly crept into index funds and retirement accounts. Its collapse is good news for all of us. (Micro)Strategy scheme was to act as a middleman that buys bitcoin for you so your stock in the company is worth less than bitcoin. The same for other cryptocurrency treasuries. Now the financial markets are questioning whether this middleman scheme deserves to exist at all. [KM: even I, a socialist, knows that they don't deserve to exist]
  - Slate, 05 February 2026

• Bitcoin to $38,000? Stifel Financial predicts price could collapse further as sentiment falls into "extreme fear".
  - CCN, 05 February 2026

• After slump, bitcoin now trails the S&P 500, Nasdaq 100, and gold over five years
  - Bloomberg, 05 February 2026

• How Ethereum, the second largest cryptocurrency coin, missed out on the industry's boom. A leaked pitch to reshape Ethereum's leadership exposed deep divisions over politics, power and Ethereum's static price.
  - The Guardian, 05 February 2026

• Bitcoin drops below $70,000 as sell-off continues and pessimism grows
  - Versant's CNBC, 05 February 2026

• About $460 billion dollars has been lost by cryptocurrencies in less than a week as a selloff led by Bitcoin accelerated
  - Bloomberg, 04 February 2026

• $10,000,000+ - The Attorney General of Massachusetts has filed a lawsuit against cryptocurrency kiosk operator Bitcoin Depot for allegedly using misleading and deceptive sales tactics to overcharge consumers, knowingly facilitating cryptocurrency scams that robbed Massachusetts consumers of over 10 million dollars, refusing to issue refunds to scam victims, and deceiving investors about the level of scam activity on Bitcoin Depot kiosks.
  - State of Massachusetts, 03 February 2026

• Cryptocurrency 'bros' nauseated after realizing that the development of bitcoin itself was much funded by the child rapist Jeffrey Epstein. "About 75 percent of bitcoin's code comes directly from [child rapist Jeffrey Epstein's] investments. ... We have basically funded an elite global pedophile ring since 2015. I feel sick."
  - Futurism, 03 February 2026

• The richest players [to buy the 2026 elections]: [the extremely rich] AI industry, [the extremely rich] cryptocurrency industry, pro-Israel groups and Trump
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 03 February 2026

• For the first time since 2023, the price of bitcoin has fallen below the average purchase cost of Michael Saylor's leveraged bitcoin proxy, (micro)Strategy company. It is a milestone that lands less with panic than with fatigue - a signal that the once-hyped [gambling] model of perpetual bitcoin accumulation through equity issuance is now colliding with an ever-more skeptical market.
  - Bloomberg, 02 February 2026

• Will bitcoin become 'worthless'? Bearish outlooks grow amid a market downturn.
  - CCN, 02 February 2026

• Bitcoin price to $10,000 as markets barrel towards crash "reminiscent of 2008" market crash
  - DL News, 02 February 2026

• Cryptocurrency's $19 billion 'October 10th' nightmare: why everyone is blaming Binance for the bitcoin crash that won't end. On October 10th, many cryptocurrency exchanges closed or liquidated leveraged positions that had run out of funds to remain open.
  - Coindesk, 02 February 2026

• Binance initiates $100 million central bank-style market support as bitcoin prices decline
  - Be(in) Crypto, 02 February 2026

• Trend Research, one of the largest Ethereum whales, is approaching a critical $1.33 billion liquidation threshold amid ETH's recent downward trajectory
  - Be(in) Crypto, 02 February 2026

• $26,000,000 - Another cryptocurrency platform, Step Finance, [imcompetently allows itself to] get hacked as cryptocurrency market plunges. Step Finance, a decentralized finance (DeFi) dashboard, reported that several of its treasury and fee wallets had been compromised. On-chain data indicates roughly 261,854 Solana (SOL), worth about $26 million at current prices, were unstaked and moved during the breach.
  - The Street, 02 February 2026

• On-chain activity soars as cryptocurrencies crumble, 'mega-whales' buying the bitcoin dip, as retail investors run for the exits
  - Zero Hedge, 02 February 2026

• Futures tumble as plunging metals (gold, silver) and bitcoin spark global selloff, and margin calls
  - Zero Hedge, 02 February 2026

• How a startup in Silicon Valley [KM: where else?] a cryptocurrency lifeline for Venezuela. Cryptocurrency fintech Kontigo, which recently raised $20 million from Coinbase and others, is under fire for its role in helping Venezuelans avoid sanctions.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 02 February 2026

• Bitcoin's price decline below $80,000 signals new crisis of confidence. Even more striking than the drop itself is the relative lack of optimism around it on social media. Meanwhile, spot ETFs continue to bleed, a sign of weakening conviction among mainstream buyers.
  - Bloomberg, 01 February 2026

• The era of 'suitcase money' is over: why your offshore cryptocurrency is no longer safe from the taxman. Holders with large troves of unreported cryptocurrencies held offshore are rightly getting nervous about new and invasive tax-reporting regimes.
  - Coindesk, 01 February 2026

• Bitcoin crashes to November 2024 lows ($74,000) amid $1.5 billion in levered liquidations. [A lousy alternative to gold]
  - Zero Hedge, 31 January 2026

• The cryptocurrency CEO who has become 'Enemy No. 1' on Wall Street. Coinbase chief Brian Armstrong is clashing with Jamie Dimon and other bank stewards over the future of finance.
  - WMSJ, 31 January 2026

• Bitcoin battered as everything else (ex-Microsoft) bounces back from early bloodbath
  - Zero Hedge, 29 January 2026

• Sam Altman's Worldcoin spikes 40% as Altman's OpenAI[sore] reportedly plans a biometric rival to Musk's X/Twitter. It may integrate ChatGPT for content creation while using biometrics for [authoritarian, privacy invading] proof-of-personhood. [KM: well, if it helps the rich get richer]
  - Zero Hedge, 29 January 2026

• A prominent Bitcoin critic has issued fresh warnings that the price is "collapsing", arguing that falling miner participation and a sharp drop in hashrate could trigger a self-reinforcing decline in prices. With prices falling and operating costs largely fixed, miners could be forced to sell Bitcoin to remain solvent.
  - CCN, 28 January 2026

• Tucker Carlson presses gold-advocate Peter Schiff on bitcoin as a new global reserve currency. Schiff dismisses that idea outright, claiming that a Bitcoin strategic reserve is really just a "Bitcoin bailout fund", a [socialist] subsidy using taxpayer money
  - Zero Hedge, 27 January 2026

• $82,000,000,000 - Money launderers received at least $82 billion in cryptocurrencies last year, up sharply from $10 billion in 2020, in part by fast growth among money laundering networks controlled by Chinese-speaking people, blockchain researchers said on Tuesday.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 27 January 2026

• Crypto PAC Fairshake touts $193 million war chest [KM: to buy politicians] as regulatory bill faces first vote in Congress. The funds include $49 million from Ripple and AI investor Andreessen Horowitz.
  - Versant's CNBC, 27 January 2026

• Tether launches USAT, a federally regulated, dollar-backed stablecoin for use in commerce in the USA
  - Zero Hedge, 27 January 2026

• [Further hatred of the human mind and humanity]: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has revealed that he has deployed an internal, self-hosted AI model that functions as a centralized "oracle", ingesting every Slack message and Google document to create a unified, aggregated repository of the company's communications. [KM: non-paid AI oracle <-- paid-human librarian - the rich must get richer no matter how much of humanity is ruined]
  - Zero Hedge, 27 January 2026

• Stablecoins, dollar-backed cryptocurrency tokens,could pull around $500 billion in deposits out of banks in the USA by the end of 2028, Standard Chartered estimated - new analysis that could intensify a fight between and cryptocurrency companies over legislation to set rules for the digital asset sector.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 27 January 2026

• Why bitcoin is failing its role as a 'safe haven' versus gold. Bitcoin behaves more like an 'ATM' during uncertain times, with investors quickly selling it to raise cash.
  - Zero Hedge, 26 January 2026

• $40,000,000 - Well known blockchain sleuth, ZachXBT, alleges a custody CEO's son (John Dahita) stole tens of millions in crypto from USA government-linked wallets tied to Bitfinex funds, exposing systemic custody risks.
  - Crypto news, 26 January 2026

• Tether, issuer of the world's largest stablecoin, added about 27 metric tons of gold to its fund exposure in the fourth quarter 2025, it said on Monday, broadly unchanged from its third-quarter purchases estimated by analysts at 26 tons.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 26 January 2026

• SEC drops case against cryptocurrency firm founded by Winklevoss twins. The agency says that victims of an investment offering involving Gemini Trust got their money back, though after a regulatory action brought by the New York attorney general.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 25 January 2026

• The dangerous power of online prediction markets to undermine democracy [KM: yes, but rich prediction market companies (many lined to bit-con) must get richer]
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 23 January 2026

• The myths of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are breaking - the hedge myth, the store of value myth, and now a threat from quantum decryption
  - Zero Hedge, 22 January 2026

• USA lender Newrez to accept cryptocurrency holdings in mortgage approval. The new policy will allow borrowers to use Bitcoin, Ether, cryptocurrency ETFs and USA dollar-backed stablecoins for asset verification and income estimates without liquidation.
  - Zero Hedge, 19 January 2026

• Ethereum hits transaction record as fees crash to pennies. After years of high fees, Ethereum is turning the corner, taking on competing platforms like Solana, attractive because it is very cheap to transact on the mainnet, and near-zero to move value of implement smart contracts on its layer-2s like Arbitrum or sidechains like Polygon.
  - Bitcoins, 19 January 2026

• [The latest casino to go all-hours]: the New York Stock Exchange (owned by Intercontinental Exchange) builds tokenized securities platform to bring stocks and ETFs to 24/7 on-chain trading
  - Thomson's Reuters, 19 January 2026

• [The latest casino to go all-hours]: the New York Stock Exchange (owned by Intercontinental Exchange) builds tokenized securities platform to bring stocks and ETFs to 24/7 on-chain trading
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 19 January 2026

• [The latest casino to go all-hours]: the New York Stock Exchange (owned by Intercontinental Exchange) builds tokenized securities platform to bring stocks and ETFs to 24/7 on-chain trading
  - Nerds.xyz, 19 January 2026

• Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency. But no other cryptocurrency is bitcoin. Bitcoin requires the existence of no other cryptocurrency. But without Bitcoin, a vast majority of cryptoassets would lose their economic anchor, cultural authority, and reason for being.
  - American Thinker, 18 January 2026

• $1,000,000,000 - The Department of Justice has charged Jorge Figueira for allegedly laundering $1 billion in criminal funds, using USDT on the Tron blockchain to help him do so.
  - DL News, 17 January 2026

• West Virginia considers a new law to allow the state treasurer to gamble up to 10% of taxpayers' dollars on cryptocurrencies, gold and other precious metals
  - Zero Hedge, 17 January 2026

• Is this billionaire a financial genius, or a fraudster? Michael Saylor's financial alchemy thrust an ordinary software company, (Micro)Strategy, into the center of the cryptocurrency frenzy/[bubble]. It all worked spectacularly, until now.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 17 January 2026

• The CEO of the Bank of America warns a major threat (allowing stable coins to effectively offer interest, and thus be unregulated banks) could push trillions of dollars out of banks in the USA. BofA CEO Brian Moynihan issued the warning as CLARITY Act markup gets delayed by Coinbase and others in the stablecoin world [too lazy/corrupt/contemptous to register as real banks].
  - The Street, 16 January 2026

• Stablecoin rewards (offered by companies too lazy/corrupt/contemptous to register as real banks) and their quiet threat to community banking and the insured deposits their offer to the non-rich.
  - Real Clear Markets, 16 January 2026

• The [most authoritarian] cryptocurrency company in the USA asserts its [lobbying] power in Washington. The top executive of the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase scuttled a planned Senate committee vote on a major cryptocurrency bill after voicing his concerns, a sign of [how much money the company has to buy politicians]
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 16 January 2026

• Banks cry foul over allowing tokens to offer high yields (making them unregulated banks) as cryptocurrency fight simmers in Washington. The fight is one factor delaying the Senate Banking Committee effort to advance a bill defining cryptocurrency market rules.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 15 January 2026

• "Banks have been meddling": the cryptocurrency industry is split over the CLARITY Act as Coinbase says "No". "The current Senate compromise is worse than no bill at all. Sounds like the banks have been meddling."
  - Zero Hedge, 15 January 2026

• Over 53% of all crypto tokens launched since 2021 are now inactive, with 2025 alone accounting for 86% of total project failures. The rise of meme coins and easy-to-launch tokens from platforms like pump.fun fueled a flood of low-effort projects that quickly collapsed.
  - CoinDesk, 14 January 2026

• Bitcoin tops $97,000: "This rally has further upside", as optimism over the potential for a legislative tailwind for the cryptocurrency market grew. The token jumped more than 3% after US senators released a draft bill that would create a regulatory framework for the crypto industry, including clarifications surrounding regulators' jurisdiction.
  - Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 14 January 2026

• Tether's role in Venezuela and Iran highlights the duality of stablecoins. The dual life of stablecoins: a legal lifeline for citizens and a criminal tool for sanctioned entities.
  - Zero Hedge, 13 January 2026

• TradFi Trust and DeFi dominance favor ethereum over bitcoin
  - Zero Hedge, 13 January 2026

• South Korea to lift ban on corporate cryptocurrency investment. South Korea's FSC reportedly shared guidelines allowing listed companies to invest up to 5% of equity in the top 20 cryptocurrencies, ending a 2017 ban.
  - Zero Hedge, 12 January 2026

• Gold is beating bitcoin on a risk-adjusted basis for first time
  - Zero Hedge (locked), 09 January 2026

• Congress must close the cryptocurrency[-bought] GENIUS Act's stablecoin loophole. While it bans unregulated-as-banks stablecoin providers from offering interest payments [want to do that, become a real bank], it remains silent on affiliates and exchanges. Cryptocurrency companies have quickly moved to take advantage of this loophole, offering "rewards programs" that mimics interest payments. [KM: cryptocurrency companies are not stupid, as are politicians writing laws they don't read before passing].
  - Real Clear Markets, 09 January 2026

• Why Cambodia handed over a man accused of stealing billions in a cryptocurrency scam. Experts say the online scam industry has become a pillar of the economy of Cambodia, but it is under pressure from other countries (especially Zhōngguó) to crack down.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 09 January 2026

• $26,400,000 - Cryptocurrency token TRU plunges 100% after reports of an alleged hack that stolen $26.4 million of ether tokens used in TRU transactions
  - The Street, 08 January 2026

• Stablecoin titan Tether wants gold to be used for everyday payments. Tether moved to establish a new unit of account for gold, arguing that transactions denominated in "Scudo" could simplify digital payments.
  - Zero Hedge, 07 January 2026

• MSCI will not exclude bitcoin treasury companies [scams] like Michael Saylor's (Micro)Strategy from global indexes
  - Zero Hedge, 07 January 2026

• MSCI will not exclude bitcoin treasury companies [scams] like Michael Saylor's (Micro)Strategy from global indexes
  - Thomson's Reuters, 07 January 2026

• Did DoJ prosecutors violate Trump's executive order by selling forfeited Samourai Wallet bitcoin? It seems that the U.S. Marshall Service, at the direction of the Department of Justice, used Coinbase Prime to liquidate the bitcoin that the Samourai developers forfeited as part of their plea deal.
  - Zero Hedge, 06 January 2026

• Michael Saylor's (Micro)Strategy had a $17.44 billion unrealized loss on digital assets in the fourth quarter tied to a decline in the value of the company's cryptocurrency stockpile. Shares of the largest corporate holder of bitcoin slumped about 47.5% in 2025 as investors reacted to swings in cryptocurrency markets that impacted Strategy's balance sheet and earnings.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 05 January 2026

• The bitcoin bubble is bursting? "Bitcoin Mania" is over, slams a critic, gold advocate Peter Schiff, who claims that gold and silver are entering the "biggest bull market in history"
  - CCN, 05 January 2026

• Stocks, gold, and bitcoin all jump as concerns about the invasion of Venezuela are outweighted by optimism about the AI [bubble]
  - Zero Hedge, 05 January 2026

• Is Venezuela secretly a bitcoin superpower? Alex Saab may control $60 billion in Bitcoin for the Maduro regime. As Trump's naval blockade tightens, the real battle is being fought on the blockchain.
  - Zero Hedge, 03 January 2026

• In a move that could shape corporate Bitcoin adoption, index provider MSCI is set to decide whether to exclude companies holding significant Bitcoin reserves from its global benchmarks. The outcome, due January 15, may influence billions in forced selling and set precedents for how Wall Street views Bitcoin as a treasury asset. Estimates of total forced selling, if implemented, range from $10 billion to $15 billion over a year.
  - Bitcoin Magazine, 02 January 2026

• The scam of 'bitcoin Treasury companies' [many poorly run companies hyping their stock by using bitcoin in their corporate treasuries]: At least 37 of the top 100 Bitcoin treasury companies now trade at discounts to their net asset value - they are [so poorly managed that they] are worth less than the bitcoin they own. "The model is an abomination."
  - DL News, 02 January 2026

• Michael Saylor's (Micro)Strategy flirts again with the danger threshold at which his company is worth less than its holding of bitcoins. If it drops below a mNAV (market to net asset value) drops below 1.0, the stock would likely be sold off by many investors because there is no point in owning a stock whose value is based on Bitcoin if the stock is worth less than the Bitcoin - just buying bitcoin. If the price were to fall below $74K it would imply that (micro)Strategy's Bitcoin stash was worth less than what Saylor has paid for it.
  - Fortune (locked), 02 January 2026

• Eric Trump, Michael Saylor, the "Rich Dad" author and billionaries in 2025 spouted lots of bullish forecasts for the price of bitcoin, with predictions over $150,000 to $500,000. They were all wrong, as it end at $87,000.
  - The Street, 02 January 2026

• YoungHoon Kim, who claims to hold the world's highest IQ, has predicted Bitcoin could reach $276,000 by February 2026. [KM: more pump-and-dump?]
  - CCN, 02 January 2026

• Zhōngguó is upgrading its digital currency from a cash equivalent to "digital deposit money" in response to the rise of stablecoins, but the goal is to create a fundamentally different system
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 30 December 2025

• $36,000,000 - An Australian court has shut down NGS Crypto, a digital asset company that marketed itself as a crypto-based retirement solution, after liquidators recovered just $4.4 million of an estimated $40 million invested by the public
  - The Street, 27 December 2025

• Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong warned that reopening the GENIUS Act would cross a "red line", accusing banks of lobbying Congress to block stablecoin rewards and limit competition [KM: with stablecoin offerers wanting to be less regulated banks - common criminals, be honest on your pursuit of greed].
  - Zero Hedge, 27 December 2025

• Why MicroStrategy's collapse could be the next black swan [bubble-burster] for cryptocurrencies in 2026
  - Be In Crypto, 26 December 2025

• Bitcoin is bruised on boxing day, bonds bid as precious metals rip to new record highs
  - Zero Hedge (locked), 26 December 2025

• Bitcoin traders are watching a familiar sentiment signal after CNBC host Jim Cramer's latest public comments skewed sharply negative on BTC, a shift that some in crypto circles treat as a contrarian cue. [KM: yes - time to buy when Cramer says sell]
  - The Street, 25 December 2025

• Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken plans to offer a digital gambling drug - prediction markets - starting in 2026
  - Versant's CNBC, 25 December 2025

• Bitcoin miners thrive off a new side [scam]: retooling their data centers for AI. The pivot to AI has lifted a bitcoin-mining ETF by 90% this year, even as bitcoin itself has slumped.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 24 December 2025

• $16,000,000 - A man in Brooklyn, New York, is accused of stealing $16 million in cryptocurrencies from victims. From a house in Sheepshead Bay, Ronald Spektor bilked about 100 people across the USA, according to prosecutors. Then, he went online to brag.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 22 December 2025

• Bitcoin advocates have been divided over Michael Saylor's updated bitcoin thesis, leaving question marks over how the Strategy CEO views the cryptocurrency as money or a commodity.
  - Zero Hedge, 20 December 2025

• The CEO of Tether warns that the AI bubble is bitcoin's biggest risk in 2026. Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says an AI-driven bubble could shake bitcoin, and shares his outlook on Europe, DATs and tokenization in 2026.
  - Zero Hedge, 18 December 2025

• The cryptocurrency industry presses/bribes Senate Banking panel to reject efforts to expand limits on stablecoin rewards (which allows them to be unregulated bank). At the center of controversy are regulated banks' concerns about potential deposit outflows. They argue that allowing for such rewards could cause people to shift their money out of deposits and into stablecoins, reducing the funds available for lending, particularly for community banks.
  - The Hill, 18 December 2025

• Coinbase joins with Kalshi to enter the surging prediction-markets business. The cryptocurrency company has its sights on becoming an "everything exchange", and prediction-markets platforms like Kalshi are starting to show up everywhere.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 18 December 2025

• Cryptocurrency prices are crashing because of cultural reasons, not because of regulations and speculators. The industry still has not figured out what to do with its problem children - the scammers, thieves and internet trolls who haven't gotten the memo that the cryptocurrency industry is trying to clean up its act. There are the grifters, , who find in crypto a means to separate people from their money via cryptocurrency ATM thefts. And in extreme cases, kidnappers have targeted crypto investors to compel them to turn over their digital wallet passwords. :Retail investors are teetering between their fear of missing out on a juicy investment and concerns about the unsavory aspects of crypto and its promoters."
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 18 December 2025

• The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation said it is set to bring tokenized US Treasurys onchain, and plans to expand to a "broad spectrum" of assets in the future. The DTCC said on Wednesday that it plans to "enable a subset of US Treasury securities" custodied at its subsidiary, the Depository Trust Company, to be minted on the Canton Network, a permissioned blockchain created by the fintech company Digital Asset.
  - CoinTelegraph, 17 December 2025

• What Trump's embrace of cryptocurrencies has unleashed. A boundary-pushing array of new crypto ventures have reached the stock market, enticing investors and leading to more risk taking [KM: and more get-rich-quick crimes].
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 17 December 2025

• More than two months after the token hit a record high above $126,000, Bitcoin has fallen nearly 30% and is struggling to find support. One reason: its long-time holders have not stopped selling. New blockchain data shows that coins held for years are being divested at some of the fastest rates in recent memory, just as the market's ability to absorb them is fading.
  - Bloomberg, 17 December 2025

• Bitcoin keeps declining in price, and the true believers keep buying. Investors say volatility is par for the course when wading into digital tokens.
  - MSWJ, 17 December 2025

• People in the USA are losing millions of dollars to scammers at cryptocurrency ATMs. The retail chain, Circle K, hosts hundreds of the machines, being one of the cryptocurrency ATM industry's biggest corporate partners. CNN learned that ircle K has made millions by renting space to crypto ATMs -- even amid mounting evidence that the machines are playing a key role in international fraud schemes that exasperate local police called repeatedly to the same stores. A CNN investigation previously revealed how crypto ATM companies profit from rampant and growing scams by frequently marking up the price of cryptocurrency by 20% to 30% or more on transactions, including the illicit ones.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 17 December 2025

• JPMorgan steps further into cryptocurrencies with tokenized money fund. The new private fund will run on the Ethereum blockchain and be available to qualified investors.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 16 December 2025

• JPMorgan steps further into cryptocurrencies with tokenized money fund. The new private fund will run on the Ethereum blockchain and be available to qualified investors.
  - Zero Hedge, 16 December 2025

• Carnage continues with the decline in cryptocurrency prices agead of tomorrow's 'double whammy' of jobs data
  - Zero Hedge (locked), 15 December 2025

• Private credit is poised for disruption by blockchain. A recent bankruptcy involving $1.1 billion in liabilities (Tricolor Auto Group) suffers from the duplicate pledging of the same collateral at all levels of the industry, which is regulated at the state level (and state's don't share information). A blockchain ledger could be used to avoid this problem.
  - Real Clear Markets, 15 December 2025

• Interactive Brokers now accepts stablecoins in bid to remain competitive. Using stablecoins allows customers to fund accounts directly from cryptocurrency wallets rather than bank accounts.
  - Zero Hedge (locked), 15 December 2025

• The $300 billion stablecoin industry. Financial experts worry that the increasing adoption of these cryptocurrencies could pose large risks to the financial system. Stablecoin companies "enjoy the privileges of being a bank without the responsibilities".
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 15 December 2025

• The SEC was tough on cryptocurrency crimes. It reduced its efforts after Trump (who has profited greatly from his cryptocurrencies deals) returned to office.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 14 December 2025

• Gold and silver rise in price, and bitcoin and Big Tech decline, as Oracle's 'grinch' news slams the gifts of Fed 'Santa' Powell
  - Zero Hedge (locked), 11 December 2025

• With nearly $1.59 billion in leveraged short positions set to be liquidated if Bitcoin clears $95,076, analysts warn the market may be approaching a critical pressure poont - one that could trigger either a powerful breakout or a sharp reversal.
  - CCN, 10 December 2025

• PNC Bank and Coinbase have launched direct access to spot bitcoin trading for eligible PNC Private Bank customers. The Pittsburgh-based national bank released a limited rollout of its new bitcoin buy, sell and hold capabilities this week in fulfillment of a goal announced in July of this year when PNC and Coinbase began their partnership.
  - American Banker, 10 December 2025

• A cold breeze in the cryptocurrency world - no buyers, no money flows. MSTR and other DATs previously boosted BTC demand via leverage and equity sales, but that playbook is no longer viable under current valuations.
  - Zero Hedge (locked), 10 December 2025

• The CFTC starts a pilot program allowing cryptocurrency as collateral in derivative markets
  - Zero Hedge, 10 December 2025

• Inside the dark and predatory worl of cryptocurrency casinos. Using exploitative marketing strategies, the illicit gambling websites haved lured in and profited from a young generation of [addicted] gamblers.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 10 December 2025

• Cryptocurrencies and silver soar in price as odds of interest rate reductions decline, after mixed economic data
  - Zero Hedge (locked), 09 December 2025

• Cryptocurrency pros blast a potential move to exclude bitcoin holding treasury companies [which can only innovate hype] from MSCI indexes
  - Business Insiders, 09 December 2025

• Bitcoin traders target $20,000 bitcoin strike prices as deep out-of-the-month options gain traction
  - Coindesk, 08 December 2025

• American Bitcoin, a (Eric) Trump family business, nosedived by 47% percent week-on-week, as investors sold off positions following the expiration of a lockup period.
  - Insider Monkey, 08 December 2025

• Trump's pardon of former Honduras president Juan Orlando Hernández, a criminally-convicted drug trafficker, is linked to the Trump's family profitting from (moneylaundering) cryptocurrencies
  - MSNOW, 07 December 2025

• Ark Invest founder and CEO Cathie Wood predicts the gold prices will crash, and that bitcoin will outperform gold (much a contrarian view)
  - TheStreet, 07 December 2025

• Criminals are using a cryptocurrency to launder money and evade sanctions. Through layers of intermediaries, stablecoins can be moved, swapped and mixed into pools of other funds in ways that are difficult to trace, experts say.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 07 December 2025

• $1,100,000,000 - Local law enforcement is hunting down about 14,000 illegal Bitcoin mining operations in Malaysia, which they say have stolen around $1.1 billion in electricity over the last five years.
  - Futurism, 06 December 2025

• An investigation links corruption with flood control programs in the Philippines to Pogo cryptocurrency corruption. Cybercrime officials have uncovered a "definite link" between the massive graft scandal and cryptocurrency laundering rings run by banned gaming operators
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 06 December 2025

• How fraudsters use cryptocurrency ATMs to target victims
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 06 December 2025

• Why JPMorgan says bitcoin could rocket to $170,000 in the coming months. "Our volatility-adjusted bitcoin comparison to gold metric continues to imply a theoretical bitcoin price of close to $170,000."
  - Business Insider, 04 December 2025

• The state of Connecticut orders Robinhood, Crypto.com, and Kalshi to stop offering prediction markets, arguing that the platforms' event contracts are unlicensed sports betting.
  - Zero Hedge, 04 December 2025

• Gold champion Peter Schiff slams bitcoin as a "huge casino" and a "Ponzi scheme", and calls out Michael Saylor's prediction of a $10 million price for bitcoin
  - CCN, 04 December 2025

• Those sky-high bitcoin prices that everyone said were here to stay? They left. Bitcoin has plunged more than 30 percent and Ether is down around 40 percent in recent months, as gains from Trump's pro-crypto policies evaporated.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 03 December 2025

• Behind the big decline in the price of bitcoin - investors are not willing to buy into the volatility
  - Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 02 December 2025

• The CEO of Tether slams the S&P ratings agency and influencers spearing "fear, uncertainty and doubt" about USDT's ability to maintain its peg to the USA dollar
  - Zero Hedge, 02 December 2025

• Billionaire warns that Tether, the largest private gold holder, could be insolvent. He said that Tether's recent attestation shows a balance sheet increasingly exposed to gold and Bitcoin (BTC), which he said may struggle if interest rates fall.
  - TheStreet, 02 December 2025

• Digtial Asset Treasuries are cryptocurrencies' latest hype - and maybe its next bubble. DATs are companies that hold cryptocurrency and attempt to outperform the underlying asset through various strategies. But as their value falls with crypto prices, there are growing concerns that DATs will have to start selling digital assets. [KM: what isn't a bubble in tech space?]
  - Versant's CNBC, 02 December 2025

• Retail trades of cryptocurrencies have been hit hard as (Micro)Strategy's ETFs (the doubly-leveraged MSTX and MSTU) have plunged 80% in 2025. Along with another of its ETFs, MSTP, investors have lost $1.5 billion since early October.
  - Bloomberg, 02 December 2025

• The bitcoin canary in the coalmine (its recent quick 30% decline?
  - American Enterprise Institute, 01 December 2025

• Bitcoin craters below $86,000, Ethereum dips 7% in massive cryptocurrency wipeout
  - Murdoch's New York Post, 01 December 2025

• Legendary trader Peter Brandt warns that bitcoin price will crash below $58,000
  - CoinGape, 01 December 2025

• Peter Schiff predicts the "beginning of the end" for (Micro)Strategy as (Micro)Strategy eases bitcoin sell-off fears with its $1.44 billion reserve for dividend payments
  - CoinGape, 01 December 2025

• The management of (Micro)Strategy creates a $1.4 billion cash reserve, and increases its bitcoin holdings to 650,000 bitcoins. Strategy funded a new reserve from stock sales to cover at least 12 months of dividends.
  - CCN, 01 December 2025

• Cryptocurrency traders say that (Micro)Strategy might start selling some of its bitcoin holdings - should they be worried?
  - CCN, 01 December 2025

• $2,000,000,000+ - Authorities in Switzerland and Deutschland shut down Cryptomixer.io website, as part of a crackdown on money laundering. The regulators said that Cryptomixer.io, started in 2016, had been one of the largest bitcoin mixers with billions euros in revenues, most of which were gained from criminal activities. Europol said in a separate statement that Cryptomixer.io, suspected of facilitating cybercrime, including ransomware schemes and money laundering, was accessible both on the regular web and the dark web.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 01 December 2025

• Gold advocate Peter Schiff slams bitcoin as a "fake asset" amid a price drop, and accuses CNBC of "hosting bitcoin shills"
  - CCN, 01 December 2025

• Gold regains its status as the most favored non-fiat asset. Inflows into gold exchange-traded funds are rising again while those into Bitcoin ETFs continue to fall.
  - Zero Hedge (locked), 01 December 2025

• Cryptocurrencies crushed by triple-whammy overnight. Bank of Nihon hawks trump Fed doves; 'selling' fears for shares of Strategy; and renewed Zhōngguó ban anxiety - all pushed down cryptocurrency prices
  - Zero Hedge, 01 December 2025

• The central bank of Zhōngguó reaffirms cryptocurrency ban, flags stablecoin risks, following multi-agency meeting
  - The Block, 01 December 2025

• Bitcoin and ethereum fall sharply as cryptocurrency sell-off resumes. Bitcoin was last seen at about $85,959 at 8:11 a.m. ET, a slide of nearly 6%. Ethereum dropped around 6.6% in early trade, to reach about $2,827. Solana had fallen more than 7%, and was last seen around $127, while other closely watched tokens were also in the red, including dogecoin, which slipped around 9%.
  - Versant's CNBC, 01 December 2025

• Shares of companies with cryptocurrency treasuries (the latest cryptocurrency scam) are under pressure, and declining, as risk appetite wanes for cryptocurrencies. At least 15 bitcoin treasury companies were trading below the net asset value of their tokens as of Friday.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 28 November 2025

• CoinShares filed on Friday to withdraw its plan to launch three ETFs, as the cryptocurrency company in Europe plans to focus on higher-margin opportunities ahead of its listing in the USA. Separately, the company is also winding down its CoinShares bitcoin futures leveraged ETF.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 28 November 2025

• After October's 'liquidation day' collapse for cryptocurrencies, 'ADL' are the 3 most important letters for cryptocurrencies. In October 2025, Hyperliquid, one of the leading decentralized perpetual futures exchanges, triggered its cross-margin Auto-Deleveraging (ADL) mechanism for the first time in over two years of operation.
  - Zero Hedge, 28 November 2025

• Tether's 116-ton hoard of gold rivals the reserves of South Korea and Hungary. Tether accounted for almost 2% of global gold demand last quarter, with Jefferies noting that its aggressive buying may be influencing short-term market sentiment.
  - Zero Hedge, 27 November 2025

• Nobel price winner Paul Krugman argues that the plummeting price of bitcoin is deeply connected to Trump's waning political power: "Think of it as the unreaveling of the Trump trade".
  - Jiaravanon's Fortune, 26 November 2025

• Trump's cryptocurrency empire is crashing - and his followers are losing a huge amount of money
  - Be(in)Crypto, 26 November 2025

• With Michael Saylor's company, Strategy, now worth less than the bitcoin it holds, investors worry that a business model that relied on a virtuous circle of rising crypto prices and massive share and debt issuance is now unravelling. If Strategy is removed from the MSCI USA and Nasdaq 100 indexes, large numbers of its shares will have to be sold. Up to $2.8 billion of passive money could be forced to sell if MSCI proceeds, with potentially billions more following if other index providers adopt the same position. This could force the price of the stock even further.
  - Financial Times, 26 November 2025

• Bitcoin was a useless as a VIX hedge, but does the latest decline in volatility/VIX mean that bitcoin prices will rise. BTC and VIX (inverted) move in perfect tandem.
  - Zero Hedge, 26 November 2025

• Families of victims in Israel of the October 7th terrorist attacks by Hamas, are suing Binance, accusing it of using its cryptocurrency services to aid terrorism. A lawsuit claims Binance's cryptocurrency exchange turned a blind eye as $1 billion used to finance the October 7 attacks in Israel and other acts moved through its network. Changpeng Zhao, Binance's founder, was convicted of money laundering in 2023 and pardoned by Trump in late October 2025.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 26 November 2025

• How some exporters in Zhōngguó benefit from using stablecoins backed by the USA dollar. From navigating trade restrictions to overcoming regulatory barriers, more traders are embracing the digital asset - but not without risks.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 26 November 2025

• Five reasons behind bitcoin's recent plunge, including: 1) A broad drop in equities and risk sentiment; 2) A hawkish turn in USA monetary policy; 3) Regulatory uncertainty despite earlier legalisation progress; and 4) Outflows from ETFs
  - Zero Hedge (locked), 24 November 2025

• Bitcoin 'bleeds' - death cross, outflows, and shitty liquidity collide. Bitcoin has lost its 'digital gold' reputation, and is trading like a high-beta tech stock.
  - Zero Hedge, 24 November 2025

• How the plunge in bitcoin prices relates to a weakening stock market
  - Murdoch's MarketWatch, 21 November 2025

• Realized losses for bitcoin holders rise to the levels of the FTX: where is the bottom in prices?
  - Zero Hedge, 21 November 2025

• The plunge in cryptocurrency prices causes losses of nearly $400 billion in a week
  - Axios, 21 November 2025

• Bitcoin continues to plunge in price, threatening to drop below $80,000
  - Versant's CNBC, 21 November 2025

• Bitcoin flash-crashes below $82,000 as UBS says a "flush" is needed before "turning more constructive"
  - Zero Hedge, 21 November 2025

• Close the unregulated stablecoin loophole (allowing stablecoin to pay interest 'rewards') before we all pay the price
  - Real Clear Markets, 20 November 2025

• $45,000,000,000 - The crash of the LUNA stablecoin in May 2021 led to cryptocurrency (and related losses) of $45 billion immediately after the crash
  - Real Clear Markets, 20 November 2025

• BitMine Immersion Technologies, the world's largest corporate Ether holder, is currently down $1,000 per purchased ETH, implying a cumulative unrealized loss of $3.7 billion on its total holdings. Concerns are mounting over the sustainability of corporate crypto-treasury firms as BlackRock moves forward with a staked Ether fund that analysts say could compete directly with existing digital-asset treasuries.
  - Zero Hedge, 20 November 2025

• $28,000,000 - The UK's Serious Fraud Office said on it was investigating the collapse of $28 million cryptocurrency scheme organized by Basis Markets, urging investors to step after two men were arrested on suspicion of fraud and money laundering. Basis Markets had raised cash from two public fundraisers in late 2021 by selling non-fungible tokens and used the funds to create a cryptocurrency hedge fund.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 20 November 2025

• Stocks and cryptocurrency prices are slammed down as the overnight gains for Nvidia's stocks are erased after its post-earnings spike [KM: not a bubble burst, but ...]
  - Zero Hedge, 20 November 2025

• The leveraged cryptocurrency trades that amplified profits are now turbocharging losses. Bitcoin's steep fall highlights the growth of risky bets offered by Wall Street and cryptocurrency firms alike.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 20 November 2025

• Así operaba red que estafaba con criptomonedas desde Medellín y que tumbó más de 71.000 millones de pesos (US $19 million) en tres países
  - El Colombiano, 18 November 2025

• Bitcoin was last trading around $91,000, but earlier in the day briefly declined to $89,259, its lowest since April 22. With today's losses, bitcoin is now down 2% for the year.
  - Versant's CNBC, 18 November 2025

• Two Democratic senators seek a criminal probe into Trump-linked cryptocurrency firm due to token sales tied to North Korea and Rossiya
  - Versant's CNBC, 18 November 2025

• The stock of [the grifter] Trump's tech company is crashing so hard that it isn't even funny. Shares are down almost 70 percent since the beginning of the year, and down over 80 percent since hitting a record high following the merger last year during the runup to the election.
  - Zero Hedge, 17 November 2025

• $28,000,000,000 - The cryptocurrency industry's $28 billion in 'dirty money'. As Trump has championed cryptocurencies and the industry has gone mainstream, funds from scammers and other criminal groups have flowed onto major cryptocurrency exchanges. At least $28 billion tied to illicit activity has flowed into cryptocurrency exchanges over the last two years.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 17 November 2025

• The decline in the price of bitcoin could decline further as liquidity worries take hold
  - Versant's CNBC, 17 November 2025

• The price of bitcoin falls below $95,000 amid a sell-off in technology stocks
  - Versant's CNBC, 14 November 2025

• Bitcoin ends week in a slump. The weekly of about 9% was fueled by investors' retreat from riskier and more speculative trades, dragging down other cryptocurrency coins and companies.
  - Versant's CNBC, 14 November 2025

• Strategy, formerly MicroStrategy, has seen its fortune decline of late as the leading Bitcoin (BTC) treasury's stock has dropped by a drastic 60% from its peak. Moreover, Strategy's multiple-to-net-asset-value (mNAV) has been approaching 1x. Below that, its is holding bitcoins at a loss.
  - The Street, 13 November 2025

• Bitcoin and oil decline in price, and bonds and gold prices increase, as AI [bubble] angst accelerates
  - Zero Hedge (locked), 12 November 2025

• A $25 billion bitcoin bet is fraying as doubt hits big buyers. Over the past month, many of the biggest buyers - from exchange-traded fund allocators to corporate treasuries - have quietly stepped back, depriving the market of the flow-driven support that helped propel the token to records earlier this year. Their retreat has not sparked an industry-wide panic. But it has upended expectations.
  - Bloomberg, 12 November 2025

• Bitcoin has flashed its fourth death cross, a classic technical pattern that often precedes prolonged downside moves. The formation occurs when the 50-day moving average crosses below the 200-day, signaling fading momentum and growing bearish sentiment.
  - The Street, 12 November 2025

• Visa just unlocked stablecoin payouts -- here is why that is a game-changer for emerging markets. VISA is testing a new feature that lets businesses send USDC stablecoins directly into consumers' crypto wallets through Visa Direct its real-time global payments network spanning 195 countries.
  - GuruFocus, 12 November 2025

• JPMorgan launches dollar deposit token on Coinbase's base network. JPMorgan Chase has begun deploying its deposit token, JPM Coin, allowing institutional clients to make instant 24/7 transfers of US dollar deposits on Base.
  - Zero Hedge, 12 November 2025

• Will the growth of stablecoins drain bank deposits? Some argue that the rapid growth of stablecoins portends a repeat of the disintermediation experience that began in the 1970s with the invention of money market mutual fund.
  - Zero Hedge, 12 November 2025

• The next financial crisis, similar to the housing bubble/crash of 2007 will be ... bitcoin. "CNBC should be embarassed to have cryptocurrency prices on their website".
  - Calculated Risk, 11 November 2025

• $13,300,000,000 - Zhōngguó accuses the USA of stealing 127,426 bitcoin worth $13.3 billion from a 2020 hack of the LuBian mining pool
  - Bitcoin Magazine, 11 November 2025

• Why Tether is acting more like a central bank than a stablecoin. Once a simple stablecoin issuer, Tether now mirrors central bank mechanics with reserves, profits and policy-like decisions.
  - Zero Hedge, 11 November 2025

• Bitcoin has a "high probability" of crashing below $60,000 if it stays below $110,000, predicts a bitcoin analyst, but the fall could be even steeper
  - Bering Capital's Benzinga, 10 November 2025

• Santander's digital lender Openbank launches cryptocurrency trading in España
  - Thomson's Reuters, 10 November 2025

• Stablecoins: the unexpected lifeline [noose?] for the USA dollar. A paradox now sits at the center of global finance: [KM: idiots/whores in] the USA government, in trying to stabilize its debt markets, has legitimized the very free-market forces - especially stablecoins - that are eroding its monopoly over money.
  - Zero Hedge, 10 November 2025

• Will the growth of stablecoins drain bank deposits, especially if they can offer interest - 'rewards'? The rise of money market funds in the 1970s, offering attractive yields, contributed to the failure of hundreds of depository institutions during the 1980s.
  - Real Clear Markets, 10 November 2025

• This year's hottest cryptocurrency trade is crumbling. Some investors are saying "told you so", while others are doubling down, as a selloff in bitcoin and other digital tokens hits cryptocurrency-treasury companies.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 10 November 2025

• Real estate guru Grant Cardone predicts that there will be a "massive implosion" of bitcoin treasury companies
  - Bering Capital's Benzinga, 10 November 2025

• Bitcoin and ether experience fourth negative week in past five weeks
  - Versant's CNBC, 08 November 2025

• Four reasons why ethereum did not fall below $3000, and probably won't. Ethereum's price drop to $3,000 was likely a buy-the-dip opportunity with ETH set to recover, based on several key market metrics.
  - Zero Hedge, 07 November 2025

• Bitcoin ETF cash flows show sentiment worse for cryptocurrencies than gold
  - Zero Hedge (locked), 06 November 2025

• Money-changing stablecoin rewards are the shortcut to financial trouble for the USA. It is important that stablecoin offeres cannot pay interest to coinholders with "rewards" programs. If they can, they become money-market funds. The minute a stablecoin begins to act like a money-market fund, it inherits the same systemic risks: maturity transformation, liquidity mismatches, and the potential for digital bank runs.
  - Real Clear Markets, 06 November 2025

• Cathie Wood trims her bitcoin bull case on threat of stablecoins taking some market share
  - Versant's CNBC, 06 November 2025

• $205,800,000 - Police in Hong Kong have charged 16 individuals, including influencer Joseph Lam Chok, with fraudulently or recklessly inducing others to invest in virtual assets, conspiracy to defraud and money laundering, in the HK$1.6 billion (US$205.8 million) JPEX cryptocurrency scandal - the largest alleged financial fraud to date in Hong Kong.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 05 November 2025

• Franklin Templeton introduces tokenised money market fund in Hong Kong
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 05 November 2025

• Stocks, gold, credit, and cryptocurrencies crushed as 'hunt for laggards' hammers BigTech. The S&P 500 P/E multiple is nearing levels it has seen during each of the past two Tech bubbles (2001 and 2021).
  - Zero Hedge, 04 November 2025

• Bitcoin drops below $100,000 for the first time since June, below its 200-day moving average
  - Zero Hedge, 04 November 2025

• 95% of Iran's 427,000 active cryptocurrency-miners operate illegally. Iran's energy chief says that cryptocurrency mining rigs are consuming massive power and destabilizing the national grid.
  - Zero Hedge, 04 November 2025

• Did Trump "thou shalt not" lied when he said that he does not know the criminal cryptocurrency billionaire that he pardoned? Changpeng Zhao had admitted to violations that allowed criminals to move money on the cryptocurrency exchange he founded, which struck a lucrative deal involving the Trump family's own cruptocurrency venture.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 04 November 2025

• The decline of the price of bitcoin (down 6% in 2 days) in November worsens as investors reduce risk due to worries about the AI bubble
  - Versant's CNBC, 04 November 2025

• The decline of the price of bitcoin (down 6% in 2 days) in November worsens as investors reduce risk due to worries about the AI bubble
  - Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 04 November 2025

• The price of bitcoin is mostly flat since December 2024 - the magic is dead
  - Zero Hedge (locked), 03 November 2025

• The top 10 richest men in the USA saw their wealth grow by $700 billion combined under Trump (due in part to the AI bubble). The [grifter] Trump's own personal wealth allegedly grew by $3.4 billion during his two terms in office.
  - The Independent, 03 November 2025

• American Bitcoin, a Bitcoin mining firm co-founded by Eric Trump, saw its shares crash more than 50% in less than 30 minutes on December 2, prompting multiple trading halts. American Bitcoin's stock has now fallen about 60% in the past six months.
  - The Street, 02 November 2025

• The Treasury Department's borrowing plans could lower the 10-year Treasury note yield by a third of a percentage point over the medium term. Increasing the share of Treasury bills in federal financing is seen as "backdoor quantitative easing [moneyprinting]" by BofA strategists, similar to the Fed's quantitative easing. Tether, a stablecoin issuer, holds approximately 2% of the total Treasury bill supply, making it a significant nonsovereign holder.
  - Barron's, 01 November 2025

• JPMorgan tokenizes private-equity fund on its own blockchain. Move marks the bank's first step toward a broad rollout of its fund tokenization platform.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 31 October 2025

• How a billionaire criminal of the bitcoin/bitcon world helped the Trump family get rich with their bitcoin venture. The investment bought Changpeng Zhao a pardon [effectively purchased] from Trump.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 30 October 2025

• The center-right UDR party of France is introducing its first comprehensive crypto bill to create a national Bitcoin Strategic Reserve, aiming to acquire up to 2% of bitcoin's supply (about 420,000 BTC) over seven to eight years to strengthen financial sovereignty.
  - Zero Hedge, 29 October 2025

• Western Union plans to launch its own stablecoin in 2026 to send money around the globe, a move that might lower customer costs and settle transactions faster
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 29 October 2025

• BlackRock-linked tokenization firm Securitize to go public via SPAC deal. The fintech firm will merge with Cantor Equity Partners II, Inc., a blank-check company sponsored by an affiliate of Cantor Fitzgerald.
  - Versant's CNBC, 28 October 2025

• CryptoOracle, the trader who runs the "1000 Crypto Trading" Telegram group with over 1,000 active members, warned his followers last week that a government shutdown would send shockwaves through both traditional and digital markets, triggering a sharp Bitcoin sell-off before a massive rebound. "Expect a 30-40% Bitcoin correction - and then the rally of the decade. BTC to $250,000 is still on the table."
  - The Street, 27 October 2025

• Gambling apps are really no different than any other social media app; they are all designed to be highly addictive. The nexus of dopamine now includes financial markets. Most of the trading that goes on day-to-day is nothing more than gambling, especially with leveraged ETFs. Want more gambling? You have "Bitcoin Treasury" companies. A new company, Coverd (because who needs to spell in the AI economy?), now allows you to gamble on your bills. And the biggest gamble? The AI bubble.
  - Alhambra Partners, 26 October 2025

• How Venezuela uses cryptocurrency to economically minimize Trump's sanctions
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 26 October 2025

• You will probably lose: it is Trump's casino economy - the AI bubble, cryptocurrency scams and memecoins, TACO tax/tariff market manipulation, and sports gambling [KM: and the rich get richer]
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 26 October 2025

• Cryptocurrency treasury stocks face a reckoning. Why this boom/bubble could turn to bust/burst.
  - Barron's, 25 October 2025

• Big banks enter the stablecoin era by taking Zelle international. The move could help the big bank owners of the payment product head off cryptocurrency competition.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 25 October 2025

• After a decade of bitching about bitcoin ... JPMorgan reportedly plans to allow cryptocurrencies as collateral, despite previously arguing that "bitcoin has no intrinsic value"
  - Zero Hedge, 24 October 2025

• In pardoning the founder of Binance for his crimes (he admitted to money-laundering violations that allowed terrorists and other criminals to move money on Binance), Trump is sending a clear message to white-collar criminals (much prevalent in the Internet and cryptocurrency worlds): cryptocurrency entrepreneurs who may be operating on the fringes of the law, or outside of it: don't worry about a thing. "It is the latest example of Trump's Pay-to-Pardon scheme." [KM: as long as the Trump family's cryptocurrency fortunes rise].
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 24 October 2025

• In pardoning the founder of Binance for his crimes (he admitted to money-laundering violations that allowed terrorists and other criminals to move money on Binance), Trump is sending a clear message to white-collar criminals (much prevalent in the Internet and cryptocurrency worlds): cryptocurrency entrepreneurs who may be operating on the fringes of the law, or outside of it: don't worry about a thing. "It is the latest example of Trump's Pay-to-Pardon scheme." [KM: as long as the Trump family's cryptocurrency fortunes rise].
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 24 October 2025

• In pardoning the founder of Binance for his crimes, Trump is sending a clear message to white-collar criminals (much prevalent in the Internet and cryptocurrency worlds): cryptocurrency entrepreneurs who may be operating on the fringes of the law, or outside of it: don't worry about a thing. "It is the latest example of Trump's Pay-to-Pardon scheme." [KM: as long as the Trump family's cryptocurrency fortunes rise].
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 24 October 2025

• The European Union targets natural gas, cryptocurrencies and banks in Rossiya in a huge package of 19 sanctions
  - Zero Hedge, 23 October 2025

• For months, Binance has help boost the Trump family's cryptocurrency company. [The convicted criminal] Trump does a favor for a rich person, Changpeng Zhao (founded of Binance), who was convicted of cryptocurrency money laundering. The favor? Giving the money launderer a pardon for his money laundering crimes.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 23 October 2025

• [The convicted criminal] Trump does a favor for a rich person, Changpeng Zhao (founded of Binance), who was convicted of cryptocurrency money laundering. The favor? Giving the money launderer a pardon for his money laundering crimes.
  - Versant's CNBC, 23 October 2025

• A dip in bitcoin prices below $100,000 seems "inevitable", but Stanford Chartered predicts that bitcoin will rise to $200,000 by the end of 2025
  - Zero Hedge, 22 October 2025

• The new president of Bolivia supports using blockchain for public procurement to reduce corruption in the government
  - Zero Hedge, 22 October 2025

• The price of gold and bitcoin plunge as the dollar debasement trade continues
  - Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 22 October 2025

• The price of gold and related stocks are falling for a second day. The price of gold has declined 8% from recent highs, from $4398 to $4053.
  - Versant's CNBC, 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

• $25,000,000 - 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
  - Versant'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 coming stablecoin shock to the credit markets in the USA. If stablecoins can offer "rewards" that are similar to the interest paid by banks to depositors, and money flows from banks to stablecoins, who is going to provide credit creation. Deposits are the resource that banks use to fuel loans to households, small businesses, and farms, and those loans are what power economic growth. Something that stablecoin moneychangers won't want to do.
  - Open Banker, 16 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

• $15,000,000,000 - The Justice Department seizes $15 billion worth of bitcoin from Chen Zhi (who is in hiding) and his company, Prince Holding Group, alleging the money was the result of trafficking laborers and forcing them to work in compounds across Cambodia, often under the threat of violence. While there, the laborers contacted individuals through messaging or social media applications and persuaded them to transfer cryptocurrency to specific accounts by promising the funds would be invested, a scam tactic known "pig butchering".
  - The Hill, 14 October 2025

• How the companies behind cryptocurrency ATMs profit as Americans lose millions to scams. A CNN investigation, which included a review of more than 700 criminal cases and complaints, has found that crypto ATM companies make money by often marking up the price of cryptocurrency by 20% to 30% or more on transactions, including the illicit ones. Despite public claims, they often fail to refund money to victims and aggressively fight police to claw back scam money seized from machines. [KM: yes, another way for the rich to get richer].
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 14 October 2025

• Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene strongly criticizes Trump for his tax/tariff trade wars and government corruption: "It shouldn't be about helping your crypto donors, or your AI donors" [KM: yes, the rich money-changers must get richer in the temples of democracy]
  - Mediaite, 13 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

• The fastest TACO (Trump Again Chickening Out) after another disastrous impact on the financial markets: after Trump refers to the "highly respected President Xi" of Zhōngguó, weekend stock markets and cryptocurrencies soar in price, after trillion dollar losses on Friday due to Trump's attacks on ... President Xi's policies.
  - Zero Hedge, 12 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

• Cryptocurrency carnage: Trump's latest tax/tariff tantrum triggers the largest liquidation even in the history of cryptocurrencies. Data from CoinGlass indicates that 24-hour liquidations reached nearly $20 billion, with long positions comprising the vast majority. The $19.31 billion in liquidations is more than ten times the losses seen during the COVID-19 crash ($1.2 billion) and the FTX collapse ($1.6 billion).
  - Zero Hedge, 11 October 2025

• $48,000,000 - 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

• $100,000,000 - The cryptocurrency world - get ready for the biggest 'rug pull' of all time (a coordinated effort by a concentrated group to sell their crypto holdings at a price they are content with, leaving the foolish masses with nothing but losses. It is transfer of wealth from a large to a small group. One recent and very visible example was Trump's and Melania's meme coins - investors lost $100 million after early investors quickly cashed out).
  - The Hill, 10 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

• Institutionalizing cryptocurrency crimes: the First Congress explicitly passed laws that prohibits politicians and government officials from "directly or indirectly" being personally "concerned or interested" in transactions involving USA debt obligations or other commercial and financial activities relating to the Treasury's business. Yet the Republican Congress, with two proposed cryptocurrency laws, lack any mention of specific limits on key decision-makers participating in the cryptocurrency markets. Why? Trump is profiting hugely from cryptocurrencies, and Republicans want to enable his self-dealings. [KM: the rich get richer, once again]
  - The Hill, 09 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

• If bitcoiners/bitcon-ers offer 'rewards' for deposited stablecoins, aren't they ... unregistered banks? How stable can stablecoins be - [one of their false promises] - if the dollar they are linked to continues to decline? Stablecoin providers can't offer interest, [KM: so using the Silicon Valley tactic of getting away with committing a crime by changing the words], they offer "rewards". Coinbase offers a reward of 4.1% - sorry, liars, that is interest of the type offered by banks. [KM: meet the new boss, same as the old boss]
  - Real Clear Markets, 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
  - Versant'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

• $6,700,000,000 - 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 Zhōngguó 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
  - Bering Capital's Benzinga, 29 September 2025

• In a move that is sure to make Ripple nervous, traditional financial network Swift announced yesterday that it is partnering with Consensys and more than 30 global banks to build a blockchain based network that will run in parallel with its traditional network. Interestingly, unlike XRP, there is no native coin, rather it aims for interoperability (probably using Chainlink with whom the company did case studies for a few years already). There is also a strong focus on regulatory compliance.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 29 September 2025

• [VIDEO]: Bitcoin rises to around $114,000, recovering some of last week's losses
  - Versant'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

• $300 billion decline in cryptocurrencies is the largest decline in months. Ether is down 14%, and bitcoin down 5%. The downturn accelerated as billions of dollars in bullish bets were unwound across the perpetual futures market for cryptocurrencies. More than $3 billion in long positions were liquidated across exchanges.
  - Bloomberg, 26 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
  - Versant'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

• Morgan Stanley is months away from offering cryptocurrency trading to retail customers through its E-Trade division as the Wall Street giant embraces what it called a transformative moment for the wealth management industry. The firm is working with the startup Zerohash for liquidity, custody and settlement around cryptocurrency trading.
  - Versant's CNBC, 23 September 2025

• Morgan Stanley is months away from offering cryptocurrency trading to retail customers through its E-Trade division as the Wall Street giant embraces what it called a transformative moment for the wealth management industry. The firm is working with the startup Zerohash for liquidity, custody and settlement around cryptocurrency trading.
  - 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.
  - Versant's CNBC, 23 September 2025

• Agent payments are about to revolutionize global financial infrastructure. Coinbase, Google and numerous others have teamed up to build payment rails that allow Autonomous AI Agents (Agents) to instantly transact at vast scale, without the need for banks, using stablecoins on blockchain rails.
  - Zero Hedge, 22 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

• The "Genius Act", while claiming to create virtually risk-free backing for the stablecoins it promotes, in fact ties stablecoin risk to [criminal] banking instability, which the financial system has unfortunately so often experienced. The Act allows uninsured, unsecured bank deposits as an investment for stablecoin reserves. Are these deposits risky? Yes. If he bank or banks where a stablecoin issuer keeps deposits were to fail, amounts above the insured ceiling would suffer losses unless the feds caused the taxpayers to be forced to pay for bailouts [i.e., socialist compensation]a.
  - Real Clear Markets, 19 September 2025

• More authoritarian control by the rich: facial, fingerprint, and iris scans: WEF/Bill Gates' authoritarian vision for biometric digital wallet quietly gaining momentum. The push for a tightly controlled payment and identity system took a quiet but alarming step forward with a little-noticed deal between credit card giant Visa and an obscure tech firm called TECH5. Their seven-year agreement aims to fast-track digital identity and payment systems under the deceptively tame-named "Digital Public Infrastructure", Biometric Update reports.
  - Zero Hedge, 19 September 2025

• New Grayscale ETF holds multiple cryptocurrencies together, combining bitcoin, Solana and others
  - Versant'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

• The criminally-corrupt government of Venezuela has dramatically expanded its use of USDT, the controversial stablecoin better known as Tether, allowing currency exchanges for private sector businesses (and corrupt interests in Venezuela) that can no longer access traditional dollars
  - Bering Capital's Benzinga, 14 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

• Shares of QMMM skyrocket nearly 1750%, not because of innovation, better products, customer service, or anything connected to real business practices, but instead because it announce a plan to create a $100 million digital assets treasury starting with Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana. More fun in the cryptocurrency casinos.
  - Decrypt, 09 September 2025

• Jeremy Siegel, a Wharton Business School professor and the chief economist at the investment management firm WisdomTree, stated to CNBC that stablecoins and bitcoin may turn out to be a serious competitor to the USA dollar as the world's reserve currency. [KM: the rich, especially the Trump's must get richer, even if it wrecks the USA dollar and economy.]
  - The Street, 09 September 2025

• Tether denies bitcoin sell-off rumors, confirms buying bitcoin, gold, and land.
  - Zero Hedge, 08 September 2025

• Nasdaq is working with regulators in the USA to introduce trading of tokenized securities, becoming the latest major financial player on Wall Street to double down on a boom in tokenization amid an easing of crypto regulations under the Trump administration. Coinbase, the largest U.S. crypto exchange, has also previously sought permission from the SEC to offer 'tokenized equities' to its customers. These 'securities' serve no purpose that stocks do not provide, except to facilitate crimes.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 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
  - Bering Capital's 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

• Cryptocurrencies may be shiny and new, but they are missing something esstential - trust. Cryptocurrencies don't really have trusted intermediaries, such as commercial banks, broker-dealers, payments system pipelines, the FDIC, etc., who can cover losses. Blockchain? Untrustworthy and no guarantees.
  - The Hill, 02 September 2025

• Another loss in the cryptocurrency casinos: Shares of CleanCore plummet 60% after it agrees to a $175 million deal to establish a Dogecoin treasury (the current cryptocurrency scam). The firm also named Alex Spiro of Quinn Emmanuel, a high-profile attorney and Elon Musk's lawyer, as chairman of the board effective immediately.
  - CoinDesk, 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

• The cryptocurrency market has just flashed a short-term bear signal. Bitcoin and Ethereum had formed a "rare divergence" as ETH did not mirror bitcoin's over 10% drawdown on the day. He said it was the first time the divergence had occurred since 2021, adding that since 2020, the setup had occurred on just 52 out of 1,927 days. On average, Bitcoin has experienced a 2.8% decline the week after the divergence and a 15.6% decline the month after. On the other hand, Ethereum has, on average, experienced a 6.4% increase one week after and an 8.4% decline one month after.
  - Bering Capital's Benzinga, 30 August 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

• Bitcoin dropped to its lowest level in 50 days, below $108,000. The sharp decline caught traders off guard and triggered $137 million in liquidations of leveraged bullish positions, and could decline further to $100,000. Traders are worried about the USA trade deficit, and bank woes in Zhōngguó.
  - CoinTelegraph, 30 August 2025

• What will remain after the AI and cryptocurrency bubbles?
  - Project Syndicate (locked), 29 August 2025

• Last month, KrebsOnSecurity tracked the sudden emergence of hundreds of polished online gaming and wagering websites that lure people with free credits and eventually abscond with any cryptocurrency funds deposited by players. We have since learned that these scam gambling sites have proliferated thanks to a new Russian affiliate program called "Gambler Panel" that bills itself as a "soulless project that is made for profit".
  - Krebs on Security, 28 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

• Daily transaction fees on Bitcoin have plunged more than 80% since April 2024. This has caused revenues to dwindle for bitcoin miners. The collapse comes more than a year after bitcoin's 2024 halving slashed block rewards in half, leaving miners increasingly dependent on transaction fees that have largely disappeared. Too many financial institutions are hoarding bitcoins for their clients, but not using them.
  - DL News, 27 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

• GLJ Research analyst Gordon Johnson issued a warning about Bitcoin facing a potential 65% crash as Federal Reserve cash reserves reach critically low levels. Johnson's research shows total U.S. liquidity tracking at a 79.4% correlation with S&P 500 performance.
  - Bering Capital's Benzinga, 26 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
  - Bering Capital's 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

• $650,000 - 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
  - Bering Capital's Benzinga, 24 August 2025

• A huge lobbyist battle in Washington, between lobbyists for banks and lobbyists for cryptocurrency companies. The worry for authoritarian banks (whose fines are in the tens of billions) is that their banks face deposit flight, with customers fleeing to loosely-regulated cryptocurrency products that pay interest offered by cryptocurrency companies (whose fines are in the tens of billions of dollars).
  - Axel Springer's Politico, 23 August 2025

• If bitcoin treasury gmabling companies are buying billions, why is the price not going up?
  - Bering Capital's 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

• Bitcoin is behaving more like a blue-chip stock as Wall Street's buy-and-hold investors plunge in. Annualized volatility has dropped to a once-unthinkable 38% from close to 200% more than a decade ago. Its volatility is now comparable to the likes of Starbucks or Goldman Sachs. Investors chasing price swings are instead turning to rival Ethereum, the second-largest virtual currency.
  - Bloomberg, 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%
  - Bering Capital's Benzinga, 18 August 2025

• Bitcoin sinks to $115,000 after hitting its newest record, as macroeconomic concerns spark a large volume of liquidation
  - Versant'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
  - Bering Capital's Benzinga, 13 August 2025

• Lixte Biotechnology's stock (LIXT) finished the day trading 16% lower at $4.06 per share on Wednesday, shortly after the clinical-stage pharmaceutical firm announced its plan to allocate up to 25% of its reserves to a Bitcoin treasury [the latest scam of incompetent managements]
  - Decrypt, 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

• $300,000,000,000 - 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

• Cryptocurrencies are so deeply embedded into modern financial systems that it bitcoin ever implodes after reaching true institutional scale, it could spark a global liquidity crisis, shake faith in U.S. financial judgment, and potentially accelerate the erosion of American economic dominance.
  - Zero Hedge, 08 August 2025

• A major historical four-year cycle in bitcoin that dictates its price might be breaking
  - Versant's CNBC, 08 August 2025

• $48,500,000 - 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

• Crypto traders are accusing grifter Trump of wanting to crash Bitcoin on purpose (down below $110,000) - just to 'clear the books' before prices increase again. They cite Trump signing a sweeping Executive Order slapping a 25% tariff on all imports from Bharat. "No one wants to see Bitcoin below $98,000 just because of Trump's tantrum over oil."
  - The Street, 06 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

• Who will pay for stablecoin supervision and regulation? Government regulation of financial institutions is expensive and there is no reason to think regulation of payment stablecoins is going to be cheap. Trump's sold-legislation, the GENIUS Act, to promote stablecoins demands that federal regulators regulate stablecoins. But the new law not provide any resources for developing the regulatory infrastructure needed to launch the industry. Let the crimes begin.
  - Real Clear Markets, 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

• Can stablecoins save the USA dollar - ot just delay its collapse. Tether could be thought of as the "retail eurodollar" (eurodollars are basically offshore dollars) for the digital age. Tether gives anyone with a smartphone instant, global access to digital USA dollars. Today, stablecoins already settle more value than Visa. Whether people realize it or not, this is the future of dollar payments for billions of people.
  - Zero Hedge, 31 July 2025

• Robinhood reports greater-than-expexted second-quarter earnings with revenue climbing 45%
  - Versant's CNBC, 31 July 2025

• $19,500,000 - 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.
  - Versant's CNBC, 28 July 2025

• $3,400,000 - 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
  - Versant'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.
  - 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
  - Bering Capital's 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
  - Versant's CNBC, 22 July 2025

• $146,500,000 - 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
  - Versant's CNBC, 21 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

• $32,000,000 - Police in Brazil dismantled a sophisticated criminal syndicate that laundered over R$164 million (approximately USD 32 million) through cryptocurrency
  - TRM Labs, 18 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.
  - Versant'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
  - Versant'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

• Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey warned global investment banks against developing their own stablecoins, highlighting possible threats to financial stability. He argued that stablecoins do not carry the same safeguards as conventional bank deposits and could siphon money away from the banking system, potentially weakening credit creation and monetary policy control.
  - Coindesk, 14 July 2025

• Maxine Waters: "my colleagues in Congress are making a mistake [similar to past deregulatory laws] advancing a proposed law to promote cryptocurrencies" for moneychangers. The proposed laws call for few regulations, minimal enforcement, weak consumer protections and more industry consolidation. Worse, these bills have a special, intentional wrinkle that makes them especially dangerous: They would legitimize and legalize the unprecedented crypto corruption by the president of the United States. The proposed laws fail to protect consumers, and create national security risks.
  - Comcast's MSNBC, 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
  - Bering Capital's 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
  - Versant'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
  - Versant'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

• $650,000,000+ - Federal prosecutors criminally charged two men in connection with a sprawling cryptocurrency investment scheme that allegedly defrauded victims of more than $650 million
  - Versant'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

• After Robinhood announced "OpenAI tokens" that supposedly provided equity in the non-publicly traded OpenAI, OpenAI denounces Robinhood's scam: "There 'OpenAI' tokens are not OpenAI equity. We did not partner with Robinhood, were not involved in this, and do not endorse it. Any transfer of OpenAI equity requires our approval - we did not approve any transfer. Please be careful."
  - Zero Hedge, 03 July 2025

• Peter Thiel, and other very rich tech investors, plan to start a new digital-only bank, Erebor, to meet some of the needs due to the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank. It plans to become a dominant player in stablecoin transactions [to help undermine the USA dollar].
  - Zero Hedge, 02 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.]
  - Versant'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
  - Versant'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

• The end of bank branches, and jobs at bank branches, in Europe: how the digital euro and stablecoins are reshaping finance in Europe. Ten years ago, banks in Deutschland operated more than 35,000 branches. A quarter-century ago, that number was closer to 60,000. Today, only 18,933 remain.
  - Zero Hedge, 28 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
  - Versant'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.
  - Versant'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.
  - Versant'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

• The stablecoin timebomb hidden in Trump's GENIUS act to regulate stablecoins. Stablecoins are the bastard child of parents seemingly at permanent odds with each other: the libertarian crypto community and statist dollar worshippers - very useful for criminal mafia types. Already, stablecoins account for around 80% of all cryptocurrency transactions. More use of Treasury Bond backed stablecoins will cause Treasury Bond yields to fall, causing banks to raise their interest rates to keep dollars in their banks. What happens if a stablecoin issued outside the United States crashes? And so the Genius Act is hard to criticize - if the intention is to maximize the threat of a financial meltdown. Essentially, it weaponises stablecoins to privatise money and effectively outsource dollar dominance to Trump-friendly authoritarian technology lords.
  - UnHerd, 19 June 2025

• How Walmart and Amazon could upend the banking system by issuing their own stablecoins. "Every year, Amazon and Walmart fork over billions to credit card networks and banks in interchange fees ($14 billion in 2024). By launching or accepting stablecoins - especially dollar-backed ones - hey can bypass the Visa/Mastercard mafia, cut costs, and settle instantly, including cross-border."
  - Investor Place, 18 June 2025

• $225,300,000 - 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.
  - Versant'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 shady financial past of a major investor in Trump's cryptocurrencies. Andrei Grachev, an early booster of a Trump cryptocurrency offering, has cycled through several alleged investment scams and was convicted on fraud charges in Rossiya. As CEO of Huobi, Grachev said he was working to list OneCoin, a $4 billion international Ponzi scheme that collapsed and sent one of its creators to US federal prison for 20 years.
  - The Nation, 17 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

• The Senate, after being lobbied/bribed , passes a law to establish the first-ever USA regulatory framework for digital tokens known as stablecoins that are pegged to the value of the dollar. It passes to the House to be voted upon there. Stablecoin legislation has been a longtime lobbying goal for crypto firms, which have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into influence efforts in recent years. Criminals around the world are rejoicing. The Senate basically sends a message that one cannot trust the physical coins/dollars of the USA, so go with the digital.
  - Axel Springer's Politico, 17 June 2025

• The Senate, after being lobbied/bribed , passes a law to establish the first-ever USA regulatory framework for digital tokens known as stablecoins that are pegged to the value of the dollar. It passes to the House to be voted upon there. Stablecoin legislation has been a longtime lobbying goal for crypto firms, which have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into influence efforts in recent years. Criminals around the world are rejoicing. The Senate basically sends a message that one cannot trust the physical coins/dollars of the USA, so go with the digital.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 17 June 2025

• JPMorgan moves further into cryptocurrencies with its stablecoin-liek token JPMD
  - Versant's CNBC, 17 June 2025

• Despite political chaos, bitcoin falls to $104,000 as the war between Iran and Israel escalates
  - Versant'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
  - Versant'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

• Conduit, a stablecoin-focused cross-border payments provider, said on Thursday it has teamed up with Brazil's Braza Group for real-time foreign exchange (FX) swaps between the Brazilian real and major foreign currencies using stablecoins. The service allows users to convert Brazilian real to U.S. dollars or euros and settle transactions in minutes with stablecoins - a sharp departure from the traditional FX infrastructure, where settlement can take up to three days using SWIFT.
  - CoinDesk, 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

• $1,800,000 - 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.
  - Versant'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

• Are companies in the USA about to dump their holdings of bitcoin, that they had bought for their treasury holdings? A bank analysis argues that approximately half of the monitored corporate treasuries would find themselves underwater if bitcoin fell below $90,000. This creates a potential domino effect where companies that entered the bitcoin treasury strategy during price peaks could become forced sellers during market downturns.
  - Bering Capital's Benzinga, 09 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

• $500,000,000 - Iurii Gugnin is accused of using stablecoin transactions and falsified documents linked to sanctioned banks in Rossiya to launder $500 million
  - Versant'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
  - Versant'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

• $45,000,000 - 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

• Why cryptocurrency investors are absolutely terrified right now. When you are your own bank, you risk being broken into like one. "We have seen the price of Bitcoin double in the last year or so. Criminals tend to go where the money is. These are not cybercriminals. These are not hackers. They do not need sophisticated tools." Violence suffices for their crimes. The details common to these crimes are terrifying: home invasions, kidnapping, drugging. And "a decent number of these crimes also involve torture."
  - Slate, 05 June 2025

• Stablecoin issuer Circle soars as much as 235% in its IPO debut on the New York Stock Exchange
  - Versant'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"
  - Versant'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
  - Versant's CNBC, 31 May 2025

• A potentially watershed effort to launch US crypto exchange-traded funds that offer staking rewards is throwing up regulatory doubts, even after the funds said they received initial SEC registration approval. Staking rewards allow investors to earn rewards by pledging tokens to help operate the blockchain.
  - Bloomberg, 31 May 2025

• The bitcoin treasury scam that lifted Strategy's market capitalization past $80 billion is now being mimicked by meme stock companies, media firms, and multinational conglomerates. But Wall Street is not buying all the hype. For now, the market does not see the next Strategy in any of them. Trump Media shares have dropped more than 20% since the announcement, while GameStop is down nearly 17%.
  - Versant'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

• $200,000,000 - The Attorney General of New York reaches a $200 million settlement with Galaxy Digital over its LUNA stablecoin
  - Axios, 28 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
  - Versant'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
  - Versant's CNBC, 27 May 2025

• The Bitcoin premium for shares of Metaplanet, an investment firm in Nihon, has reached almost $600,000 per coin, as Asia's leading Bitcoin treasury firm pushes forward with its plan to purchase 21,000 BTC by 2026. Metaplanet's stockholders are paying more than a fivefold premium on Bitcoin when investing in Metaplanet, a huge gamble.
  - CoinTelegraph, 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

• More than $400 billion in institutional capital will flow into Bitcoin by the end of 2026, UTXO Management and Bitwise Asset Management predicted in a recent report. 2025 is expected to witness more than $120 billion in institutional flows into Bitcoin. The figure is expected to soar to $300 billion in 2026.
  - The Street, 23 May 2025

• The grifter Trump pumped-and-dumped his cryptocurrency backers with a dud dinner party
  - Rolling Stone, 23 May 2025

• Cryptocurrency investor Armando Pantoja alleges that JPMorgan manipulated the banks entry into the bitcoin market so the bank could profit before its clients. Armando argues that JPMorgan was "buying Bitcoin behind the scenes" even while CEO Jamie Dimon publicly called the asset a "fraud". Armando further alleged that JPMorgan's network of advisors was told to discourage clients from investing in Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, further suppressing retail demand until the bank had amassed its positions.
  - The Street, 23 May 2025

• At the grifter Trump's memecoin dinner, the "food sucker" and security was lax
  - Versant'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

• The presidentcy-grifter Trump has hosted top purchasers of the cryptocurrency memecoin that bears his name at a gala dinner, in an event that protesters and his Democrat opponents branded as a "fundamentall corrupt way to buy access to the presidency". His coin, $TRUMP, peaked at $75 in January, and has plummeted to $12 as of now. "This is something that does not have obvious utility. It is not being used for payments. It is not being used as a store of value." Thus the corruption.
  - BBC, 23 May 2025

• Shares of MicroStrategy are down more than 30% below their all-time high from late in 2024, even as bitcoin has pumped to a new record this week. The decline comes amid a continuing debate taking place on social media about the sustainability of Michael Saylor's (and those grifters copying him) bitcoin-vacuuming strategy.
  - CoinDesk, 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
  - Bering Capital's 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

• $50,000,000+ - 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"
  - Bering Capital's Benzinga, 22 May 2025

• A single trader has opened a massive $1.1 billion notional long position on bitcoin (BTC) using 40x leverage on the onchain decentralized exchange (DEX) Hyperliquid, a rare instance of a ten-figure position being open entirely on a blockchain-based platform.
  - CoinDesk, 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

• $223,000,000 - 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

• $62,000,000 - 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.
  - Versant'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.
  - Versant'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

• "Days to cover mNAV" emerges as the new standard for evaluating bitcoin equities. mNAV measures how long it would take a company, at its current bitcoin stacking pace, to accumulate enough BTC to justify its market cap.
  - 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

• A recent data breach at incompetently-managed cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has raised concerns about user safety after hackers gained access to sensitive information, including home addresses, which might "lead to people dying". A recent data breach at crypto exchange Coinbase has raised concerns about user safety after hackers gained access to sensitive information, including home addresses.
  - CoinDesk, 20 May 2025

• $100,000,000 - 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

• $3,300,000,000 - 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
  - Versant's CNBC, 19 May 2025

• JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says the bank will let clients buy bitcoin
  - Versant'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

• Moneychangers in a temple of democracy: Trump's meme coin dinner will have most of its attendees/bribees being people from outside the USA. The nature of the pseudonymous wallets raises questions about the true identities and motivations of the token's largest holders, who have bought/bribed a seat at the table with a president of the USA.
  - Versant's CNBC, 18 May 2025

• Get-rich-quick cryptocurrency 'gurus' are targeting teenagers and stealing money from them through 'rug pulling' with 'meme coins'. "The easiest way to make money is to deploy a meme coin, run it and then sell as soon as you see profits." - big money for their creators and the influencers who peddle them, but usually nothing for those who invest. The scam of 'rug pulling' is where a meme coin is issued, prices rise quickly as people invest, and then the creator, who has a large percentage of the coins, sells at or near the height of the coin's value.
  - Murdoch's New York Post, 17 May 2025

• BlackRock issues a serious warning about bitcoin that fuels "disaster" fears, as the price of bitcoin suddenly dives to about $100,000. It fell sharply after a sudden surge to $105,000 fueled fears of a collapse of the USA dollar.
  - Forbes, 15 May 2025

• Coinbase says that hackers bribed staff to steal customer data and are demanding $20 million ransom
  - Versant's CNBC, 15 May 2025

• $8,400,000,000 - According to new research released today by cryptocurrency-tracing firm Elliptic, a company called Xinbi Guarantee has since 2022 facilitated no less than $8.4 billion in transactions via its Telegram-based marketplace prior to Telegram's actions in recent days to remove Xinbo's accounts from the platform. Money stolen from scam victims likely represents the "vast majority" of that sum. Xinbi also did money laundering for North Korean hackers, stolen data, targeted harassment-for-hire, and even what appears to be sex trafficking.
  - Condé Nast's Ars Technica, 14 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.
  - Versant's CNBC, 13 May 2025

• BlackRock argues that quantum computing is a risk to bitcoin ETFs. The asset manager added a detailed overview of quantum computing threats to the risk disclosure in its Bitcoin ETF's regulatory filing. Quantum computing could undermine the encryption used by cryptocurrency and block chains.
  - CoinTelegraph, 12 May 2025

• Paul Krugman: cryptocurrencies are still more for commiting crimes. Republicans just tried to pass a new law making cryptocrimes easier to commit, a proposed law with no text in it. The Trump family is earning billions exploiting the presidency for cryptocurrency profits. This is billions of dollars in direct payments to the president and his relatives. If we were still a serious country, Trump's crypto corruption would lead to his immediate impeachment and removal from office.
  - Paul Krugman, 12 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
  - Versant'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
  - Versant'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
  - Versant'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
  - Versant's CNBC, 07 May 2025

• Quoting Eswar Prasad about the ultimate grifter, Trump: "It is quite remarkable for any government official, let alone the leader of the free world, to create and promote a vehicle for rampant speculation and to directly profit from it. Trump seems to show scarce restraint in his willingness to use the levers of power to enrich his family and close associates with little accountability or transparency." Trump is letting the moneychangers into the political 'temple' of the White House. Trump is well on his way to becoming the greatest grifter of all time.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 07 May 2025

• The rich get richer, everyone else loses: 58 wallets have made over $10 million each from Trump's meme coin, totaling $1.1 billion in profits, blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis said. 764,000 wallets of mostly small holders have lost money on $TRUMP. The grifter Trump rewards the grifter bitcoin traders who funnel money to his companies.
  - Versant'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

• Seven of the eight biggest publicly traded miners that are based in the US are expected to post a loss when they report first-quarter results, according to analysts' predictions compiled by Bloomberg. The financial struggles come even after Bitcoin reached a record above $109,000 in January, and its price in the quarter averaged about 75% higher than it was in the first quarter of 2024. Increased competition and tariffs weighed on the companies, which saw a compression in profit margins and growing uncertainty around expanding operations.
  - Bloomberg, 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
  - Versant's CNBC, 23 April 2025

• Gold-backed versus Dollar-backed stablecoins. While gold-backed stablecoins present a compelling alternative, the battle for dominance between gold and USD-pegged stablecoins remains ongoing, influenced by geopolitical factors, financial policies, and market demand.
  - Zero Hedge, 22 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
  - Versant'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

• "I was careful, and followed instructions closely, but still lost $1,500 worth of cryptocurrency I had stored with Revolut." He accidently choose a wrong cryptocurrency transfer mechanism, so Revolut didn't accept the coins, and they weren't returned to his original account.
  - BBC, 20 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

• Global cryptocurrency exchange OKX enters the USA market with cryptocurrency trading and wallet services. Originally established in Zhōngguó in 2023, it wants to expand into the USA. Further, OKX unveiled a new self-custody wallet that supports more than 130 blockchains and allows users to swap tokens, move assets across different chains, explore non-fungible tokens and access popular Web3 apps.
  - Versant's CNBC, 16 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

• $10,000,000+ - 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

• $40,000,000 - 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

• Cryptocurrencies, and in particular meme coins, are not just extremely volatile speculative 'investments'. These markets are ripe with manipulation and actions that would be classified as securities fraud if anyone were to do that with stocks or futures. A study found that from February 2024 to October 2024, researchers identified pump-and-dump schemes in 322 different cryptocurrencies. The total crowd-pump trading volume was $8.07 trillion, or 67% higher than the volume in regular trading. A financial vehicle designed for criminals.
  - Klement on Investing, 10 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

• Janover, a small software company with a new focus on accumulating cryptocurrency, gambling in the cryptocurrency 'casino' with its treasury, is surging after completing its first purchase of the Solana token. Janover The company bought $4.6 million of Solana's SOL token on Thursday. Earlier this week, Janover announced that it raised $42 million through the private offering of convertible notes and warrants, with plans to acquire SOL. Janover shares were last higher by more than 60%, after skyrocketing more than 100% earlier in the day.
  - Versant's CNBC, 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
  - Versant'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
  - Versant'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

• Cryptocurrency company Ripple to buy prime brokerage company Hidden Road for $1.25 billion. Hidden Road plans to use Ripple's RUSD stablecoin - which launched in December - as collateral across its prime brokerage products. Founded in 2018, Hidden Road offers clearing, prime brokerage and financing services across foreign exchange, digital assets, derivatives, swaps and fixed income. It currently clears more than $3 trillion annually across markets with over 300 institutional customers, including hedge funds.
  - Versant's CNBC, 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

• Cryptocurrency veterans seek to make publicly-traded Janover the MicroStrategy of Solana. A team of former executives from the popular Kraken exchange has acquired majority ownership of the software company Janover. The new leadership will adopt a digital assets treasury strategy with the principal holding in its reserve being the SOL token of Solana.
  - Versant's CNBC, 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.
  - Versant's CNBC, 06 April 2025

• $50,000,000+ - 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

• For bitcoin bulls who self-custody their cryptocurrencies, the global risks are growing. Some cryptocurrency investors prefer to custody their own digital assets like bitcoin with private keys stored on hardware wallets in 'cold storage' versus using crypto brokerage 'hot wallers' and other third-party digital custody options. Wars and extreme weather, with examples in recent years from Israel to California, show that keeping crypto in the personal version of a bank vault has its own set of unique and evolving risks.
  - Versant's CNBC, 06 April 2025

• Why stablecoins are a huge disruption to the traditional banking system and law enforcement. re as good as US dollars, and they can be transferred anywhere around the world in mere seconds. 24/7/365. No banks. No waiting. No Western Union. No middlemen or the costs and delays associated with them. Stablecoins are the only way to send $10,000 to a friend halfway around the world in seconds, from your phone, for less than a penny.
  - RiskHedge, 04 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%.
  - Versant'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.
  - Versant'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

• Examining the effects of bitcoin's drop below the CME gap - a major rally next? A drop into a CME gap often acts as a demand zone, causing prices to rebound. However, recent analysis suggested that this demand level has now turned into a supply zone. A supply zone acts as a barrier, preventing an asset from trading higher and forcing it to form lower lows.
  - AMB Crypto, 29 March 2025

• MicroStrategy sells preferred stock to buy bitcoin. Why it deserves a look. The strategy is certainly unorthodox, particularly since MicroStrategy has no traditional earnings. But it offers a high dividend yield, a lot of asset coverage, and a better risk/reward than common stock.
  - Barron's, 29 March 2025

• A 'whale' owner of TRUMP cryptocurrency tokens sells 743,947 tokens at a loss of $3.3 million, as the token's price drops 8% as a triangle pattern broke and sellers gained more momentum. The whale completed its third unsuccessful sale, thus accumulating $15.7 million in losses since buying tokens for profit at first.
  - AMB Crypto, 29 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.
  - Versant's CNBC, 27 March 2025

• The XRP Ledger surpasses 2.8 flawless transactions, with major institutions taking notice. Could XRP Legder be the next game-changer for institutional adoption? With its speed and reliability, XRPL is also becoming a preferred choice for asset issuers and institutional players. OpenEden, for instance, has achieved significant milestones in tokenizing U.S Treasury bills on the platform, offering institutional investors access to on-chain financial instruments. Additionally, BlackRock, a global asset management giant, is actively exploring asset tokenization, further aligning with the growing role of XRP Ledger in the evolving digital finance landscape.
  - AMB Crypto, 27 March 2025

• Fidelity, a $15 trillion asset manager, has joined the USA spot Solana [SOL] exchange-traded funds (ETF) race. On the 25th of March, the firm filed a 19b-4 form with the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission), via Cboe BZX exchange for a spot SOL ETF.
  - AMB Crypto, 26 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
  - Versant'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
  - Versant'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

• Short-term gamblers with bitcoin realize $7 billion in losses. The price of bitcoin remains under key moving averages, with short-term holder behavior critical to near-term trend direction. This means that while losses have been increasing, many investors are still exiting before extreme capitulation kicks in. In other words, short-term holders may be locking in modest losses, rather than enduring deeper drawdowns.
  - AMB Crypto, 23 March 2025

• $23,000,000 - 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
  - Versant'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

• $11,000,000 - 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

• Is bitcoin the future, or something of a Trojan horse? Hedge fund manager Kyle Bass recently suggested that "Satoshi Nakamoto" and Bitcoin itself might be creations of MSS, the intelligence service of Zhōngguó. Bass fears that "Satoshi" may have been created to potentially disrupt the economic dominance of the USA and undermine the value of the USA dollar globally.
  - Real Clear Markets, 18 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

• As THIS group faces massive losses, mapping the road ahead for bitcoin. Bitcoin short-term holders faced key resistance at $92,780, while accumulation at $84,000 signaled a critical juncture. This $8,780 discrepancy indicated that many short-term holders were operating at a loss, resembling the August 2024 pattern when bitcoin fell to $70,000 before rebounding.
  - AMB Crypto, 16 March 2025

• Bitcoin plummeting to $10,000? Analyst highlights risk as gold surges 15% in 2025. One prediction: Dave Weisberger took outlined a hypothetical worst-case scenario where Bitcoin adoption stalls, gold narrative investors exit, the stock market collapses, and bitcoin's beta remains stable - suggesting that under such extreme conditions, bitcoin's price could decline.
  - AMB Crypto, 16 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

• A national cryptocurrency reserve, proposed by the criminally-convicted Trump, will "enrich Trump and his allies, not taxpayers". An important oversight committee in Congress plans to scrutinize Trump's proposal to create a cryptocurrency reserve for any potential conflicts of interest.
  - AMB Crypto, 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

• 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.
  - Zero Hedge, 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

• Bitcoin traders alert! Do key indicators mirror the 2018 crypto crash? Simply put, the bond market is absorbing liquidity, pulling capital away from risk assets as the U.S. government secures cheaper borrowing rates. If this trend continues, Bitcoin and broader crypto markets could face heightened downside risk, increasing the probability of a 2018-style crash.
  - AMB Crypto, 12 March 2025

• Bitcoin plunges to $80,000 amid extreme fear! Market liquidations exceed $620 million. The total market capitalization dropped by 4.53% to $2.7 trillion, with Bitcoin [BTC] and Ethereum [ETH] experiencing sharp declines. According to Alphractal, many altcoins now have open interest values exceeding their market capitalization, signaling a heavy reliance on leverage.
  - AMB Crypto, 10 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
  - Versant'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

• There is no logical replacement for the dollar and fiat currencies like it that referee most global exchange. To which some will reply that Tether and bitcoin are poised to throw the dollar into history's proverbial dustbin.
  - Forbes, 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

• Trump's national cryptocurrency scheme is a criminal 'dream come true' for his oligarch donors - pure "moneychangers" in the temple of the USA Treasury. It amounts to a massive giveaway to tech billionaires at the expense of non-rich Americans. While Trump and Musk gut agencies that protect consumers and plan to take a chainsaw to Medicaid, tech billionaires are set to receive hundreds of billions in a direct transfer from American taxpayers.
  - Comcast's MSNBC, 06 March 2025

• Bitcoin is flat even after Trump officially establishes the national bitcoin reserve for the USA
  - Versant'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
  - Versant's CNBC, 04 March 2025

• Techies who support Trump are enraged by Trump's proposal for a national cryptocurrency reserve. The announcement is creating a rift in a community that Trump relied upon in the 2024 campaign. The complaint is the reserve buying multiple cryptocurrencies. By going well beyond bitcoin, the critics say, Trump would be using USA taxpayer money to buy much riskier assets that have unproven value and have the potential to bolster the net worth of a select few investors who own the coins. "It is wrong to tax me for crypto-bro schemes." And, "The government of the USA should not be exit liquidity for cryptocurrencies that are decentralized in name only." And, "Call me old fashioned but I don't think the government should be pumping our cryptocurrency bags with taxpayer money while we are running a near $2 trillion deficit."
  - Versant'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

• How the useless mining of bitcoin in Abkhazia, a Rossiya-backed breakaway region in Georgia, is causing a "humanitarian catastrophe" as electric power is diverted from people to computers. Where once Abkhazia was powered almost entirely by renewable hydropower, it is now increasingly reliant on subsidized energy from Russia to help reduce blackouts. As most Russian energy comes from fossil fuels, crypto mining is also contributing to more climate pollution generated by the region. The global mining of Bitcoin, the most popular cryptocurrency, consumes more energy than is used by all of Pakistan, [KM: a waste of electricity to support mostly criminal activities and gambling].
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 03 March 2025

• More losses for the price of bitcoin? In fact, according to CryptoQuant's Axel Adler, the SP500 is set to register another loss of 5% before the market stabilizes. The analyst believes this is worrying for the crypto market. Especially since bitcoin has an 80% correlation with the SP500 index.
  - AMB Crypto, 02 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

• To remain rich and powerful , Michael Saylor, the CEO of MicroStrategy (a hugely bubbled bitcoin fund) tells true believers of bitcoin, in the face of the plummeting price of bitcoin, to "sell a kidney rather than sell their bitcoin". Saylor is a strong supporter of [the racist] Trump, his ["thirty pieces of silver" betrayal fee] reward being looser bitcoin regulations under Trump.
  - Jiaravanon's Fortune, 28 February 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
  - Versant's CNBC, 25 February 2025

• ~$505,000,000 - 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.
  - Versant'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

• $1,400,000,000 - 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 launch of the highly controversial LIBRA memecoin, which Argentine President Javier Milei briefly promoted, has embroiled the cryptocurrency industry in an emerging global scandal. The price of SOL has also tumbled more than 17% since the launch of LIBRA on Feb. 14, falling from $204 to $169 at the time of writing, according to from Cointelegraph. Several market participants have accused members of the Meteora team of insider trading and other unethical financial activity.
  - 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 have reportedly filed charges against the president, Javier Milei, in a criminal court for promoting a cryptocurrency that briefly pumped and then tanked over the weekend. Milei is also accused of violating the Public Ethics Law. An separate lawsuit alleges that Milei engaged in "fraud, negotiations incompatible with public office, price manipulation and financial crimes".
  - Zero Hedge, 17 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

• $107,000,000 - 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

• Bitcoin wallets hit a 5-month low as small traders exit. Bitcoin's total non-empty wallets have declined to around 54 million, marking the lowest level since December. Large Bitcoin holders continued to accumulate, signaling potential bullish sentiment despite smaller investors exiting.
  - AMB Crypto, 15 February 2025

• As a concession, Trump orders the release of a cybercriminal from Rossiya, Alexander Vinnik, in exchange for an American teacher held in prison in Rossiya. Vinnik, who arrived in Moscow on a flight from Turkey on Tuesday after having been released from custody in California, is accused of owning and operating one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, BTC-e, which prosecutors allege facilitated the transfer of billions of dollars in transactions for criminals worldwide.
  - The Guardian, 13 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
  - Versant'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

• $5,300,000 - Leading Supreme Court lawyer Tom Goldstein was rearrested after prosecutors told a judge he represented a "serious risk of flight" from his criminal federal tax evasion case. Goldstein failed to disclose two cryptocurrency wallets through which he received more than $8 million, and sent more than $6 million over the past week, Maryland federal prosecutors said. The SCOTUSblog publisher was indicted in January on charges alleging he failed to declare millions of dollars in poker winnings and used his law s money to pay his gambling debts. Goldstein, who has argued before the Supreme Court more than nearly any other attorney in private practice in modern times, is accused of willfully failing to pay more than $5.3 million in taxes.
  - Versant's CNBC, 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

• $65,000,000 - 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
  - Versant'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%
  - Versant'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

• For Trump to order the USA government to stockpile cryptocurrencies will send a horrible message to the world: that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are a safe alternative to the USA dollar. It signals to the world to think twice about investing in US-dollar denominated assets like our debt because crypto is the new thing. The USA is still hugely addicted to debt financing of the government, and the USA needs to buy Treasury Bonds, bonds investors view as safe. But if cryptocurrencies are safe, thanks to Trump, investors will buy fewer bonds (driving up interest rates).
  - Murdoch's New York Post, 01 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

• The world's worst financial catastrophe could happen soon, when fully autonomous AI agents are programmed to go on to the internet and create cryptocurrency wallets, then create crypto currencies, then endlessly create millions of similar versions of itself that want to trade that crypto. A global Ponzi scheme.
  - 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
  - Bering Capital's 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
  - Versant'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
  - Versant's CNBC, 24 January 2025

• Bitcoin [BTC], at press time, seemed to be caught in a consolidation phase, with its price action fluctuating between the $101k and $106k range as its struggled to break through key resistance levels. However, an intriguing signal is now emerging from the Bitcoin NVT golden cross metric, with the same dropping to a 60-day low of -2.21.
  - AMB Crypto, 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

• Bitcoin short-term holders are now selling their holdings at a loss, with the Short-Term Holder Spent Output Profit Ratio (STH SOPR) multiple turning negative. This metric, which compares the 30-day STH SOPR to its 365-day average, highlights a shift in STH profitability trends. Historically, such moments have coincided with significant market turning points, signaling either attractive long-term entry opportunities or heightened short-term risks.
  - AMB Crypto, 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.
  - Versant'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
  - Versant'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

• $38,500,000 - The SEC announces that the Digital Currency Group, and Soichoro "Michael" Moro, the former CEO of DCG's now-defunct subsidiary, Genesis Global Capital LLC, will pay a combined $38.5 million in civil penalties to settle charges for misleading investors about s financial condition.
  - Securities and Exchange Commission, 17 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

• $210,000,000 - 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 reserves on cryptocurrency exchanges have fallen to their lowest level in nearly seven years, with hedge funds seizing the opportunity to buy the dip, according to CryptoQuant data. As of Jan. 13, Bitcoin reserves across all exchanges stood at 2.35 million BTC, levels last seen in June 2018 when Bitcoin traded around $7,000.
  - Guru Focus, 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
  - Versant's CNBC, 13 January 2025

• $5,900,000+ - 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 criminal questions in the coming wave of pro-cryptocurrency legislation. Cybersecurity is an issue, and criminals are changing tactics to evade authorities. 17% of American adults have traded in crypto, but that market share of American wallets has remained virtually unchanged since 2021, because of criminality concerns. 63% of adults say they have little to no confidence in crypto investing or trading, and don't think cryptocurrencies are reliable and safe.
  - Versant's CNBC, 12 January 2025

• The Justice Department is cleared to sell $6.5 billion in bitcoin seized from Silk Road
  - Crypto Briefing, 09 January 2025

• $1,100,000 - 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%.
  - Versant'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

• $123,000,000 - 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

• A federal initiative that began during the Obama administration with the goal of debanking certain industries disfavored by federal officials has apparently been resurrected and is taking aim at cryptocurrencies. Operation Choke Point was started by the U.S. Dept. of Justice in 2013 as a way to put pressure on banks to sever their ties, without due process, with legal businesses like gun dealers, cannabis dispensaries and payday lenders which the administration found objectionable.
  - Zero Hedge, 24 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. Lawmakers in Rossiya 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

• El Salvador will privatize or close the cryptocurrency wallet "Chivo" created by President Nayib Bukele when he made bitcoin legal tender in 2021, an official said Thursday. The announcement came after the government of El Salvador reached a $1.4 billion loan deal with the International Monetary Fund that addressed its controversial embrace of bitcoin. Under the IMF agreement, bitcoin use by the private sector will no longer be mandatory.
  - Tico Times, 20 December 2024

• El Salvador will privatize or close the cryptocurrency wallet "Chivo" created by President Nayib Bukele when he made bitcoin legal tender in 2021, an official said Thursday. The announcement came after the government of El Salvador reached a $1.4 billion loan deal with the International Monetary Fund that addressed its controversial embrace of bitcoin. Under the IMF agreement, bitcoin use by the private sector will no longer be mandatory.
  - BBC, 20 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
  - Versant'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

• Cruptocurrencies are for 'criming'. Billionaire supporters of cryptocurrencies want/bribe Trump to allow them to open bank accounts (ignoring the lie that crypto was created to eliminate bank accounts). But the real reason banks do not want to be financially connected to crypto is that they believe, with good reason, that to the extent that cryptocurrencies are used for anything besides speculation, much of that activity is criminal -- and they do not want to be accused of acting as accessories.
  - Krugman Wonks Out, 16 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

• A financial firm registered in Canada has emerged as the payment processor for dozens of cryptocurrency exchanges and websites hawking cybercrime services aimed at Russian-speaking customers, new research finds. Meanwhile, an investigation into the Vancouver street address used by this company, Cryptomus, shows it is home to dozens of foreign currency dealers, money transfer businesses, and cryptocurrency exchanges -- none of which are physically located there. At least 56 cryptocurrency exchanges are currently using Cryptomus to process transactions. These platforms are built for Russian speakers, and they each advertise the ability to anonymously swap one form of cryptocurrency for another. They also allow the exchange of cryptocurrency for cash in accounts at some of the largest banks in Rossiya -- nearly all of which are currently sanctioned by the United States and other western nations.
  - Kreb on Security, 11 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

• $48,000,000 - Another cryptocurrency criminal. Alex Mashinsky, founder and CEO of Celsius has pled guilty to one count of commodities fraud and one count of securities fraud, which combined carry a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison. Mashinsky misled Celsius customers about the company's profitability and the security of their investments, while secretly manipulating the price of the company's proprietary token, CEL, for personal gain. As part of his guilty plea, Mashinsky agreed to forfeit over $48 million in proceeds from the schemes.
  - Department of Justice, 03 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

• The cryptocurrency industry spent tens of millions of dollars to get Trump elected. What do they want to use this political power to steal? The basic idea is to turn the American government into the biggest crypto bag-holder of all time. If the plan goes through, hundreds of billions of dollars of public assets will be spent or leveraged to buy a million Bitcoins, allowing the tiny minority of Bitcoin moguls to finally cash out their holdings into real money. It would be one of the biggest upward transfers of wealth in world history.
  - Zero Hedge, 26 November 2024

• Bitcoin drops to $96,256 after failing to break $100,000, triggering $500 million in liquidations
  - CoinMarketCap, 25 November 2024

• The second largest crypto currency Ethereum has finally staged a powerful rebound in recent weeks, with the derivatives market signaling further bullish momentum as futures open interest surged over 12% to an all-time high of $20.8 billion on Friday. This followed a 7% price increase over the past 24 hours that pushed Ethereum to $3,365.
  - Zero Hedge, 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

• Howard Lutnick, the Cantor Fitzgerald CEO who has been tapped to run the US Commerce Department, has in recent years become a prominent cheerleader for Tether, the company behind one of the biggest cryptocurrency assets in the world. The Wall Street Journal reported last month that the federal government is investigating Tether for possible violations of sanctions and anti-money-laundering rules. Citing unnamed sources, the Journal wrote that prosecutors from the Manhattan US Attorney's office are investigating whether tether has been used by third parties to fund drug trafficking, terrorism and hacking. At the same time, it reported the Treasury Department was considering sanctioning Tether because of how many bad actors, including Hamas and Russian arms dealers, rely on its stablecoin.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 20 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)
  - Versant'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
  - Versant'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

• Childcare costs for families in the USA is higher than in other developed countries. U.S. couples who both earn average wage in full-time jobs and have two young children need to spend 20 percent of their disposable household income on childcare. For singles on average wage, this rises to 37 percent.
  - Zero Hedge, 10 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.
  - Versant's CNBC, 06 November 2024

• Bitcoin hits record $75,000 as Trump victory heralds wider crypto adoption and weaker regulation.
  - Versant'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

• MicroStrategy, a prominent advocate for Bitcoin, saw its shares fall by nearly 5% in after-hours trading following news that the business intelligence firm intends to continue expanding its Bitcoin holdings despite a downturn in overall revenue.
  - Quartz, 30 October 2024

• Visa and Coinbase offer real-time cryptocurrency purchases using debit cards
  - Bloomberg, 29 October 2024

• Is bitcoin a dangerous economic threat? Researchers at the Minneapolis Fed propose heavy taxation or outright banning as a solution. In their paper, the researchers claim that Bitcoin, being a decentralized digital currency, competes with government-issued securities, making it harder for governments to manage their finances.
  - Bering Capital's Benzinga, 28 October 2024

• MicroStrategy's current premium relative to its bitcoin stack is unlikely to last: Steno Research. The launch of options on spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds in the USA will reduce the incentives for investors to hold MicroStrategy stock over these ETFs, the report said.
  - CoinDesk, 28 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

• Microstrategy CEO Michael Saylor sparks outrage with his comments on custody services for cryptocurrencies. He said you are better off trusting your Bitcoin in state custody than holding your own private keys, then went further, calling out all of the businesses engaged in custody projects by calling them effectively bullshit salesmen.
  - Zero Hedge, 22 October 2024

• Peter Schiff, a prominent cryptocurrency critic, has once again targeted Michael Saylor's firm, MicroStrategy. In a recent post, Schiff issued a stark warning about Microstrategy's stock (MSTR), which has recently reached an all-time high following the company's ambitious plan to transform it into a trillion-dollar bitcoin bank. This marks another instance of Schiff's ongoing skepticism toward firms deeply invested in cryptocurrency, especially bitcoin. Schiff is a long-term advocate of gold.
  - AMB Crypto, 22 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

• -Three cryptocurrency companies and 15 people have been charged with engaging in widespread fraud and market manipulation following an investigation in which the FBI for the first time directed the creation of a new digital token to help authorities ferret out crime. Federal prosecutors in Boston charged the firms Gotbit, ZM Quant, CLS Global and the leaders and employees of those and other companies in a takedown that has led to four arrests, agreements by five people to plead guilty and the seizure of over $25 million worth of cryptocurrency.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 09 October 2024

• A Delaware bankruptcy judge approved FTX's reorganization plan almost two years after the crypto exchange spiraled into bankruptcy. The company says it has collected between $14.7 billion and $16.5 billion worth of property that it plans to distribute to creditors. According to the court-approved plan, 98% of FTX's creditors will get 119% of the amount of their allowed claim.
  - Versant's CNBC, 07 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

• Visa unveiled its Visa Tokenized Asset Platform (VTAP) on October 3; this initiative aims to simplify the issuance and management of tokenized assets, including tokenized deposits, stablecoins, and central bank digital currencies. With VTAP, financial institutions can create and experiment with their own fiat-backed tokens using a sandbox environment accessible through the Visa Developer Platform.
  - CoinTelegraph, 04 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
  - Versant'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

• Unlike gold, bitcoin is not a 'safe haven'. After Iran launched missiles against Israel, gold went up about 1.2% (safe haven), while bitcoin went down 2.5%. If Bitcoin were truly "digital gold," I would expect it to rise during periods of geopolitical turmoil, not decline.
  - 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%
  - Versant'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

• $745,000 - 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.
  - Versant'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

• According to a footnote in a Sept. 12 court filing, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission has retracted its longstanding characterization of cryptocurrencies as "securities" and intends to use more careful language in the future. A token's status as a security "consists of the full set of contracts, expectations, and understandings centered on the sales and distribution of the [crypto asset]".
  - Zero Hedge, 13 September 2024

• $1,500,000 - 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%.
  - Versant'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?]
  - Axel Springer's Politico, 06 September 2024

• Orlando Bravo, the founder of buyout firm Thoma Bravo, said he has learned plenty from his failed investment on crypto exchange FTX. He vows to "never touch" cryptocurrencies again. FTX marked a sideways turn for San Francisco-based Thoma Bravo, which has emerged as a giant investor in technology, orchestrating multibillion-dollar acquisitions in recent years of companies including cybersecurity software vendor Proofpoint, property management software company RealPage, finance and supply chain software developer Anaplan and spend management software company Coupa.
  - Versant's CNBC, 05 September 2024

• $175,000 - The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, as part of its continuing enforcement focus in the digital asset decentralized finance (DeFi) space, today issued an order filing and settling charges against Universal Navigation Inc. d/b/a Uniswap Labs, a Delaware company based in New York. The order finds Uniswap Labs illegally offered leveraged or margined retail commodity transactions in digital assets via a decentralized digital asset trading protocol. The order requires Uniswap Labs to pay a $175,000 civil monetary penalty and to cease and desist from violating the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA), as charged.
  - CFTC, 04 September 2024

• In this bearish market sentiment, cryptocurrency whales were aggressively buying the dip as major cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and Ethereum, saw significant price declines. On the 2nd of September, on-chain analytic firm Spot On Chain made a post on Twitter/X that a Bitcoin whale had purchased nearly 1,000 BTC worth $57.4 million from Binance.
  - AMB Crypto, 02 September 2024

• Peter Thiel defends calling Warren Buffett a "sociopathic grandpa from Omaha" for being an opponent of bitcoin
  - Bering Capital's 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.
  - Axel Springer's 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

• Custodia Bank, based in Wyoming, is firing 9 of 36 employees as the Biden adminstration's cryptocurrency crackdown weighs on digital asset industry. Custodia officials blame the reduction on what they call the federal government's "Operation Chokepoint 2.0". The firings come as Custodia is locked in a legal battle with the Federal Reserve to gain access to a so-called master account which gives state-chartered institutions access to the Fed's liquidity facilities, including payment services. Without a master account, banks are forced to do business through other institutions with master accounts, which often incurs high costs.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 29 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

• Non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace OpenSea received a notice from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it intends to pursue an enforcement action, the company disclosed on Wednesday. CEO Devin Finzer said his company will fight the notice and pledged $5 million to help cover legal fees for any NFT creators and developers that may also get such notice.
  - CoinDesk, 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

• Non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace OpenSea received a notice from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it intends to pursue an enforcement action. The SEC argues that NFTs sold on the platform are securities that it can regulate.
  - Coindesk, 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

• How three people based in Puerto Rico spent months secretly teaching Trump about bitcoin. Turning Trump from a skeptic into a sudden bitcoin evangelist took the work, behind closed doors, of a small army of bitcoiners and other crypto advocates who were able to maneuver their way into the inner circle of Trump.
  - Versant's CNBC, 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.
  - 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

• 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.
  - Versant's CNBC, 23 August 2024

• The cryptocurrency industry accounts for almost half of the corporate bribes donations in the 2024 election
  - Versant'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
  - Versant'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

• Don't get fooled again that cryptocurrencies are finally putting its scandals and unsavory reputation as the playground of crooks and financial charlatans behind it. The newfound love of crypto by politicians probably has more to do with a cynical bid for young voter support and Silicon Valley cash than a maturing of a financially perilous set of assets. If anything, crypto today presents even greater risks to its investors and to our financial institutions than it did before. The fact that the Republican Party is publicly celebrating crypto to American voters could only make matters worse.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 10 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

• $12,700,000,000 - 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

• $125,000,000 - 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

• Is Dogecoin's bottom in? Predicting what is next for DOGE's price. Over the past week, DOGE's value plummeted by approximately 25%, reaching a low of $0.082. This downturn mirrored the broader cryptocurrency market's challenges. However, a notable shift has occurred, with Dogecoin showing signs of recovery. As of the latest data, the meme-inspired cryptocurrency has climbed 10%, bringing its current trading price to $0.092.
  - AMB Crypto, 05 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

• Recent data indicates that Solana [SOL] was hit particularly hard during a week of significant downtrends in the crypto market. The open interest in Solana has experienced consecutive declines, reflecting heightened negative sentiment among investors. According to data from CoinMarketCap, Solana experienced the largest decline among the top ten crypto assets in the past seven days, with a drop of over 22%.
  - AMB Crypto, 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.
  - Versant's CNBC, 05 August 2024

• Bitcoin, and the entire crypto universe, is crashing after yet another huge sell order was unleashed by a time-triggered algo, the same algo that has activated selling momentum on each of the past 7 trading days at 10am ET, just after the US cash open (a move meant to cripple any dip-buying intentions in early market trading), yet which algo was left on for the weekend, arguably to spark an HFT-driven pile up of selling and shorting, and to force levered longs to capitulate, ahead of the Japanese open where a bloodbath is expected to take place (see below). One can see the algo in action in the red boxes below: exact same time every day, exact same sell-momentum ignition.
  - Zero Hedge, 04 August 2024

• On the back of great cryptocurrency volatility amid bitcoin's own instability, altcoins are getting hit. In the middle of this downtrend, ETH has suffered the most over the last 7 days after dropping below $3000 on the charts. As expected, this decline has worried analysts about the possible negative impact of Spot ETFs on Ethereum since their launch two weeks ago. The sustained downside has seen various analysts predicting a further decline. For starters, the founder of Schiff Gold, Peter Schiff, believes that ETH will fall below $2000.
  - AMB Crypto, 04 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

• What happened to the fantasy, multi-billion dollar city to be built by R&B singer Akon in Senegal? Sapco-Senegal, the state-owned entity charged with developing Senegal's coastal and tourism areas, has given Akon formal notice to start work on his project or the government will take back 90% of the 136 acres of land granted to him. His Akoin has plummeted 98% from $0.15 to $0.003. Residents sat that they haven't een reimbursed for the land given to Akon that they relinquished to Sapco back in 2009. Questions about financing and feasibility remain unanswered and locals are wondering whether the promised benefits will ever come.
  - Bloomberg, 01 August 2024

• How cryptocurrency bots are ruining cryptocurrencies - including auto memecoin 'rug pulls'. Crypto trading cannot function without crypto bots, but they also manipulate markets, ruin airdrops and extract billions in MEV (maximum extractable value). There are crypto bots that create and launch new memecoins on Solana while automatically pulling liquidity from older coins to rug users. Rampant bot activity also causes severe congestion on blockchain networks, resulting in higher transaction fees and slower processing times.
  - CoinTelegraph, 01 August 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.
  - Axel Springer's 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.
  - Axel Springer's 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

• Synapse, FTX, Binance -- how many more fintech disasters can our system take? Fintech and cryptocurrency advocates have argued for years that unregulated technology platforms can do what traditional banks and investment companies can do more efficiently and just as safely. At the same time, we have been told that we t have to worry about those developing markets because people who put their money in them know they can lose it -- and if they do, it will not impact the rest of us or the stability of broader financial markets. Recent events and the collapse of Synapse underscore the fallacy of those assurances, and the importance of modernized oversight.
  - The Hill, 25 July 2024

• Cryptocurrencies suffer alongside a rout in technology stock prices, with ether declining 6%
  - Versant'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

• $230,000,000 - 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

• Bitcoin bottom signal: the governemtn of Deutschland runs out of seized bitcoin to sell. Bitcoin's price may have seen its drawdown bottom as the German government has now run out of Bitcoin to sell, and technical indicators point to the potential beginning of a reaccumulation phase.
  - Coin Telegraph, 12 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

• Despite solid performance in recent months by SkyBridge Capital's crypto-focused hedge fund, investors in Anthony Scaramucci's investing vehicle are rushing to cash out: investors who own about 70% of the fund's shares have asked for their money back in the latest redemption period that ended in March, Bloomberg reported citing a regulatory filing. The fund, which returns money through a tender offer, bought back just 7% of those shares while gating the remaining redemption requests, effectively barring clients from exiting even though returns have jumped.
  - Zero Hedge, 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".
  - Bering Capital's 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.
  - 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
  - Versant's CNBC, 08 July 2024

• The government of Deutschland owns about $2 billion in bitcoin, and it is freaking out cryptocurrency investors
  - Versant'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
  - Versant'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

• Steve Kurz, Galaxy Digital' head of asset management believes spot Ether exchange-traded funds will be approved in "weeks" rather than days but agrees the decision will come sometime in July. Galaxy Digital is one of eight asset managers with a proposed spot Ether ETF currently under review with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. It is collaborating with Invesco on the ETF.
  - Coin Telegraph, 03 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

• The central bank of Rossiya told businesses that they should use "multiple choice currencies" including cryptocurrencies and other digital assets to facilitate payments with foreign partners to counter Western sanctions imposed over the Ukraine conflict.
  - Zero Hedge, 03 July 2024

• History suggests bitcoin will likely hit a new all-time high this year, report from CCData predicts.
  - Versant'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

• Collapsed bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox is about to unload $9 billion of coins onto the market. In a few days, bankrupt Tokyo-based bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, will begin paying back thousands of users roughly $9 billion worth of tokens. While this is good news for victims of the hack who have spent years waiting to be made whole, the price of bitcoin slid to $59,000 in the cryptocurrency market's second-worst weekly decline of the year.
  - Versant's CNBC, 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

• As the second-quarter draws to a close, cryptocurrency investors are left wondering what is next for Bitcoin after it retreated from the all-time highs registered during the height of the mania over exchange-traded funds. The downturn has raised the question of whether cracks in momentum trades such as Bitcoin point to a tougher outlook for risk appetite as the prospect of higher-for-longer interest rates hangs over financial markets.
  - Bloomberg, 30 June 2024

• Weekend trading of bitcoin has fallen to all-time low "boring" levels of volume. The drop comes in the wake of the launch of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded-funds, which appears to have shifted the periods when Bitcoin is traded to be more in line with the schedule of traditional equity exchanges and has lowered its price volatility.
  - Bloomberg, 29 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

• At least 36 people were arrested this Tuesday in Costa Rica in a vast police operation, including judges, lawyers, and two Spanish ringleaders of the gang dedicated to property theft and money laundering through cryptocurrencies, authorities reported.
  - Tico Times, 27 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
  - Versant'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

• Bitcoin's 10% sell-off since June 7 signals a warning for the broader stock market. Stifel strategist Barry Bannister highlighted a strong correlation between bitcoin and the Nasdaq 100. Bannister said he expects a summer correction in stocks, influenced by higher-for-longer interest rates.
  - Busines Insider, 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.
  - Versant'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

• $4,500,000,000 - 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

• Here is why bitcoin is not keeping pace with Nasdaq. Bitcoin declined 6% in a week even as Nasdaq rallied to record highs. Cryptocurrency-specific factors like profit-taking by holders and increased selling by miners seem to be holding back the BTC price.
  - 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
  - Versant'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

• $1,000,000,000+ - 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

• $4,000,000 - 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

• $40,000,000 - 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

• President Biden vetos a law passed by Congress that would strike down Securities and Exchange Commission guidance that the crypto industry, the banks and Congress all say has stymied its ability to work with banks. The guidance, known as staff accounting bulletin No. 121, has also drawn pushback from banks since it was published in 2022. Lenders have said it effectively restricts them from scaling up services to hold digital assets on behalf of customers by making it too costly.
  - Zero Hedge, 01 June 2024

• $305,000,000 - 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 adds own bitcoin ETF to income stock and bond funds. Blackrock's income and bond-focused funds have bought shares of the asset manager's own spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the first quarter, regulatory filings show.
  - Zero Hedge, 29 May 2024

• BlackRock surpasses Grayscale as the largest ETF for bitcoins in the world
  - Zero Hedge, 28 May 2024

• Mt. Gox moves $9.6 billion worth of bitcoin - are creditors finally being repaid? The transfer represents the first significant on-chain movement from Mt. Gox-related wallets in the past five years, ahead of the October 2024 repayment deadline.
  - 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
  - Versant's CNBC, 23 May 2024

• The SEC approves the creation of spot Ethereum ETFs, in a major victory for cryptocurrencies
  - Versant'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.
  - Versant'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

• Bitcoin declined by almost 6% on Wednesday, having posted its worst monthly performance in April since late 2022, as investors pulled money out of cryptocurrencies ahead of an interest rate decision by the Federal Reserve later. The price of bitcoin is now a full 22% below March's record of $73,803, technically putting it in a bear market. But it is still up 35% so far this year and double where it was this time last year, thanks in large part to the billions of dollars flowing into newly minted exchange-traded funds since January.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 01 May 2024

• $50,000,000 - 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

• "The dollar up, gold up, cryptocurrencies up: that is not something that you see too often." "They are hedging against anarchy, rising institutional distrust. So some are buying dollars for cyclical reasons, but buying gold and crypto for structural reasons."
  - Zero Hedge, 29 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 Bitcoin "halving" was supposed to dramatically chop revenue of bitcoin mining companies. Instead, the simultaneous launch of Casey Rodarmor's Runes protocol has ignited a flurry activity on the oldest and largest blockchain, driving up fees.
  - CoinDesk, 21 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

• $110,000,000 - Cruptocurrency trader Avi Eisenberg is convicted of fraud in $110 million theft using the Mango Markets platform. In October 2022, he made a series of trades to intentionally boost the price of Mango Markets' native token, MNGO, as well as the price of futures contracts. He used the inflated futures holdings as collateral to borrow other cryptocurrencies on the platform, then quickly withdrew those assets and walked away from his collateral.
  - Axios, 18 April 2024

• $200,000,000 - 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
  - Versant'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

• Global banks are essentially admitting they plan for a complete overhaul of the dollar-based financial world, and the creation of a central bank digital currency (CBDC)-focused system built on "unified ledgers". This will be very bad for the USA dollar as a reserve currency.
  - Zero Hedge, 11 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.
  - Agnelli's 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

• Some of the largest funds in Zhōngguó are using Hong Kong subsidiaries to enter the Bitcoin ETF market. Approval of Bitcoin ETF products from such influential institutions could significantly validate Bitcoin in the eyes of both regulators and investors in Zhōngguó.
  - Zero Hedge, 09 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

• While the price of bitcoin [BTC] remained in a consolidation phase, short-term holders sold a substantial amount of BTC on exchanges at a loss. The sudden sell-off might actually turn out to be good news for BTC though, as it can help initiate a bull rally in the coming days.
  - 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

• Shares of Microstrategy plummet 14% after a short seller, Kerrisdale Capital, says the stock trades at an unjustifiable premium to bitcoin. They argue that there is no justification to buy the stock which is effectively the same as paying more than double for bitcoin. Buying shares of Microstragegy to own part of their bitcoin hoard is equivalent to buying a $77,000 bitcoin for $177,000.
  - Coindesk, 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
  - Versant'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.
  - Versant'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

• A "haven for illicit money-laundering" - the DoJ charges cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin over billions in criminal funds. "As alleged, in failing to implement even basic anti-money laundering policies, the defendants allowed KuCoin to operate in the shadows of the financial markets and be used as a haven for illicit money laundering, with KuCoin receiving over $5 billion and sending over $4 billion of suspicious and criminal funds."
  - Zero Hedge, 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
  - Versant'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
  - Versant'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

• Nihon's Government Pension Investment Fund, the world's largest pension fund managing over $1.5 trillion in assets, has announced it will explore diversifying a portion of its portfolio into Bitcoin. Poor timing, as bitcoin flash-crashes $9,000 overnight.
  - 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
  - Versant'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.
  - Versant'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%
  - Versant's CNBC, 15 March 2024

• 'Bad economic news' is finanally bad economic news for stocks, bonds prices, crypto, and gold, all down for the day. A lof of macro bad news... Softer-than-expected Retail Sales, hotter-than-expected Producer Prices, Jobless Claims up (from dramatically revised-down levels)... sending lower expectations of interest rate-reductions by the Fed (the market's favorite cocaine).
  - Zero Hedge, 14 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
  - Agnelli's 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
  - Versant's CNBC, 26 February 2024

• Shares of Altice rise 35% on report that Charter Communications is considering to buy the broadband company
  - Versant'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

• $3,000,000,000+ - 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

• How technology firms made a cryptocurrency-boosting book an NYT best seller by gaming the system. Motherboard found that firms linked to a16z and general partner Chris Dixon bought numerous copies of his new book promoting cryptocurrencies, which became an NYT Best Seller. Worse, the author fails to identify a single blockchain project that has successfully provided a non-speculative service at any kind of scale.
  - Vice Motherboard, 08 February 2024

• $47,000,000 - 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

• The cruelty of cryptocurrencies. Selling itself as the new American dream, crypto exposes the vulnerable to fraud and scams, and loads risk onto the poor. Cryptocurrencies did not level the playing field. It exposed the vulnerable to fraud and scams.
  - AEON, 06 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

• $1,300,000 - 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

• Stablecoins enabled $40 billion in cryptocurrency crime since 2022. A new report from Chainalysis finds that stablecoins like Tether, tied to the value of the US dollar, were used in the vast majority of crypto-based scam transactions and sanctions evasion in 2023. Across all cryptocurrencies, sanctions evasion accounted for more than half of the $24.2 billion in criminal transactions Chainalysis observed in 2023, with stablecoins representing the vast majority of those transactions.
  - Newhouse Wired, 18 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
  - Versant's CNBC, 03 January 2024

• Prices of bitcoin dropped 6% at the open of markets, giving back all of its gains from yesterday
  - Versant's CNBC, 03 January 2024