@Matt_Brody, However, the “Presidential Election Winners 2024” market referenced above could close as early as Nov. 6 after the final votes are tallied if AP, Fox and NBC report in agreement.
Donald Trump maintains a formative lead over Kamala Harris on the Polymarket prediction market, but no matter who wins the election, payouts could be delayed until Jan. 20, 2025, unless the Associa...
@Matt_Brody, Another crypto firm conducting layoffs was Nova Labs, the company behind Helium Mobile. According to reports, the firm cut 36% of its workforce weeks ago, citing a new focus on its cor...
A wave of headcount reductions is sweeping the crypto industry. In a major restructuring, blockchain development firm Consensys reduced its workforce by more than 20%. Joe Lubin, CEO of Consensys a...
@Matt_Brody, If you’re not paying attention to it, you’re making a mistake,” he continued. Patronis highlighted that decentralized cryptocurrencies protect consumer privacy and provide resistance a...
Jimmy Patronis, Florida’s chief financial officer and one of the officials responsible for overseeing the state’s pension funds, told CNBC’s Squawk Box that he directed the State Board of Administr...
@Matt_Brody, The Nigerian government announced on October 23 that it has dropped all legal charges against Tigran Gambaryan, a prominent executive at Binance. Gambaryan, who held U.S. citizenship, ...
Further complicating the situation, reports have indicated that Gambaryan’s health had deteriorated, necessitating a need for medical treatment, which might have contributed to the decision to with...
@Matt_Brody, The lawsuit against Bybit is one of many legal disputes the FTX estate and legal counsel for the former exchange were forced to navigate during the years-long bankruptcy proceedings.
The FTX bankruptcy estate agreed to a $228 million settlement with the Bybit exchange in an Oct. 24 legal filing, for a lawsuit first filed in 2023 by the FTX estate, seeking to recover funds to re...
@Matt_Brody, The economist also highlighted Bitcoin's lack of counter-party risk as an effective hedge against sovereign defaults — including the risk of financial sanctions — which Ferranti labele...
A recent paper from the Bitcoin Policy Institute titled The Case for Bitcoin as a Reserve Asset argued that central banks should adopt Bitcoin
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@Matt_Brody, The blockchain sector is not immune to the vagaries of war. Yaniv Baruch, chief operating officer of Tel Aviv-based GameFi project Playnance, told Cointelegraph, “Recruitment has indee...
A year on from the start of the Israel-Hamas war, the Israeli blockchain industry is facing the challenges of widening geopolitical unrest in the region, with some talent “hesitant to consider” rol...
Together, the funds saw $198.5 million in net inflows, carried by a $323.6 million inflow to BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF but doused by a $99 million and $25.2 million in outflows from the...
Crypto bulls who bet the market would continue to rise saw the second-biggest day of liquidations in October, with the market steadying after Bitcoin’s drop pulled down the price of major cryptocur...
For instance, Chris Aruliah, head of institution for crypto exchange Bybit, pointed to the upcoming US election as a key driver, adding:“As we edge closer to the US election in November, investors ...
@Matt_Brody, Regardless of what happens in the elections, we will have a very significantly advanced debate around the crypto issues and a very large cohort of members of the House and the Senate [...
Attending the Permissionless III conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Ripple Swell in Miami, Florida, in October, Cointelegraph noted that many panels included takes from high-level executives o...
@Matt_Brody, The survey also showed that two in five Black voters listed a candidate’s crypto policies as an important criterion for deciding who to vote for—more than double the proportion of whit...
About 26 million United States voters are part of a “crypto voting bloc” — flagging a pro-crypto policy as a top requirement when deciding on who to vote for in the November election, a survey show...
@Matt_Brody, It is important that Ireland, as a small, open economy with a thriving financial services industry, is an active participant in preventing its financial system from being used for mone...
Ireland’s Finance Minister, Jack Chambers, told the cabinet that urgent legislation would be drafted to update crypto regulations before the EU laws come into force on Dec. 30, the Irish Examiner r...
@Matt_Brody, Probably, on Tesla’s Bitcoin transfers and if it sold its stack could be disclosed when the company posts its third-quarter financial results after market close on Oct. 23.
Crypto wallets labeled as owned by Tesla moved virtually all of the company’s 11,500 Bitcoin BTC tickers down $67,163 on Oct. 15 across 26 transactions, including test transfers, according to data...
@Matt_Brody, Probably, these developments aim to enhance Australia’s competitiveness in the global digital economy and solidify its leadership position.
Ripple $0.546329 is taking significant steps to empower the digital economy in Australia. The company aims to promote tokenization in the country by collaborating with the Digital Economy Council o...
@Matt_Brody, To be sincerely speaking, the market for the past three months it's really something else, losses really happened, because, the market wasn't good due to falls which really affect trad...
Crypto derivatives traders that bet the crypto market would fall have been liquidated to the tune of over $100 million in the past day as Bitcoin’s price surged. In all, 54,649 traders were liquida...
@Matt_Brody, Given that US regulators show no signs of slowing down crypto industry scrutiny, 2024 may potentially be on track to record more lawsuit settlements than last year.
Binance’s settlement is a landmark win for US regulators by being the only billion-dollar settlement given to an operating crypto company so far, despite ranking only fourth in monetary value,” she...
@Matt_Brody, This person is really smart according to what I heard, He hadn’t been in the US since he fled the country in 2018 after receiving cease-and-desist letters from US authorities and His c...
A man doing home detention for his alleged involvement in a $180 million cryptocurrency fraud scheme is apparently on the run after he tampered with his ankle braclet monitor, New York prosecutors ...
@Matt_Brody, The exchange said the SEC contacted it and asserted that XRP futures are securities and required Bitnomial to register as a securities exchange before listing the products.
Bitnomial is seeking a declaratory judgment that XRP futures are not securities and an injunction preventing the SEC from asserting jurisdiction over the derivatives products or pursuing enforcemen...
@Matt_Brody, As a result, any cryptocurrencies acquired during marriage can be regarded as part of the marital estate. Spouses who are aware of their partner’s crypto exchange wallets can have cour...