In a survey by the Digital Currency Group, 70% of swing state voters agreed the current financial system is “outdated” and in need of an overhaul, but most didn’t think crypto was the answer either. Source link
Marathon Digital will officially be added to the index fund on May 8. Source link
An average of 178,475 daily transactions have been made on Bitcoin in its 5,603 day existence. Source link
The CEO of investment management firm VanEck says he can’t see a world where Bitcoin (BTC) is overtaken as the leading store of value on the internet. “I think it’s impossible for me to imagine some other internet store of value [will] leapfrog Bitcoin,” Jan van Eck said in a Dec. 16 interview with CNBC.…
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Over the past year, there’s been no shortage of scientists, tech CEOs, billionaires and lawmakers sounding the alarm over artificial intelligence (AI) — and now, even the Pope wants to talk about it too. In a hefty 3,412-word letter dated Dec. 8, Pope Francis — the head of the Catholic Church — warned of the…
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The token of decentralized finance protocol SafeMoon has fallen 31% in five hours after the company behind it filed for bankruptcy. SafeMoon officially applied for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, also known as “liquidation bankruptcy,” in a Dec. 14 filing to the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Utah. The voluntary petition was filed by attorney…
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Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) hopes to push pro-crypto and artificial intelligence (AI) regulation forward with a seemingly new strategy: throwing money at politicians. “If a candidate supports an optimistic technology-enabled future, we are for them. If they want to choke off important technologies, we are against them,” wrote Ben Horowitz, one of the…
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Gemini Earn creditors are fuming over a proposed reorganization plan that could see their promised Bitcoin (BTC) payouts effectively slashed to about 30% of what they’re worth at current market rates. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Gemini Trust revealed it sent creditors an email on Dec. 13 outlining the proposed plan, which has…
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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon is being hauled over the hot coals on crypto X (Twitter) after claiming Bitcoin (BTC) and cryptocurrency’s “only true use case” is to facilitate crime. “The only true use case for it is criminals, drug traffickers, money laundering, tax avoidance,” Dimon said in a hearing before the United States Banking Committee…
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DEBT Box and other defendants in a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit want the case tossed after the court found the agency lied to secure a temporary restraining order against them. “The SEC got this case wrong. Badly wrong,” lawyers for Digital Licensing Inc., which does business as DEBT Box, told Utah federal court Judge…
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