The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Gemini Trust Company filed a status update in court, letting a federal court know they had reached a “resolution in principle” to resolve a securities case stemming from a 2023 complaint. In a Monday filing in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York…
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A new political action committee (PAC) focused on backing “pro-innovation, pro-crypto candidates” in the United States has launched with $100 million. In a Monday X post, the Fellowship PAC said it had launched “with over $100 million” from unnamed sources as part of efforts to support the Trump administration’s digital asset strategy. The PAC said…
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Strategy, the business intelligence company co-founded by Michael Saylor, has increased its Bitcoin holdings to more than $73 billion after a reported purchase as part of its treasury strategy. In a Monday notice, Saylor said the company had acquired 525 Bitcoin (BTC) for about $60 million, given an average price of $114,562 per coin. The…
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Former FTX CEO Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried, serving a 25-year sentence after his conviction on seven felony counts, will take the next step in his appeals process with a hearing scheduled for November. According to a Wednesday notice in the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Bankman-Fried’s appeals case has been calendared for arguments…
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Bitcoin Foundation co-founder and former BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem is auctioning off items connected to his guilty plea over charges involving the darknet marketplace Silk Road. In a Thursday notice, a spokesperson for Shrem said he would be opening up 12 items related to his time in prison and early Bitcoin (BTC) paraphernalia on the…
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Brian Quintenz, US President Donald Trump’s pick to chair the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), has made public several texts between himself and Gemini co-founders Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, suggesting reasons why the brothers may have attempted to interfere with his nomination to the agency. In a Wednesday X post, Quintenz said he had…
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Keith Kelley, a Republican state senator representing Alabama’s 12th district, is sounding the alarm for the potential impact of the federal stablecoin bill, the GENIUS Act, two months after it was signed into law by US President Donald Trump. In a Wednesday op-ed for 1819 News, Kelley said there was a loophole in the GENIUS…
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The US Senate Banking Committee has advanced the nomination of Stephen Miran to a temporary position on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors after another member resigned in August. In a Wednesday meeting, the banking committee voted along party lines, 13 to 11, to advance Miran’s nomination to the full Senate for consideration. All Democrats…
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Voters in the US state of Virginia’s 11th congressional district will choose a replacement for late Representative Gerry Connolly in a special election that could be influenced by money from the cryptocurrency industry. On Tuesday, Virginia residents who haven’t voted early head to the polls to decide whether to elect Democrat James Walkinshaw or Republican…
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A group of Democratic US senators has released its own version of guidelines to influence legislation to establish a crypto market structure, focusing on taking time toward a “strong, bipartisan outcome.” In a Tuesday notice, 12 Democratic senators, several of whom are on the banking committee, unveiled a framework for market structure legislation in response…
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