US President Donald Trump is planning to nominate Michael Selig as the next chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), after pulling back the nomination of Brian Quintenz. Bloomberg reported the news on Friday, citing an unnamed Trump administration official. No official announcement has been made at the time of this writing. Selig currently…
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The United States is reportedly in “early talks” with quantum computing companies to provide financial assistance to the sector, citing national security interests. Department of Commerce officials are exploring investing in quantum computer technology using funds earmarked for the CHIPS Act to remain competitive with China, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. The officials signaled that the…
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Deliberations over the crypto market structure bill between industry executives and US lawmakers hit a fever pitch on Wednesday in a tense meeting, following a leaked proposal from Democrats to impose permissioned requirements on the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector. Democratic senators accused industry executives of acting as an extension of the Republican Party after a…
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Researchers at tech giant Google said they mapped out the structure of a molecule 13,000 times faster than the most powerful “supercomputers” available today, achieving the first verifiable quantum advantage. The experiment used Google’s Willow Quantum processor and “quantum echoes,” a technique that uses targeted waves to image an object in detail, according to Google.…
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The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is ramping up its push to police the crypto industry, issuing warnings to unregistered exchanges and seeking legal action against companies serving UK residents or promoting digital assets in the country. The FCA issued hundreds of warnings against unlicensed crypto exchanges in October, including Elite Bit Markets, Nexure Gainbit,…
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The US dollar’s hegemony is over, as evidenced by China’s recent announcement of export controls on rare earth minerals, a critical component in electronics manufacturing and military defense applications, according to analyst Luke Gromen. China’s rare earth mineral export controls prohibit the sale of the critical minerals to the US military industrial complex, which backs…
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The Bitcoin (BTC) mining difficulty fell to 146.7 trillion on Friday as the network hashrate, the average of the total computing power dedicated to securing the decentralized protocol, hit an all-time high of over 1.2 trillion hashes per second. BTC mining difficulty is down by about 2.7% from the all-time high difficulty level of over…
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United States President Donald Trump confirmed on Sunday that he is meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Seoul, Korea, slated to begin on October 31. “We’re going to meet in a couple of weeks. We’re going to meet in South Korea, with president Xi and other people,…
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Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin (BTC), is the largest BTC holder in the world at the time of this writing, and the wallets controlled by Satoshi took an unrealized loss of over $20 billion since the all-time high price of over $126,000 reached in early October. Nakamoto’s Bitcoin stash contains over 1 million…
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