The lawyer for Binance co-founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao has denied that he somehow paid for a pardon from US President Donald Trump. Appearing on Anthony Pompliano’s “Pomp Podcast” on Friday, CZ’s personal attorney Teresa Goody Guillén described the criticism around CZ’s pardoning as a “pile up of a lot of false statements.” “The media continues…
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The majority of institutional Bitcoin investors don’t seem to know or care about the Bitcoin Core vs Knots debate that has been raging on for the past few months, according to Galaxy Digital’s head of research, Alex Thorn. The debate centers on arguments about what Bitcoin (BTC) should be used for and whether non-financial transactions…
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Bitcoin may not be as resilient to network attacks as most think, according to Bitcoin pioneer Nick Szabo, who argues that while Bitcoin is a trust-minimized network, it isn’t entirely trustless and can still be “attacked” by nation-states and corporations. In a post to X on Sunday, Szabo explained that every cryptocurrency and layer 1…
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Crypto executives speculate that outflows from crypto exchange-traded funds, long-term whale sales and escalating geopolitical tensions may be to blame for the recent market slump, as Bitcoin dropped to nearly $93,000 on Sunday. Bitcoin briefly fell to a year-to-date low of $93,029 on Sunday. The overall market capitalization has also seen a pullback in the…
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Harvard University boosted its investment in BlackRock’s Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) by over 250% in the third quarter after the Ivy League school first bought into the fund earlier this year. Harvard Management Company, the business that manages the university’s $57 billion endowment fund, reported in a regulatory filing on Friday that it held over…
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Bitcoin briefly lost all of its gains this year after the crypto markets bled over the weekend, despite the US government reopening on Thursday, which was expected to provide much-needed relief to the markets. Bitcoin (BTC) fell to a low of $93,029 on Sunday, down 25% from its all-time high in October. It started the…
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Gold investor Peter Schiff called Strategy’s business model, which hatched the biggest Bitcoin (BTC) treasury company in the world, a “fraud” on Sunday and challenged the company’s founder, Michael Saylor, to a debate. Schiff, who is one of crypto and Bitcoin’s harshest critics and a staunch gold advocate, challenged Saylor to a debate at Binance…
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The debate between the Bitcoin (BTC) and Zcash (ZEC) communities intensified on Sunday as the price of Zcash recovered to over $700, after falling to a low of $598 on Saturday. “The ‘Bitcoin only, everything else is a scam’ crowd is going to get really twisted trying to figure out what to say about Zcash,”…
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Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) is preparing an overhaul of the country’s crypto regulatory framework, moving to classify digital assets as “financial products” under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act. The plan would introduce mandatory disclosures for 105 cryptocurrencies listed on domestic exchanges, including Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH), and bring them under insider trading…
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Upbit operator Dunamu reported a surge in profitability for the third quarter of the year, posting 239 billion won ($165 million) in net income. The figure marks an increase of more than 300% compared to the same period last year, which stood at $40 million, local news outlet Chosun Biz reported, citing regulatory filings with…
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