Japanese investment company Metaplanet’s shares spiked on market opening after announcing its plan to raise $5.4 billion to buy Bitcoin last week. Metaplanet’s stock (3350T) shot up over 12% in the June 9 trading session, trading at 1,505 yen ($10.42), according to Google Finance. However, at its peak of the trading session so far, Metaplanet’s…
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Bitcoin bull Michael Saylor has downplayed concerns over quantum computing’s impact on Bitcoin, calling it a marketing ploy to pump quantum-branded tokens. “It’s mainly marketing from people that want to sell you the next quantum yo-yo token,” Strategy’s executive chairman said in a June 6 interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” Quantum computing’s potential impact on…
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Argentine President Javier Milei didn’t breach any of his presidential duties when he promoted the Libra memecoin, the country’s Anti-Corruption Office said in a recent decision. In a June 5 resolution, the Anti-Corruption Office said Milei was acting in a personal capacity when he endorsed the Libra (LIBRA) token in a Feb. 14 X post,…
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Opinion by: T-RO, co-founder of GamerBoom Forget the old pitch about “interactive media.” Every dungeon crawl, clutch revive and deck shuffle is time-stamped, geo-located and tied to an explicit objective. No other medium produces such clean, high-frequency reads on risk tolerance, resilience or cooperation. Feed these sequences into reinforcement learners, resulting in the real-world effect.…
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Strategy co-founder and executive chairman Michael Saylor posted a chart of the company’s Bitcoin holdings on June 8, signaling a possible upcoming acquisition. On June 8, Saylor posted “Send more Orange” on X. Saylor’s cryptic posts are often followed by announcements of new Bitcoin (BTC) purchases. If Strategy follows up the post with another BTC…
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Didi Taihuttu, patriarch of the so-called “Bitcoin Family,” has overhauled his digital asset security setup following a wave of violent attacks targeting crypto holders. The family, known for going all-in on Bitcoin in 2017, now hides portions of their private keys across four continents. In a CNBC interview, Taihuttu said he now uses a hybrid…
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Key points: Bitcoin is working on completing a “successful” support retest as trader bets increase prior to the weekly candle close. BTC price volatility is expected as liquidity analysis shows that conditions favor a significant short squeeze. $100,000 still remains a likely target in the event of a fresh price dip. Bitcoin (BTC) held $105,500…
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Dubai’s real estate market surged in May, posting record sales volumes and transaction values that signal growing investor confidence and potential readiness for property tokenization. According to data shared in a press release with Cointelegraph by real estate platform Property Finder, Dubai’s real estate sector reached a total sales value of 66.8 billion dirhams (about…
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Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says the stablecoin issuer has no intention of going public, just days after rival Circle made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). “No need to go public,” Ardoino said on June 7, just two days after Circle, which is behind the stablecoin USDC (USDC), entered the public market…
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A collective statement from 31 Bitcoin core developers has sparked a global debate between Bitcoiners after suggesting a hands-off approach to how the Bitcoin network is used, amid ongoing controversy over non-monetary use cases. “This is not endorsing or condoning non-financial data usage, but accepting that as a censorship-resistant system, Bitcoin can and will be…
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