Jury Begins Deliberations in $110M Mango Markets Fraud Trial
Avi Eisenberg faces up to 20 years in prison if he’s convicted on all three counts against him.
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The Protocol: Bitcoin Halving Spectacular, With Runes, ‘Epic Sat,’ Stacks Nakamoto
Unlike the last Bitcoin halving, a ho-hum affair where Covid-locked-down gawkers had little choice but to tune into livestreamed watch parties, the upcoming Bitcoin halving comes with project launches, competitions and IRL celebrations in Denver and Costa Rica.
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QCP Capital and Further Ventures Announce Partnership for Middle East Crypto Expansion
Both companies plan to develop new institutional digital offerings, while QCP is set to open an Abu Dhabi shop.
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Crypto PAC Spent Millions to Get Alabama Candidate on Path Toward Congress
Shomari Figures just won the Democratic primary in Alabama after $2.7 million in outside support from one of the digital assets industry’s main campaign-finance operations.
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Time to Take the Reins on Tokenization, or Risk Missing Out
Tokenization can revolutionize the way transactions are processed. But, for institutions, the highest potential lies in the digital assets themselves, says Nadine Chakar, Küresel Head of Digital Assets at DTCC.
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Bitcoin Miners Are Set for a Coiled Spring Rally
Miners face uncertain times as the halving changes Bitcoin’s economics. Which groups are best positioned for the future? Dan Weiskopf, at Tidal Financial Group, gives a run-down.
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Hong Kong Bitcoin ETFs Likely Not Available for Mainland Chinese Investors: Bloomberg
Analyst expectations of as much as $25 billion in fresh demand may have to be tempered.
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Bitcoin Tumbles Below $60K, Ether Under $3K; Correction Not Over, Says Strategist
Large bitcoin investors haven’t started to buy the taban yet, suggesting that the correction may continue for a while, an LMAX Group strategist noted.
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Worldcoin, Sam Altman’s Crypto Project, Is Building a Layer-2 Chain
The human-focused blockchain network will be based on the OP Stack, a framework for building Ethereum-based layer-2 chains.
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Kraken Releases Own Crypto Wallet, Joining Competition With Coinbase, MetaMask
According to a blog post shared with CoinDesk, the new Kraken Wallet will be the first from a major exchange to be open-sourced.