23andMe Is a Wake-Up Call on Data Sovereignty
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In all likelihood, the move by the Sei Foundation – the organization behind layer1 blockchain Sei – to buy bankrupt genetic data company 23andMe is a long-shot at best, and potentially just a publicity stunt. But, it remains an incredibly exciting idea that has got a lot of people thinking. Were such a deal to […]

CoinShares Valkyrie BTC Mining (WGMI) ETF Is the Worst Performing ETF of 2025
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CoinShares’ Valkyrie Bitcoin Mining (WGMI) exchange-traded fund (ETF) is the worst-performing ETF of 2025, down 43% year-to-date, according to Senior Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas. The ETF is made up of several publicly traded bitcoin (BTC) miners. IREN (IREN) is the largest holding at 15%, which is down 42%. Core Scientific (CORZ) follows with a […]

Bitcoin Could Appear on 25% of S&P 500 Balance Sheets by 2030, Analyst Says
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Bitcoin is making its way from trading desks to corporate treasuries, and by the end of the decade, it could be standard practice, according to one analyst. “Across all the different strategies and implementations, I anticipate that by 2030, a quarter of the S&P 500 will have BTC somewhere on their balance sheets as a […]

Bitcoin Miner MARA Starts Massive $2B At-the-Market Stock Sale Plan to Buy More BTC
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Bitcoin mining company MARA Holdings (MARA) is launching a fresh $2 billion stock offering to buy more bitcoin, continuing its plan of buying BTC in the open market through capital raise while sticking to its “Hodl” strategy. According to a Form 8-K and a new prospectus filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), […]

Terraform Labs to Open Claims Portal for Investors on March 31

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Terraform Labs, the firm behind the collapsed Luna token and the TerraUSD stablecoin, will open a portal on March 31 to allow investors to file claims for crypto losses tied to the company’s downfall and subsequent bankruptcy. The online system, operated by claims administrator Kroll, is part of the company’s court-supervised wind-down process. Investors have […]

President Trump Pardons Arthur Hayes, 3 Other BitMEX Co-Founders and Employee
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Arthur Hayes, the former CEO of crypto exchange BitMEX, has been granted a pardon by U.S. President Donald Trump, a White House official confirmed Friday. Trump also pardoned Hayes’ co-founders at BitMEX, Samuel Reed and Benjamin Delo, as well as senior employee Greg Dwyer and BitMEX’s operating entity, HDR Global Trading, a BitMEX spokesperson said. […]

Bitcoin Plunges Below $84K as Crypto Sell-Off Wipes Out Weekly Gains
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Hopes for the crypto recovery to continue vanished on Friday, as a market-wide rout erased virtually all gains from earlier this week. Bitcoin (BTC), hovering just below $88,000 a day ago, tumbled to $83,800 recently and is down 3.8% over the past 24 hours. The broad-market benchmark CoinDesk 20 Index declined 5.7%, with native cryptos […]

‘Mt. Gox, Where is my Money’? Sign Put Up for Auction by Kolin Burges
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One cold February morning in 2014, Kolin Burges stood outside Mt. Gox’s Tokyo office, clutching a handwritten cardboard sign and demanding answers from the bitcoin exchange’s CEO, Mark Karpeles, about his missing tokens. Eleven years later, the iconic sign, emblematic of crypto’s first major financial scandal, is being auctioned on Scare.City with a reserve price […]

Sei Foundation Explores Buying 23andMe to Put Genetic Data on Blockchain
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The Sei Foundation, the nonprofit development organization behind the layer-1 blockchain Sei (SEI), is exploring the acquisition of bankrupt personal genomics company 23andMe and putting the genetic data of 15 million users on blockchain rails. The foundation announced the initiative in an X post on Thursday, calling the plan its “boldest DeSci bet yet” — […]

Like DOGE, XRP Going Vertical Is a Good Indicator of Market Froth, BTC Price Peaks
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Crypto traders are used to seeing a price surge in non-serious cryptocurrencies such as dogecoin (DOGE) as a sign of market froth. Now it looks as though XRP, the payments-focused cryptocurrency, can also be used as an indicator for bull-market peaks in bitcoin (BTC). Unlike meme tokens like DOGE and shiba inu (SHIB), XRP has […]

U.S. House Stablecoin Bill Goes Live in Flurry of Crypto Activity on Capitol Hill
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The U.S. Congress’ opening priority for the crypto industry is to quickly finish a stablecoin oversight bill, and the House of Representatives has released the text of its version on Wednesday, following in the heels of a recent committee approval of its Senate counterpart. The House version, introduced by Rep. Bryan Steil, who leads the […]

Fidelity Investments Prepares to Unveil Its Own Stablecoin: FT
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Fidelity Investments is in advanced stages of developing its own stablecoin, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. The Boston-based financial services giant plans for the token to serve as a form of digital cash, according to the report, which cites two people close to the matter. The token would form part of company’s strategy to […]