With an any-minute-now confirmation of Mike Selig to take over the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, its stand-in chief, Caroline Pham, is closer to her longstanding plan to jump to crypto firm MoonPay. As CoinDesk reported last month, Pham was said to be planning to take on the role of chief legal officer and chief […]
Weary U.S.-based bitcoin BTC$92,837.47 bulls might think it’s their imagination that they seem to wake up every morning to BTC doing pretty well only for prices to head lower during the U.S. trading session. They are, in fact, not imagining things. Data from crypto analytics platform Velo.xyz shows that over the past year, bitcoin is […]
Beast Holdings, the business entity tied to YouTube personality Jimmy ‘MrBeast’ Donaldson, has filed a U.S. trademark application for “MrBeast Financial,” with language suggesting a possible push into crypto. The application includes services like cryptocurrency payment processing, crypto exchange, and trading through decentralized exchanges (DEXs). The filing also mentions downloadable software and software-as-a-service (SaaS) tools […]
Marathon Digital Holdings (NASDAQ: MARA) appears to have taken advantage of Friday’s market turmoil to load up on bitcoin BTC$112,873.59, according to data curated by Arkham Intelligence. Marathon Digital Holdings, which holds about 52,850 BTC (worth roughly $6.06 billion), purchased an additional 400 BTC valued at about $45.9 million through FalconX early Monday, according to […]
Bitcoin held firm above $105,000 on Saturday despite an unusually combative and personal escalation in the Trump-Musk feud that could rattle traditional markets next week. On Saturday, in a phone interview with NBC News, President Trump warned that there would be “serious consequences” if Elon Musk financially backed Democratic candidates running against Republicans who support […]
CoreWeave, an AI firm in close partnership with bitcoin miner Core Scientific (CORZ), filed for an initial public offering (IPO) today. The company is expected to raise $4 billion, with a valuation of more than $35 billion. Today’s filing showed the company had seen $1.9 billion in revenue in 2024, resulting in a net loss […]