@nohillside@smnn.chAnders gesagt: Seit Trumps Amtsantritt (und dem Jubel der Cryptobros über goldene Zeiten) ist Bitcoin um 22% gefallen.
Bitcoin Erases Year's Gain as Crypto Bear Market Deepens - Slashdot https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/17/024…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"The Coinwatch #crypto tracking platform accused market makers of 'desert[ing] their responsibility', and #blockchain analyst YQ alleged 'they executed a coordinated withdrawal at the optimal moment to minimize their losses while maximizing subsequent opportunities"
Of cour…
@metacurity@infosec.exchange"Already paranoid about scams, hacks and market turmoil, wealthy crypto investors have lately become terrified about a much graver threat: torture and kidnapping."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/business/how-to-not-get-kidnapped-for-you…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow OpenSea reinvented itself from an NFT marketplace to a crypto trading aggregator, facilitating $1.6B in trades in the first two weeks of October (Jeff Kauflin/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkauflin/2
@cdarwin@c.imThe UK Treasury is drafting new rules
to regulate cryptocurrencies
under legislation set to come into force in 2027, The Guardian reported Sunday.
The move would place digital asset firms under the supervision of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA),
subjecting them to the same standards as other traditional financial products such as stocks and shares.
Regulators are seeking to address gaps in consumer protection as the market has expanded rapidly,
especia…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialVC fund a16z crypto says it is expanding to Asia and opening an office in Seoul, calling South Korea the world's second-largest crypto market (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/12/10/a16z-cryp…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCrypto markets crashed after Trump threatened an extra 100% tariff on China, triggering $19.1B in liquidations, 10x the liquidations during the FTX crash (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/10/1…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comAFL-CIO opposes major crypto legislation (Brady Dale/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/07/crypto-market-structure-afl-cio
http://www.memeorandum.com/251007/p134#a251007p134
@Techmeme@techhub.socialKalshi integrates its event trading platform into the popular crypto wallet Phantom; Dune: in November, Kalshi's trading volume hit $5.8B vs. Polymarket's $3.7B (Nina Bambysheva/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.co…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDraft plans: EU is pushing for market regulator ESMA to get supervision and authorization powers over crypto firms, shifting oversight from national regulators (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-14/eu…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCoinGecko: crypto's combined market cap rises 6% to hit $4T, recovering from a brutal weekend selloff as President Trump tries to calm US-China trade war fears (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-13/…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe US CFTC grants crypto exchange Gemini a DCM license, allowing it to launch its prediction markets platform Gemini Titan (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/382142/gemini-cftc-approval-prediction-market-crypto-future…
@gwire@mastodon.socialOne aspect of the "Bitcoin Queen" story is what happens to the seized crypto assets. Attempting to convert coins valued at £5 billion in a short amount of time might depress the market.
It's why there was so much lobbying of Trump by the crypto industry. The "U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve" is essentially a promise not to sell seized bitcoin.
(I can't see the UK government making the same call.)
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCoinGecko: crypto market cap falls to $3.5T from October's $4.4T peak, on track to erase its 2025 gains; crypto ETFs had $700M of net outflow over the past week (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-…
@metacurity@infosec.exchange😆
Six hacker wallets sold ETH during the crypto crash on October 10, locking in heavy losses and rebuying at higher prices.
Hackers Lost $13M in ETH After Panic Selling and Rebuying at Higher Prices
https://coincentral.com/hackers-lost-1
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of David Bailey, Trump's informal crypto advisor who organizes the Bitcoin Conference, as he seeks to turn a Utah health clinic into a bitcoin bank (Nina Bambysheva/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ninabambyshev
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Coinbase is preparing to launch a prediction market powered by Kalshi to allow its clients to bet on events such as elections and sports (Yueqi Yang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/coinbase-launch-prediction-market-po…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNaver agrees to acquire Dunamu, which runs South Korea's biggest crypto exchange Upbit, in a $10.3B all-stock deal; Upbit has 80% market share in South Korea (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-26/naver-to…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTruth Social launches Truth Predict, a prediction market platform in partnership with Crypto.com to let users trade on major current events like elections (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/485594b3-5a72-4ae1-aa93-8ee987be1569
@Techmeme@techhub.socialInvestors have pulled $3.5B from US-listed bitcoin ETFs so far in November, almost equaling the previous monthly record for outflows of $3.6B set in February (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-24/…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCrypto miners like IREN are pivoting to AI data centers amid the AI boom; IREN's stock, down to ~$1 in 2022, is up 300% in 2025, giving it a $13B market cap (Jennifer Hiller/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/e…
