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Trump Declares US The 'Bitcoin Superpower' At White House Crypto Summit With Top Industry Executives
Saturday, March 8, 2025 - 8:21am | 547At a first-of-its-kind crypto summit at the White House, President Donald Trump pledged to make U.S. the global leader in Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and digital assets, signaling his administration's full embrace of the cryptocurrency industry. What Happened: On Friday, more than two dozen top crypto...
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Winklevoss Twins Criticize Kamala Harris After She's 'A No-Show Again' At Crypto Roundtable
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 10:03am | 627Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, co-founders of Gemini, voiced their concerns over Vice President Kamala Harris‘ absence from a recent cryptocurrency roundtable. Despite her purported interest in the industry, Harris’s continued absence from such events has raised questions among key...
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Senate Candidate's 80% Net Worth In Bitcoin Sparks Debate On Crypto's Role In Politics
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 12:14pm | 673As the digital asset industry grows, influential political figures are increasingly revealing their substantial investments in cryptocurrencies. John Deaton, an attorney running for Senate against Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), recently disclosed that approximately 80% of his net worth is tied up...
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If You Invested $1,000 In Bitcoin When The First Bitcoin ETF Was Filed, Here Are Your Gains Vs. Tesla, Apple
Thursday, August 31, 2023 - 3:54pm | 1028The long journey to have Bitcoin ETFs available to U.S. traders could be nearing an end date with a recent ruling against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for previously rejecting an ETF conversion. Here’s a look at the early history of Bitcoin ETF proposals and how investors could...
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Gemini Twins Set Sights On UAE: Winklevoss Brothers Seek Digital-Asset License
Thursday, June 1, 2023 - 11:07am | 384Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, billionaire twins and founders of the Gemini crypto exchange, are turning their ambitions to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as they plan to seek a digital-asset license in the country. The move, unveiled in a recent Gemini Twitter announcement, marks the initial...
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Genesis Billionaire-Backed Crypto Lender Axes 30% Of Jobs Months After Laying Off 20% Of Staff
Thursday, January 5, 2023 - 5:55pm | 560As the crypto lending industry faces increasing financial pressure, Genesis Trading, a subsidiary of Digital Currency Group (DCG), announced a 30% reduction in its workforce, as reported by CNBC. The move followed the layoff of 20% of Genesis staff last year and the replacement of its...
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Bitcoin Exchange Gemini Raises $400M To Build A Metaverse Outside Facebook's Walled Garden
Friday, November 19, 2021 - 1:09pm | 349The Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) billionaire brothers who made a fortune off of Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) have decided to finally raise outside capital. Gemini, the cryptocurrency platform and exchange founded by twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, has announced $400 million in funding in a round...
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Gemini Acquires Custody Startup ShardX To Enhance Speed And Scale Of Crypto Transfers
Wednesday, June 9, 2021 - 3:37pm | 376What Happened: Winklevoss-owned crypto exchange Gemini has acquired crypto custody technology startup ShardX for an undisclosed sum. According to an announcement from Gemini earlier today, the exchange plans to integrate Shard X’s MPC technology into its multi-site key management and signing...
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Fintech Focus For February 8, 2021
Sunday, February 7, 2021 - 8:25pm | 2192Quote To Start The Day: Excessive determinism is almost always the biggest enemy of stability. This seeming contradiction is behind the concept of metastability which captures the mode of market functioning in the last years. Metastability is what seems stable, but is not — a stable waiting...
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Goldman Sachs Investor Presentation On Bitcoin Released, Gets Crypto Community Angry
Thursday, May 28, 2020 - 7:14am | 646Goldman Sachs Group Inc. on Wednesday (NYSE: GS) published a presentation titled "U.S. Economic Outlook & Implications of Current Policies for Inflation, Gold and Bitcoin" ahead of an investor call. Goldman Says BTC Not An ‘Asset Class' The investment bank's views on...
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SEC To Review Decision Denying Bitcoin Market Listing
Tuesday, April 25, 2017 - 3:03pm | 313The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will reconsider a request to list what could be first U.S. exchange-traded fund designed to track bitcoin, the so-called cryptocurrency, Reuters reported. Bitcoin Price Soars The price of one bitcoin (1 BTC) was up 22.2 percent to $1,281.79. The SEC in...
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Bitcoin-Based Security Makes Its Way To Stockholm Exchange
Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - 11:52am | 371Bitcoin Tracker ONE, a bitcoin-based security, made a monumental step forward for the cryptocurrency community this week by becoming the first ever investment option to use bitcoin as an underlying asset to trade on a regulated exchange. The security is traded in krona on Nasdaq's Stockholm...
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Former Facebook Foes Prepare To Divulge On Winklevoss Bitcoin ETF
Wednesday, December 3, 2014 - 3:13pm | 469Not much has changed in the status of the Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust over the last six months since Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss updated their SEC filing to reflect a commitment to trading on the NASDAQ exchange. This proposed ETF is designed to track a proprietary and newly established index of...
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Winklevoss Twins Appear in Nut Ad Mocking Facebook
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - 7:44am | 411The infamous Winklevoss twins that accuse Mark Zuckerberg of stealing their idea for Facebook, appear in a Wonderful Pistachios advertisement mocking Facebook. The two twins supposedly come up with another big idea, this time the way a pistachio nut is cracked, and they proceed to ask, "do you...