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Crypto treasury firms that hold digital assets on corporate balance sheets can introduce new layers of counterparty risk into what are otherwise bearer assets, according to Josip Rupena, CEO of lending platform Milo and a former Goldman Sachs analyst. He argues these engineered treasury strategies resemble the securitization practices that
Eric Trump, son of U.S. President Donald Trump and co‑founder of Bitcoin mining firm American Bitcoin (ABTC), told attendees at the Bitcoin Asia 2025 conference in Hong Kong that he is confident bitcoin (BTC) will reach $1 million within the next several years. Trump reiterated a prediction he
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Indian court hands life sentences in Bitcoin extortion case An Indian anti-corruption court convicted 14 people, including 11 police officers and a former Bharatiya Janata Party MLA, and sentenced them to life imprisonment for their roles in the 2018 kidnapping and extortion of a businessman in Surat. The group was
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An Indian anti-corruption court has sentenced 14 people, including 11 police officers and a former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator, to life imprisonment for their roles in the 2018 kidnapping and extortion of a Surat-based businessman who had recovered cryptocurrency. The court found the accused guilty of criminal conspiracy, kidnapping
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Spot Bitcoin and Ether exchange-traded funds recorded outflows on Friday after the U.S. Federal Reserve released inflation data showing rising price pressures. According to market data, Ether ETFs experienced a net outflow of $164.64 million, reversing five straight days of inflows that had added more than $1.5
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El Salvador has redistributed its entire Bitcoin reserve — 6,274 BTC, valued at roughly $678 million — into 14 separate wallet addresses as a precaution against the potential future threat posed by quantum computing. According to the country's Bitcoin Office, the funds were moved to limit exposure: once bitcoin
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Alex Spiro, an attorney known for representing high-profile clients including Elon Musk, is reported to be the planned chairman of a new public company aiming to raise roughly $200 million to hold Dogecoin on its balance sheet. The effort is being pitched as a way for investors to gain stock-market
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Opinion by Adrian Brink, co‑founder of Anoma Web3 was built around decentralization, sovereignty, verifiability and resilience. The rapid emergence of AI agents threatens those values unless agents are integrated with intent‑centric, sovereign infrastructure. If developers keep grafting opaque, centralized agent stacks onto blockchain systems, they risk replicating the
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Dutch cryptocurrency service provider Amdax has raised €20 million (about $23.3 million) to launch AMBTS, a dedicated Bitcoin treasury company that it plans to list on Amsterdam’s Euronext. The financing was secured from multiple investors in an initial round to capitalise the new vehicle. AMBTS will be established
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Bitcoin fell again on Friday, slipping nearly 3% as large transactions from so-called whale accounts pressured price action. Data showed BTC/USD dropping roughly $3,000 in a matter of hours, reaching local lows around $109,436 on Bitstamp and pushing short-liquidations to roughly $350 million over 24 hours. Traders
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U.S. banks processed roughly $312 billion in suspicious transactions linked to Chinese money‑laundering networks between 2020 and 2024, according to a Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) advisory that reviewed more than 137,000 Bank Secrecy Act reports. That works out to an average of about $62 billion per
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A group of crypto industry executives has formed a Cayman Islands-based special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) called Bitcoin Infrastructure Acquisition Corp. Ltd. to raise $200 million and pursue a public listing by merging with an existing crypto business. The SPAC intends to offer 20 million units at $10 each on