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View More NewsIn brief Goliath Ventures CEO Christopher Delgado pleaded guilty to wire fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering over a crypto Ponzi scheme. Prosecutors say investors poured at least $400 million into Goliath; Delgado admitted to causing a minimum of $250 million in losses. He faces up to 20 years for each fraud count and 10 for money laundering, and has agreed to forfeit properties, cars, watches, and jewelry bought with victims’ funds. The president and CEO of crypto firm Goliath Ventures has pleaded guilty to fraud, admitting he took hundreds of millions from investors and blew it on mansions and supercars.Christopher…
Bitcoin (BTC) fell toward $58,000 around Tuesday’s Wall Street open as the clock ticked down to a brutal quarterly close.Key points:US stocks’ Q2 gains leave Bitcoin far behind as bulls nurse losses of nearly 20%.Bitcoin faces renewed pressure from the risk of Japanese government moves to support the yen.BTC price weakness is forcing capitulation by top buyers, says analysis.Bitcoin “about to get spicy” amid 40-year dollar/yen highData from TradingView showed downside gaining the upper hand as volatility increased into the US session.BTC/USD one-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingViewWith $60,000 increasingly looking lost as support, commentators saw the tussle between bulls and bears…
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A review of Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith by JD Vance; 288 pages; HarperCollins: New York (June 2026)The novelist Evelyn Waugh was once asked how he reconciled his lousy personal behaviour—which included drunkenness, antisemitism, and cruelty to friends and foes alike—with his Catholic faith. No one could imagine, Waugh replied, how vile he would have been were he not a Catholic. That retort came to mind as I read US vice president JD Vance’s new book, Communion, about his conversion to Catholicism. Since joining the Church of Rome in 2019, Vance has not exactly been a paragon of virtue. Once…
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In brief Changpeng “CZ” Zhao and Binance were named in a lawsuit seeking nearly $200 million in the U.K. The suit alleges the firm…
Many, many boards for school districts, community colleges, and public universities, and at least one state, have formal policies that limit board members from…
The race is also spreading beyond crypto. Last month, prediction market operator Kalshi launched its own perpetual futures business after regulatory approval, joining exchanges…
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has requested public comment on exchange-traded funds (ETFs) investing in novel asset classes or using new investment…
This morning, the Supreme Court denied certiorari in Newman v. Moore. For years, I’ve thought that Chief Judge Moore is simply waiting for Judge Pauline…
A key player on the fast-growing derivatives exchange Hyperliquid’s private-company trading is shutting down, pointing to consolidation in one of the industry’s hottest new…
Non-fungible token (NFT) project Pudgy Penguins is winding down its mobile game Pudgy Party and halting further development.In an X post, the team said…
In brief Standard Chartered forecasts a nearly 40x increase in UNI’s price by 2030 as Wall Street migrates real-world investments on-chain. Uniswap’s automated market…
from the seems-bad dept Late Friday, Anthropic shut down access to its just-released Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models after the Trump administration slapped…
Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill earlier this month tightening the state’s restrictions on when police can seize cash and property from…
XRP spent the past two weeks trying to stop going down. Now it’s trying to go higher.The token pushed through $1.14, then $1.18, and…
Bitcoin (BTC) chart technicals suggest that the BTC price rebound to $100,000 may still happen by September. BTC/USD daily chart. Source: TradingViewKey takeaways: Bitcoin…