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View More NewsJPMorgan’s reported position in BlackRock’s Bitcoin exchange-traded fund increased by about 25% in the second quarter, while its Ether ETF position more than quadrupled, according to its latest securities filing. The Form 13F filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, submitted Wednesday, covers holdings as of June 30 and includes 17 other investment managers across JPMorgan. That makes it difficult to determine whether individual positions reflect a directional market view, Jonatan Randin, senior market analyst at PrimeXBT, told Cointelegraph.“It gives you some idea of what they are doing but not their opinion about the future direction of a specific…
UK Reform leader Nigel Farage will face an investigation that had been briefly paused following his resignation from Parliament after winning a by-election on Thursday with no major party candidates participating.As of Friday, the UK Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards website showed that Farage was currently under investigation for “failure to register an interest” related to the Reform leader receiving millions of dollars’ worth of donations and gifts from two figures tied to the crypto industry. The investigation was halted in July after Farage resigned as a member of Parliament, but resumed following his reelection as Clacton’s MP. The commission will probe…
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“Dogma,” Albert Einstein told an audience at the Sorbonne in 1929, “is the enemy of progress.” Just kidding—it’s what ChatGPT whispered in the ear of the rector of my university at the start of this academic year after she decided to outsource her inaugural address to AI. The speech she delivered was a string of grammatically impeccable platitudes garnished with four quotations, three of which turned out to be hallucinations—the kind of false erudition that academics like to flaunt. The fourth quotation was real, but it was a cringeworthy piece of self-flattery lifted from an obscure 1946 speech: “There are…
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Bitcoin BTC$62,643.94 dropped below $63,000, losing 1.14% since midnight UTC as a second day of outflows from spot exchange-traded funds and a lack of…
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from the pinky-swears dept It’s always the same routine. Before each giant merger the companies promise that the new combined entity will deliver the…
Trump Media & Technology Group likely abandoned plans for its bitcoin BTC$77,950.74 exchange-traded fund (ETF) because the economics no longer worked.ETF analysts say the…
Elon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX reported holding 18,712 Bitcoin worth $1.45 billion in a recent filing, over 10,000 coins more than blockchain tracking firms…
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SpaceX officially confirmed plans to go public on Wednesday, setting the stage for what could become the largest initial public offering in history and…
Key takeaways:$2 billion in spot Bitcoin ETF outflows spark downside fears, but this metric is typically backward-looking.A sustained discount on stablecoins in China signals…
In brief Bitcoin firm Nakamoto is instituting a 1-for-40 reverse stock split. The move is intended to help it achieve a share price of…
None of this proves that extreme views are always right, and moderate ones always misguided. The point is not that we should always adopt…