Donald Trump Names Former College Football Player To Lead New “Crypto Council”
President-elect Donald Trump has appointed Bo Hines, a former college football player and 2022 Republican congressional candidate, as the executive director of his administration’s new “Crypto Council.” Trump announced the appointment on 22 December 2024 via his Truth Social platform, stating that Hines would serve as the Executive Director of More...
VanEck: US Could Slash National Debt By 35% With 1 Million Bitcoin Reserve
The US could potentially reduce its national debt by 35% within 24 years by establishing a reserve of 1 million Bitcoin, according to a report by asset management firm VanEck. The projection aligns with a proposal More...
Africa Crypto Week in Review: Nigeria’s Crackdown on Scammers, Mining in Kenya, South Africa Firm Expects Growth in 2025 As Ethiopia Bans Crypto Transactions
Crypto’s positive and negative sides were on full display. Nigeria had a crackdown on cybercriminals in crypto, while Kenyan and South African entrepreneurs are making moves in anticipation of what the next year More...
Fake Satoshi’ Craig Wright Receives One-Year Prison Sentence
Craig Wright, the fake creator of Bitcoin ($BTC) and a figure perennially drenched in crypto controversy, is going to prison. 2024 continues to surprise. The UK High Court delivered a 12-month suspended jail sentence More...
Craig Wright Gets One-Year Suspended Sentence For Contempt Of Court In UK
Craig Wright, the Australian computer scientist infamous for falsely claiming to be Bitcoin’s creator Satoshi Nakamoto, has been handed a one-year suspended prison sentence by a London high court. The court More...
Investors Sue Entities Behind HAWK Memecoin, Alleging Unregistered Securities Offering
Investors have filed a lawsuit against the creators and promoters of the Hawk Tuah (HAWK) memecoin, alleging that its launch involved the illegal sale of unregistered securities. The lawsuit, filed on 19 December More...
What Is Project Atlas? $70M Saved In Global Operation Led By Ontario Police In Canada
Investigators in Ontario, Canada, have successfully thwarted the theft of over $70 million in cryptocurrency. This operation, which also froze an additional $24 million in fraudulent funds, targeted an elaborate More...
Martin Shkreli Loads Up MicroStrategy Shorts: Will Pharma Bro Beat Saylor?
Love him or hate him, Martin Shkreli, aka Pharma Bro, is calling shorts on Bitcoin ($BTC), MicroStrategy (MSTR), and a crop of quantum computing stocks. Some say Martin is desperate for attention (again) and posting More...
Robinhood CEO: Crypto Industry Facing “Relentless Assault”
The cryptocurrency industry is under immense pressure, according to Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev, who recently addressed the challenges facing the sector in a candid interview. Speaking to BBC on 19 December 2024, More...
Why Is Crypto Down? Can Trump Fire Powell? What Happens Next After Powell’s Fed Blocks Bitcoin Reserve?
Why is crypto down? Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s latest monetary policy update just hit the crypto markets like a hammer. Bitcoin, which had one foot over the $100k line, stumbled, dropping 4.6% to $101,300 after More...
