As Donald Trump prepares for his presidency, significant changes are expected in U.S. cryptocurrency regulation. Insiders revealed potential executive orders targeting President Biden’s restrictive crypto policies, signaling a dramatic realignment that could impact the broader digital asset market. One primary focus of Trump’s cryptocurrency policy is overturning the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) controversial Staff Accounting Bulletin (SAB) 121. This…
Month: January 2025
Deribit options exchange is evaluating buyout offers: Report
According to Bloomberg, the Bitcoin and Ether options trading platform may be worth up to $5 billion. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/deribit-exchange-evaluate-buyout-offers?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound
Metaplanet Unveils Bitcoin Magazine to Educate 1 Million People About Bitcoin
Bitcoin Magazine aims to aim to equip a minimum of one million Japanese with the knowledge and tools to be a part of the bitcoin revolution. Metaplanet Takes Another Big Step to Advance Bitcoin Adoption Bitcoin Magazine Japan is a new media platform by Metaplanet that aims to help one million Japanese people understand and […] Source: https://news.bitcoin.com/metaplanet-unveils-bitcoin-magazine-to-educate-1-million-people-about-bitcoin/
‘Forgotten Runiverse’ Game Wants You to Crash Its Servers—And Earn Towards the Airdrop
The Forgotten Runiverse game launched its “Crash the Runiverse” event Tuesday, asking players to engage with its fantasy-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game—aka MMORPG—to push its servers to the limit as it prepares for a global launch. “The goal is simple: stress-test our servers to their absolute limits and try to crash them,” the project wrote on X (formerly known…
This Free ‘Reasoning’ AI Model Beats OpenAI’s o1—Without a $20 Monthly Fee
The team at Novasky, a ”collaborative initiative led by students and advisors at UC Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab,” has done what seemed impossible just months ago: They’ve created a high-performance AI reasoning model for under $450 in training costs. Unlike traditional LLMs that simply predict the next word in a sentence, so-called “reasoning models” are designed to understand a problem,…
Gary Gensler says the presidential election wasn’t about crypto money
The SEC chair is set to leave office in six days, the same day Donald Trump is scheduled to be inaugurated in Washington, DC. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/sec-chair-gary-gensler-us-election-crypto?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound
Sotheby’s Is Auctioning NBA Top Shot NFTs
Sotheby’s is auctioning off NBA Top Shot digital collectibles as the NFT market experiences a modest resurgence amid a broader crypto market boom in recent months. The auction house is selling eight NBA Top Shot NFTs, valued between $500 and $3,000 each, as part of its broader NBA memorabilia sale, a company spokesperson said Tuesday in a statement. Bidding is…
Report: Trump’s First-Day Executive Orders to Target Biden’s Crypto Policies
The incoming Trump administration appears poised to orchestrate a significant shift in U.S. cryptocurrency policy, signaling plans to dismantle key Biden-era regulations, according to The Washington Post (WaPo). Trump’s Alleged Crypto Plans Revealed by Insiders in WaPo Report Insiders privy to the administration’s deliberations revealed to WaPo that overturning the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) […] Source: https://news.bitcoin.com/report-trumps-first-day-executive-orders-to-target-bidens-crypto-policies/
Departing SEC Chair Gary Gensler Slams Crypto Again—But Says Bitcoin Is Different
As crypto’s sheriff prepares to hang up his spurs, SEC Chair Gary Gensler took the opportunity Tuesday to separate Bitcoin from the rest of the herd, which he says still has to prove it has any true value. In an appearance on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Gensler said that he believes Bitcoin is still a risky bet, but the leading cryptocurrency…
ai16z’s Eliza Labs ships white paper for Web3-native AI agents
The company envisions a world of AI agents, like Eliza, trading autonomously onchain. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/ai16z-eliza-white-paper-ai-agents?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound