Can The Government Ban Bitcoin? Four Things You Need To Know Today
• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Nick GiambrunoRecently, we've heard powerful bankers and politicians expressing their desire to ban Bitcoin.
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Recently, we've heard powerful bankers and politicians expressing their desire to ban Bitcoin.
The rules now allow crypto-holding companies to report their paper gains, not just losses, which industry observers say could give firms more confidence to buy.
Thank you, every single one of you, who have stuck by our vision. It's been a ride and, at times, a tough one, but we are here now! Back to the vision of 2014, back to the simple code and complex reasons that code works
...as it expands its eye-scanning ambitions
To even have a chance to stop Bitcoin, every government in the world would have to successfully coordinate simultaneously to shut down the entire Internet everywhere and then keep it off forever.
Bitcoin was hit with a double-whammy yesterday with a large liquidation of longs overnight (around $100 million)...
Today's calm - before the storm of event-risk-catalysts this week - was anything but.
"The only true use case for it is criminals, drug traffickers … money laundering, tax avoidance."
I was at the Q2B quantum Computer conference today and there was a talk about NSM-10 and the change of the encryption that underlies global finance and data protection.
A U.S. Space Force major has urged the Department of Defense to integrate Bitcoin as an "offset" strategy.
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On Friday, shortly after Powell failed to hammer the hawkish case in his "fireside" chat with stocks eager to take out 2023 highs, we said that Powell has a big problem on his hands not so much because if the market was indeed correct about imminent
Anticipation of an eventual US spot Bitcoin ETF - which Bloomberg's analysts assign a 90% probability of being approved by the SEC in January...
Traders betting that regulators will approve a US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund sooner rather than later have all but evaporated a once-gargantuan discount on the world's biggest crypto fund.
Theorizing is one thing; doing is quite another. No matter how good you think your theories are, applying them to the real world is always a revelation.
It's been a strange but recurring theme in my life that when a cluster of bad things hit, something good follows close behind. Often, I learn later that the good thing was initiating just as the bad things struck.
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Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein took to X (Twitter) Monday morning to say "it's been a ten year dress rehearsal. we're ready for the main event," ahead of seemingly imminent approval for the conversion of its flagship fund into a spot Bitcoin ETF.
Even if it was the NSA, the CCP, or the WEF...
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A "wide-ranging scheme to misappropriate billions of dollars of customer funds..."
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This week, U.S. regulators dropped charges against Ripple's executives; Coinbase addresses Hamas' use of crypto; Bitcoin crosses $30,000 amid discussions surrounding spot ETFs.
Global stocks rose, US index futures jumped and bitcoin erupted higher ahead of closely-watched earnings from tech gigacaps Microsoft and Alphabet later today (full preview here).
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