Bitcoin price hit 2023 high, so why are retail traders waiting on the sidelines?Bitcoin price keeps going up, but retail traders are not piling in yet. Cointelegraph explores why.Dec 5, 2023Marcel Pechman
Elon Musk’s xAI files with SEC for private sale of $1B in unregistered securities“Spicy” AI chatbot Grok hasn’t been seen by the public yet, but it’ll be worth plenty after this securities issue.Dec 5, 2023Derek Andersen
SEC pushes deadline to decide on Grayscale spot Ether ETFThe commission said it will have until January 2024 to reach a decision on the spot Ether investment vehicle or institute proceedings to extend the deadline again.Dec 5, 2023Turner Wright
US crypto firms spent more on lobbying in 2023 than before FTX collapse: ReportGovernment transparency group Open Secrets reported U.S. crypto firms spent roughly $19 million on lobbying from January to September 2023.Dec 5, 2023Turner Wright
New Jersey bill would make crypto sold to institutional investors a securityThe bill complements one already on the governor’s desk that regulates digital assets owned by individuals.Dec 5, 2023Derek Andersen
IBM unveils new air-gapped cold storage solution for digital assetsThe new system works a lot like a time delay safe for digital assets with a policy engine to broker communications.Dec 5, 2023Tristan Greene
Bitcoin bulls charge to $44K as week-to-date BTC price gains pass 10%Bitcoin is leaving naysayers behind in classic bull run style, with BTC’s price arriving at multi-year resistance.Dec 5, 2023William Suberg
Crypto-friendly US lawmaker Patrick McHenry won’t seek reelection in 2024All 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives will be up for grabs in the 2024 election, with the future of crypto bills in the House Financial Services Committee uncertain.Dec 5, 2023Turner Wright
BTC price sets new 19-month high in ‘choreographed’ Bitcoin whale moveBitcoin beats its previous record to near $42,500, but all may not be what it seems when it comes to BTC price strength.Dec 5, 2023William Suberg
HashKey Exchange to onboard market makers to boost liquidity“To incentivize more users to provide liquidity, we will officially launch the market maker project starting from 2023/12/28,” the exchange wrote.Dec 5, 2023Zhiyuan Sun
Jury in Terraform Labs case shouldn’t decide whether crypto is a security — SECAccording to the SEC, the tokens at issue in its civil case against Terraform Labs should be a “legal question” for a court, “not a factual question for the jury.”Dec 5, 2023Turner Wright
Bitcoin custodian Nostr Assets pauses deposits after reaching ‘maximum capacity’“Please refrain from deposits at the moment. Inbound at max capacity,” wrote one community manager.Dec 5, 2023Zhiyuan Sun
Crypto payments: PayPal’s stablecoin ripple effect on markets Earlier this year, PayPal released its own stablecoin. What effect has it had on crypto adoption?Dec 5, 2023Victoria Kennedy
Expect ‘records broken’ by Bitcoin ETF: Brett Harrison (ex-FTX US), X Hall of FlameBrett Harrison taught a promising young Sam Bankman-Fried programming for traders at Jane Street, but wasn’t so impressed with the man SBF became.Dec 5, 2023Ciaran Lyons
AI and pension funds: Is AI a safe bet for retirement investment?Some pensions funds that experimented with emerging assets like cryptocurrency have lost millions of dollars.Dec 5, 2023Daniel Ramirez-Escudero
Swiss city Lugano accepts Bitcoin and Tether for municipal taxesThe Swiss city of Lugano officially announced that it has started accepting BTC and USDT as payment for taxes and all other community fees.Dec 5, 2023Helen Partz
Italy and South Korea central banks agree on CBDC cooperationThe central banks of Italy and South Korea announced a memorandum of understanding in the development and deployment of CBDCs.Dec 5, 2023Savannah Fortis
Kenyan crypto tax bill makes it through parliamentary committeeThe Capital Markets (Amendment) Bill will now be introduced to the lower chamber of the Kenyan parliament.Dec 5, 2023David Attlee
Singapore releases National AI Strategy 2.0, plans for 15,000 AI expertsSingapore released an updated version of its National AI Strategy, including plans for boosting government competency, building a smart nation and increasing compute capacity.Dec 5, 2023Savannah Fortis
Societe Generale issues its first green bond on EthereumThe unsecured bond has a value of 10 million euros and a maturity of three years, with all the proceeds going for eligible green activities investments.Dec 5, 2023David Attlee
Bitcoin short-term holder sales near $5B as profit-taking mimics 2021Bitcoin makes Christmas come early for its more speculative investors, with BTC price still facing “early bull market” resistance.Dec 5, 2023William Suberg
Taiwan will review global trends before deciding on crypto ETFsThe Financial Supervisory Commission considers itself to be “in the exploratory phase” for crypto exchange-traded funds.Dec 5, 2023David Attlee
Bitcoin miner Phoenix surges 50% after $371M Abu Dhabi IPOCrypto mining firm Phoenix Group has debuted trading on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange, with the stock opening at $0.6.Dec 5, 2023Helen Partz
BlackRock received $100K seed funds for Bitcoin ETF — SEC filingBlackRock and other financial giants have entered the race to launch the first spot Bitcoin ETF in the United States.Dec 5, 2023Prashant Jha
Web3 firm detects major security flaw in common smart contractsA security vulnerability potentially affecting hundreds of smart contracts that were pre-built using a commonly used open-source library has been reported by Web3 firm Thirdweb.Dec 5, 2023Martin Young
Hashdex tips spot Bitcoin ETFs to trade by Q2, followed by EthereumHashdex’s head of product for the U.S. and Europe says the exact timing for a spot Bitcoin ETF is unclear but predicts it to start by the second quarter of 2024.Dec 5, 2023Jesse Coghlan
Robinhood crypto trading rises 75% in Nov, CEO tips ‘9 figures’ in revenueThe trading platform posted a sharp rise in monthly crypto trading volumes in November, while CEO Vlad Tenev said he hopes to eventually reel in “nine figures” in annual revenue.Dec 5, 2023Martin Young
Riot Platforms buys $291M in BTC rigs as miners rake it in from OrdinalsIt adds to a prior agreement in which Riot bought 33,280 miners from MicroBT. The term sheet was also updated, allowing Riot to buy another 265,000 miners in the future.Dec 5, 2023Brayden Lindrea
‘Fire in the cauldron’ as Coinbase, Marathon surge over 300% in 2023The anticipated Bitcoin halving and potential ETF approvals have lit “some serious fire in the cauldron” for crypto, said Zerocap investment chief Jon de Wet.Dec 5, 2023Jesse Coghlan
Bitcoin the ‘main beneficiary’ as crypto funds notch 10-week streakNearly $1.8 billion flowed into crypto investment products over the last 10 weeks, which hasn’t been seen since Bitcoin futures were launched in October 2021.Dec 5, 2023Brayden Lindrea