Kraken founder Jesse Powell expressed his support for bitcoin entrepreneur Roger Ver, also known as Bitcoin Jesus, to seek a pardon from President Trump. In an article on X, Powell argued that Mr. Ver, who renounced his US citizenship, was the victim of government overreach, not the tax evader portrayed by the authorities, arguing that the available evidence against him for tax evasion was highly dubious. Thus, an attempt by the Internal Revenue Service to prosecute and convict him appears to be...
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The monthly rate of the US FHFA house price index in November was 0.3%, and the previous value was revised from 0.40% to 0.5%.
The unseasonally adjusted housing price index of the 20 major cities in the United States in November was 4.3%, expected to be 4.3%, and the previous value was 4.22%.
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase (COIN) said it has obtained registration as a virtual asset service provider (VASP) from Argentina's National Securities Commission (CNV), allowing it to offer its services to users in Argentina.
According to Arkham monitoring, the Trump crypto project WLFI once again bought $470,000 worth of MOVE. Its cumulative purchase value of $1.41 million MOVE within 10 minutes. Or affected by this news, MOVE rose by more than 13% in 24 hours and is now trading at $0.82.
On January 28th, OpenAI announced on Tuesday the launch of its largest product since the launch of the enterprise. The product is called ChatGPT Gov and is designed for use by the US government. The Microsoft-backed company is positioning the new platform as a step up from ChatGPT Enterprise in terms of security. Kevin Weil, OpenAI's chief product officer, told reporters at a briefing on Monday that it allows government entities to operate as customers in their own secure hosting environments an...
On January 28th, Vetle Lunde, head of research at K33, said that yesterday's slump in Nvidia's share price had a ripple effect on the cryptocurrency market, with traders on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) quickly avoiding risk. Bitcoin futures basis fell to negative for the first time since August 2023, while nominal non-position squaring contracts saw their largest ever one-day decline, falling as much as 17,225 bitcoins. It is reported that the futures basis is the price of the futures c...
Arthur Hayes expressed his views on social media, questioning the innovative model of the AI project DeepSeek. In addition, Hayes used this to raise concerns about the high valuation of the US stock market. He mentioned that the current share of US stock market capitalization in GDP is 230%, far higher than 175% during the Internet bubble in 2000 and 130% before the Great Depression in 1929. He pointed out that if investors withdraw money from US stocks, it will lead to a reduction in capital ga...
According to Arkham, the Trump crypto project World Liberty Financial currently holds: 59,400 ETH (189.86 million USD); 646.7 WBTC (66.40 million USD); 19,400 STETH (61.93 million USD); 40.72 million TRX (10.08 million USD); 256,310 LINK (US $6.16 million); 19,400 AAVEs (5.83 million dollars); 5.78 million ENA ($4.21 million). Total Holding Value: 392 million USD, remaining 47.49 million USD stablecoins available for purchase.
Short-term holders of bitcoin exited the market at a loss on Monday as the price fell, while derivatives traders also cut their losses, causing the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's unpositioned squaring futures contracts to drop significantly. According to Glassnode's definition, a short-term holder is an address that has held bitcoin for less than 155 days. The data shows that these addresses transferred more than 21,000 BTC (about $2.20 billion) to the trading platform during the 4.7% drop in bit...
U.S. cryptocurrency stocks rose premarket, with the ProShares Bitcoin Strategic ETF up 1.5 percent and the iShares Bitcoin Trust up 1.2 percent.