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“The U.S. slowdown looks clearly underway, and the Fed, behind the curve, will need to cut more aggressively than previously expected. U.S. [Treasury] yields and the dollar are consequently repricing lower, which is hugely bullish for bitcoin. Further, with China ramping up stimulus and liquidity injections, combined with a weaker dollar, global liquidity conditions are

But the race between Democrats Ansari and Raquel Terán, who’d been endorsed by leading crypto critic Warren, has come down to a 67-vote gap almost a week after that state’s elections, and Ansari’s lead has narrowed each time a new batch was tallied. Wider Maricopa County, which includes the 3rd district, still has an estimated

In addition to the Bank of Japan’s somewhat unexpected hawkishness last week, the U.S. Federal Reserve also surprised a few – not by holding rates steady, but instead by appearing somewhat ambivalent about cutting rates in September, which nearly all market participants assumed was a sure thing.

Proofs should ideally be generated on sensors, location trackers, compute nodes, and other devices. Local proving ensures that proof data remains in the hands of the network participants and doesn’t centralize operations – aligning with networks’ core principles. Proof verification can take place locally, on cloud networks, or on chain, depending on how the network

Donald Trump: “Crypto is a very interesting thing. Very high-level in certain ways, intellectually very high-level. But if we don’t do it, China’s going to do it. China’s going to do it anyway. But if we don’t do it, China’s doing it. China is already doing it, and if we don’t do it, other countries

Furthermore, DePINs give data owners more control over their information, enhancing privacy while encouraging widespread data sharing. For instance, consider a healthcare scenario where a patient’s data from various hospitals and clinics can be securely shared without compromising on privacy. By leveraging DePINs, researchers can access a rich, diverse dataset that enhances their ability to

“What will be interesting to see is whether crypto will be correlated with the stock market – which, if it is, then things could be seriously murky,” said Brian D. Evans, founder and CEO of venture capital firm BDE Ventures. “But if crypto shows a correlation with gold, then upwards should be the trajectory.”

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“People need to be paid to run these billion-dollar organizations,” Bertram said. “Not only do you not get paid to participate in these organizations … you actually have to spend your free time reading the forums, digesting these posts, understanding what they mean, auditing the code, showing up, and actually paying your own money to

While digital assets suffered losses, most traditional asset classes climbed higher during the day. The 10-year U.S. bond yields fell 10 basis points, while gold was up 1.5% to $2,450, slightly below its record-highs and WTI crude oil prices surged 5%. Equities also soared during the day, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 index rebounding 3%

Bitcoin held steady near $66,000, nursing a weekly loss of 2% on expectations for renewed rate cuts from the U.S. Federal Reserve. That spurred demand for the “anti-risk” yen, sending the USD/JPY rate down to nearly 150, the strongest for yen since March, according to data source TradingView. Futures tied to the S&P 500 rose

Lummis, a Wyoming Republican who is known for her Bitcoin-friendly policy stance, announced her intention to propose the reserve on Saturday at the Bitcoin Nashville conference. She came onstage just minutes after former U.S. President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee in this year’s presidential race, delivered a speech on blockchain policy before the cheering room,

“For the U.S. to institute Bitcoin as a strategic reserve will similarly require further work including determining how much should be held as a reserve and the basis for that threshold, how to acquire, how and where to store, when to utilize and in what circumstances, which agency would be responsible, the timeline to implement,

I’ve heard from Vivek 175 million people in some form, are involved with this world of crypto and Bitcoin and all of the others, 175 million. So when they heard that, they said, Let’s be nice to them, at least until after the election. So I’ve taken a lot of pressure off a lot of

In the lead-up to Trump’s comments, the digital asset rose above $69,000 on Saturday. The price fell to as low as $66,700 before jumping back over $68,000, data from CoinGecko shows, as traders digested the speech. The broader market index, CoinDesk20, followed the same pattern.

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“We have to get rid of the folks who are in the way,” he said, speaking alongside U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), and lambasting Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler as a crypto-policy roadblock. “Chairman Gensler, lord have mercy … Hit the road, Jack, and don’t you come back, no more, no more, no

“The development represents a major leap forward for the BitVMX proving system, demonstrating the ability to challenge and validate the execution of a SNARK verifier on-chain,” Rootstock’s team said in an emailed statement on Thursday. “This breakthrough opens the door for replicating this process with any program compiled to the RISC-V architecture, utilizing BitVMX’s general-purpose

Wisconsin’s public pension plan – the State of Wisconsin Investment Board, which has roughly $156 billion in assets under management – is the biggest pension plan to dive into crypto so far, with a $160 million investment into spot bitcoin ETFs earlier this year. Some small pension funds like the Houston Firefighters’ Relief and Retirement