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  Nigel Farage Pledges to Slash Crypto Capital Gains, Force UK Bitcoin Reserve

  Nigel Farage, the leader of Britain’s right-wing Reform Party, is going all-in on crypto—and used an appearance at Bitcoin 2025 this week to showcase his coalition’s new emphasis.  Onstage Thursday at the annual Bitcoin conference, which this year took place in Las Vegas, Farage pledged to prioritize crypto should he become prime minister after the UK’s next general election in 2029.  During the appearance, the British politician waved a printed copy of a new piece of legislation, dubbed the Cry...

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  Bored Ape Yacht Club Maker Sells Moonbirds IP to Gaming Startup

  Yuga Labs is serious about refocusing on the Bored Ape Yacht Club, the Otherside metaverse game, and related projects. On Friday, the crypto startup said that it had sold off yet another previously acquired NFT project IP, dumping the Moonbirds property that it purchased just over a year ago. The buyer is Orange Cap Games, a young gaming startup that builds digital and physical trading card games. The firm's first game, the Pudgy Penguins-themed Vibes TCG, launched on Ethereum layer-2 network Ab...

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  Brazilian Fintech Méliuz Launches Share Offering to Stack More Bitcoin

  Méliuz sent its shares tumbling over 8% Friday after the Brazilian fintech announced a primary share offering aimed at raising up to 450 million reais ($78.6 million) to buy more Bitcoin. The cashback and coupon company, which trades on Brazil's B3 exchange under the ticker CASH3, initially plans to offer 17 million common shares to raise 150 million reais ($26.2 million). The company even left room to expand the offering by up to 200%, potentially tripling the amount if demand materializes. The...

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  Public Keys: GameStop Bitcoin Flop, BlackRock ETF Euphoria and Metaplanet's Sprint

  Public Keys is a weekly roundup from Decrypt that tracks the key publicly traded crypto companies. This week: GameStop sinks after buying a boatload of Bitcoin, BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF continues flying high, and Metaplanet makes a potentially risky sprint to amass a lot of BTC very quickly. GameStop Bitcoin flop GameStop found out this week that sinking half a billion dollars into Bitcoin isn’t universally flattering for share prices. The video game retailer spent $512 million on Bitcoin earlier...

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  Elon Musk Pivots From DOGE to SpaceX Mars Plan, Eyeing Self-Sustaining Colony by 2029

  Fresh off his official departure from the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, Elon Musk unveiled a bold plan to colonize Mars and make humanity a multiplanet species on Thursday during a presentation at Starbase, Texas, the newly incorporated city established by SpaceX. Musk outlined plans for an interplanetary transport system designed to ferry humans to the Red Planet, with the ultimate goal of establishing a self-sustaining city there. Though he gave no timetable during his speech,...

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  Crypto Liquidations Spike Above $800 Million as Bitcoin, Dogecoin and Ethereum Fall

  Optimistic traders betting on future crypto gains have been largely burned over the last day, with liquidations on crypto positions surging above the $800 million mark over the past 24 hours as prices decline. More than $827 million worth of bets have been liquidated during that span, per data from CoinGlass, with long positions making the vast majority of the bunch at $747 million worth. Bitcoin is the biggest single source of pain for traders, making up $222 million worth of soured bets, with...

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  Paris Saint-Germain Confirma Tenencias de Bitcoin Mientras se Dirige a la Final de la Champions League

  El Paris Saint-Germain se ha convertido en el primer club deportivo importante en confirmar públicamente que mantiene Bitcoin como parte de su tesorería, apenas días antes de competir en la final de la UEFA Champions League. "Tomamos nuestras reservas fiat y en realidad asignamos Bitcoin", dijo Pär Helgosson, jefe de PSG Labs, en la conferencia Bitcoin 2025 en Las Vegas el jueves. "Todavía lo tenemos en nuestros libros. Y como uno de los clubes más grandes del mundo, somos el jugador más grande...

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  CRO ETF? Canary Capital Files for US Cronos Fund as Altcoin Interest Intensifies

  Crypto asset manager Canary Capital has applied for an exchange-traded fund tracking Cronos (CRO), the token affiliated with the Crypto.com exchange, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday.  The S-1 registration form marks Canary Capital’s latest step toward potentially debuting its Canary Stake CRO ETF in the U.S. and adds to the growing list of altcoin-based funds before the regulator. The issuer registered a Delaware Trust entity earlier this month, l...

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  Trump Media Raises $2.4 Billion to Launch Bitcoin Treasury

  Just three days after debuting a multi-billion dollar fundraising plan to purchase Bitcoin, President Donald Trump’s Trump Media & Technology Group announced Friday that it has successfully raised $2.4 billion for its crypto treasury.  The funds were raised via an offering of common stock and convertible senior secure notes, the company said. Roughly 50 institutional investors participated in the sale, which produced $2.32 billion in net proceeds.  Those funds will now be used to create a Bitcoi...

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  Ross Ulbricht Habla en Bitcoin 2025: 'No me Olvidaste'

  Una década después de ser sentenciado a dos cadenas perpetuas más 40 años sin libertad condicional, el fundador de Silk Road Ross Ulbricht subió al escenario en la conferencia Bitcoin 2025 el jueves, como un hombre libre. Ya no tras las rejas, Ulbricht se sintió abrumado por cuánto había cambiado el mundo, Bitcoin y la tecnología desde su encarcelamiento. "Hace apenas unos meses, estaba atrapado detrás de esas paredes de la prisión y no sabía si alguna vez saldría", dijo Ulbricht. "Ahora soy lib...

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