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JPMorgan boss says bank users can soon buy Bitcoin 2025-05-20 at 05:02 By Cointelegraph by Martin Young Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan, said his bank will soon allow its clients to buy Bitcoin, but it won’t custody the cryptocurrency. “We are going to allow you to buy it,” Dimon said at JPMorgan’s annual investor […]

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US Senate moves forward with GENIUS stablecoin bill 2025-05-20 at 05:02 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea The US Senate has voted to advance a key stablecoin-regulating bill after Democrat Senators blocked an attempt to move the bill forward earlier in May over concerns about President Donald Trump’s sprawling crypto empire. A key procedural vote on

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Solana Labs offshoot Anza pitches ‘biggest change’ ever to network consensus 2025-05-20 at 04:05 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea Anza, a Solana blockchain infrastructure firm spun out of Solana Labs, has proposed a new proof-of-stake consensus called Alpenglow that it claims would be “the biggest change to Solana’s core protocol” and compete with current internet

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Trump signs TAKE IT DOWN law meant to stop revenge porn 2025-05-20 at 03:42 By Iain Thomson Fine-print is vague and broad, could easily be abused to blunt protected speech President Donald Trump officially signed Monday the TAKE IT DOWN Act, a bill to criminalize revenge porn – both real and AI-generated. But internet rights

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Bitcoin trading in six-figure territory shows BTC is ready to carry gold’s ‘baton’ — Fidelity exec 2025-05-20 at 02:02 By Cointelegraph by Biraajmaan Tamuly Key takeaways: Bitcoin’s Sharpe ratio converges with gold’s, indicating similar risk-adjusted returns, supporting its store-of-value role. Gold outperformed Bitcoin in Q1 2025 with a 30.33% price gain versus Bitcoin’s 3.84%, driven

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CISA has a new No. 2 – but still no official top dog 2025-05-20 at 02:02 By Jessica Lyons Brain drain, budget cuts, and constant cyberthreats – who wouldn’t want this job? The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has a new No. 2: Madhu Gottumukkala, stepping in as the nation’s lead civilian cyber

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Show us your face: New Orleans PD reportedly got secret facial recognition alerts 2025-05-20 at 01:49 By Iain Thomson Police took Big Easy attitude to the rules, says WaPo Since early 2023, facial recognition cameras run by a private nonprofit have scanned New Orleans visitors and residents and quietly alerted police, sidestepping oversight and potentially

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Bitcoin fractal analysis forecasts new all-time highs above $110K by end of week 2025-05-20 at 01:02 By Cointelegraph by Biraajmaan Tamuly Key takeaways: Bitcoin onchain and technical data suggest new all-time highs are imminent. Glassnode data shows most Bitcoin wallet cohorts accumulating BTC. A daily timeframe bearish divergence signals fading momentum, raising doubt on BTC’s

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DOJ is investigating Coinbase data breach— Report 2025-05-20 at 01:02 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright The US Department of Justice is reportedly conducting a probe over Coinbase’s contracted customer service agents in India, who accepted bribes in exchange for allowing criminals access to user data. According to a May 19 Bloomberg report, DOJ investigators are

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What to expect at Trump’s memecoin dinner 2025-05-20 at 01:02 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright On May 22, US President Donald Trump is expected to host up to 220 people who had purchased the most significant quantities of his memecoin at a private event in Washington, DC. Though the exact number of attendees was unknown

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Microsoft strikes partnership with Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot — despite lawsuit over OpenAI 2025-05-20 at 00:03 By Associated Press Musk’s deal means that the latest versions of xAI’s Grok models will be hosted on Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform, alongside competing models from OpenAI and other companies, including Facebook parent Meta Platforms. This article is

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Quantum Biopharma bolsters Bitcoin treasury 2025-05-19 at 23:08 By Cointelegraph by Alex O’Donnell Quantum Biopharma has purchased an additional $1 million worth of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, the Canadian biotechnology company said.  The buys take Quantum’s total cryptocurrency holdings to approximately $4.5 million, according to a May 19 press release. The biotech company plans to stake

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Paul Atkins: ‘Crypto markets have been languishing in SEC limbo’ 2025-05-19 at 23:08 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright In one of his first speeches since becoming chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in April, Paul Atkins addressed some of the regulatory concerns around the cryptocurrency industry. In prepared remarks for a May

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Microsoft adds Grok – the most unhinged chatbot – to Azure AI buffet 2025-05-19 at 22:59 By Thomas Claburn Never mind the chatbot’s recent erratic behavior Microsoft has added xAI’s Grok 3 family to its Azure AI Foundry platform, seemingly unfazed by the firm’s rivalry with Microsoft investee OpenAI or the chatbot’s recent descent into

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US judge orders Apple to reappear in court to explain refusal to comply with antitrust ruling 2025-05-19 at 22:08 By Ariel Zilber Apple is facing mounting legal trouble after a federal judge issued an order demanding the company explain its refusal to comply with a court injunction stemming from its high-profile antitrust dispute with Epic

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Crypto.com and Canary Capital to launch US CRO fund 2025-05-19 at 22:08 By Cointelegraph by Alex O’Donnell Crypto.com and asset manager Canary Capital are launching a US investment fund designed to provide exposure to the Cronos blockchain’s native token, CRO, the cryptocurrency exchange said in a statement. The Canary CRO Trust will hold the Cronos

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Price predictions 5/19: SPX, DXY, BTC, ETH, XRP, BNB, SOL, DOGE, ADA, SUI 2025-05-19 at 22:08 By Cointelegraph by Rakesh Upadhyay Key points: Bitcoin’s rejection at $107,000 shows sellers are active at higher levels, but the recovery from the intraday low shows solid buying. Strategy and Metaplanet continue to accumulate Bitcoin, adding steady buy-side pressure

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‘Before Bitcoin, my most successful investment was shorting the Bolivar’ — Ledn co-founder 2025-05-19 at 22:08 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi Before discovering Bitcoin (BTC), Ledn co-founder Mauricio di Bartolomeo found success shorting the Venezuelan Bolivar as it rapidly lost value against the stronger US dollar. Now, with the US dollar depreciating against Bitcoin, borrowing

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SEC SIM-swapper who Googled ‘signs that the FBI is after you’ put behind bars 2025-05-19 at 22:08 By Jessica Lyons Proving yet again that crims are bad at search hygiene An Alabama man who SIM-swapped his way into the SEC’s official X account, enabling a fake ETF announcement that briefly pumped Bitcoin, has been sentenced

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