Micah Zimmerman

A new 50-page House Financial Services Committee report formally documents what Republicans call a Biden-era “Operation Chokepoint 2.0,” detailing how regulators pressured banks to avoid crypto while publicly denying any discouragement.

Strategy announced a $1.44 billion cash reserve to cover dividends and updated its 2025 earnings forecast after Bitcoin’s price dropped sharply. The company also bought 130 more bitcoin.

The Bitcoin price fell to the mid-$84,000s early Monday, sliding 8% over the past 24 hours.

Bitcoin price ripped above $90,000 today on news of a new wave of Wall Street–engineered crypto products. 

The President of the Texas Blockchain Council said that Texas recently bought $5 million in Bitcoin ETFs on November 20.

Polymarket, the world’s largest crypto-based prediction market, is returning to the U.S. under full CFTC regulation.

The Bitcoin price has fallen over 30% since October, dropping another 1% overnight to around $87,000 amid a nearly two-month drawdown.

Japan’s FSA plans to require crypto exchanges to hold liability reserves to compensate customers for losses from hacks, failures, or bankruptcies.

TD Cowen analysts warn that Strategy’s stock may stay under pressure as they expect MSCI to formally decide by mid-January to remove PBTCs like Strategy from all its indexes in February.

A Hong Kong man was sentenced to seven years in Canada for participating in a violent, sexually abusive home invasion that stole $1.6 million in Bitcoin from a British Columbia family.