Jamie Crawley

Jamie has been part of CoinDesk's news team since February 2021, focusing on breaking news, Bitcoin tech and protocols and crypto VC. He holds BTC, ETH and DOGE.

Jamie Crawley

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Policy

Guilty Verdict for Woman Accused of Laundering Bitcoin Tied to Alleged $6B China Fraud: Bloomberg

Police in the U.K. seized over 1.7 billion pounds ($2.2 billion) worth of related bitcoin in 2018.

Crime scene tape (geralt/Pixabay)

Tech

Bitcoin's Halving May Be Here Sooner Than You Know (Again)

Several months ago, the halving was expected to take place on April 28; now it's on track to land on April 19 or 20th, depending on time zone. Blame the surge in bitcoin's price, which has attracted more mining power and sped up the network.

Countdown (anncapictures/Pixabay)

Finance

Lithuania-Licensed Crypto Bank Meld to Offer Tokenized RWAs to Retail Investors

Meld, which is in partnership with the layer-1 blockchain of the same name, has an agreement with DeFi platform Swarm Markets, which started a real-world asset platform in December

Vilnius, Lithuania (Shutterstock)

Web3

Immutable, King River Capital, Polygon Labs Set Up $100M Web3 Gaming Fund

Immutable and Polygon Labs will identify investment opportunities while King River will manage the investment process and deploy the capital across game studios and web3 infrastructure firms.

(Jose Gil/Unsplash)

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Markets

Michael Saylor's MicroStrategy Acquired Another 9,245 BTC for $623M

The company now holds approximately 214,246 bitcoins, which is more than 1% of all the 21 million of the tokens that will ever exist

Michael Saylor, executive chairman of MicroStrategy (Michael.com)

Markets

Galaxy Digital to Introduce Exchange-Traded Products in Europe in 'Matter of Weeks'

Galaxy Digital teamed up with asset manager DWS last April to develop ETPs designed to give Europeans access to digital-asset investment through traditional brokerage accounts.

16:9 Europe (652234/Pixabay)

Markets

Grayscale CEO Believes Bitcoin ETF Fees Will Drop Over Time: CNBC

GBTC has seen $12 billion in outflows since due in part to its high fees compared to its competitors

Grayscale ad in NYC (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Markets

Standard Chartered Raises Year-End BTC Forecast to $150K, Sees 2025 High of $250K

The bank also predicted that approval of an ether ETF could be expected on May 23, leading to as much as $45 billion of inflows in the first 12 months and ETH climbing to $8,000 by the end of 2024.

Standard Chartered logo on the side of a building.

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Markets

Michael Saylor's MicroStrategy Prices Upsized $525M Debt Offering to Buy More Bitcoin

This capital raise comes just days after a similarly structured $800 million offering, the proceeds of which the company used to purchased another 12,000 bitcoin.

MicroStrategy Executive Director Michael Saylor (CoinDesk)

Finance

Binance Spun Off Venture Capital Arm Earlier This Year

Binance Labs says it is "an independent venture and not part of the Binance Group."

Two large stacked blocks displaying Binance's logo at a trade show.