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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Finance

Bitcoin Bancorp snaps up thousands of defunct Bitcoin Depot ATMs for $620,000

Just over a quarter of Bitcoin Depot’s more than 9,200 kiosks have been sold for less than $1 million, court records show.

Sale sign in shop window (Markus Spiske/Unsplash)

Finance

MoneyGram unveils stablecoin-backed card as digital dollars move into everyday spending

The remittance giant is rolling out a Visa card that lets customers hold dollars and spend from a stablecoin-backed balance.

Anthony Soohoo, Chairman and CEO of MoneyGram, speaking at Consensus 2026 (CoinDesk)

Finance

BIS chief warns AI capex arms race relies on opaque debt, posing systemic risks

Pablo Hernandez cited historical railway and dot-com bubbles to caution that spending driven by hype over actual profits risks broad economic corrections.

BIS Basel, Switzerland headquarters. (BIS/Press)

Finance

Nasdaq invests $100 million in Kraken parent company Payward at $21 billion valuation

The investment expands a strategic partnership to bring tokenized, voting-enabled equities to crypto exchange users.

Nasdaq sign. (CoinDesk Archives)

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Markets

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev fires back at AMC's Aron in escalating fight over stock tokens

Tenev told CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Wednesday that public companies shouldn't have veto power over third-party securities that reference their shares.

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Finance

Consensys to split MetaMask into its own firm while staying silent on IPO

The existing company, Consensys Software Inc., will rebrand as MetaMask under Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin as chairman and CEO.

Joe Lubin speaking at Consensus 2024 by CoinDesk. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk/Suzanne Cordiero)

Finance

Hunter Biden's new LAPTOP token lost 98% of its value in under an hour after $1.6 billion debut

LAPTOP swung from $190 to under $4 within minutes of opening on Base. Onchain records show tokens had been distributed to market makers for a week before trading began.

Hunter Biden (Getty Images)

Finance

Algorand names former Chainlink executive William Herkelrath as CEO

The former Chainlink and Curv executive will lead the blockchain organization’s push into institutional finance and quantum-resistant security.

Algorand CEO William Herkelrath.

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Finance

Germany moves to tax bitcoin like stocks as new draft bill targets tax-free gains

Existing holdings would keep the current tax treatment, which can allow tax-free sales after a 12-month holding period.

German flag next to building (Maheshkumar Painam/Unsplash)

Tech

OpenAI says 10,000 AI agents solved a $1 million math problem. Now mathematicians are fighting

An internal model more powerful than GPT-6 Astra produced a proposed solution to one of mathematics’ seven Millennium Prize Problems, though questions are emerging over how independently it got there.

OpenAI's Sam Altman, who has proposed Universal Basic Compute as a fix for automation-driven global equality. (Village Global/Flickr)