Morning Minute: Saylor’s Strategy Sells Bitcoin for Second Week in a Row Strategy, the company closely associated with executive chairman Michael Saylor and known for its long-running bitcoin accumulation strategy, sold bitcoin for a second consecutive week. The move stands out because Strategy has historically been identified with buying and holding bitcoin as a core…
Trump’s Davos remarks lift crypto sentiment as Saylor-linked firm buys $2.13B in Bitcoin; Blondish discusses industry outlook Digital asset markets saw a modest improvement in sentiment after former U.S. President Donald Trump delivered remarks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, according to the information provided. The speech was described as giving a small boost…
Bitcoin ‘Anti-Spam’ Fork Sputters to a Halt After Mining Just Two Blocks A proposed Bitcoin fork billed as an “anti-spam” alternative stalled almost immediately after launch, managing to mine only two blocks before activity stopped. The short-lived start underscores a recurring challenge for new Bitcoin-derived networks: launching the software is only one part of the…
Court Hands Kalshi Win Over CFTC — Crypto Prediction Markets Clear First Hurdle A federal appeals court just refused to pause a lower-court ruling that lets Kalshi keep offering election contracts, keeping the CFTC on the sidelines for now. The decision signals that prediction-market platforms may have more room to operate without full regulatory approval,…
JUDGES BLOCK TEXAS CRYPTO MINERS’ BID TO FREEZE MINING FARM SEIZURE A Texas appeals court just slammed the brakes on three crypto mining companies trying to halt the seizure of their $100 million mining operation, ruling that a lower court’s asset freeze order stands. The Eighth Court of Appeals refused to issue a writ of…
Bitcoin Red Team Says AI Is Finding Critical Exploits Across Core Projects The prompt references a claim that the Bitcoin Red Team says artificial intelligence is finding critical exploits across core projects, but no additional source details were provided beyond the headline. Without the underlying raw content—such as who made the statement, where it was…
CFTC WINS RULING THAT KEEPS ITS TEETH SHARP The Seventh Circuit just told Kraft it cannot force the CFTC to hand over sensitive investigative files in an ongoing enforcement case. By denying Kraft’s mandamus petition, the court left the agency’s internal materials protected, preserving its ability to investigate without giving targets a sneak peek at…
**Court Reopens Bilzerian’s 1989 Fraud Case, SEC Keeps Grip on Crypto** The D.C. District Court has reopened a 1989 securities-fraud case against Paul Bilzerian, clearing the way for the SEC to pursue new enforcement actions against him and any shell companies he controls. The ruling signals that old judgments remain live ammunition when regulators suspect…
COURT DECLARES STABLECOINS ARE NOT SECURITIES The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that stablecoins are not securities under federal law, marking the first direct high-court statement on whether tokens pegged to the dollar can be regulated like stocks. The decision immediately lifts pressure on exchanges and issuers holding billions in reserves while narrowing the SEC’s…
Court Slams CFTC Overreach in Conway Trust Case The Seventh Circuit just handed the CFTC a clear defeat, ruling that the agency overstepped when it tried to punish the Conway Family Trust for trading violations it never committed. The decision matters because it limits how far regulators can stretch their reach over private family investment…
Court Hands SEC Major Loss on Crypto “Investment Contract” Test Judges in New Orleans just told the SEC it cannot stretch the definition of “investment contract” to cover every digital asset that merely changes hands. The ruling is a direct blow to the agency’s sweeping enforcement theory and hands crypto exchanges and DeFi protocols a…
If crypto goes back to the congressional drawing board, 3 Democrat women loom large No raw content was provided beyond the headline, leaving insufficient information to produce a factual, well-sourced news story without inventing details. If you share the missing “raw content” (even as bullet points, excerpts, or a link-free paste of the source text),…
SEC Loses Ground as NY Court Slaps Down Token-as-Commodity Claim Regal Commodities v. Tauber just became the latest courtroom blow to the SEC’s sweeping “everything is a security” narrative. The New York Appellate Division, Second Department, ruled on March 27 that a private commodities dealer’s dispute over digital tokens does not automatically fall under federal…
CFTC Loses Grip on Kraft’s Private Chats The Seventh Circuit just slammed the CFTC’s attempt to force Kraft and Mondelēz into handing over years of employee text messages and internal chats. The ruling blocks the agency’s broad discovery dragnet, signaling that regulators can’t treat every trading firm like a public utility whose every keystroke is…
Court Snuffs Illinois Bid for Crypto Class-Action Hub Three separate investor suits against a major digital-asset platform landed before the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation this week, and the bench sent them right back where they started. The panel rejected Anthony Motto’s push to park all three cases under one Illinois roof, leaving each…
**COURT GUTS SEC CASE AGAINST CRYPTO FIRM, IGNITES JURISDICTION FIGHT** A three-judge panel in New Orleans just stripped the Securities and Exchange Commission of half its lawsuit against a crypto platform, ruling that Texas district courts lack power to police digital-asset sales that never touched the state. The decision slashes the agency’s geographic reach and…
Court Slams Brakes on CFTC Crypto Crackdown The Ninth Circuit just handed the CFTC a stinging loss in its case against Monex, ruling that leveraged metals trading accounts are not “commodity futures contracts” unless customers can go short or face margin calls. That single holding could shield several crypto exchanges from CFTC oversight and blunt…
Zuckerberg Says Everyone Will Soon Have AI With “Invention Superpowers” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he expects people to soon have access to artificial intelligence that effectively gives them “invention superpowers,” framing AI as a tool that will help individuals create and build in ways that were previously out of reach. The remarks add to…
Court Hands CFTC Fresh Power Over Crypto Trades Trevor Kitchen just lost his fight to keep the CFTC out of his crypto business. The D.C. Circuit ruled that the agency can regulate his unregistered trading platform because crypto derivatives count as commodities under U.S. law. The decision tightens oversight and signals that exchanges ignoring CFTC…
Court Hands CFTC Broad Win Over Crypto Promoter A federal appeals court has handed the Commodity Futures Trading Commission a sweeping victory in its long-running case against crypto promoter James Devlin Crombie. The Ninth Circuit ruled that Crombie’s unregistered Bitcoin investment scheme violated U.S. commodities law, confirming the agency’s power to police digital-asset futures even…
