Prediction markets have spent a year building the case that they are serious, regulated financial products rather than a betting shop with better branding. This week's news undercuts that case in the worst possible way: the person accused of exploiting inside information isn't a random trader, but a White House staffer with direct access to the president's own words.
Bitcoin mining is getting harder for everyone except the miners who were already good at it. That's the story tucked inside the quarterly earnings figures Phoenix Group released this week: as a wave of higher-cost competitors has been forced offline by tightening margins, the Abu Dhabi-listed miner has quietly become more efficient, not less, and is now using that edge to fund a very different bet, on European artificial-intelligence infrastructure rather than Bitcoin alone.
TRON (TRX) is a decentralized blockchain platform founded in 2017 by Justin Sun, designed to enable high-speed digital content sharing, smart contracts, and decentralized applications (dApps).
"I bought my first Bitcoin in 2014 and, by the way, I haven’t sold any since then. I’m a believer in all crypto."
Visa introduced a platform on 16 Jul that will let banks, fintechs and crypto firms mint, hold and transfer stablecoins inside a single Visa-run environment, open initially to a small group of test clients.
