Multiple U.S. states have ordered GS Partners to halt operations, accusing the company of defrauding investors in a number of crypto schemes, including tokenized pieces of a Dubai skyscraper and stakes of metaverse property.Source
The SEC delaying decision about spot BTC ETFs could leave the market without a catalyst until early January, halting the crypto rally’s momentum, K33 analysts said this week.Source
Bitcoin payments firm Strike has expanded its services on a global scale, now allowing users in 36 countries (soon to be 65+) beyond the U.S. to buy bitcoin through the app, founder Jack Mallers announced in a blog post Thursday.Source
Three men duped New York-area banks into shelling out more than $10 million and tried to make off with the money by converting it to crypto, U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said Thursday in a statement.Source
Taproot Wizards, which describes itself as “magic internet JPEGs”, offers a collection of Microsoft Paint images of wizards harking back to a 2013 bitcoin meme: “magic internet money.”Source
The Claim Process for the Pyth Network Retrospective Airdrop will open on Monday, Nov 20 at 2 PM UTC.Source
The option, which expires at the end of March, gives the company a foothold in the U.S. ETF market as speculation whirls around the approval of a spot bitcoin product.Source
The move allows users to access the liquidity of bitcoin on decentralized finance (DeFi) without going through intermediaries like wrappers.Source
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has a message for most of the employees at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) if he’s elected to the White House: You’re fired. And everybody still left at their desks would need to back off the crypto industry, according to the candidate’s new policy strategy for U.S. digital assets.Source
The latest price moves in bitcoin [BTC] and crypto markets in context for Nov. 16, 2023. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.Source