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6 days ago | 
chicagobusiness.com | Dave Liedtka
It turns out the crypto betting market that was credited by many for its prescience in the last US presidential election isn’t so great at picking popes. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who was elected Thursday as the first US-born Roman Catholic pontiff, wasn’t among the favorites on prediction markets platform Polymarket, whose traders priced in only a 1.2% probability of his being selected for the church’s top role.
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6 days ago | 
bloomberglinea.com | Dave Liedtka
Bloomberg — Resulta que el mercado de apuestas de criptomonedas, al que muchos atribuyeron su previsión en las últimas elecciones presidenciales de Estados Unidos, no es tan bueno a la hora de elegir papas. Ver más: ¿Quién es León XIV, el nuevo papa de la Iglesia Católica?
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6 days ago | 
bloomberg.com | Dave Liedtka
Pope Leo XIV appears on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, after becoming the first American pope, in Vatican City on May 8. (Bloomberg) -- It turns out the crypto betting market that was credited by many for its prescience in the last US presidential election isn’t so great at picking popes.
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1 month ago | 
mk.bloombergadria.com | Dave Liedtka |Tom Contiliano
Сподели ја веста Крипто 1 април 2025, 15:36 Компанијата „Стратеџи“ (Strategy) на Мајкл Сејлор купи биткоини во вредност од 1,9 милијарда долари, што е најголемата аквизиција на криптовалутата во однос на токени од страна на фирмата годинава.
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1 month ago | 
fortune.com | Dave Liedtka |Tom Contiliano
Michael Saylor is the founder and chairman of Microstrategy. Kent Nishimura—Bloomberg/Getty Images
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1 month ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Dave Liedtka
Michael Saylor’s Strategy bought $1.9 billion of Bitcoin, the latest in a series of almost weekly acquisitions of the cryptocurrency since late October. The purchase increased the dot-com-era software maker turned leveraged Bitcoin proxy’s holding of the digital asset to around $43.4 billion. That is about 2.5% of all the 21 million in tokens slated to be issued.
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1 month ago | 
bloomberg.com | Dave Liedtka
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1 month ago | 
techxplore.com | Dave Liedtka |Emily Nicolle
President Donald Trump's crypto project World Liberty Financial said it plans to launch a stablecoin redeemable one-for-one with the dollar, an announcement that comes as his administration throws its support behind the digital tokens that underpin most crypto transactions. The USD1 token will be 100% backed by short-term U.S. Treasuries, dollar deposits and other cash equivalents, the Trump-backed decentralized-finance, or DeFi, firm said in a statement Tuesday. BitGo Inc.
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1 month ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Dave Liedtka |Emily Nicolle
President Donald Trump’s crypto project World Liberty Financial said it plans to launch a stablecoin redeemable one-for-one with the dollar, an announcement that comes as his administration throws its support behind the digital tokens that underpin most crypto transactions. The USD1 token will be 100% backed by short-term US Treasuries, dollar deposits and other cash equivalents, the Trump-backed decentralized-finance, or DeFi, firm said in a statement Tuesday. BitGo Inc.
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1 month ago | 
bloomberglinea.com | Dave Liedtka |Emily Nicolle
Bloomberg — El criptoproyecto del presidente Donald Trump, World Liberty Financial, dijo que planea lanzar una stablecoin canjeable uno por uno con el dólar, un anuncio que llega cuando su administración lanza su apoyo a los tokens digitales que apuntalan la mayoría de las criptotransacciones. El token de USD1 estará respaldado al 100% por bonos del Tesoro de EE.UU.
