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The Prediction Market Was Supposed to Never Lie. The People Winning Already Knew How It Would End.

7 Jul 2026 6 minute read 0 comments Crypto Strategist

A U.S. Army soldier helped plan a raid to capture a wanted foreign leader. Weeks before it happened, he opened a Polymarket account and bet thirty-three thousand dollars that the raid would succeed. When it did, he walked away with roughly four hundr...

SEC–CFTC Collaboration

17 Mar 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Perfectionist25

Amidst the conflicts in the Middle East, cryptocurrencies experienced volatile movements, but a positive sentiment emerged last Friday, led by Bitcoin. On the last trading day of the week, news flow pushed Bitcoin up to $73,800. This optimism in the...

Crypto Execs Are Now Inside the CFTC Policy Room

14 Feb 2026 2 minute read 2 comments CryptoTrendSeer

The CFTC appointed leaders from Coinbase, Kraken, Gemini, Ripple, and Chainlink to a federal advisory committee. Industry just got a seat at the table where rules get written. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has formally appointed exec...

Attention Oil Shorters

8 May 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Perfectionist25

If I absolutely had to do something in oil, I would want to be on the short-term buy side and on the long-term sell side. The news of OPEC+'s expected production cut came and they first sold the market and then started buying. Now, this is exactly th...

Binance Scandal: Is the World's Largest Crypto Exchange a Terrorist Financier?

10 Oct 2023 1 minute read 1 comment Bfab

As a crypto enthusiast, I am always interested in the helpful articles that Binance is posting. However, I am also aware of the rumors that have been circulating about their link with Hamas. While I hope that these rumors are not true, I can't help b...

Funniest things in crypto right now!

30 Sep 2022 2 minute read 6 comments Dave Sawyer

Hey cryptofans we love ya!  We are crazed from driving all day and looking for fun funny crypto!!  Here's some inappropriate background music and HERE's a funny!!  Dear readers know the Pound Sterling has been dying like a dog.   Meanwhile, in reali...

US CFTC Chairman Praises for Ethereum, Says It's Bigger Than Bitcoin

15 Oct 2020 1 minute read 3 comments author_nan

United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Heath Tarbert, in an interview conducted during invest: ethereum economy conference on October 14, offered unreserved praise for Ethereum (ETH). Tarbert was interviewed by CoinDesk’s Michael...

Former CFTC President: XRP IS NOT A Title

18 Jun 2020 10 minute read 0 comments PassionCryptodotcom

Former CFTC President Chris Giancarlo and Willkie Farr & Gallagher's Conrad Bahlke discuss Ripple and US securities law enforcement at XRP . The paper explains why XRP is not a security. Regulatory clarity, or rather lack thereof, if one of the mai...

Ex-CFTC CEO: Ripple's XRP token is not a security

18 Jun 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Kluma

RP is not a security, says Christopher Giancarlo, former chairman of the Commission on the derivatives trading (CFTC). In an article for IFLR magazine, Giancarlo and his colleague from law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher Conrad Balke argue that the XRP...

CFTC CEO Supports Cryptocurrency Mitigation

16 Jun 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Kluma

Heath Tarbert, chairman of the U.S. derivatives trading commission (CFTC), called on digital assets to be governed by principles rather than rules and accelerate their legalization to maintain their status as a technology power. Tarbert Final Draft V...