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  • Milei shuts down LIBRA task force probing ties to his administration
    by Gino Matos on May 20, 2025 at 6:20 pm

    Argentinian president Javier Milei has ordered the closure of the Task Force for Investigation (UTI) established earlier this year to examine his relationship with the LIBRA token, according to a May 20 publication in Argentina’s Official Gazette. Milei and Justice Minister Mariano Cúneo Libarona signed Decree 332/2025 to dissolve the task force. The decree stated The post Milei shuts down LIBRA task force probing ties to his administration […]

  • Strive eyes 75,000 distressed Bitcoin claims from bankrupt Mt. Gox estate for its reserves
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on May 20, 2025 at 5:25 pm

    Strive Asset Management Firm has partnered with 117 Castell Advisory Group to acquire distressed Bitcoin claims, including those linked to the long-defunct Mt. Gox exchange. According to a May 20 filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the firms will target claims that have received definitive legal rulings but are still awaiting distribution. The post Strive eyes 75,000 distressed Bitcoin claims from bankrupt Mt. Gox […]

  • Binance moves to quash FTX’s $1.8 billion lawsuit, dismisses allegations as speculative
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on May 20, 2025 at 4:00 pm

    Binance has asked a US court to dismiss FTX’s $1.76 billion lawsuit, arguing that the case lacks jurisdiction and relies on unsupported allegations. The motion follows FTX’s attempt to claw back funds and blame Binance and its former CEO, Changpeng Zhao, for contributing to its collapse. However, Binance has rejected these claims, calling them speculative The post Binance moves to quash FTX’s $1.8 billion lawsuit, dismisses allegations as […]

  • Eighty percent of Americans favor converting US gold reserves to Bitcoin, poll reveals
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on May 20, 2025 at 2:30 pm

    A growing number of Americans believe the US government should convert part of its gold reserves into Bitcoin. According to a recent poll by The Nakamoto Project, four out of five respondents support converting a portion of the country’s gold holdings into Bitcoin. The polling results showed that more than 1,000 respondents recommended converting between The post Eighty percent of Americans favor converting US gold reserves to Bitcoin, poll […]

  • Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse left puzzled after snub by pro-crypto Senator Cynthia Lummis
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on May 20, 2025 at 2:00 pm

    Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has expressed frustration after a meeting with pro-crypto US Senator Cynthia Lummis, who chairs the Senate’s Digital Assets Subcommittee, was canceled. In a May 19 post on X, Garlinghouse revealed he was in Washington, D.C., for discussions with lawmakers to promote reasonable regulations for stablecoins and crypto market structure. However, Garlinghouse The post Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse left puzzled after […]

  • India’s Supreme Court calls for clear crypto guidelines not outright ban
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on May 20, 2025 at 12:56 pm

    India’s Supreme Court has directed regulatory bodies to develop clear guidelines for governing crypto activities in the country, according to a May 20 report from local outlet Bar and Bench. According to the report, the apex court emphasized that regulators should focus on establishing oversight frameworks that reflect the rising adoption of digital assets across The post India’s Supreme Court calls for clear crypto guidelines not outright […]

  • SEC’s new interim watchdog Katherine Reilly to target crypto fraud as top priority
    by Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright on May 20, 2025 at 11:41 am

    Katherine Reilly assumed the role of Acting Inspector General at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on May 20, succeeding Deborah Jeffrey, who retired after over two years in the post. Reilly, a veteran within the agency’s Office of Inspector General, previously served as Deputy Inspector General and Counsel and twice held the acting The post SEC’s new interim watchdog Katherine Reilly to target crypto fraud as top priority […]

  • Bitcoin ETFs post strongest inflow since May 2 as investor demand returns
    by Andjela Radmilac on May 20, 2025 at 10:55 am

    Spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $667.4 million in inflows on May 19, the second-largest single-day inflow this month, marking a four-day streak of net positive flows. The surge was led by BlackRock’s IBIT with $305.9 million, followed by Fidelity’s FBTC with $199.1 million and Ark’s ARKB with $155.3 million in inflows. Monday’s influx followed steady buying The post Bitcoin ETFs post strongest inflow since May 2 as investor demand returns […]

  • Tron founder Justin Sun tops TRUMP memecoin holders rankings earning VIP gala dinner invite
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on May 20, 2025 at 10:26 am

    Tron founder Justin Sun has confirmed he will attend a May 22 gala dinner organized for top TRUMP memecoin holders and hosted by US President Donald Trump. In a May 20 post on X, Sun said he was invited to the exclusive event and expressed gratitude and support for the US president. He said: “Honored The post Tron founder Justin Sun tops TRUMP memecoin holders rankings earning VIP gala dinner invite appeared first on CryptoSlate.

  • Bitcoin price aligns with its 130 billion ‘life years’ of attention compared to gold
    by Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright on May 20, 2025 at 9:12 am

    The pseudonymous co-founder of ScimitarCapital, Thiccy, shared a novel theory on Bitcoin price appreciation Tuesday by comparing Bitcoin’s global attention to that of gold. What gives Bitcoin value? A new way to think about it He argues that gold is valuable because it’s rare, durable, and has been trusted as money for thousands of years. The post Bitcoin price aligns with its 130 billion ‘life years’ of attention compared to gold […]

  • The Red Line: Democratic Officials Claim A Dangerous License For Illegality
    by Tyler Durden on May 20, 2025 at 5:40 pm

    The Red Line: Democratic Officials Claim A Dangerous License For Illegality Authored by Jonathan Turley, Across the country, a new defense is being heard in state and federal courtrooms. From Democratic members of Congress to judges to city council members, officials claim that their official duties include obstructing the official functions of the federal government.  It is a type of liberal license that excuses most any crime […]

  • US Should Never Have Gotten ‘Entangled’ In Ukraine ‘Death Trap’: Trump
    by Tyler Durden on May 20, 2025 at 5:20 pm

    US Should Never Have Gotten ‘Entangled’ In Ukraine ‘Death Trap’: Trump President Trump following Monday’s phone calls with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky said that the United States should have never intervened in Ukraine in the first place. He blasted his predecessor Joe Biden for sinking boundless billions in arms and aid into Kiev’s coffers and yet it has only been a “death trap” and “real mess” which […]

  • Coinbase Data Leak Could Put Users In Physical Danger; TechCrunch Founder
    by Tyler Durden on May 20, 2025 at 5:00 pm

    Coinbase Data Leak Could Put Users In Physical Danger; TechCrunch Founder Authored by Zoltan Vardai via CoinTelegraph.com, A recent data breach at crypto exchange Coinbase has raised concerns about user safety after hackers gained access to sensitive information, including home addresses. Coinbase, the world’s third-largest cryptocurrency exchange, confirmed that less than 1% of its transacting monthly users were affected in […]

  • Comey Peddles Unbelievable Excuse For His ‘8647’ Sea Shell Post…
    by Tyler Durden on May 20, 2025 at 4:20 pm

    Comey Peddles Unbelievable Excuse For His ‘8647’ Sea Shell Post… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Disgraced former FBI Director James Comey is playing dumb and innocent after essentially calling for President Trump to be assassinated last week, claiming he had no idea his post would be so controversial. After Comey posted an image of shells on a beach he arranged to read ‘8647’, meaning get rid of Trump, The […]

  • Israel Subject To Unprecedented Pressure From Allies Over Gaza Escalation
    by Tyler Durden on May 20, 2025 at 4:00 pm

    Israel Subject To Unprecedented Pressure From Allies Over Gaza Escalation The United Kingdom on Tuesday suspended its free-trade agreement negotiations with Israel over the growing Gaza crisis, and after British Prime Minister Keir Starmer expressed disgust at newly expanded Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip, also as famine threats at least 500,000 Palestinians. Starmer described that he and his French and Canadian […]

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  • Schiff On Gold In A Multipolar Currency Regime
    by Tyler Durden on May 20, 2025 at 3:40 pm

    Schiff On Gold In A Multipolar Currency Regime Via SchiffGold.com, For now, the U.S. dollar still reigns supreme as the world’s reserve currency. But cracks in this hegemony are widening, and in the wake of de-dollarization, there’s a golden opportunity for the yellow metal to re-emerge as a neutral global reserve asset in a multipolar currency regime.  As nations like China, India, and Russia challenge the dollar’s […]

  • Big Reset? Is UK About To Sign A Series Of Conflicting Bilateral Trade Deals
    by Tyler Durden on May 20, 2025 at 3:00 pm

    Big Reset? Is UK About To Sign A Series Of Conflicting Bilateral Trade Deals By Bas van Geffen, CFA, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank President Trump has handed Putin a bit of a victory. In a two hours long phone call, the two leaders agreed that Moscow would work on a memorandum with Kiev. However, The US president did not put much pressure on Putin to reach an agreement that ends the war. Trump said he will leave Russia and […]

  • “We Are Not Dictators”: Musk Says Congress Needs To Act To Meet DOGE $2 Trillion Savings Goal
    by Tyler Durden on May 20, 2025 at 2:40 pm

    “We Are Not Dictators”: Musk Says Congress Needs To Act To Meet DOGE $2 Trillion Savings Goal When Elon Musk joined the Trump administration with the goal of eliminating waste, fraud and abuse through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), he set a lofty $2 trillion goal. Now, four months later, DOGE has cut roughly $170 billion – a figure much lower than projected – in no small part due to activist judges and political […]

  • Federal Judge Blocks Trump Admin’s Dismantling Of US Institute Of Peace
    by Tyler Durden on May 20, 2025 at 2:20 pm

    Federal Judge Blocks Trump Admin’s Dismantling Of US Institute Of Peace Authored by Stacy Robinson via The Epoch Times, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell on May 19 blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from restructuring the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP), replacing its leadership, and assuming control of its office building. “These unilateral actions were taken without asking Congress to cease or reprogram […]

  • FBI Doubles Reward For Each Escaped New Orleans Inmate
    by Tyler Durden on May 20, 2025 at 2:00 pm

    FBI Doubles Reward For Each Escaped New Orleans Inmate The FBI on Sunday upped the reward for information leading to the arrests of seven at-large inmates who escaped a New Orleans jail. Photos provided by Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office show from top left: Dkenan Dennis (captured), Gary C Price, Robert Moody (captured), Kendell Myles (captured), Corey E Boyd. Bottom from left: Lenton Vanburen Jr, Jermaine Donald, Antonine T Massey, […]

  • House Democrats Melt Down After New Jersey Democrat Charged With Assault At ICE Facility Protest
    by Tyler Durden on May 20, 2025 at 1:44 pm

    House Democrats Melt Down After New Jersey Democrat Charged With Assault At ICE Facility Protest Update (1100ET): House Democrats melted down following the announcement that the US attorney in New Jersey, Alina Habba (formerly President Trump’s lawyer) will bring charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) following a May 9 incident at an ICE detention facility in Newark. McIver is accused of assaulting federal officers during […]

  • Biden’s Was The First Fully Deep-State Presidency
    by Tyler Durden on May 20, 2025 at 1:40 pm

    Biden’s Was The First Fully Deep-State Presidency Authored by Jarrett Stepman via The Daily Signal, Biden’s Presidency Is a Scandal of Historic Proportions The “presidency” of Joe Biden is one of the greatest scandals in American history. The legacy media is only now covering the mental incapacity of a president who apparently left the entire ship of state to the unaccountable bureaucracy. On Friday, Axios released […]

  • Renewable Stocks Jump After Trump Allows New York Offshore Project Resumption
    by Tyler Durden on May 20, 2025 at 1:20 pm

    Renewable Stocks Jump After Trump Allows New York Offshore Project Resumption Shares of European renewable energy companies surged Tuesday after New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced that, following weeks of negotiations with President Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, the month-long stop-work order on the $5 billion Empire Wind project off the state’s coast has been lifted. Reuters reported that the move could pave the […]

  • Trump Demands Probe Into Kamala Harris’ “Illegal” Celebrity Endorsements
    by Tyler Durden on May 20, 2025 at 1:00 pm

    Trump Demands Probe Into Kamala Harris’ “Illegal” Celebrity Endorsements Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, PresidentTrump has called for an investigation into what he describes as an “illegal” scheme by Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign to pay left-wing celebrities for endorsements and deceptively frame them as “entertainment services.” In a Truth Social post, Trump slammed Harris and took potshots at […]

  • Ayatollah Khamenei Slams ‘Outrageous’ US ‘Red Line’ Demand Of Iran In Nuclear Talks 
    by Tyler Durden on May 20, 2025 at 12:45 pm

    Ayatollah Khamenei Slams ‘Outrageous’ US ‘Red Line’ Demand Of Iran In Nuclear Talks  After several days of back-and-forth public criticisms and US declarations of a “red line” – Iran’s Supreme Leader has finally weighed in definitively on where things stand from Tehran’s perspective. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called the latest US demands that Iranian enrichment be taken down to zero “excessive and outrageous,” according to state […]

  • Futures Slide After Monday’s Historic Retail-Driven Rebound
    by Tyler Durden on May 20, 2025 at 12:36 pm

    Futures Slide After Monday’s Historic Retail-Driven Rebound US equity futures are weaker with Tech underperforming, threatening a six-day winning streak that propelled the S&P 500 to the brink of a bull market. Then again, Monday started off even worse and then we saw the biggest burst of retail buying on record resulting in one of the biggest intraday reversals in recent history (according to JPM, more here), so brace for more […]

  • US Senate Moves Forward With GENIUS Stablecoin Bill
    by Tyler Durden on May 20, 2025 at 12:05 pm

    US Senate Moves Forward With GENIUS Stablecoin Bill Authored by Brayden Lindrea via CoinTelegraph.com, The US Senate has voted to advance a key stablecoin-regulating bill after Democratic senators blocked an earlier attempt to move the bill forward over concerns about President Donald Trump’s sprawling crypto empire. A key procedural vote on the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins Act, or GENIUS […]

  • Chinese Smartphone Exports To US Crashed In April
    by Tyler Durden on May 20, 2025 at 11:45 am

    Chinese Smartphone Exports To US Crashed In April New customs data from China shows that smartphone shipments to the U.S. collapsed 72% in April to below $700 million—the lowest level since 2011. The plunge coincided with the peak of the U.S.-China trade war, as the Trump administration imposed up to 145% tariffs on Chinese goods, disrupting tech supply chains. However, those levies have since been significantly scaled back to […]

  • “They Want War” – Martin Armstrong Slams European Leaders Reinstating Military Drafts
    by Tyler Durden on May 20, 2025 at 11:20 am

    “They Want War” – Martin Armstrong Slams European Leaders Reinstating Military Drafts Via  Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Legendary financial and geopolitical cycle analyst Martin Armstrong is back with an update on his big turn toward war in Ukraine with Russia.   Two weeks ago on USAW, Armstrong predicted, “After May 15, war is turning up (in Ukraine) and it will be turning up into 2026.”   That prediction paid […]

  • Buy Now, Pay Never? Klarna’s Losses Double As US Consumers Fall Behind On Payments
    by Tyler Durden on May 20, 2025 at 10:55 am

    Buy Now, Pay Never? Klarna’s Losses Double As US Consumers Fall Behind On Payments In an absolute shocker that you’ll never believe (unless you read ZeroHedge) – Klarna, the Swedish financial technology firm known for its “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) offerings, reported a sharp increase in losses for the first quarter, driven by a rise in consumer defaults and economic unease in the United States. The company posted a net loss of […]

  • 80% Of French Women Want The Army Deployed In French Cities To Protect Them
    by Tyler Durden on May 20, 2025 at 10:30 am

    80% Of French Women Want The Army Deployed In French Cities To Protect Them Via Remix news, Due to France’s drug trafficking crisis, a large majority of French are in favor of the army being deployed into disadvantaged neighborhoods in problematic neighborhoods in France, including 80 percent of women. According to a CSA poll conducted for CNews, Europe 1 and JDD, 76 percent of French people overall want the army called in to […]

  • After Billion-Dollar Bullion Gain, Meet The Chinese Trader Betting Big On Copper
    by Tyler Durden on May 20, 2025 at 9:45 am

    After Billion-Dollar Bullion Gain, Meet The Chinese Trader Betting Big On Copper Following Moody’s late-Friday downgrade of the U.S. government’s top credit rating, gold futures were bid Sunday evening into early Monday morning as investors sought safe-haven trades. However, we shift our attention to a Chinese trader whose highly profitable precious metals trade has recently pivoted toward copper, where he has established a sizable […]

  • “It Went Very Well” – Trump Sees Imminent “End To The War” After Two-Hour-Call With Putin
    by Tyler Durden on May 20, 2025 at 9:44 am

    “It Went Very Well” – Trump Sees Imminent “End To The War” After Two-Hour-Call With Putin Update (1335ET): Confirming the optimistic readout from the Kremlin, President Trump just posted on TruthSocial stating that his call with Putin “went very well.” (emphasis ours) Just completed my two hour call with President Vladimir Putin of Russia.  I believe it went very well.  Russia and Ukraine will immediately start negotiations […]

  • Greenland’s Mineral Wealth Could Pave Way To Independent Future
    by Tyler Durden on May 20, 2025 at 9:00 am

    Greenland’s Mineral Wealth Could Pave Way To Independent Future Authored by Nathan Worcester via The Epoch Times, Taatsi Olsen knows what it takes to start searching for minerals in Greenland. In a warehouse on the outskirts of the capital, Nuuk, he walked through the nuts and bolts of mining exploration in the cold, sparsely populated country: walls of tools and harnesses and small trailers flown to remote sites by helicopter, […]

  • Third Arrest Made After Ukrainian National Charged With Firebombing PM Starmer’s Home
    by Tyler Durden on May 20, 2025 at 8:15 am

    Third Arrest Made After Ukrainian National Charged With Firebombing PM Starmer’s Home A third man has been arrested in connection with a series fires at properties linked to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, after earlier this month there were a series of blazes which appeared to target him or assets owned by him.  The Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Command has been leading the investigation, after starting May 8, […]

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