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Corporate adoption of bitcoin will stall as long as companies can't show who controls the money, who approves its movement, or whether it's still there, argues Onramp CEO Michael Tanguma. BlockTower Capital founder Ari Paul publicly accused Coinbase of losing roughly $25 million of his firm's assets and concealing hacks totaling more than $1 billion across a dozen institutions. Coinbase flatly denies it, Paul says active litigation prevents him from.

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BlackRock's proposed fund follows similar products from Calamos that helped investors avoid steep losses during bitcoin's selloff. While bitcoin BTC$82,936.07 lost more than half its value in the past year's selloff, investors in one Calamos Investments’ fund were spared much of the pain. The Naperville, Illinois-based firm's Bitcoin Structured Alt Protection ETF – October (CBOO) dropped just 1% since the start of its one-year protection period in October 2025, according.

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The court injunctions apply strictly to users within the AIFC and do not extend across the rest of Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan’s financial regulator secured court orders restricting Coinbase and five other crypto platforms from offering services without authorization in the Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC). The Astana Financial Services Authority (AFSA) said that the injunctions cover BingX, Bitcoin.com, Huobi Global (HTX), BitMart, Coinbase and WEEX. The orders prohibit the platforms from.

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Seven more issuers have opted out of being listed on the planned tokenized stock venue under the SEC's framework, bringing its disclosed objection count to 16. Microsoft MSFT, Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) and Goldman Sachs (GS) have objected to having tokenized versions of their shares traded on OKXICE, adding to issuer resistance against the planned stock-trading venue from crypto exchange OKX and New York Stock Exchange parent Intercontinental Exchange (ICE). The.

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Amendment I-3898 removes tax deferral for MiCA-compliant stablecoins starting January 2027. French lawmakers narrowly approved a proposal to tax gains when investors swap cryptocurrency for stablecoins, bringing the transactions a step closer to falling under the country’s 31.4% capital gains levy. The National Assembly adopted amendment I-3898 to the 2027 budget on Oct. 16 by 38 votes to 37, with 25 abstentions. The vote advances a proposal previously approved by.

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Your day-ahead look for Oct. 20, 2026 This is an excerpt from CoinDesk newsletter 'Daybook.' Sign up here, if you haven't already. Bitcoin BTC$81,466.90 dropped about 1.1% over the last 24 hours, ether ETH$2,381.94 fell 1.7% and the broader CoinDesk 20 (CD20) Index lost roughly 1.6%, pulled lower by declines in Asian stocks and the rising price of oil. Further weakness in equities could damp demand, analysts at QCP Capital.