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Game Developers Launch North America's First Industry-Wide Union Anyone Can Join
19.3.2025
Game industry unionization efforts that exploded across Sega of America, Bethesda, and others have recently been on pause. A new initiative by the Communications Workers of America could jumpstart things again. At the Game Developers Conference 2025 happening this week, the group announced...
Battered Bitcoin Looks to U.S. Fed for Support, Bank of America Predicts End of Quantitative Tightening
19.3.2025
The expected end of quantitative tightening could bode well for BTC and other risk assets, but gains may be tempered by stagflationary adjustments in economic projections
Bakkt stock tumbles nearly 30% after losing Bank of America and Webull
19.3.2025
Crypto firm Bakkt’s share price has closed March 18 trading down over 27% after it disclosed that two of it biggest clients, the Bank of America and Webull, won’t renew commercial agreements. In a March 17 regulatory filing, Bakkt said it had received notice of Bank of America...
US Lawmakers Urge Trump to Drop Crypto Before It Hurts America
19.3.2025
Several U.S. lawmakers have warned that President Trump’s crypto dealings and Elon Musk’s unchecked power endanger financial stability, weaken oversight, and erode public trust in government accountability. US Lawmakers Sound the Alarm Over Trump’s Crypto Ties and Musk’s Expanding Power...
Latam Insights Encore: Bolivia’s Crypto Power Deal Opens a New Era for Commodity Markets
18.3.2025
Welcome to Latam Insights Encore, a deep dive into Latin America’s most relevant economic and crypto news from the past week. This edition examines how the recently disclosed use of crypto for power imports in Bolivia opens a new era for the validity of these settlements in international commodity...
Bakkt Shares Drop 35% After Loss of Two Major Customers
17.3.2025
The company is also delaying the filing of its annual report
Latam Insights: Bolivia’s Crypto Energy Moves and Brazil’s Crypto BRICS Initiative
17.3.2025
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of the most relevant crypto and economic news from Latin America over the past week. In this week’s edition, dollar scarcity is pushing Bolivia to pay for energy imports with crypto, Brazil is prioritizing the implementation of a crypto payment system...
Bitso Cryptocurrency Latam Report: Stablecoin Adoption Rises, Bitcoin Popularity Dwindles
14.3.2025
The latest Bitso Crypto Landscape in Latam report indicates that the region is still fertile ground for cryptocurrency markets. The stablecoin market grew, accounting for almost 40% of all purchases, while bitcoin purchases diminished to 22%. Bitso Report Shows Stablecoins Remain Strong in Latam...
USDC, USDt stablecoins are ‘store of value’ in Latin America — Bitso
13.3.2025
Stablecoin adoption in Latin America is increasing as more users turn to Circle’s USDC and Tether’s USDT for financial stability, according to a new report from cryptocurrency exchange Bitso.The USDC (USDC) and USDt (USDT) stablecoins have become a “store of value” in Latin...
Bolivian State Energy Firm to Use Crypto to Pay for Imports: Reuters
12.3.2025
YBFB hopes that using crypto will be a direct solution to the nation's shortage in U.S. dollars and foreign currency reserves
Mercado Bitcoin, Polygon Labs Look to Issue $200M Worth of Tokenized Assets in Latin America
12.3.2025
The collaboration aims to expand access to tokenized private credit and other real-world assets in the region
Vivek Ramaswamy and Michael Saylor Weigh in on Bitcoin and America’s Future at “Bitcoin for America” Summit
12.3.2025
At the recent “Bitcoin for America” summit hosted by the Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI) in Washington, DC, both…
America must back pro-stablecoin laws, reject CBDCs — US Rep. Emmer
12.3.2025
US Representative Tom Emmer argued for prioritizing pro-stablecoin legislation in a March 11 House Financial Services Committee hearing, while calling central bank digital currencies (CBDC) a threat to American values.On March 6, Emmer reintroduced the CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act in the House...
America must back pro-stablecoin laws, reject CBDCs — US Rep. Emmer
12.3.2025
US Representative Tom Emmer argued for prioritizing pro-stablecoin legislation in a March 11 House Financial Services Committee hearing, while calling central bank digital currencies (CBDC) a threat to American values.On March 6, Emmer reintroduced the CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act in the House...
America must back pro-stablecoin laws, reject CBDCs — US Rep. Emmer
12.3.2025
US Representative Tom Emmer argued for prioritizing pro-stablecoin legislation in a March 11 House Financial Services Committee hearing, while calling central bank digital currencies (CBDC) a threat to American values.On March 6, Emmer reintroduced the CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act in the House...
Gas Prices Down, but Anxiety Up: Decoding the Mixed Signals of America’s Economic Health
11.3.2025
This week, markets have been thrown into turmoil by Trump’s trade skirmishes and his refusal to dismiss the possibility of an impending U.S. recession. At the moment, participants on Polymarket are wagering a 39% probability that the U.S. will slip into an economic downturn before the year...
Latam Insights Encore: Bukele’s Gambit or How (Not) to Conduct a Bitcoin Revolution
11.3.2025
Welcome to Latam Insights Encore, a deep dive into Latin America’s most relevant economic and crypto news from the past week. This edition examines President Nayib Bukele’s behavior regarding the commitments El Salvador has made under the IMF deal, choosing to remain vague rather than...
Latam Insights: El Salvador’s IMF Deal Detailed, Mexican Billionaire Goes Hard on Bitcoin
9.3.2025
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of the most relevant crypto and economic news from Latin America over the past week. In this week’s edition, the IMF reveals the fine print of its credit facility deal with El Salvador, Ricardo Salinas is 70% invested in bitcoin, and the Libra probe...
White House: America Will Be the Bitcoin Superpower of the World
9.3.2025
The White House has declared America will be the “Bitcoin superpower” as President Trump established a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, marking a historic shift in U.S. cryptocurrency policy. White House Declares: America Will Dominate Bitcoin—A New Crypto Era Begins The cryptocurrency community...
Former Xbox Exec Says Microsoft Would Stop Making Hardware If It Could
7.3.2025
The Xbox that fans have known for decades is currently undergoing an unprecedented transformation as Microsoft sets it sights on a multiplatform approach to gaming and its console sales continue to decline year after year. Veteran gaming executive Peter Moore, an Xbox VP in the early aughts...