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California Governor Bars Policymakers From Insider Betting on Prediction Markets – Bitcoin News

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California Bans Gubernatorial Appointees From Betting on Prediction Markets With Non-Public Information The order takes effect immediately. It extends California’s existing conflict-of-interest statutes directly to prediction markets, which allow users to wager real money on outcomes ranging from elections to military strikes to economic decisions. Appointees are prohibited from using confidential or non-public information obtained through their official duties to profit personally on these platforms. The ban also covers helping family members, spouses, business partners, or associates place profitable bets using such information. “Public service should not be a get-rich-quick…

Bitcoin price hits 3‑week low below $66k as Trump’s “crypto czar” David Sacks exits

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Bitcoin price slid to its lowest level in nearly a month on Friday, just as David Sacks confirmed he is stepping down as President Donald Trump’s “AI and crypto czar,” amplifying anxiety over the policy outlook for digital assets. Summary Bitcoin drops below recent trading range as more than $500 million in leveraged crypto bets are liquidated. David Sacks exits his White House crypto advisory role after exhausting a 130‑day special‑employee term, raising questions over the durability of the administration’s pro‑Bitcoin agenda. Since Sacks’ appointment in late 2024, Bitcoin’s price…

174 Registered CASPs, but Only 14 Can Operate a Centralized Crypto Exchange (CEX)? – Legal Bitcoin News

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MiCA Decoded is a 12-article weekly series for Bitcoin.com News, co-authored by LegalBison’s Co-Founding and Managing Directors: Aaron Glauberman, Viktor Juskin and Sabir Alijev. LegalBison advises crypto and FinTech companies on MiCA licensing, CASP and VASP applications, and regulatory structuring across Europe and beyond. If the EU has already issued 174 MiCA licenses, why are there only 14 actual crypto exchanges on the list? To demystify this, we need to decode what the public registers are really telling us about how crypto businesses are setting up in Europe. That contrast,…

How ChangeNOW’s Crypto Swap API Helped Bitcoin.com Drive a 25% Increase in User Activity – Branded Spotlight Bitcoin News

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Expanding crypto swap infrastructure within a live, high- volume product is one of the more technically demanding decisions a crypto platform can make. For Bitcoin.com – a platform with over a decade of history in the crypto industry, offering a wallet, swap, news, and educational resources to millions of users worldwide – the stakes were high. The integration of ChangeNOW as a key crypto wallet swap integration partner delivered measurable results across performance, stability, and user engagement. The Challenge: Scaling Beyond a Single-Provider Crypto Swap Infrastructure For platforms serving millions…

If Bitcoin Should Be Worth $280,000 Right Now, What’s The Real Value Of Dogecoin And XRP?

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An interesting statement from Grant Cardone has led to a different kind of conversation. According to the popular American businessman, the Bitcoin price should be $280,000. His claim that Bitcoin should already be trading at $280,000 raises a deeper question: if that valuation were accurate today, what would it imply for the rest of the market? That question becomes even more interesting when applied to cryptocurrencies like Dogecoin and XRP, which tend to move in tandem to Bitcoin. Grant Cardone’s $280,000 Bitcoin Call And What It Implies The real estate…

Coinbase Users Push Back against Prediction Markets Notifications

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Update (March 27 at 8:32 pm in UTC): This article has been updated to include a statement from Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong. Negative reactions to cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase using its notifications to push bets on event contracts amid the March Madness basketball tournament range from “annoying” to “absurd.” In January, Coinbase rolled out prediction market bets for US-based users as part of a partnership with Kalshi. However, for some users, the last two months have been seen as an opportunity for the exchange to get people “hooked on sports gambling”…

Vietnam Authorities Launch Probe Into Multi-Billion Dollar Crypto Fraud – Crypto News Bitcoin News

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Rapid Response and Formal Charges Authorities in Vietnam have launched a sweeping investigation into one of the country’s largest cryptocurrency fraud cases to date, detaining several high-profile figures accused of a multiyear scheme to misappropriate assets. From March 20 to 21, coordinated task forces across multiple provinces summoned more than 140 individuals for questioning and seized computers, phones, and financial records. According to local reports, investigators acted swiftly to prevent suspects from destroying documents or concealing assets. On March 23, the Security Investigation Agency of the Ministry of Public Security…

XRP To Enter This $100 Trillion Custody Pool And This Is How It Will Happen

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Crypto pundit X Finance Bull has explained how XRP is positioned to absorb a share of the $100 trillion in assets that the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has in custody. He notably mentioned Ripple and the role the crypto firm is playing in making this possible for XRP.  How XRP Is Positioned To Take A Share of DTCC’s $100 Trillion Assets In an X post, X Finance Bull noted that in 2025, DTCC filed patents that named Ripple and the XRP Ledger as compatible infrastructure for tokenized finance.…

Ethereum Loses $2K as Traders Expect a Deeper Correction in ETH Price

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Ether’s (ETH) drop below the $2,000 on Friday put it at risk of a deeper correction in the coming weeks or months. Key takeaways: Ether’s price shows structural weakness as it fails to hold above the $2,000 psychological support. Analysts say ETH price may drop further toward the $1,750-$1,850 support zone. Ether’s demand stays negative, increasing its downward potential.  Ether traders anticipate a deeper correction Data from TradingView showed ETH/USD trading at $1,975, down 5% over the last 24 hours. This drop was accompanied by more than $111 million in…

Incentive Design Could Change Retail Investors’ Fortunes

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Opinion by: Ilya Tarutov, founder of Tramplin Crypto hasn’t struggled because the technology was flawed. Instead, it faltered as a result of the incentive structures the industry created, which have quietly turned it into something that works against the very people it was supposed to serve. Since 2017, every crypto market cycle has followed the same pattern. Each cycle started with excitement, followed by retail inflows, a velocity trap and catastrophic drawdowns, and ended in an erosion of trust that takes months, if not years, to rebuild. Each cycle begins…