Articles by James Van Straten

This post was originally published on this site. Japan’s Nikkei 225 surged to a record on Monday, breaching the 57,000 level with a 3.4% gain following Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s decisive “supermajority” victory in the […]

This post was originally published on this site. CoinDesk is hosting its second annual Consensus Hong Kong conference, and as always, we’ll have a number of policy-focused sessions. Are you in town? Find me on […]

This post was originally published on this site. With crypto’s multi-month downturn accelerating into a freefall last week, bulls were frantically grasping for technical signals, or maybe yarns about the blowup of some leveraged hedge […]

This post was originally published on this site. Traders on prediction market Polymarket have doubled the implied odds of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ occurring by year-end, turning one of the platform’s stranger contracts […]

This post was originally published on this site. Block Inc. (XYZ), the payments company run by Jack Dorsey, may reduce its workforce by as much as 10%, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. […]

This post was originally published on this site. As February began, bitcoin was trading around $80,000, with whales dipping their toes in while retail investors were running for the exits. Just one week later, bitcoin […]

This post was originally published on this site. We are moving toward an economic system in which software and devices transact with one another without human involvement. STORY CONTINUES BELOW Instead of simply executing transactions, […]