Oklahoma Senate Bill 325 proposes allowing state employees, businesses, and individuals to use Bitcoin for payments and compensation while exempting certain digital asset firms from money transmitter licensing requirements. The bill directs the State Treasurer to contract with a Bitcoin payment processor by January 1, 2026, and requires the Tax Commission to issue tax guidance for digital asset payments by the same date. If passed, the bill will take effect on November 1, 2025. — link : Wu Blockchain News
The NFT series backed by US President-elect Donald Trump has launched its first 160 pieces on the Bitcoin network using the Ordinals protocol, called "Trump Bitcoin Digital Trading Cards." Users who receive 100 NFT cards from the "Mugshot Edition" are eligible to claim them through the NFT marketplace Magic Eden after submitting their Bitcoin wallet. — link : Wu Blockchain News
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Trump-inspired digital cards debut on Bitcoin via Ordinals
The cards are available on Magic Eden for users who bought the "Mugshot Edition" NFTs.
Two U.S. public companies announced plans to buy large amounts of Bitcoin. Thumzup Media, a Los Angeles-based social media marketing company, announced its first purchase of Bitcoin for about $1 million, planning to put 90% of its liquid assets into Bitcoin. The company also plans to start paying contract workers in Bitcoin. KULR Technology Group in San Diego bought $21 million worth of Bitcoin, bringing its total holdings to $42 million. — link : Wu Blockchain News
Decrypt
Two More Public Companies Just Added Bitcoin to Their Balance Sheets - Decrypt
Publicly traded Thumzup Media made its first Bitcoin buy this week, while KULR added more of the top cryptocurrency to its balance sheet.
Trump is considering at least six candidates for the CFTC chairmanship to promote his promised crypto-friendly regulatory environment. Candidates include CFTC Commissioner Summer Mersinger, a16z crypto policy head Brian Quintenz, former Kraken chief legal officer Marco Santori, as well as Republican Commissioner Caroline Pham, former CFTC senior officials Neal Kumar and Josh Sterling. — link : Wu Blockchain News
Fox Business
Crypto industry awaits Trump's CFTC chair pick as Behnam announces exit
The Trump transition team has vetted at least half a dozen potential candidates to run the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, with two front-runners emerging.
Grayscale made portfolio adjustments to multiple funds on January 6, 2025: Grayscale Decentralized AI Fund added Livepeer (LPT); Grayscale Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Fund added Curve (CRV) and removed Synthetix (SNX); Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund added Cardano (ADA) and removed Avalanche (AVAX); Grayscale Smart Contract Platform Ex-Ethereum Fund added Sui (SUI). — link : Wu Blockchain News
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JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Bank of America building catches fire in California as wildfire spreads. : Watcher Guru
During a Bloomberg TV interview on Wednesday, SEC Chair Gary Gensler repeated his assertion that crypto is “rife with bad actors.” Gensler told Bloomberg that he splits the industry into two, one being bitcoin and "everything else." "I've been around finance for over four decades, and everything in the markets trade on a mixture of fundamentals and sentiment at any given time," Gensler said. "But I've never seen a field that's so much wrapped up in sentiment and not so much about fundamentals." — link : Wu Blockchain News
The Block
Outgoing SEC Chair Gensler defends crypto stance less than two weeks before leaving agency
Departing U.S. SEC Chair Gary Gensler there is still "work to be done" less than two weeks before he is set to leave the agency.
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 DOJ cleared to sell $6.5 billion worth of Bitcoin from seized Silk Road assets. : Watcher Guru
DOJ cleared to sell $6.5b in seized Silk Road Bitcoin: official — link : unfolded.
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*DOJ CLEARED TO SELL $6.5B IN SEIZED SILK ROAD BITCOIN: OFFICIAL
According to DB, the US government has been granted permission to liquidate 69,000 Bitcoins (worth $6.5 billion) seized from Silk Road, an official confirmed to DB News today. Notably, this comes less than two weeks after the new administration took office, which had promised not to sell the Bitcoins. — link : Wu Blockchain News
According to EIP-1559 co-author ERIC, the Biden administration's CFTC is issuing a subpoena to Coinbase regarding the Polymarket case, requiring Coinbase to provide information related to some customers, unless Coinbase formally receives a motion to dismiss or other legal documents before the end of business hours on January 15, 2025. — link : Wu Blockchain News
FTX Disputes Announcement That Backpack Exchange, Run By Former Staff, Has Acquired Its EU Entity: BBG
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Binance released its 2024 annual report, saying that by the end of the year, the number of registered users exceeded 250 million, an annual increase of 47%; the platform processed a record 4.44 million requests per second; Binance VIP users increased by 116%; institutional registered users increased by 97%; the internal compliance team has grown to 650 experts. — link : Wu Blockchain News
Binance Blog
Wrapping a Transformative Year Quarter of a Billion Users Strong | Binance Blog
Binance has published its annual end-of-year report, which highlights its key areas of progress and quantitative indicators of growth.