Jamie Crawley

Jamie has been part of CoinDesk's news team since February 2021, focusing on breaking news, Bitcoin tech and protocols and crypto VC. He holds BTC, ETH and DOGE.

Jamie Crawley

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Policy

Direxion Withdraws Application for Short Bitcoin Futures ETF

The fund would have maintained short exposure to bitcoin futures contracts issued by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

SEC Delays Decision on 4 Bitcoin ETFs

Policy

SEC Delays Decision on Valkyrie Bitcoin ETF Until Next Year

The new date for a decision is Jan. 7, 2022.

SEC Delays Decision on 4 Bitcoin ETFs

Finance

Binance Temporarily Disables All Crypto Withdrawals, Cites Backlog

Withdrawals resumed about 25 minutes after the stoppage was announced, before being disabled and then resumed again.

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Digital Currency Group Achieves $10B Valuation in $700M Secondary Sale

Two SoftBank funds, GIC Capital, Ribbit Capital and CapitalG, the private equity arm of Google’s holding company, Alphabet, took part.

DCG Founder, CEO Barry Silbert (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Fortress Technologies Buys 4,500 Bitcoin Mining Machines From Bitmain

The Bitmain machines are scheduled for delivery in monthly installments from April to September 2022.

Marathon Digital to Buy $121M of Mining Machines

Finance

Burger King to Give Crypto Rewards With Robinhood

Burger King’s Royal Perks users who spend more than $5 on the chain’s app will be rewarded with one coin from a pool of either 20 BTC, 200 ETH or 2 million DOGE.

(ricochet64/Shutterstock)

Policy

South African Pension Funds to Be Banned From Crypto Investment, Draft Rules Indicate

“A fund may not invest in crypto-assets directly or indirectly,” according to proposed rule changes in the Government Gazette published Friday.

South Africa may be getting its first bitcoin ETF.

Policy

Australia’s Securities Regulator Issues Criteria for Crypto-Asset ETPs

A cryptocurrency must meet five criteria to be a permissible asset to back an exchange-traded product or other structured product, the regulator said.

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Finance

Richard Li, Winklevoss-Backed CMCC Global Targets $300M for Latest Crypto Fund

CMCC Global, an early investor in the Solana blockchain, has also backed Cosmos and Terra.

Hong Kong Harbour (Shutterstock)