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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Finance

Bitfury Hires Former Binance US Chief Brian Brooks as CEO

Brooks is replacing Valery Vavilov, who will stay on as Bitfury’s “chief vision officer.”

Brian Brooks (Coinbase)

Finance

Galaxy Digital’s October AUM Grew More Than 40% to $3.1B

Galaxy’s roster of Canadian ETFs were the driving force behind the surge.

Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz

Finance

China’s CBDC Has Been Used for $9.7B of Transactions

Some 140 million people have opened wallets for the “eCNY.”

digital yuan

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.

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