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

South Korea to Pilot CBDC With 100K Citizens in 2024

The Bank of Korea sees a CBDC as a potential answer to problems with existing government-issued grant systems, such as during the COVID-19 pandemic or childcare vouchers

A scattering of 50,000 South Korean-won notes

Finance

Crypto Banking Firm BCB Group CEO Quits 5 Months After His Deputy

Oliver Tonkin has replaced Oliver von Landsberg-Sadie at the crypto banking firm.

Former BCB Group CEO Oliver von Landsberg-Sadie (BCB Group)

Finance

Crypto Miner Phoenix Group Says UAE Initial Share Sale Was 33-Times Oversubscribed

Phoenix was looking to sell almost 18% of the company for a target raise of $368 million.

Abu Dhabi skyline at dusk

Finance

Tether Deposits of $1B With UK Financial Firm Are at Center of High Court Battle: FT

Tether deposited the funds with a subsidiary of investment bank Britannia Financial, according to the report, which cited filings made in the High Court.

(Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Exchange Bullish Completes Purchase of CoinDesk: WSJ

Bullish, which is run by former NYSE President Tom Farley, bought 100% of CoinDesk from crypto-focused investor DCG in an all-cash deal

(Pixabay)

Finance

Former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear Appointed as New OpenAI Chief

OpenAI ousted Sam Altman as its chief last week after the board said it no longer had confidence in his ability to lead the company

OpenAI (Jonathan Kemper/Unsplash)

Finance

Bitcoin-Focused Ordinals Project Taproot Wizards Raises $7.5M in Seed Round

Taproot Wizards, which describes itself as "magic internet JPEGs", offers a collection of Microsoft Paint images of wizards harking back to a 2013 bitcoin meme: "magic internet money."

TaprootWizards.com NFT (ordinals.com)

Finance

Philippines to Sell Tokenized Treasury Bond Next Week

The Bureau of the Treasury has set a minimum target of 10 billion pesos.

Manilla Bay, Philippines.

Policy

Singapore Central Bank Starts Tokenization Pilots Alongside JPMorgan, BNY Mellon, DBS

The test will explore bilateral digital asset trades, foreign currency payments, multicurrency clearing and settlement, fund management and automated portfolio rebalancing.

Night view of Singapore taken across the water.

Policy

Cathie Wood Speculates Gary Gensler's Political Ambitions Are Affecting Spot BTC ETF Judgement

The ARK Invest founder and CEO remains bullish and said the crypto market opportunity could scale to $25 trillion by 2030.

SEC Chair Gary Gensler in Washington on Oct. 25, 2023 (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)