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A $20 gold pattern with only five known examples will take center stage in Heritage Auctions’ ANA U.S. Coins Signature Auction, scheduled for Aug. 31 through Sept. 5. 1879 Liberty Head Quintuple Stella Judd 1643 Pollock 1843 The 1879 Liberty Head Quintuple Stella, Judd-1643, Pollock-1843, is graded PR64+ Deep Cameo by PCGS and comes from the Bob R. Simpson Collection. Heritage identifies it as the finest-certified example. Only four of the five known Quintuple Stellas are privately held. The fifth belongs to the National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian Institution, effectively reducing the number potentially available to collectors. Unlike the…
Circle’s wrapped Bitcoin product entered the market with unusually strong institutional credentials and almost no visible scale.The company paired cirBTC with segregated reserves, a federally supervised custodian, direct minting and redemption for eligible businesses, and the distribution infrastructure behind USDC. Circle’s Aug. 27 reserve panel nevertheless showed just 40.02450077 cirBTC outstanding about 11 weeks after its Ethereum launch.The same panel showed 42.5114162 BTC in reserve, equal to about 106.2% coverage and a 2.48691543 BTC cushion across 14 disclosed Bitcoin addresses. The reserve cushion settled the backing question at that snapshot. The 40-token float exposed the harder problem: Circle had built…
Stablecoin demand is becoming consequential in the U.S. government debt market, but the maturity of that demand matters more than the headline total.Washington now has two debt-market stories running at once. The federal framework for permitted payment stablecoins channels reserves into cash-like instruments and Treasuries with no more than 93 days remaining. Farther out on the curve, the Treasury Department said on Aug. 19 that it would at least double the maximum size of liquidity-support buybacks in the 10- to 20-year and 20- to 30-year nominal sectors beginning Sept. 9.Together, those developments test a broad claim about digital dollars funding…
BitGo’s NYDIG deal transfers its institutional trading business to the digital-asset custody and trading infrastructure provider, while NYDIG says it is concentrating resources on power, Bitcoin mining and high-performance-computing data centers.The closing terms disclosed by BitGo put roughly $42.5 million of consideration upfront. BitGo is adding an institutional team, client relationships and financial products around its custody and settlement platform. NYDIG is directing attention toward a company-described power-and-compute footprint exceeding 3 GW.The deal makes each company’s resource allocation clear while leaving the margin comparison unresolved. BitGo’s filings show that very large digital-asset sales can carry a thin gross spread. NYDIG…
Treasury’s proposed rules under the GENIUS Act, the new US stablecoin law, would let US exchanges and other digital-asset service providers keep offering some foreign-issued payment stablecoins, but only if they can defend why they trusted the issuer’s promise to comply with lawful US orders.Under the proposed rule, a provider could rely on a foreign issuer’s representation that it has the technology and intent to comply with lawful orders, such as valid orders to freeze or seize tokens where applicable, and reciprocal arrangements only after conducting reasonable due diligence. Reliance would be barred when the platform knows, has reason to…
PowerCompute, a Bitcoin treasury and mining company, added $3.765 million to its debt after an early Bitcoin collar reset involving 307 BTC. The executed schedule records the unwind cost as added principal rather than cash or USDC.The company’s Aug. 28 filing disclosed a $21,892,131.88 replacement 30-day collar balance with Arch Lending, up from $18,127,131.88. The facility remains secured by 307 BTC, but its annual interest rate rose from 2% to 6.5%. Related ReadingBitcoin miner gambles on a 4-day bridge loan equal to 97% of its BTC treasury value – the deadline passed without in total silence How the Bitcoin collar…
OCEAN Mining has completed a buyout of co-founder and 16-year veteran Bitcoin Core developer Luke Dashjr, ending his ownership and three leadership roles at the Bitcoin mining pool.Dashjr resigned as chairman, chief technology officer and director, while OCEAN repurchased all of his equity, according to an Aug. 29 joint statement. Holding those board, technical and executive positions had placed him at the center of both OCEAN’s governance and its mining-policy decisions.The private company did not disclose the repurchase price, its remaining ownership structure or successor appointments. OCEAN said it will continue operating its transparent, non-custodial pool, while Dashjr will pursue…
A White House speech insider who worked as a teleprompter operator must surrender $107,539.02 in prediction-market profits after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission found that he traded on advance access to presidential speeches.The settled administrative order also requires Gabriel Perez to pay a $65,000 civil monetary penalty, cease and desist from further violations and accept a three-year trading ban. The CFTC said the penalty was substantially reduced because of Perez’s exemplary cooperation. The cited materials describe a civil regulatory settlement and do not report a criminal conviction.How the White House speech insider gained a trading edgeThe CFTC found that Perez…
Coinbase’s new B20 stock tokens on Base place Apple, Alphabet, Meta and Nvidia-linked exposure on a blockchain that keeps trading through the weekend.AAPLc, GOOGLc, METAc and NVDAc confer beneficial claims on underlying shares held within Coinbase’s tokenization structure; they are designed for eligible users outside the United States and differ from ordinary US-listed shares.Coinbase describes continuous secondary transferability, while Base presents the assets as building blocks for decentralized finance. That DeFi pitch includes a prominent borrowing example. Base says a holder could use tokenized Nvidia exposure as collateral on Aave, creating an obvious risk question when the token continues trading…
The US Treasury expects to borrow $739 billion from July through September while paying investors to hand back some of its older bonds. The pairing looks self-defeating because both transactions involve the same issuer. However, they are on separate ledgers and solve separate problems: auctions finance the government and create liquid benchmarks, while buybacks retire selected old issues or help Treasury manage its cash balance.Treasury’s Aug. 3 borrowing estimate assumes a $950 billion cash balance at the end of September, then projects another $628 billion of borrowing from October through December. Its August refunding statement authorized as much as $38…