★ Daily Intelligence Briefings (DIBs)CommoditiesFinanceⓁ Bitcoin BlackRock Reaches Breakthrough Milestones in Bid to Launch Spot-Backed Bitcoin ETF Bitcoin's unit price broke out to a 52-week high above $35,000 on Monday evening, spurring a record amount of open…McAlinden Research PartnersOctober 24, 2023
★ Daily Intelligence Briefings (DIBs)⦁ Theme TrackerCommoditiesⓁ BitcoinMarketsPolitics & Policy Bitcoin Now Worth More Than Half of Crypto Market Cap, ETF Prospects Keep Majority of Supply Unspent Bitcoin (BTC) rose to a three-month high this morning on reports that the SEC had approved a spot-backed BTC ETF.…McAlinden Research PartnersOctober 16, 2023
★ Daily Intelligence Briefings (DIBs)⦁ Theme TrackerCommoditiesⓁ BitcoinMarketsPolitics & Policy SEC Suffers Another Digital Asset Defeat in Court, Paving the Way for Reconsideration of Bitcoin ETF Applications A favorable decision from the DC Circuit Court of Appeals helped Grayscale Investments hand the SEC its second defeat in court in as…McAlinden Research PartnersAugust 30, 2023
★ Daily Intelligence Briefings (DIBs)CommoditiesFinancePolitics & Policy SEC Tries to Slam the Door on Spot BTC Funds Until 2024, Grayscale Suit Set to Conclude in Coming Days With the SEC likely to punt any decisions on various spot Bitcoin (BTC) ETFs into 2024, BTC's unit price has…McAlinden Research PartnersAugust 21, 2023
★ Daily Intelligence Briefings (DIBs)CommoditiesFinanceMarkets BlackRock Boosts Bitcoin Amid ETF Bonanza, But Coinbase Partnership May Prove Problematic Bitcoin reached a new 52-week high this morning after BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said that it was "digitizing gold", thereby…McAlinden Research PartnersJuly 6, 2023
★ Daily Intelligence Briefings (DIBs)FinanceMarkets Tether Expands Profits, Dominance, and Bitcoin Holdings as T-Bills and Reverse Repo Become Reserve Standards Tether, the world's leading stablecoin issuer, posted its reserve attestation documents for Q1 2023 last week and claimed to have earned…McAlinden Research PartnersMay 22, 2023
★ Daily Intelligence Briefings (DIBs)MarketsPolitics & PolicyTechnology Ethereum May Face Contagion from SEC Crackdown on Crypto Exchanges’ Staking Services Ethereum (ETH), the world's second largest cryptocurrency by market cap, may be particularly exposed to the SEC's "staking-as-a-service" crackdown. Unlike many…McAlinden Research PartnersFebruary 22, 2023
★ Daily Intelligence Briefings (DIBs)MarketsPolitics & PolicyTechnology Staking Services and Stablecoins in SEC Crosshairs as Crypto Industry Preps for Court Battles Summary: A crypto crackdown by US regulators appears to have arrived just as digital asset prices were once again gaining their…McAlinden Research PartnersFebruary 14, 2023
★ Daily Intelligence Briefings (DIBs)FinanceTechnology Ethereum’s Post-Merge Era Conquers Key Goals, Yet Centralization and Regulation Concerns Linger In the three weeks following Ethereum's (ETH) long awaited "Merge", data indicates all systems are running smoothly and the network…McAlinden Research PartnersOctober 6, 2022
★ Daily Intelligence Briefings (DIBs)FinanceMarketsPolitics & Policy SEC Decision on Key Bitcoin ETF Application Looms as Grayscale Preps Lawsuit, Dissent Rises From Within Numerous Bitcoin ETFs have been approved by the SEC over the last year, but a spot fund, widely-regarded as the…McAlinden Research PartnersJune 22, 2022