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December 16, 2025
Metaverse: Zuckerberg quits his virtual obsession — theweek.com
After four years, $70 billion, and an entire rebrand, Meta appears to finally be “ditching” the metaverse, said Dan DeFrancesco in Business Insider. Company insiders told Bloomberg last week that Mark Zuckerberg is planning to slash its metaverse budget by
Juventus Fan Token Holders Vote With Their Feet on Tether Offer — bloomberg.com
Emily Mason uses the cryptocurrency market to take a look of the intertwined dynamics of finance, politics and fandom that come into play in Tether's bid for the Juventus football club.
Bitcoin on Track for 4th Down Year, JPMorgan Steps Further Into Crypto | Bloomberg Crypto 12/16/2025 — bloomberg.com
Bitcoin on Track for 4th Down Year, JPMorgan Steps Further Into Crypto | Bloomberg Crypto 12/16/2025 Bloomberg.com
Watch Not Selling Existing Bitcoin on Balance Sheet: Mallers — bloomberg.com
Watch Not Selling Existing Bitcoin on Balance Sheet: Mallers Bloomberg.com
Watch Bitcoin Market Decline a 'Healthy Retracement,' Says MARA's Thiel — bloomberg.com
Watch Bitcoin Market Decline a 'Healthy Retracement,' Says MARA's Thiel Bloomberg.com
Bitcoin Keeps Sliding, and the True Believers Keep Buying — wsj.com
Bitcoin Keeps Sliding, and the True Believers Keep Buying The Wall Street Journal
Canada’s Indiana Jones — macleans.ca
Adam Shoalts is a member of a dying breed. For one thing, he had to be pressured by his now-wife into getting a smartphone. And service tends to be sparse where he works. Shoalts, originally from Fenwick, Ontario, is one of Canada’s greatest living
Wall Street Turns Crypto Risk Into a $530 Million Complex Trade — bloomberg.com
Bitcoin was once considered too volatile, too unregulated, and too fringe for the kinds of financial instruments that respectable Wall Street firms package up and sell to wealthy clients. No longer.
PayPal applies to become a bank under Trump's looser financial rules — engadget.com
PayPal is the latest company looking to become a bank in the US. On Monday, the company announced it had submitted applications for PayPal Bank to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Utah Department of Financial Institutions (UDFI).
Bitcoin Fatigue Sets In as Token Heads for Fourth Annual Loss — bloomberg.com
Bitcoin Fatigue Sets In as Token Heads for Fourth Annual Loss Bloomberg.com
The generational gap in crypto investment ‘has never been more marked’, says VP at Coinbase — fortune.com
Gen Z and Millennial investors don’t feel like conventional pathways to wealth are working for them—and that’s in part why they’re turning to crypto. That’s according to the latest crypto report released on Tuesday by Coinbase. “Younger investors just feel
How cryptocurrency is changing politics — theweek.com
“Bitcoin has proven to be one of the best-performing assets in modern history,” said Al Jazeera. With the value of cryptocurrency increasing “some 1,000 times” over the last decade, it was only a matter of time before governments and banks wanted in. After
Global selloff in stocks signals AI bubble may be ending in the healthiest way possible — fortune.com
Normally it’s terrible for stock traders when giant tech companies’ shares fall dramatically. Everyone knows that the S&P 500 is dominated by tech stocks—the Magnificent Seven in particular—and their valuations have disproportionate influence over the
Government shutdown, reconciliation law highlight turbulent year in Congress — rollcall.com
Five months ago, the story of the first session of the 119th Congress was expected to be the passage of President Donald Trump’s signature policy legislation known as the One Big Beautiful Bill. But that was before the longest partial government shutdown
Stock Market News, Dec. 15, 2025: Gold and Silver Prices Rally While Bitcoin Declines — wsj.com
Stock Market News, Dec. 15, 2025: Gold and Silver Prices Rally While Bitcoin Declines The Wall Street Journal
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