Author: Leslie Stewart

This year, we are faced with an unexpected question – what exactly is the future of money? The traditional “cash vs. card” debate is just the beginning. We’ve all tried to understand cryptocurrencies, but we’ve only managed to understand half of them at best. But in 2025, there were clear signs that a new battle for control of capital flows and transactions would erupt. Many are based on new creations called stablecoins, which may or may not live up to their name over time.To understand the battle ahead, we need to focus on two things. One is the kind of…

The Minnesota Department of Children, Youth and Families announced Friday that investigators found the day care center at the center of recent fraud allegations to be operating normally.The department issued a statement in response to a request for information about the Child Care Assistance Program, which oversees the grant, citing “recently circulated videos.”The Trump administration and President Donald Trump himself are alleging fraud in Minnesota following a recent video by a right-wing online influencer named Nick Shirley containing unsubstantiated claims of fraud in foster care in the state.The department said in a statement that investigators from the Office of the…

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Disclosure: The views and opinions expressed herein belong solely to the authors and do not represent the views and opinions of crypto.news editorials. Institutional Bitcoin (BTC) holders started 2025 trading at around $94,000. By October, they watched it soar to an all-time high of $126,200, a move that confirmed macro theories about digital scarcity and institutional adoption. Corporate treasuries that held out through the volatility, miners that resisted divestitures, and funds that held on to their quotas all recorded their gains on paper. summary Bitcoin’s 2025 round trip exposed hidden taxes on financial institutions. Prices ended flat, but storage fees…

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New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani was officially sworn in as the 111th mayor of the nation’s largest city early Thursday, aiming to implement the innovative and progressive platform he campaigned on.New York State Attorney General Letitia James swore in Mandani, the city’s first Muslim mayor, in a small ceremony with his family shortly after midnight. Supporters counted down the seconds.”This is truly an honor and a once-in-a-lifetime privilege,” Mamdani said during the swearing-in ceremony at the Old City Hall IRT subway station, which closed in 1945. Mamdani ran on a platform supporting public transport. He said the brilliant station…

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The final bill largely inherits the core architecture discussed in April, leaving the list of newly regulated activities essentially unchanged. However, a number of important changes have been made, including clarifications regarding definitions and the addition of new provisions governing the public offering, disclosure, and market abuse of cryptoassets.At the same time, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published three consultation papers on the regulation of crypto-asset activities, the crypto-asset admission and disclosure and market abuse regime, and the crypto-asset corporate prudential regime. We will discuss these in another blog post.Overview of the new systemThe Financial Services and Markets Act…