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Michael Saylor's personal wealth grows by $930 billion in three days

Microstrategy (MSTR) co-founder Michael Saylor's personal wealth increased by nearly $700 million in three days as MSTR shares and bitcoin prices surged, CNBC reported. MSTR shares are up 52% so far this year, following a 346% surge in 2023. Sailer is currently MSTR's largest shareholder, holding 12% of MSTR and 17,732 BTC (disclosed in 2020).

Binance WBTC plunges to $5200, then recovers

Cointelegraph reports, “A flash crash in the price of WBTC occurred on Binance on Nov. 23 (local time). This caused WBTC to briefly drop from $98,000 to $5,200, but has since recovered. The cause of the error is still unknown.

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Trump nominates 'Crypto Proponent' Howard Lutnick as Commerce Secretary, while US SEC chairman struggles to narrow down candidates to four.

US President-elect Donald Trump has nominated US investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick to serve as Secretary of Commerce, according to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). Lutnick is an avid supporter of Bitcoin and Tether (USDT), with Cantor Fitzgerald reportedly serving as Tether's U.S. Treasury bond

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BlackRock IBIT Options Hit $1.9 Billion in First Day of Trading, Grayscale Begins Trading on November 20th.

Bloomberg ETFs analyst James Seyffart reports via X that “Options volume on BlackRock's bitcoin spot ETF IBIT, which began trading today (Nov. 19), was about $1.9 billion. A total of 35.4 million contracts were active, of which 28.9 million were calls (82%) and 65,000

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