Author: American Coins & Gold

Strike Rolls Out Bitcoin Purchases To Users Globally
Bitcoin payments firm Strike has expanded its services on a global scale, now allowing users in 36 countries (soon to be 65+) beyond the U.S. to buy bitcoin through the app, founder Jack Mallers announced in a blog post Thursday.

Time Is Running Out for Crypto Leaders to Reason With the IRS

FBI Arrests Trio Accused of Bilking Banks Out of M, Converting Funds to Crypto
Three men duped New York-area banks into shelling out more than $10 million and tried to make off with the money by converting it to crypto, U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said Thursday in a statement.

Sam Bankman-Fried's Trial May Be Over, but The Bahamas Is Living Its Own Trial
Bankman-Fried may have been convicted, but The Bahamas appears to be dealing with the stigma of rolling out a red carpet for FTX.

Bitcoin-Focused Ordinals Project Taproot Wizards Raises .5M in Seed Round
Taproot Wizards, which describes itself as “magic internet JPEGs”, offers a collection of Microsoft Paint images of wizards harking back to a 2013 bitcoin meme: “magic internet money.”

255M Pyth Tokens to Be Airdropped to 90K Wallets Next Week
The Claim Process for the Pyth Network Retrospective Airdrop will open on Monday, Nov 20 at 2 PM UTC.

Crypto for Advisors: Cryptocurrency Transparency Truths vs. Myths
Darwood Khan from Alix Partners looks at on-chain analytics, tracing tools and just how much illicit activity leverages crypto and discusses why advisors should learn about blockchain technology.

There Is a World of Web3 Outside the U.S. and Europe

CoinShares Secures Option to Buy Valkyrie's ETF Unit
The option, which expires at the end of March, gives the company a foothold in the U.S. ETF market as speculation whirls around the approval of a spot bitcoin product.

Bitcoin Is Coming to Sushi as DeFi Platform Expands to ZetaChain
The move allows users to access the liquidity of bitcoin on decentralized finance (DeFi) without going through intermediaries like wrappers.