Nigel Farage’s Secret Weapon: A Crypto Investor With $12M!

Reform UK, a political party headed by Nigel Farage, has received a staggering $12,015,900 from aviation entrepreneur and cryptocurrency investor Christopher Harborne. The donation, revealed in the latest figures from the Electoral Commission, reportedly saw the party temporarily outstrip both the governing Labour and Conservatives in quarterly donations, showcasing the party’s growing financial momentum ahead of next May’s local elections. 🚀

Bitcoin’s Wild Ride: Ripple CEO Still Dreaming of $180K While the Market Snoozes

Whale activity

Meanwhile, in reality, Bitcoin did a quick pirouette and dived about $5,000 faster than you can say “liquidity crisis,” obliterating over $200 billion of the crypto market’s cherished assets – a number so large, it might as well be magic. This dramatic tumble was linked not to some rogue algorithm but a series of “traditional market” shenanigans involving Japan’s bond market and their ongoing yen tango, possibly orchestrated by a high-stakes game of economic hide-and-seek.

When Tech Meets Tradition: Kraken & Deutsche Börse Salsa Together

Picture this: Kraken, the world’s favorite crypto-exchange playboy, and Deutsche Börse Group, the traditional market operator with a surprisingly trendy Instagram account. On Dec 4, these two inked a deal to be like financial BFFs, marrying old-school finance with the digital asset craze. It all kicks off with a focus on foreign-exchange, but they’re already dreaming bigger-hello, crypto, tokenized assets, custody, and derivatives for those institutional investors who binge-watch Wall Street and Breaking Bad.

MSTR’s BTC Fortress: CIO’s ‘No Sell’ Gambit 😂

“Should MSTR’s price dip below NAV,” he continued, “do not expect a panic sale. Why? Because Michael Saylor’s faith in Bitcoin is as unshakable as a drunkard’s belief in a cab at midnight.” Hougan, ever the optimist, likened a forced $60 billion Bitcoin dump to “two years of ETF inflows”-a comparison that would make a glutton blush.

🚀 Meta’s Metaverse Drums Up a 30% Cutback Carnival đŸŽ©

Meta Metaverse Budget Cut

No decision has reached its final watering hole just yet, but word is that cutbacks, and perhaps even layoffs, are being mused about in the back alleys of Meta’s Reality Labs. This place, my dear friends, is mostly where the stack of metaverse riches goes. Bloomberg and The New York Times, bless their diligent souls, reported on this potential adventure last Thursday.