BitMEX Co-Founder Donates $5M to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Party

According to Delo, the donation was given at the beginning of the year to support Reform UK’s efforts to become a viable political party capable of forming a government.

According to Delo, the donation was given at the beginning of the year to support Reform UK’s efforts to become a viable political party capable of forming a government.

Ah yes, the rejection at $1.38-such a bold, stubborn rejection! It didn’t just stall the momentum, it unveiled it for the hollow act it truly was. That move lacked the kind of enduring buying pressure necessary to reverse the broader, ominous bearish trend. Instead of surging forward, XRP decided to take a leisurely, almost self-conscious stroll back into its cozy comfort zone. And where, pray tell, might that be? Oh, the $1.30-$1.35 range. Home sweet home. The place where traders go to nap when nothing else is happening. But let’s face it: the supposed geopolitical de-escalation between the U.S. and Iran was already priced in. Traders are no longer buying into stories. They’re biding their time, waiting for something tangible, something real. Until that appears, XRP is stuck spinning its wheels.
Well, well, well. Bitcoin Bancorp, Inc. has decided to grace Southern California with its presence, starting with a sprinkle of ATMs across the greater Los Angeles area. How utterly daring.
Key Takeaways (or, as I prefer, the crumbs from the feast of corruption):

CoinDesk Indices graciously hands us another riveting market update. Imagine the excitement: leaders and laggards battling it out in the high-stakes arena of the CoinDesk 20 Index. Spoiler alert: mostly laggards.
The BMO Institute for Applied Artificial Intelligence and Quantum will be helmed by Kristin Milchanowski, a quantum mathematician who has gracefully transitioned from her role as chief AI and data officer into a position so expansive it could only be described as Chekhovian in its scope. “We are expanding our research,” she declared, with the gravitas of a woman who knows her qubits from her quarks. The institute, she added, will “provide a platform for AI and quantum to converge,” a sentence so laden with promise it could make a nihilist blush.
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By midweek, Morgan Stanley’s spot Bitcoin ETF arrived as a landmark, amid the tempests that gnaw at the heart of the market, a respectable bank stepping into the crypto pond with the solemnity of someone who has read the gospel according to spreadsheets. The debut of MSBT on NYSE Arca surpassed the wildest predictions and, to the astonishment of our trembling rationalities, ranked among the top 1% of ETF launches in history.
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Strategy’s latest Form 8-K for Q1 2026 revealed a number so large it could make your head spin: over $14 billion in Bitcoin losses in just three months. Apparently, watching your digital fortune vanish in real time is the new extreme sport.