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A New Crypto Winter Is Here and Even the Biggest Bulls Aren’t Certain Why

  
The Wall Street Journal - 02.07.2026 Original article ›
Gregory Zuckerman, Vicky Ge Huang
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Bitcoin price doubled after DJT's election, and crypto firms having supported DJT received lenient treatment. The Genius Act was passed in 2025 and the Clarity Act for a regulatory framework for cryptocurrency is being negotiated with Banks raising questions. In 2026 Feb the price of Bitcoin is back to where it was under Biden in 2025 having lost half of its value. Reasons given for the fall in value are that there are othe speculative investments such as AI and gold, silver. The last speculative bubble burst with 2022 collapse of Bankman-Fried FTX Exchange. Much of the crypto currency surge is a speculative effort to make money.  

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Next financial crisis will come from private cryptocurrencies: RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das

  
The Economic Times - 12.22.2022 Original article ›
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The governor of India's central bank, the RBI, says cryptocurrency are a threat to the economy and stability and savings of ordinary Indians. He believes private cryptocurrencies should be prohibited. He recently launched RBI own digital currency to combat the problem of private cryptocurrency firms. There is no proper regulatory oversight for cryptocurrency leading to abuses as most recently seen in the dramatic collapse of FTX in the US which was based in the Bahamas. It is covered by the WSJ.

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The World’s Biggest Crypto Firm Is Melting Down

  
WSJ - 09.26.2023 Original article ›
Patricia Kowsmann, Caitlin Ostroff, Angus Berwick
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The collapse of Binance would lead to liquidity to evaporate in the short term says this report in WSJ driving down the price of tokens. Months after collapse of FTX cryptocurrency company, Binance is in distress, says WSJ. Binance is affected by threat of enforcement actions by the SEC. The US Justice Department has taken a yearslong investigation that could result in criminal charges against Binance and its founder, and billions of dollars in fines, says this report in WSJ citing people familiar with the probe. Binance launched in China in 2017, but it claims to be based nowhere. China has banned crypto currency, and so have many countries. In EU more countries are banning it.

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The SEC’s Crypto Strategy Stems From This 1933 Law

  
WSJ - 12.10.2022 Original article ›
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Showing how far Congress has fallen behind in making the laws that regulate the cryptocurrency companies to protect the public, the SEC relies on an old 1993 law written 30 years back. The SEC has come under criticism as more losses to investors take place and crypto currency companies collapse. Gary Gensler's efforts at the SEC and the failure to effectively regulate the industry and protect the public are the subject of WSJ reports this month.

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