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    This Month

    Inflation, interest rates and artificial intelligence will dominate this week.

    Five things investors need to watch next

    Spotting the next shoe to drop in markets is never easy. But there are a few spots investors can look for signs of stress. 

    • James Thomson
    AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw.

    AFP discovers 2000 compromised Australian cryptocurrency wallets

    Hundreds of compromised accounts were discovered on crypto exchanges as part of a multi-nation effort dubbed Operation Spincaster.

    • Ronald Mizen

    July

    The Warwick brothers’ blockchain-based game Illuvium is launching on Thursday.

    Inside the $26b journey of this Young Rich Lister’s crypto game

    The Warwick brothers’ blockchain-based game Illuvium has finally launched, marking a new chapter in the wild ride of their billion-dollar company.

    • Yolanda Redrup
    Ether has soared 50 per cent this year on ETF hopes.

    US regulators approve ether ETF in latest crypto milestone

    The SEC has signed off on a spot ETF that invests directly in the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency. The digital asset has already jumped 50 per cent this year.

    • Emily Graffeo
    Kolin Burges holds up a placard in protest in 2014 after more than 700,000 bitcoins went missing.

    How a motley crew of investors won back $14b in bitcoin

    For more than a decade, creditors of collapsed crypto exchange Mt Gox pushed back on Japan’s bankruptcy laws. Their efforts have paid off, big time, in bitcoin.

    • Jessica Sier
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    Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Tech companies are racing to get access to the company’s GPUs.

    Struggling bitcoin miners seek deals with AI companies

    They now hope to benefit from a surge in demand for powerful but scarce chips which are used in both crypto mining and AI processing.

    • Nikou Asgari and Tim Bradshaw
    Craig Wright, the UK-based, Australian-born tech entrepreneur who claims to be bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto.

    Aussie who says he invented bitcoin faces UK crime probe

    Australian inventor Craig Wright has claimed for a decade that he created bitcoin but now faces perjury allegations in a UK criminal court.

    • Sam Tobin
    Donald Trump now looks near-certain to win in November. But can he engineer a sweep of Congress too?

    Why Macquarie guru Viktor Shvets says ‘Trump trade’ just got trickier

    More certainty for markets of a Trump victory now might mean more uncertainty later if he sweeps November’s elections.

    • James Thomson
    Donald Trump is helped off the stage.

    Haven rush, ‘Trump trades’ on investor minds after shooting

    Investors will likely rush into assets like the US dollar, gold and bitcoin after the assassination attempt of the former US president.

    • Ruth Carson
    Zhenya Tsvetnenko is currently serving an eight-year jail term.

    ASX-listed crypto fund in stoush with co-founder over $29m wallet

    DigitalX is heading to court against a former executive over who owns bitcoins linked to collapsed exchange Mt. Gox, which began paying creditors this week.

    • Jessica Sier
    Kolin Burges holds up a placard in protest in 2014 after more than 700,000 bitcoins went missing.

    Mt Gox repays ‘forced’ bitcoin holders years after its collapse

    Japanese bankruptcy lawyers have begun repaying thousands of creditors of collapsed crypto exchange Mt Gox, including some Australians.

    • Jessica Sier

    June

    There are more varieties of digital coins than any investor could care to count.

    CoinSpot’s billionaire owner grabs huge dividend payout

    But the company, one of the country’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has reported a near 75 per cent slide in profit in the last financial year.

    • Primrose Riordan
    Bitcoin’s latest slump has again raised question marks.

    Launch of ASX’s first bitcoin ETF sparks price war

    The launch on Thursday morning has drawn a strong response from competitors operating on a rival exchange.

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    • Joshua Peach
    Michael Egorov first purchased Verona, which is next door to Avon Court, for $18.25 million.

    Hack wipes $140m from Melbourne mansion-owning crypto king

    Michael Egorov, who spent $59 million purchasing two mansions in Hawthorn, said I “don’t really live in Australia”. His curve token plunged last week.

    • Tom Richardson
    The first bitcoin EFT on the ASX will list on Thursday.

    ASX bitcoin ETF launch opens gates to wider cryptocurrency industry

    The markets watchdog has told investors to “only put in what they are prepared to lose” after Australia’s main exchange operator opened the door to bitcoin.

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    NAB Ventures has taken an equity stake in Zodia Custody, which manages crypto storage for institutional investors.

    NAB clarifies crypto strategy with investment in Zodia Custody

    NAB Ventures joins Standard Chartered and Northern Trust on the register of London-based Zodia, revealing NAB’s crypto play may involve custody services.

    • James Eyers

    NSW budget winners; Bitcoin ETFs arrive in Oz; 15 ASX stock picks

    Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

    Robert Waugh and Drew Bradford left NAB to create Ubiquity, a new AUD stablecoin.

    NAB kills its stablecoin, bankers decamp to form Ubiquity

    The bank canned its digital Australian dollar, known as the AUDN, so Rob Waugh and Drew Bradford left to set up their own product, to be called Ubiquity.

    • James Eyers
    The RBA has not concluded whether an eAUD will become a reality in Australia.

    Bitcoin on the ASX opens investors to a world of pumpers and spruikers

    But Binance’s regional boss Vishal Sacheendran is making a surprise call – in an interview, he says there needs to be more regulation, not less.

    • Anthony Macdonald
    Arian Neiron, the managing director of VanEck Australia

    ASX greenlights first bitcoin ETF in landmark listing

    VanEck’s bitcoin ETF is expected to list next week, marking the first direct exposure to the emerging asset class on Australia’s primary exchange.

    • Joshua Peach