Francisco Rodrigues

Francisco is a reporter for CoinDesk with a passion for cryptocurrencies and personal finance. Before joining CoinDesk he worked at major financial and crypto publications. He owns bitcoin, ether, solana, and PAXG above CoinDesk's $1,000 disclosure threshold.

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Markets

Strategy Buys 4,020 Bitcoin for $427M, Bringing Total Stash to Over 580,000 BTC

Strategy, the largest corporate holder of bitcoin, has funded its latest acquisition through three different at-the-market programs.

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor standing. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk))

Finance

Pakistan Taps Surplus Power Capacity to Fuel Bitcoin Mining, AI Data Centers

The country plans on utilizing surplus energy from coal-fired power plants that are currently operating at 15% capacity to mine bitcoin.

Pakistan flag (Hamid Roshaan / Unsplash)

Policy

U.S. Crypto Investor Charged With Kidnapping and Torturing Victim Over Bitcoin

The investor,
John Woeltz, allegedly held an Italian man captive in a $30K-a-month townhouse to steal his crypto.

Police cruiser at night with lights on (Kenny Eliason/Unsplash)

Finance

Judge Overturns Convictions in Mango Markets Exploiter’s Crypto Fraud Case

The judge ruled that prosecutors failed to prove Eisenberg made false representations to the platform, which operated through smart contracts.

Mango on top of a table (Oscar Ivan Esquivel Arteaga/Unsplash)

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Markets

Swiss watchmaker Franck Muller Unveils Limited Edition Solana Watch

Swiss watchmaker Franck Muller released a 1,111-piece series tied to Solana wallets through on-watch QR codes.

Screengrab from Franck Muller's website for the Solana watches (Franck Muller)

Markets

A Small Food Firm Buys 21 bitcoin, Jumping on BTC Treasury Trend, Shares Fall Anyways

The firm, despite its ambitious plans to accumulate BTC, saw its shares plunge more than 12% in Friday's trading session.

Stock market price charts (Anne Nygård/Unsplash)

Finance

Major U.S. Banks Mull Jointly Launching Stablecoin: WSJ

Such a stablecoin, potentially open to other banks, aims to improve transaction speeds and efficiency while fending off competition from crypto firms.

Battered BTC bulls pin hopes on the Fed. (JamesQube/Pixabay)

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Finance

Justin Sun-Linked Wallet Leading Access to Trump Dinner Tagged as Belonging to HTX

Sun, a Chinese-born crypto billionaire, is also involved with the Trump-linked ecosystem through a $75 million investment in World Liberty Financial.

Justin Sun speaks at Consensus Hong Kong (CoinDesk)