Kraken Soars with $500M, But Will Its IPO Fly? 🩄💾

The exchange, born in 2011, has now gorged on $527 million, a dragon’s nest of riches. Its financial performance, a tale of triumph, saw $411 million in revenue and $80 million in post-EBITDA earnings, making it the second most valuable private exchange-behind Coinbase, that paragon of virtue. One might say Kraken has outdone the Cossacks in the race for digital glory.

Crypto Chaos: ETFs Go Blockchain! đŸ€Ż

They arrived, naturally, with a pre-approved agenda and supporting materials. One can picture the dreary Powerpoint presentations. The meeting, so the press release informs us, revolved around the profoundly unsettling notion of funds actually *existing* on a blockchain. The implications for issuers, investor protections, and the very notion of “market structure” are, naturally, causing palpitations amongst the sensible sorts.

OpenAI’s “Pulse”: Your Overnight Crypto Whisperer?

With the wild winds of fate nudging more folks into the arms of AI for stock tips and crypto discoveries, this latest marvel ushers users to a promised land where their questions guide the path. Yet, as OpenAI divulged on a rather brisk morning, “the magic is only half potent if you’re the one always bearing the torch of queries.” A reminder, perhaps, of the sweet symphony of interaction.

Google + Bitcoin?! đŸ˜± You Won’t Believe This!

This whole kerfuffle, announced on Thursday – which, frankly, is *always* a day for kerfuffles – involves Fluidstack, a cloud platform that builds these gigantic computer clusters for big companies. They’re leasing some serious computing muscle from Cipher’s Texas outpost. A multi-year deal for *three billion* dollars? That’s a lot of gefilte fish!