*ETH ETF'S TO LAUNCH TUESDAY: BALCHUNAS — Source

Donald Trump has chosen Senator JD Vance of Ohio as his running mate as the former US president looks to return to the White House.

Trump's Vice President pick JD Vance is a bitcoiner.

MT. GOX TRANSFERS ~$2.7 BILLION IN BITCOIN TO UNKNOWN ADDRESS

Speakers at the Bitcoin 2024 Conference in Nashville 🇺🇸

- Donald Trump
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- Cathie Wood
- Michael Saylor
- Edward Snowden
- Vivek Ramaswamy

At 72,400 Bitcoin shorts will be liquidated worth $19 Billion

“If I throw it aside, another country, most likely China, will pick it up—they’re pretty advanced in that sphere. It’s a baby, an infant right now. But I don’t want to be responsible for allowing another country to take over this sphere.” - President Donald Trump on Bitcoin — Source

BREAKING🚨🚨

A company called Austin Private Wealth LLC shorted 12,000,000 shares of $DJT via a put option. The filing date is July 12th, the day before the assassination attempt.

They have around $1 Billion in assets under management and this is by far the largest put placed. According to a source the trade represents 6% of total shares and over 16%! of the float of the stock given the fact that Trump owns 60% of the company.

This is a giant bet when you consider their total AUM but wait there’s more…

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JUST IN - Global cyber outage. Cybersecurity platform CrowdStrike is "down" worldwide, causing global IT problems, Microsoft crashes, 911 outages across several US states, and disruptions in international airlines, banks and media outlets. — Source

- Major banks, media, airports and airlines affected by major IT outage

- Payment systems impacted in different parts of the world, including Australia and the UK.

- Australia's government calls for emergency meeting

- Significant disruption to some Microsoft services

- 911 services disrupted in several US states including Alaska, Arizona, Indiana, Minnesota, New Hampshire and Ohio.

- Services at London Stock Exchange disrupted

- Sky News is off air

- Reports the issue relates to problem at global cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike

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Five Spot Ethereum ETFs to launch on July 23, Cboe confirms.

• VanEck
• Invesco
• Fidelity
• 21Shares
• Franklin Templeton

Less than 3 days until the ETH ETFs go live - you can use this dashboard to keep track of the flows: https://farside.co.uk/?p=1518

Elon Musk updated his 𝕏 profile picture to laser eyes

SEC officially approves spot Ethereum ETF trading for tomorrow.

The SEC has officially approved the S-1 applications of Ethereum spot ETFs. It is expected that the initial trading will start at 9:30 on July 23. Wintermute predicts that the spot Ethereum ETF will attract up to $4 billion in capital inflows in the next year, and the price of ETH will rise by 24% in the next 12 months.

X removes Bitcoin hashtag emoji

*TRUMP WALKS OUT AT BITCOIN CONFERENCE

*TRUMP: I WILL FIRE GENSLER

Source: DB

Trump supports stablecoins to further dollar dominance.

*TRUMP: I WILL STOP US GOVT SELLING SEIZED BITCOIN

Source: DB | Coins: BTC

Trump Bitcoin Speech - Summary:

* Bitcoin is great
* Bitcoin will go to the moon
* You are all smart
* I am smart and my family is smart
* If we don't lead in crypto, China will
* You are all great
* The Dems are against crypto
* SenWarren is very nasty
* I will fire Gary Gensler on day 1🔥🔥
* Vote for me