Coinbase Europe Fined $24.8M for AML Blunders 🤯
The Central Bank of Ireland has slapped Coinbase Europe with a $24.8 million (€21,464,734) fine for not doing their AML homework. Between April 2021 and March 2025, they basically ignored the rules. 🚫
The Central Bank of Ireland has slapped Coinbase Europe with a $24.8 million (€21,464,734) fine for not doing their AML homework. Between April 2021 and March 2025, they basically ignored the rules. 🚫

The price movement of Bitcoin remains in focus, with the cryptocurrency maintaining its grip above the psychological level of 100,000.
Une procédure si rapide, si fluide, qu’elle semble presque jouer la comédie! En effet, l’inscription devrait être approuvée et listée dans les vingt jours, à moins qu’un audacieux spectateur, alias la SEC, ne décide de faire de l’obstruction. Peut-être un peu jaloux, qui sait? 😏
Ladies and gentlemen, Arthur Hayes, co-founder of Bitmex, has penned an essay titled Hallelujah-a name chosen with the gravitas of a Shakespearean tragedy. In it, he posits that U.S. Treasury debt (now a $2 trillion annual affair) and the Fed’s Standing Repo Facility (SRF) will inject liquidity so copiously, one might mistake it for a magician’s money tree. The result? A bull market so fierce, even Warren Buffett would trade Berkshire for a crypto wallet.
Behold! The crypto-friendly fintech giant, with its Q3 earnings per share of 54 cents, missed the mark by a staggering 14%-like trying to hit a target with a blindfold and a spoon! 🎯 Yet, its revenues, though up 2.3%, fell short of expectations, as if the financial gods had a bad day. 🤷♂️
The United Kingdom, in a fit of bureaucratic flair, will unveil a consultation on stablecoins on November 10th. The hope is to finalize by late 2026-just in time to unintentionally mirror the US government’s regulatory quagmire. The number of crypto enthusiasts has skyrocketed from 2.3 million to a staggering 7 million, a 204% leap. One might call it a miracle… or a collective lapse in judgement.
Let’s recap: Western Union, the folks who made “telegraph” a household word in 1861, is now building a dollar-backed stablecoin called USDPT. Because obviously, blockchain and digital wallets are the new telegraph poles. 📜💻

Investors, those fickle creatures, are pirouetting into resilient assets and on-chain RWAs. A touch of selective bullishness, darling-like choosing a vintage wine in a world of vinegar. 🍷
The news sent crypto investors into a frenzy, their hearts racing like they were about to discover the last loaf of bread in a famine. Skeptics, meanwhile, clutched their pearls, muttering about bubbles and the inevitable crash. “A dangerous bubble?” one snorted. “More like a hot-air balloon made of wishes and margin calls.”
Ray Dalio, the mastermind behind Bridgewater Associates and the “Big Debt Cycle” theory, is waving a big red flag 🚩 at anyone popping champagne corks over the Fed’s pivot from QT to QE. His message? Hold your horses-this party might end in tears. 😭🎈