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View More NewsA blockchain researcher has pushed back against growing criticism of the Ethereum Foundation, arguing that the organization is doing “exactly” what it was designed to do, which the critics keep getting wrong.In a post on X titled “Leave the Foundation Alone,” William Mougayar, a Toronto-based blockchain investor, researcher and best-selling author, argued that the EF is a protocol steward, not a marketing engine.Mougayar said that ETH, Ethereum and the Ethereum Foundation are three separate entities with three separate trajectories. “The asset is money. The infrastructure is shared compute. The Foundation is a non-profit that is steering the protocol toward irrelevance…
The Securities and Exchange Commission has approved Nasdaq’s proposal to list cash-settled Bitcoin index options on the Philadelphia Stock Exchange.The options are European-style contracts tied to the Nasdaq Bitcoin Index, a benchmark that tracks one one-hundredth of the CME CF Bitcoin Real Time Index, which updates with data from major cryptocurrency exchanges every 200 milliseconds. The approval was granted on an accelerated basis and published Friday on the SEC’s website.The new contracts are cash-settled, meaning holders receive the difference between the Bitcoin spot price and the strike price at expiration. Unlike options on spot Bitcoin ETFs, there is no physical…
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A review of Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King by Caroline Bicks; 304 pages, Hogarth (April 2026)I.Back in the 1960s and ’70s, you could still find serious music lovers who claimed that the Beatles were a passing fad and that their music would be largely forgotten in another fifty years. Likewise, in the 1980s and ’90s you could find plenty of serious fiction lovers who claimed that Stephen King was a writer of ephemeral novels that would soon be forgotten. In the 1970s, when King began his amazing run of bestselling novels with Carrie (1974),…
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Intercontinental Exchange Inc. (ICE), owner of the New York Stock Exchange, and OKX announced Friday that they are joining forces to roll out perpetual…
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Tom Lee, chairman of Bitmine Immersion Technologies and co-founder of Fundstrat, does not expect the coming wave of mega IPOs to derail markets even…
from the put-it-out-of-its-misery dept One of the best demonstrations that an obsession with protecting copyright’s intellectual monopoly drives politicians insane is the French law…
Chun Wang, the Chinese-born Maltese-Kittitian crypto investor who co-founded F2Pool, has been named Mission Commander for SpaceX’s first commercial human spaceflight interplanetary mission to…
Key points:Bitcoin has dipped below $77,000, signaling that the bears are poised to seize control.Altcoins are a mixed bag, with some attempting to push…
In brief Kalshi has unveiled Americans for Fair Markets (AFM), a “well-capitalized” advocacy group designed to lobby Capitol Hill. AFM has tapped Taylor Budowich,…
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The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 10 other civil society organizations in filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals…
Minnesota financial institutions can no longer afford to remain on the sidelines as Wall Street aggressively captures digital asset infrastructure, driving a state-level legislative…
Bitcoin (BTC) faced familiar selling pressure on Friday as US stock markets began setting fresh record highs.Key points:Bitcoin and crypto markets diverge from US…