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View More NewsThree decades before he was first elected president, Donald Trump had big plans for a 26-acre building site near the South Street Seaport in Manhattan. “New York City deserves to have the tallest and greatest building in the world, and I would be very interested in doing it,” he told The New York Times on July 30, 1984. He imagined a 150-story structure, including offices, apartments, and a hotel, that would be 1,940 feet high, surpassing Chicago’s Sears Tower, then the world’s tallest building, by nearly 500 feet. Paul Gapp, the Chicago Tribune’s architecture critic, did not think much of…
Daily active addresses averaged about 322,000 in the latest week, down 31% from mid-September, suggesting fewer people, and fewer of the trading bots they run, are using the chain each day.The drop is likely smaller in human terms than the raw number implies, since one trader can run many addresses and a single automated program can account for thousands of transactions.Robinhood Chain transactions have fallen 42%. (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)Less trading, steady balancesSpot exchanges, where users buy and sell tokens directly, handled $7.45 billion during Oct. 2–8, down 21% from $9.46 billion the week before, according to CoinDesk calculations using DefiLlama. Uniswap,…
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In Charles Gounod’s opera Faust—a romanticised version of Goethe’s more philosophical tragedy—the ageing and decrepit scholar Dr Faust makes a pact with the devil to regain his youth and find love. Last week, I attended a performance of Faust in a splendid classical theatre that could have been anywhere in Europe—except I had to surreptitiously follow the libretto on my phone, since the singers’ French was barely comprehensible and the surtitles were only in Ukrainian.Had you missed the moving rendition of the Ukrainian national anthem before the overture—the entire audience rising, hands pressed to their hearts—you would never have guessed…
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Bitcoin miner MARA Holdings MARA$9.6710·Market Closed transferred approximately 996 BTC ($81.13 million) to an address identified as belonging to Galaxy Digital, according to data…
Chad Barraford, technical co-founder of the network, said that the funds were frozen and then unfrozen without explanation. Read the full article here
In brief Executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI firms are privately war-gaming the political fallout of a catastrophic AI event, most likely a…
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Thai assert managers may outsource crypto investment management to licensed digital-asset fund managers. Regulated digital-asset custodians and other qualified firms will also be able…
Blockchain.com has reportedly applied to the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for approval of prediction market offerings and crypto derivatives. CNBC reported Friday that…
In brief Starknet is “actively considering” becoming an independent layer-1 blockchain, with 2027 as the target to become the first fully quantum-resistant network. StarkWare…
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will spend $174 million over five years on “R3PEATS,” a new initiative aimed at “strengthening replication and reproducibility”…
As a precaution, the company said it asked CryptoBilis to pause all sales and shipments while its investigation continues. Ledger advised customers who purchased…
Bitcoin (BTC) sought to avoid fresh losses on Friday as crypto markets digested reports of an exploit affecting Ledger hardware wallets.Key points:Bitcoin rebounded from…
In brief Ledger is investigating reported losses among Southeast Asian customers who bought devices from reseller CryptoBilis, and has asked the reseller to pause…
The U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has withdrawn its proposal for a rule that would require financial institutions to report on cryptocurrency…