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View More NewsIn brief Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley told Fox News that the country has to prioritize a compromise between privacy and safety. He compared calls for an outright ban to banning vehicles, pointing to drunk driving and seatbelt laws as the better model. Langley’s remarks followed a Washington Post investigation that found police departments were not auditing how officers used the cameras. The CEO of Flock Safety has called for “compromise” amid a growing backlash against the company’s AI-powered license plate cameras, which have been vandalized across the country and have drawn bipartisan fire in Congress.”What we have to prioritize…
In brief About 81,700 Bitcoin options worth $6.44 billion expire on Deribit at 08:00 UTC Friday, split between 44,639 calls and 37,061 puts for a put-to-call ratio of 0.83. Deribit’s max pain level sits between $68,000 and $70,000, roughly $9,000 to $11,000 below Bitcoin’s price near $79,000. Call open interest is concentrated at the $75,000 and $80,000 strikes, with more than $500 million in notional sitting within 5% of spot price. Bitcoin options worth $6.44 billion expire Friday on the cryptocurrency derivatives exchange Deribit. It’s a whopping big number, just as the Bitcoin market heats up again and sentiment shifts…
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On 15 June 1991, the volcano Mount Pinatubo on the island of Luzon in the Philippines erupted violently, releasing an ash cloud on a scale so vast that seeing a photograph of it boggles the human mind. The eruption spewed out something north of 17 million tonnes of sulphur dioxide. For context, that’s roughly equivalent to 1,700 Eiffel Towers’ worth of material ejected out of the ground and into the sky.The effects were global, albeit quite temporary. As a result of the explosion, NASA estimates that temperatures worldwide fell by about half a degree Celsius on average over the following…
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Bitcoin (BTC) rebounded toward $81,000 around Thursday’s Wall Street open as Nvidia earnings boosted US stocks.Key points:Bitcoin reclaims $80,000 as $96.2 billion Nvidia earnings…
In brief Nvidia has reportedly agreed to acquire open-source AI repository Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. The deal follows a period in which Nvidia…
from the we’re-the-original-good-guys-of-collect-it-all! dept Flock Safety is hurting. It spent the early part of its career pitching plate reader tech to people who honestly…
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The Blockchain Association’s Summer Mersinger dismisses the harm to community banks in defending the stablecoin rewards language in the Clarity Act, says community banker…
South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb has reportedly won first-instance rulings in two lawsuits against its users to recover proceeds from Bitcoin it mistakenly credited…
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Bitcoin (BTC) has struggled to flip $80,000 into support in recent days, but bulls’ real challenge is still to come, new research says.Key points:Bitcoin…
In brief The Treasury said Wednesday it will give the Bank of England a secondary statutory objective to support innovation in payments and digital…
BTC held its ground Thursday as spot bitcoin ETFs logged an eighth straight day of net inflows, while altcoins drifted lower across the board.…
Bitfinex Securities completed a record $50 million raise for Alkemya, whose token represents interests in a partnership that holds nickel assets. Read the full…