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View More NewsBinance co-founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao said he was not very confident he would be pardoned by US President Donald Trump after serving a four-month prison sentence in 2024 for violating US anti-money-laundering laws.“You never know because we actually had very strong anti-lobbying from some of our perceived competitors in the US,” Zhao told Ran Neuner on the Crypto Banter podcast published to YouTube on Saturday.“The other crypto exchanges in the US don’t want me to get a pardon,” Zhao said, arguing they were concerned about Binance re-entering the US market after its exit in November 2023. The departure followed a…
Revolut users reported that the app briefly displayed Bitcoin prices plunging to around $39,900 on Friday, while some traders also received notifications suggesting extreme price moves, including that BTC had reached a 52-week low of 2 cents.Users further reported on X apparent simultaneous price drops across multiple cryptocurrencies, including XRP and Solana (SOL), as well as stablecoins such as USDt (USDT) and USDC (USDC).The anomalies, which quickly reversed, appear to have been confined to the Revolut app, with no matching price dislocation visible across aggregated multi-exchange data or derivatives markets during the same period. External pricing sources such as CoinMarketCap…
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The Lumière awards in Paris are French cinema’s equivalent of the Golden Globes—not as coveted as the César awards, but still fairly prestigious, in the way that a silver medal at the Olympics might be. On 18 January 2026, the Lumière for Best French Film of 2025 went to L’Étranger, François Ozon’s adaptation of Albert Camus’s 1942 novella. It was not even nominated for Best Film or Best Director at the Césars. (The novel is known as The Outsider to British readers and The Stranger to Americans. To avoid confusion in what follows, I will refer to Ozon’s film as…
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Arbitrum delegates signaled support, in a non-binding sentiment check, for a plan to release $71 million in ether frozen after last month’s Lazarus-linked rsETH…
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren called on Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to answer questions about the company’s stablecoin integration in 2026, signaling concerns about guardrails.In…
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from the seems-very-stable dept This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Counterterrorism czar Sebastian Gorka is one of the most controversial figures…
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With bitcoin holding above $80,000 and stocks pushing to fresh record highs, risk appetite spilled deeper into crypto markets Friday, lifting altcoins and blockchain…
Latest NewsPublishedMay 8, 2026The US banking regulator has already approved similar charter applications for Coinbase, Ripple Labs, BitGo, Circle, Fidelity Digital Assets and Paxos.Payward,…
In brief Apple and Intel reached a preliminary chip manufacturing agreement after more than a year of negotiations, per The Wall Street Journal. Intel…