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View More News5,800 users in two hours. One QR code. One bow that went viral.Some platforms launch with a whitepaper. Some with a token. GraphDex launched with a hedgehog, a condom, and the co-founder of Ethereum bowing in respect.A short video from Token2049 Singapore, recorded in September 2024, resurfaced across X this week at precisely the moment GraphDex went live. In this video, the project’s hedgehog mascot moves through the conference floor, greets attendees, and hands a branded condom to Vitalik Buterin. The condom carries GraphDex branding and a QR code that opens the app directly. Buterin takes it and then bows…
XRP (XRP) has fallen 12% over the last five days, and the confirmation of a bearish pattern now points to the risk of more losses ahead.Key takeaways:XRP/USD’s bear pennant pattern on the three-day chart points to a possible 52.5% drop toward $0.65.Persistent institutional demand through exchange-traded products supports the case for a recovery in XRP price. XRP’s descending triangle breakdown is underwaySince early February, the XRP/USD pair has been consolidating inside a bear pennant on the three-day chart.In technical analysis, bear pennants are typically viewed as bearish continuation patterns. The pattern was confirmed when the price produced broke below the pennant’s…
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Nicholas Kristof’s recent New York Times essay “The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians,” displays a corruption in the moral language used to denounce Israel. Ostensibly a report on sexual abuse in detention, its actual function is to turn Israel into an object of revulsion: a state reimagined as an agent of rape, humiliation, bodily degradation, and bestial violation. Abuse in prisons and wartime detention obviously ought to be investigated, thoroughly and without prejudice. No state, including Israel, deserves exemption from scrutiny. But Kristof’s column—printed in the opinion section rather than the news section of America’s paper of record—is…
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Bitcoin (BTC) consolidated near month-to-date lows on Tuesday as surging US bonds punished stocks and safe havens.Key points:Bitcoin joins risk assets feeling the pressure…
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The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 26 other organizations in calling on Gulf states to end their attacks on the free flow of information.…
The undersigned media freedom and journalist organisations stand in full solidarity with the Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation, which has been ordered to pay over one…
Bitget Wallet said it has integrated xStocks infrastructure, giving its 90 million users access to more than 130 tokenized stocks and ETFs through its self-custodial wallet platform.The…
In brief Bitcoin ETFs saw $648 million in outflows Monday, led by BlackRock’s IBIT with $448 million. Long-term Bitcoin holders have accumulated BTC for…
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Bitcoin held near $76,800 as altcoins weakened, WLFI slid and traders watched whether the largest cryptocurrency can hold Tom Lee’s line in the sand.…
The post-bankruptcy trust for Prime Trust has filed suit against Swan Bitcoin, alleging the Bitcoin services company exploited insider knowledge to pull nearly $1…
In brief Investment manager Rathnakishore Giri, 31, of Ohio, has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison for operating a $10 million cryptocurrency…