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View More NewsUpdate (March 27, 2026, 10:52 am UTC: This article has been updated to include comments from Shawn Young, chief analyst at MEXC Research.US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) logged $171 million in outflows on Thursday, their biggest day of redemptions since March 3, when they posted $348 million in outflows. BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) led the outflows with $41 million, Fidelity’s Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund (FBTC) followed with $32 million, the ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF (ARKB) sold $30.5 million, and Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust ETF (GBTC) sold $24 million, according to data from Farside Investors.The outflows follow a period of…
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I.On 20 March 2026, Counsellor Pierre Thiriar in the Antwerp Court of Appeals published an opinion piece in which he describes the writings of American philosopher Nathan Cofnas as punishable under criminal law:When [Cofnas] states that genetic variants influencing intelligence may be unevenly distributed across populations and that this can explain differences in cognitive performance, this constitutes not merely a neutral hypothesis, but the empirical basis for a hierarchical view of humanity.Cofnas is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the department of philosophy and moral sciences at Ghent University, and his position was already threatened by petitions and protests. Now the…
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