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View More NewsThe Trump brothers’ bitcoin mining venture cut its cost per coin by nearly a quarter in three months, going against industry trends.American Bitcoin (ABTC) said in a Wednesday filing that its cost to mine one bitcoin fell to roughly $36,200 in the first quarter, a 23% drop from $46,900 in Q4 2025.That puts it materially below the publicly listed miner average of around $80,000 per bitcoin in late 2025, as CoinDesk reported, and inside the band where mining at current bitcoin prices remains genuinely profitable rather than a managed loss.The improvement came from spreading higher production volume across a stable…
While governments around the world have imposed speech restrictions to fight misinformation and hate speech, they also have attempted to curb free speech for a less controversial reason: protecting children. But many of these restrictions stem from vague, unspecified, or speculative harms and corral wide swaths of speech that do not harm children. Censoring speech in the name of protecting children is not a terribly new phenomenon, especially in authoritarian countries. In 2012, for instance, Russia’s parliament passed a law allowing the country’s media censorship agency to unilaterally blacklist websites and take them offline, without any court approval. The lawmakers’…
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I.In the introduction to his 1991 book Orwell: The Authorised Biography, Michael Shelden distinguishes his approach from that of Bernard Crick’s George Orwell: A Life, published a decade earlier. While Crick’s volume offered the most complete portrait of Orwell available at that point, Shelden argues that it’s too dull and impersonal—a flood of facts that bury Orwell’s singular, idiosyncratic personality. Shelden observes that Crick “relies heavily on the notion that facts speak for themselves if presented in enough detail.” So he attempts to provide a more intimate account of Orwell’s life: “A writer’s character and personal history influence what he…
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We’d all like the internet to be a better place—for kids and adults alike. But in the name of online safety, governments around the…
This article first appeared in the Spring 2026 issue of Index on Censorship, The monster unleashed: How Hungary’s illliberal vision is seducing the Western world published…
U.S. prosecutors have become increasingly aggressive in freezing digital assets believed to be traceable to illicit activities such as money laundering, “pig butchering” schemes,…