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View More NewsBybit has unveiled plans to offer retail bank accounts to its users as soon as they complete Know Your Customer checks.”My Bank” was unveiled by the crypto exchange’s CEO, Ben Zhou, during a keynote speech outlining the company’s priorities for 2026.According to a promotional video played during the presentation, registered users will be given their own international bank account number—otherwise known as an IBAN for short.This would enable consumers to send and receive funds across any financial institution in multiple fiat currencies, Bybit said, as well as receive their salaries, pay bills and trade digital assets in one place.“You can…
On Thursday, President Donald Trump said he will announce his pick for the U.S. Federal Reserve chair to replace incumbent Jerome Powell after the latter’s term ends in May.While nothing is confirmed yet, reports suggest the Trump administration is preparing to nominate Kevin Warsh, who served on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors from 2006 to 2011. Warsh has occasionally praised cryptocurrencies. Yet bitcoin BTC$82,578.90 plunged late Thursday to near $81,000 lows as his odds spiked on betting sites, with some analysts now pegging him as a bearish force for the asset.”Markets generally view a resurgence of Warsh’s influence as…
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Video based on an essay written by law lecturer Guy Baldwin and narrated by Quillette’s Zoe Booth.In late 2025, Alaa Abd El-Fattah arrived in Britain as a UK citizen—an outcome that, to many observers, seemed difficult to reconcile with the liberal-democratic purpose of citizenship. This video essay uses the El-Fattah case as a case study in how modern European human-rights architecture can shape outcomes that elected governments did not clearly choose.Guy Baldwin traces the development of the European Convention on Human Rights from its post-war origins to the contemporary jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, with particular focus…
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Bitcoin’s BTC$82,129.56 price continued to pull back in late Thursday evening U.S. hours, tumbling to as low as $81,000 before bouncing to the current…
Bybit saw the second-highest trading volumes among crypto exchanges last year, making a “slow but steady comeback” after suffering a $1.5 billion hack in…
In brief Amazon is reportedly in talks to make a multibillion-dollar investment in OpenAI as part of a larger fundraising effort. Microsoft and Nvidia…
Dogecoin slid sharply as bitcoin pulled back, breaking a key support level and forcing traders to reassess whether the memecoin is stabilizing — or…
Bitcoin traded down on Wednesday as gold rallied 4.4% over 24 hours, adding a massive $1.65 trillion to its market cap in a single…
Fidelity Investments will expand its digital asset offerings with plans to launch its own U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin, the Fidelity Digital Dollar (FIDD), the firm…
from the wut? dept The travesty that is RFK Jr. in charge of American health and what he’s done to the CDC’s ACIP committee…
Yesterday, my Civitas Outlook column discussed Anti-Semitism and Anti-Christian Zionism on the right. The piece led off with Kevin Roberts’s infamous defense of Tucker Carlson, but…
The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady on Wednesday, a decision that capped a sharp reversal in market expectations that had once favored an…
Bitcoin price breakouts fail to hold due to insufficient bid-side liquidity. Glassnode analysis identifies the key metrics that are likely to mark the next…
In brief Tokenized stocks and bonds remain subject to existing U.S. securities laws, regardless of whether ownership records are maintained on-chain or off-chain, the…
The media does not fairly cover the conservative Supreme Court justices. But it is not enough to criticize their written opinions. Rather, pundits feel…