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View More NewsAs quantum computing edges closer to practical reality, the crypto industry is beginning to confront a question it has long deferred: what happens if the cryptography underpinning trillions of dollars in digital assets no longer holds?The answers, so far, are anything but uniform.Across many of the most well-known ecosystems like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, responses are diverging along familiar lines: what to do on social consensus and technical iteration, and community members are split between caution and acceleration.Quantum computing is a fundamentally different approach to computation that uses the principles of quantum mechanics rather than classical physics. Instead of traditional…
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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In the early 2000s, I spent much of my time over the course of several years fighting the incursion of religion into science classes in the United States. At the time, the main target of religious fundamentalists was evolution. Well-funded groups at places like the Discovery Institute were trying to insert the religious concept of Intelligent Design (ID) into high school science classes on an equal footing with biological evolution—in spite of a lack of evidence in favour of the notion that the current complexity in biological species required divine intelligence to arise, and a massive amount of counter-evidence that…
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Key takeaways:Bearish sentiment is rising as Bitcoin options professional traders lose confidence that the $66,000 level will hold for long.The exit of David Sacks…
In brief A federal court ordered Binance Australia Derivatives to pay a $6.9 million USD penalty for allowing misclassified users to access high-risk products.…
Morgan Stanley plans to price its proposed spot bitcoin BTC$65,811.84 exchange-traded fund (ETF) at 14 basis points, a level just below current low-cost options…
Stablecoins are once again at the center of the crypto business narrative — but for very different reasons.Circle’s sharp sell-off this week highlights how…
In brief Canadian financial intelligence unit FINTRAC revoked the registrations of 23 money services businesses offering crypto-related services Tuesday. Canada’s Finance Minister said the…
Sky-high prices. Fuel costs will add $400 million to Delta’s costs for the month of March alone, the airline’s chief executive Ed Bastian said…
RedotPay, a Hong Kong-based stablecoin payments startup, is facing internal strain and executive turnover as it seeks up to $150 million in fresh funding…
Opinion by: Vikram Arun, co-founder and CEO of SuperformCrypto cards aren’t the future of payments. They’re a temporary interface for a world that hasn’t…
In brief Spot Bitcoin ETFs have raked in $1.16 billion over the past seven days, with weekly inflows now at $2.52 billion. The Fed’s…
from the we-are-incapable-of-subtlety dept We’ve noted repeatedly how the U.S. authoritarian right is buying up all of our new and old media companies because…
From Fox v. Nexstar Media Group, Inc., decided today by Judge Robert Jonker (W.D. Mich.), allowing plaintiffs’ defamation claim to go forward: These cases…
A U.K. parliamentary committee urged the government to impose “an immediate moratorium on crypto donations” until Parliament approves Electoral Commission statutory guidance.In a report,…