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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…
Hong Kong-based stablecoin payments company RedotPay said it has “consolidated” teams to improve efficiency as it scales, after a report claimed executive turnover and…
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Miami, March 17, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists urges Haitian authorities to find and ensure the safe return of Haitian journalists Osnel Espérance and…
By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless indicated otherwise)Bitcoin BTC$73,979.85 and the wider crypto market are taking a breather in advance of today’s Federal…
A cross-party parliamentary committee in the United Kingdom has urged the government to impose an immediate moratorium on cryptocurrency donations to political parties until…
Beirut, March 18, 2026 – In early March, as the Iran war spread across the Middle East and Israeli strikes rained down on Lebanon,…
U.S. regulators’ first joint guidance on applying securities laws to different types of crypto tokens failed to provide enough impetus to lift bitcoin BTC$74,196.38,…