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View More NewsIn brief The Bitcoin daily price chart shows an RSI of 34, ADX of 36.9 trending bearish, a death-cross EMA setup, showing an organized decline. The $58,035 support level held on Monday’s intra-day dip to $58,801. It may not get many more chances. On Myriad, traders say there’s an 80% Bitcoin price dumps before any market rebound. Wall Street turned green today—Nasdaq up 1.4%, S&P 500 up 0.8%—after the Supreme Court blocked Trump’s attempt to fire Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook and a U.S.-Iran ceasefire reduced tensions near the Strait of Hormuz.Risk assets rallied, but Bitcoin barely noticed. BTC is…
The Illinois legislature recently passed House Bill 5511, which imposes a sweeping, device-level age-gating framework across nearly all internet-enabled hardware, operating systems, and online services. This well-intentioned but deeply flawed piece of legislation will harm young people who rely on the internet to access essential information and find community. That’s why we’re urging the Illinois governor to veto the measure. Under this new regime, digital platforms are forced to collect and share users’ ages to platforms and websites. It also strips away basic, everyday features like personalized content feeds and overnight notifications for young people unless they can secure “verifiable…
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On 6 June, a play that has been decried as too “toxic” and “problematic” for the age of #MeToo ended an acclaimed, sold-out run at London’s National Theatre. A filmed version of the production also began screening in cinemas across the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and other countries from 25 June. The play is Christopher Hampton’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses, the (now-updated) 1985 adaptation of Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos’s eponymous 1782 novel.The book has also been denounced plenty of times since it first appeared—back then, it was described with words like “execrable” or “infamous.” Its authorship reportedly got Laclos,…
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In brief BitMine added another $43 million in Ethereum to its balance sheet last week, despite falling prices. The firm now holds more than…
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The monetization program also authorizes Strategy to sell bitcoin to finance up to $1 billion of Digital Credit Securities repurchases and up to $1…
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. It’s election day here in D.C., so our lead story looks at the district’s…
In February 2023, the first full day of my Middle East Policy delegation trip to Saudi Arabia did not begin in Riyadh’s gleaming financial…
A handful of tokens continued their run while bitcoin and the rest of the crypto market stalled after the early week bounce. Read the…
Defend American Jobs, the cryptocurrency company-backed political action committee (PAC) affiliated with Fairshake, reported spending millions of dollars to support a Republican candidate’s run…
In brief Federal authorities say they disrupted an alleged plot to attack the White House UFC Freedom 250 event using explosive drones and shooters.…
from the not-great-for-reality dept This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. During a Washington Nationals baseball game on May 17,…
A very short excerpt from yesterday’s Seventh Circuit opinion in Betts v. Boone County, written by Chief Judge Michael Brennan and joined by Judge…
Strategy’s (MSTR) dividend-paying preferred stock, STRC, closed at $91.79 on Tuesday, its third-lowest since trading began in July 2025, amid lower bitcoin prices and…