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View More NewsIn brief Activity on the Bitcoin network has been trending up, reaching levels not seen since 2024. But while transaction counts are growing, the value of the transactions is relatively small. Bitcoin transactions of less than 0.01 BTC and 0.001 BTC now make up around 80% of the total network activity. Transaction counts on the Bitcoin network are climbing despite the top crypto asset trading nearly 50% from its all-time high price of $126,080. Data gathered by crypto analytics firm CryptoQuant indicates that network activity has been steadily rising since January 2026, and recently reached its highest level since late 2024,…
Financial services giant Charles Schwab will reportedly enter the prediction markets business by offering customers wagers on the S&P 500.According to a Friday Wall Street Journal report, Charles Schwab is planning to launch options contracts allowing users to place yes-or-no wagers on the performance of the S&P 500 stock market index. The move, expected to roll out in a matter of months as part of a partnership with Cboe Global Market, could mark the company’s first into prediction markets.Source: KalshiWhile prediction market platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket offer a variety of event contracts based on the outcome of events, including…
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What does it mean for a civilisation to turn against itself? In this episode, Quillette’s Zoe Sankey speaks with philosopher and author Benedict Beckeld — whose 2019 Quillette essay on oikophobia remains one of our site’s most popular pieces — about the recurring historical phenomenon he has spent his career documenting: the tendency of successful Western societies to denigrate their own culture, institutions, and inheritance.Oikophobia — Our Western Self-Hatred | Benedict Beckeld | QuilletteThe simplest way of defining oikophobia is as the opposite extreme of xenophobia.Drawing on his book Oikophobia: Our Western Self-Hatred, published by Cornell University Press, Beckeld traces…
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New York, June 19, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Ethiopian authorities to immediately release journalist Salsawit Baynesagn or bring her before a…
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Data infrastructure company Inveniam Capital Partners announced plans to acquire layer-1 blockchain Mantra and its affiliated entities, deepening its push into tokenized real-world assets…
In brief Sens. Rubén Gallego (D-AZ) and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY)—the leaders of the Senate Banking Subcommittee on Digital Assets—have introduced a resolution opposing any…
from the building-state-TV dept CNN brass have been waiting to get federal approval of their problematic $111 billion merger with Paramount. As we’ve detailed…
A short excerpt from Monday’s long decision of the Colorado Supreme Court in Moreno v. Circle K Stores, Inc., written by Justice Maria Berkenkotter:…
When French journalist Alice Froussard landed at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport a week ago, she arrived with a valid travel authorization and plans…
With only about 20% of the $10.6 billion in open interest sitting in-the-money (ITM) and the remaining 80% out-of-the-money (OTM), the market has a…
Bitcoin (BTC) showed signs of bottoming inside the $60,000–$70,000 range on Wednesday, according to onchain data shared by a quant analyst. Key takeaways:Nearly 20%…