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View More NewsThe S&P 500 just closed at another record high while bitcoin made another run to the $80,000 level earlier Saturday.The largest crypto traded at $78,180 in Asian hours Saturday, up 0.8% on the week and recovering from a Wednesday low near $75,500 that came on the back of fresh Iran military escalation reports. The bounce arrived alongside Friday’s reports that Tehran had relayed a new ceasefire proposal to Washington through Pakistan, which sent WTI crude falling nearly 3% to around $102 a barrel.Equities had a much better week. The S&P 500 closed 0.3% higher Friday at an all-time high, marking…
Stablecoin yield would be prohibited under a newly released agreement addressing that contentious part of the crypto market structure legislation in an approach that’s broadly similar to what’s been discussed since the start of the year. The new section of proposed Digital Asset Market Clarity Act text released Friday revealed that the compromise hashed out by U.S. Senators Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) would ban stablecoin issuers from offering yield based on just holding stablecoin reserves. It contends that “depository institutions provide financial services that are integral to the strength of the American economy,” and stablecoin issuers offering…
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A review of Dangerous, Dirty, Violent & Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground by Zayd Ayers Dohrn; 352 pages; Chatto & Windus (June 2026)In his memoir detailing his experiences growing up with revolutionary parents on the run from the federal government in the 1970s, Zayd Ayers Dohrn captures a bizarro life organised around the need to stay one step ahead of the FBI:I was used to this routine. It wasn’t the first time we’d had to pack up all our things in the middle of the night and take off on another long cross-country drive. We ditched cars…
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In brief The Ethereum Foundation sold about $23 million worth of ETH to BitMine Immersion Technologies. It’s the second straight weekly sale of 10,000…
from the a-little-constitutionalism,-as-a-treat dept Shortly before the Supreme Court inflicted enormous damage on the Voting Rights Act, the Reconstruction Amendments of the Constitution, any…
Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo), according to its first quarter 13F filing, purchased 1,382,000 shares of Strategy (MSTR) for $172,473,600. This implies an average…
MoonPay is launching a virtual debit card that allows users and AI agents to spend stablecoins directly from self-custodied onchain wallets at merchants that…
With its iconic blocky visual style, intuitive crafting system, rewarding resource acquisition, and many multiplayer game modes to explore, Minecraft revolutionized the sandbox survival genre. Fifteen…
Bitcoin BTC$77,228.41 rose more than 1.2% during the European morning to reach just shy of $77,500 for a lift of about 1.7% in the…
Bitcoin (BTC) eyed $77,500 on Friday after US stocks posted fresh record highs on strong tech earnings.Key points:Bitcoin continues a rebound after the monthly…
Strategy (MSTR), the largest publicly traded bitcoin BTC$77,346.97 holder, has maintained an 11.5% dividend rate for May on its perpetual preferred stock, Stretch (STRC),…
Digital asset company Bakkt completed its acquisition of stablecoin infrastructure firm Distributed Technologies Research (DTR) through an equity-based transaction as part of its bid…
In Minnesota, Anthony Stephen Israelson was found guilty of two misdemeanors for driving a school bus drunk. The case stemmed from a 2024 incident…
A South Korean court overturned Bithumb’s six-month partial business suspension Thursday, according to Yonhap News.The news agency cited legal sources, saying that the 2nd…
Bitcoin could be setting up for a multimonth price decline, after a rally in April driven mainly by futures traders while spot demand declined,…