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View More NewsStrategy executive chairman Michael Saylor and Blockstream CEO Adam Back have doubled down on their opposition to BIP-110, a proposed temporary fork to limit non-monetary transactions on the Bitcoin network.Bitcoin Improvement Proposal-110 was introduced in December 2025 to stop nonfungible token-like Ordinals inscriptions and other arbitrary data from “spamming” the network and to preserve Bitcoin’s main use as a peer-to-peer cash system.While critical of Ordinals activity, Saylor and Back fear a fork could do more harm than good to the network’s credibility. “There are 110 things more dangerous to Bitcoin than spam,” Saylor said in a post to X on…
Over a decade ago, Sen. John Fetterman (D–Pa.) looked like the future of Bernie Sanders–style populism, championing higher minimum wages, criminal justice reform, and social welfare spending. After 13 years as mayor of deeply impoverished Braddock, Pennsylvania, and then a term as the state’s lieutenant governor, he won his Senate seat in 2022. Since coming to Washington, Fetterman has charted a unique path. He routinely criticizes his own party for “catering to the fringe and agitated parts of our base,” accuses fellow Democrats of Trump Derangement Syndrome, and praises capitalism as the one system that has consistently improved living standards. In…
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A review of Love and Terror: The Helter-Skelter History of the Manson Murders by Claudia Verhoeven; 384 pages; Verso (May 2026)Although the True Crime genre of publishing and documentary television is replete with accounts of murderous spouses, serial killers, Mafia wars, and financial scams, rarely do the subjects transcend the headline immediacy of police procedurals to deliver the long-term import of critical analysis. The Victorian predator Jack the Ripper and the Depression-era exploits of Bonnie and Clyde are two such exceptions; a third is the countercultural carnage wrought by the Manson family. As such, Claudia Verhoeven’s new book Love and Terror: The Helter-Skelter History…
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Mexico City, July 9, 2026—Mexican authorities must immediately and credibly investigate the killing of environmental journalist and content creator Manuel Alejandro Mora Serna and…
Five Democratic senators have called for committee hearings “to investigate the national security implications of President Trump’s cryptocurrency holdings” as the chamber considers digital…
In brief Apple sued OpenAI and two former employees, alleging theft of hardware trade secrets. The complaint claims former Apple employees accessed confidential files,…
In a wide-ranging conversation on CoinDesk Spotlight, Schultz laid out a view of Meta’s future in which agentic commerce is not a product category…
from the about-face dept While we’ve focused a great deal on RFK Jr.’s war on vaccines in America, it’s worth remembering that his ambitions…
Is your business “needed”? Bizarrely, in many states, if you want to start a business, you first must convince bureaucrats that your business is…
Bitcoin briefly plunged below $62,000 Thursday morning Hong Kong time, triggering more than $1.5 billion in leveraged crypto liquidations over the past 24 hours…
Key points:Bitcoin risks falling below $65,000, but lower levels are likely to attract solid buying by the bulls.HYPE, ZEC and XLM look strong on…
In brief Crypto fell alongside U.S. stocks as renewed military conflict in the Middle East pushed Brent crude to a 12-day high of $96…
On Tuesday, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche confirmed that the Justice Department will not implement President Donald Trump’s politically and legally contentious “Anti-Weaponization Fund,”…
Bitcoin BTC$62,801.32 extended losses early Thursday, falling to $63,000 for the first time since February 24. The cryptocurrency has lost over 14% this week…
Fintech company Revolut plans to offer stablecoins through its future US bank, Reuters reported Wednesday, citing comments from the company’s US CEO, Cetin Duransoy.Duransoy…