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View More NewsA US law firm has filed a restraining notice to block the transfer of frozen Ether from the Kelp exploit, arguing that its clients are owed over $877 million in compensation and damages by North Korea. Charlie Gerstein, a lawyer for US law firm Gerstein Harrow LLP, said in a post on the Arbitrum DAO forum on Friday that a New York district court signed off on a restraining notice and three writs of execution preventing the DAO from moving the Ether under threat of contempt of court.The law firm argued that its clients, who were not affected by the Kelp…
Cryptocurrency began in part as an answer to the missteps and abuses of banks during the 2008 financial crisis, but despite existing almost two decades and capturing wide attention, the public hasn’t been sold on that point and still favors the traditional financial system for their financial access, according to new polling commissioned by CoinDesk.When asked which they trusted more between banks and crypto when it came to financial inclusion, 65% of respondents to an online survey said banks and only 5% favored crypto. Though slightly more than half (52%) agree that the movement is more than a passing fad,…
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In April 2020, I published an essay in these pages investigating attempts to boost minority (specifically black) enrolment in America’s medical schools. These attempts consisted mostly of subtle bookkeeping gimmickry that under-counted grade point averages and Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) scores while giving greater weight to “non-cognitive skills.” A month after that essay appeared, in Minneapolis, a white cop knelt on a black man’s neck for nine minutes and sparked one of the greatest moral panics in modern American history.Declining Med School Standards in a Time of PandemicThe language of the social justice Left began appearing in diversity statements…
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Washington, D.C., April 28, 2026 — The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled by the ten-year prison sentence handed down to Bahraini photographer Sayed…
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from the sad,-pathetic-men dept Anonymous insiders tell the access journalists at Semafor that Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr is cooking up a “review” of…