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View More NewsStrategy founder and chairman Michael Saylor again took to social media on Sunday to offer his latest signal to investors as one analyst sees Saylor’s messaging as needing more clarity to help Bitcoin regain its momentum.“Orange dots tell only part of the story,” was Saylor’s message on Sunday in a post that accompanied a chart from Saylortracker.com, similar to previous social media messages that have preceded news of Strategy’s Bitcoin (BTC) purchases, typically announced the day after his posts.In recent weeks, the largest digital asset treasury company and a major BTC holder, has moved away from its long-time “never sell…
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) demands that the Trump administration withdraw subpoenas targeting several reporters from The New York Times after the news outlet reported this week on security concerns involving President Trump’s new Qatari-donated Air Force One. The subpoenas were issued by Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, asking that the journalists testify “in regard to an alleged violation of federal criminal law,” according to The New York Times. This year the Justice Department issued, and later withdrew, subpoenas that sought to compel reporters at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal to testify before a…
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Claire Lehmann sits down with Parnell Palme McGuinness—columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, and senior research fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies—to unpack her landmark report, Generation Trapped, on the collapsing life satisfaction of Australians aged 18–34.Parnell identifies six distinct “tribes” among young Australians—from disillusioned Progressive Identitarians to optimistic Strivers—and explains why a sense of control, not income, is the strongest predictor of happiness. The conversation ranges across why women are swinging toward One Nation, the East-West divide still shaping German politics, the missing men in the marriage debate, the manosphere and the collapse of dating…
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The US Department of Justice is reportedly moving to drop charges against the founder of BitClub Network, a purported crypto mining platform that allegedly…
Japanese lender CRYL has launched Bitcoin-backed loans of up to 1 billion yen ($6.2 million), allowing individuals and businesses to raise fiat currency without…
USDC stablecoin issuer Circle on Friday announced it received final approval from the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish…
from the truth-and-fiction-and-ai dept This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Last month, my colleagues and I published an investigation into a Texas…
Latest developments: Vaynerchuk said businesses should approach AI with curiosity rather than fear as the technology reshapes industries.He compared the current AI moment to…
While residents of California, Iowa, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota are voting today in Democratic and Republican Congressional primaries, the cryptocurrency…
In brief Cardsmiths and America250 launched Currency Series 6, a 120+ card collection honoring the U.S. 250th anniversary. Highlights include limited packaging serial-numbered to…
Jimmy Lewis had dreamt of opening his own cigar lounge since college, when he noticed a gap in the Virginia market: People were driving…
Bitcoin BTC$66,761.16 tumbling to $67,000 may signal a challenging summer ahead as investor capital continues flowing into artificial intelligence (AI) stocks and away from…
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has elevated digital assets to a strategic priority, calling for regulatory clarity around blockchain technology, tokenization and…
In brief Microsoft launched Scout at Build 2026 today—its first “Autopilot” agent. Scout runs on OpenClaw, the open-source agent framework that hit 180,000 GitHub…
President Donald Trump reportedly is reconsidering the $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” described in his May 18 settlement agreement with the IRS, which was designed…