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Four years ago, a colleague asked me whether I could chair a debate with some guy called ‘Gary Stevenson’, who was, apparently, an anti-inequality campaigner and a YouTube commentator of some description. I had never heard of Stevenson, but accepted. The debate went all right, even though it was mostly a case of talking past each other (which, given that I was the moderator, was probably my fault). It was otherwise not especially memorable. Britain does not exactly have a shortage of left-wing media figures and activists. In the first half of the 2010s, there was the campaign for a…
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Bitcoin’s consensus rules have historically treated valid transactions equally regardless of purpose. BIP-110 prompted concerns that rules aimed at discouraging one category of transaction…
Fears that artificial intelligence would trigger a wave of catastrophic decentralized finance (DeFi) hacks in what was coined as a “hackpocalypse” have not materialized,…
In brief The U.S. government moved $288 million in seized Bitcoin and Ethereum to Coinbase Prime on Monday, according to on-chain tracker Arkham. The…
A solo Bitcoin miner hit the jackpot and validated a solo block with a single Bitaxe mining rig, marking a rare win that beat…
European Central Bank (ECB) Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said stablecoins could bring old financial-market vulnerabilities into tokenized finance, while strengthening the case for…
In brief Strategy’s stock price dropped to a 45-day low after disclosing a $2.5 million Bitcoin sale. The liquidation “amplified an already compelling dislocation,”…
from the into-the-fire dept The whole conversation around AI is about to get much, much worse. We’ve been talking a lot about AI, generative…
To its credit, upon order that the information be provided to the Court, the United States Attorney’s Office filed an unredacted version of the…
Disclosure: The author of this story owns shares in Strategy (MSTR).Strategy, the world’s largest publicly traded corporate holder of bitcoin BTC$70,465.11, has maintained the…
Crypto lending protocol Radiant Capital says it will start closing down as it failed to establish a “viable path forward” after North Korea exploited…
In brief Wasting little time following the CFTC’s landmark Bitcoin perps approval on Friday, Kalshi has formally applied to self-certify derivatives tied to 12…
The United Kingdom’s interior ministry is prohibiting two progressive commentators, Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur, from visiting the country to participate in an ideas…