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View More NewsA Brazilian court sentenced Audato and Ieda Denardi to 50 days in prison after convicting them of “intellectual neglect” for homeschooling their two daughters instead of using a state-approved education program. According to the ruling, the parents’ curriculum did not include lessons on “gender and sex education” or “tolerance and diversity.” The judge also cited the girls’ preference for classical and religious music over popular genres such as trap and sertanejo as evidence that they had not been properly exposed to Brazilian culture. The case is unusual because state prosecutors had asked the court to acquit the parents after an independent…
Bitmine Immersion Technologies recorded $45.7 million in revenue from Ether staking and validation last quarter, following the launch of its institutional-grade Ethereum staking platform in March. Staking revenue accounted for 98% of total revenue for the three months ended May 31, far outpacing the $624,000 from self-mining Bitcoin (BTC) and the $168,000 from consulting services, according to Bitmine’s latest 10-Q filing. On Monday, Bitmine said it had staked 85% of its ETH holdings, equating to around 4.9 million Ether (ETH). “Bitmine has staked more ETH than other entities in the world. At scale (when Bitmine’s ETH is fully staked by MAVAN and…
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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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The US Department of the Treasury and HM Treasury released a set of recommendations as part of the Transatlantic Taskforce for the Markets of…
Ironically, some critics of the bill have pointed to recent reporting by the Wall Street Journal on the Hong Kong exchange CoinEx as evidence…
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In brief Demis Hassabis says AGI is likely only a few years away. He wants a new U.S. standards body to evaluate frontier AI…
[I am assuming that you all know the basic background of the Slush Fund “Settlement”; my earlier discussions are here and here.] Things are…
Strategy’s (formerly MicroStrategy) first publicized bitcoin sale has triggered a $15 million resolution dispute on Polymarket. While the sale was announced in a June…
Hyperliquid’s native token, HYPE, has rallied more than 30% in five days to a record high near $74, with a bullish chart breakout now…
In brief Sui mainnet experienced three outage incidents on May 28-29, with over 15 hours of downtime. User funds were not at risk during…
EFF welcomes our new Executive Director Nicole Ozer today! Nicole is a legal expert on privacy and surveillance, artificial intelligence, and digital speech who…
President Donald Trump’s clearly corrupt settlement of his lawsuit against the IRS suffered two setbacks in federal court on Friday. In the Eastern District…
Japan should create a legal framework for trading cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds (ETFs), the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) said, according to a Reuters report…
[Update 1:57 P.M. UTC, June 1 — Updates third paragraph with share price decline in Monday morning trading.]Strategy sold 32 BTC last week, its…