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View More NewsAs Mark Twain wrote, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” Lately, I’ve been hearing a recurring rhythm—and getting the blues—as the legislature is about to repeat a grievous mistake. The issue involves public-employee pensions, as the legislature has advanced two bills that would exacerbate the state’s pension problems in much the way it did 27 years ago. First the requisite history lesson. In 1999, the Legislature passed Senate Bill 400. The stock market was booming, and the nation’s largest pension fund, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, was awash in cash. “Investment earnings had averaged 13.5 percent for…
San Francisco, U.S.A., March 17, 2026 — AI and blockchain infrastructure company Gency AI today announced it has raised $20 million in a new funding round. The round saw participation from several institutions, including Y&ZC Capital, MTmetaworld Holdings, Riverpark, ArkStream, MH Ventures, ViaBTC and Basics Capital.The fresh capital is earmarked for scaling Gency AI’s decentralized advertising execution and settlement network, hardening its privacy-preserving computing stack, and accelerating product deployment and ecosystem partnerships across North America, Asia, and Europe.Building verifiable infrastructure for the advertising economyThe global digital advertising market continues to grow rapidly, but many execution and settlement processes still rely…
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A review of Dangerous, Dirty, Violent & Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground by Zayd Ayers Dohrn; 352 pages; Chatto & Windus (June 2026)In his memoir detailing his experiences growing up with revolutionary parents on the run from the federal government in the 1970s, Zayd Ayers Dohrn captures a bizarro life organised around the need to stay one step ahead of the FBI:I was used to this routine. It wasn’t the first time we’d had to pack up all our things in the middle of the night and take off on another long cross-country drive. We ditched cars…
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The Ethereum Foundation has sold another 10,000 ether (ETH) in an over-the-counter deal to Tom Lee’s BitMine (BMNR), continuing a string of treasury sales…
A group of Bitcoiners has launched a new open-source AI tool that generates evidence-based responses to misconceptions about Bitcoin’s environmental impact, energy use and…
In brief The Ethereum Foundation sold about $23 million worth of ETH to BitMine Immersion Technologies. It’s the second straight weekly sale of 10,000…
from the a-little-constitutionalism,-as-a-treat dept Shortly before the Supreme Court inflicted enormous damage on the Voting Rights Act, the Reconstruction Amendments of the Constitution, any…
Digital asset company Bakkt completed its acquisition of stablecoin infrastructure firm Distributed Technologies Research (DTR) through an equity-based transaction as part of its bid…
In Minnesota, Anthony Stephen Israelson was found guilty of two misdemeanors for driving a school bus drunk. The case stemmed from a 2024 incident…
A South Korean court overturned Bithumb’s six-month partial business suspension Thursday, according to Yonhap News.The news agency cited legal sources, saying that the 2nd…
Bitcoin could be setting up for a multimonth price decline, after a rally in April driven mainly by futures traders while spot demand declined,…
The size of the tokenized real-world asset (RWA) market has increased by more than 420% since the start of 2025, as investors were treated…
Ripple-linked xrp tokens are back in positive social media chatter in a historically contrarian price signal.The token’s positive-to-negative sentiment ratio on social media spiked…
Bitcoin (BTC) traders pushed the price to $77,400, but data suggests profit-taking may thwart the bull’s goal of turning the $77,000 to $80,000 zone…
DeFi can’t stop bleeding, and Wasabi Protocol is the latest to find out why.The protocol, a perpetuals trading platform built on Ethereum and Base,…