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View More NewsIn brief ECB board member Cipollone warned Friday that stablecoin growth could strip European banks of retail deposits, on top of the fees and transaction data they’re already losing to mobile payment platforms. Two-thirds of card payments in the euro area route through non-European schemes, and 13 of 21 eurozone countries have no national card scheme of their own. The ECB named 36 payment service providers for a digital euro pilot starting in the second half of 2027, days after the European Parliament voted 416 to 169 to begin formal legislative negotiations. European banks are losing the payments war in…
In Germany, an artist and activist was arrested multiple times, once for wearing a Palestinian flag and again for holding a sign that read “from the river to the sea, we demand equality.” In France, a mayor was held criminally liable, not for what he said, but for failing to remove Islamophobic comments posted by others beneath one of his Facebook posts. In Finland, a member of Parliament faced criminal charges for criticizing her church’s support for gay pride events, citing a Bible verse. Such cases are not exceptional among European Union member states. In many places, they are standard…
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The rise and fall of Graham Platner, who has just withdrawn from the U.S. Senate race in Maine in which he was challenging Republican incumbent Susan Collins, makes one think of a fairy tale or myth in which a character of humble status is suddenly elevated to wealth and high status by some magical entity but is led astray by character flaws such as greed or hubris and is just as precipitously hurled back into lowly obscurity. In Graham’s case, the magical entities were progressive political operatives Dan Moraff, Leanne Fan and Moritz Katz, who thought they had found the…
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Bitcoin fell to about $63,000 on Friday, down 1.7% over 24 hours and 2.2% on the week, as a deepening selloff in chipmakers dragged…
The United Kingdom National Crime Agency (NCA) and City of London Police said two men associated with the “Scattered Spider” hacking group were sentenced…
In brief Bitcoin is trading near $63,000, down around 2% on the day and roughly 47% below its October record, as investors retreat from…
The crypto market fell Friday, with bitcoin BTC$63,097.25 recovering from a drop below $63,000 to trade down 1.2% since midnight UTC and ether (ETH)…
I find the term “judicial activism” to largely be meaningless. There is often no discernible line between “making law” and “applying the law.” But…
We were promised world records, freakish performances, a new era of sport that would redefine human potential. Instead, we got an Enhanced Games that…
A convergence of record highs in global stocks, oil at multi-month lows and a tentative U.S.-Iran ceasefire extension did little to buoy bitcoin BTC$73,344.39…
Key takeaways:Bears gained a major edge ahead of Friday’s $9 billion options expiry, especially if Bitcoin price stays below $74,000.Spot Bitcoin ETF outflows and…
More targets struck: The U.S. shot down four Iranian drones yesterday, as well as a launch unit, while Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said…
All within a matter of weeks, Anthropic unveiled new agents for finance, Circle launched nanopayments, MoonPay launched a debit card for agents and Gemini…
Bitcoin’s drop below $73,000 on Wednesday marks a short-term turning point for the market, as multiple BTC distribution signals point toward rising sell-side pressure. While…
In brief KAIKAKU.AI published Epicure, a family of three ingredient AI models trained on 4.14 million multilingual recipes. The model doesn’t store recipes—it stores…