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View More NewsBitcoin (BTC) has been counting down to its next bottom for nearly two months, a classic onchain metric suggests.Key points:BTC supply in loss passed 50% for the first time this bear market in early June.In previous bear markets, that event sparked a countdown to a new BTC price macro bottom.Separate data hints that the bull market’s “emotional premium” has now gone.Supply in loss countdown already Bitcoin’s second-longestIn its H1 2026 Round-Up report, crypto research company K33 Research flagged more than 50% of the BTC supply now being held at a loss.A typical bear-market feature, supply in loss has become a…
from the so-very-free-speechy dept JK Rowling has spoken about how she wrote the first Harry Potter book while she was employed at Amnesty International and how much that experience influenced her writing, and how she learned “the power of human empathy” from working there. Rowling was also, you’ll recall, one of the high profile signers of the infamous Harper’s Letter on “open debate.” Now she’s threatening to bankrupt Amnesty International for expressing an opinion about Beira’s Place, a “women only” charity Rowling created. Amnesty International UK had released a report, expressing its well-supported opinion about so-called “anti-rights actors,” specifically calling…
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The rise and fall of Graham Platner, who has just withdrawn from the U.S. Senate race in Maine in which he was challenging Republican incumbent Susan Collins, makes one think of a fairy tale or myth in which a character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 (BTC) dipped below $62,500 at Friday’s Wall Street open as stocks took a fresh hit from the US-Iran war.Key points:Bitcoin gives traders a…
In brief Three men have been jailed in the UK for a £4 million cryptocurrency fraud in which they impersonated police officers to trick…
The part that rattles valuations is the license. K3 is open-weight, with the full model due for public release on July 27. Anyone will…
Japanese financial services group SBI Holdings has acquired a majority stake in Holdbuild, the parent company of Singaporean crypto platform Coinhako, after receiving regulatory…
In brief A Google employee was charged over alleged Polymarket trades using private data. The CFTC also filed a civil case seeking penalties and…
In the rush to block young people from certain parts of the internet, lawmakers are creating a privacy and security nightmare for everyone. This…
from the miserable-spray-tanned-fuckwit dept Poll everyone you can. Even the most MAGA never dreamed up this scenario. There’s no single-issue voter whose kink is…
After a woman gave birth in a New York City courtroom earlier this month, New York lawmakers are pushing for anti-shackling bills that would…
Sui network, a layer 1 blockchain developed by Mysten Labs, is experiencing a network outage on Thursday after the project said its mainnet had…
For years, crypto has thrived on speculative capital flows and the explosive popularity of decentralized finance (DeFi) tokens and applications.That still holds true for…
In brief Standard Chartered highlighted a stark disparity between Ethereum’s current price and its growing network activity. Despite Ethereum underperforming compared to Bitcoin’s resilience,…
“Our seniors should not pay property taxes,” says Rep. Nancy Mace (R–S.C.). Normally, I’d advise against paying much attention to what Mace says and…