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View More NewsBitcoin traded near $65,900 on Wednesday, holding just below the two-week high it touched earlier, up 1.5% on the week, per CoinDesk data. The pause matches the broader market, where a two-day rebound in chip stocks stalled as traders waited on Alphabet’s results after the U.S. close.Nasdaq 100 futures fell 0.8% and South Korea’s Kospi trimmed strong early gains, with tech lagging in Europe too. The trigger is Alphabet, which said last quarter it would more than double capital spending to as much as $190 billion this year. Investors want evidence that spending is generating returns, and the report lands…
In brief Shareholders voted by more than 90% to sell the company’s 668 BTC, return capital, and cancel its London Stock Exchange listing This marks the end of a Bitcoin treasury experiment in under twelve months. Satsuma raised £163.6 million in August 2025 but expects to return only £26.8 to £30 million after wind-down costs. The shareholders of Satsuma Technology, a U.K.-based Bitcoin treasury company, have voted to liquidate the company’s entire Bitcoin position and shut down the business, overruling four of its six board members.More than 90% of votes cast backed the dual resolutions to sell 668 BTC—worth roughly…
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A review of Israel: What Went Wrong? by Omer Bartov; 243 pages; Farrar, Straus and Giroux (April 2026)Omer Bartov, a prominent historian at Brown University, was born to a solidly left-wing Zionist family in Kibbutz ‘Ein Hahoresh, south of Haifa, in 1954. (By chance, I was also born in ‘Ein Hahoresh, six years earlier; also by chance, both of us did our IDF service in the Nahal (Infantry) Corps and both at some point were wounded. And both of us did our PhDs in Oxbridge in European history). Omer’s father, Hanoch Bartov, was born in Palestine in 1926 to Polish Jewish…
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