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View More NewsA North Carolina man has filed a claim seeking damages from the federal government, alleging he was arrested last year by immigration officers despite having valid REAL IDs, then dumped on the side of the road once the officers confirmed he was a U.S. citizen. Viral cell phone video taken on November 18, 2025, by Fernando Vazquez Orea, an 18-year-old landscaper, showed Border Patrol agents uncuffing Vasquez in a wooded area. One of the officers throws Vasquez’s ID and other papers out of an SUV, onto the ground, before driving off. @elnando7x They got me at CHAPEL HILL RD and…
So the protections stay what they are: at the federal level not law, but an interpretive notice sorting 16 tokens, a collateral pilot, a few no-action letters, a memorandum of understanding between two federal agencies, any of it revocable without a vote. The rest is left to the states, where investors get real protection in certain states, less elsewhere, and in some states none at all, none of it reaching a market that is national. The last great collapse already showed which protections hold and which give way.When FTX failed, its offshore exchange misused its customers’ assets for years. But…
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In what we know as the Middle East, a dramatic jump in the emerging pattern of human violence took place around 5500 BCE, the primary evidence being circumvallation, the construction of walled fortifications around population centres.Circumvallation was not unprecedented. The massive and fabled walls of Jericho appeared around 8000 BCE. Twelve feet high and six feet thick, an estimated 1,800 feet in circumference, the walls were a mute indicator of both the place’s unprecedented wealth—perhaps derived from trading Dead Sea salt—and the need to protect it. But these fortifications stood alone for 2,500 years; and then, rather suddenly, equivalents began…
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In brief MyTrade founder Liu Zhou has been fined $10,000 over running a crypto wash trading service. Zhou pleaded guilty in October 2024 alongside…
The fallout from the Coldcard security breach is now surfacing on-chain.According to Glassnode data, roughly 210,000 BTC have moved out of long-term holder (LTH)…
CleanSpark’s shares fell 5.5% on Thursday after the Bitcoin miner reported $138 million in quarterly revenue, narrowly missing Wall Street’s consensus estimate. Read the…
In brief The Senate leaves for a month-long recess without holding a procedural vote on the Clarity Act. Republicans need roughly six Democratic crossovers…
Ether treasury company Bitmine Immersion Technologies has been included in a preliminary list for potential inclusion in the Russell 3000 index, a move that…
XRP spent weeks tightening into a narrow range, but the market finally started leaning lower after another failed push above resistance near $1.36. The…
Nathan Allman, the founder and CEO of Ondo Finance and one of the pioneers of blockchain tokenization, has died aged 32.“It is with profound…
Bitcoin BTC$76,612.97 hovered near $76,500 mid-day Hong Kong time, according to CoinDesk market data, holding a narrow range as trading remains muted after a…
Ethereum liquid staking protocol Kelp DAO says its restaked Ether token has been restored with a five-week recovery effort after the protocol suffered a…
Key takeaways:Bitcoin’s implied volatility plunged to a multi-month low, signaling that traders expect further price consolidation.Excessive confidence among Bitcoin bears could catalyze a liquidation-driven…
Key takeaways:Declining oil prices boosted global stock markets, helping lift Bitcoin back to $77,000 amid reduced inflation fears.$2.66 billion spot Bitcoin ETF outflows have…
Bitcoin (BTC) needs fresh spot demand to absorb the rising BTC supply across exchanges and exchange-traded funds. Recent exchange inflows and ETF outflows created…