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View More NewsIn brief The Senate took its first formal step toward voting on the Clarity Act, with Thune filing the motion to proceed early Saturday after an overnight session. The move tees up an initial procedural vote on September 15. Senators would need to reach agreement on several unresolved issues in the bill before now and then for the crypto market to get Clarity. The U.S. Senate has taken its first formal step toward voting on the Clarity Act, with leadership moving early Saturday to tee up a vote on the crypto market-structure bill and lock in a September date.Senate Majority…
Bitcoin developer Kevin Loaec, who flagged the risk on X this week, said large holders could be targeted first. Doing nothing will be a safer option, he stated, as coins that never move cannot be replayed because there is no signed transaction to copy.⚠️IMPORTANT⚠️In the next couple of days, a new shitcoin will fork off Bitcoin. It is a big security risk for people who just believe they will get an “airdrop” and want to sell it, to get more bitcoin.I will write more about it, but here is the TLDR: 👇— Kevin Loaec 🧙♂️🐟 (@KLoaec) August 6, 2026 How…
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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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