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View More Newsfrom the cop-specific-sickness dept Flock Safety is happy it’s the go-to choice for tons of law enforcement agencies. While it does suffer some occasional bleeding, its supercharged automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) — ones that not only capture plates, but pictures of drivers/passengers and full vehicle images to capture any other distinctive features — are so widely deployed they’re now capturing 20 billion images per month across the nation. Not bad for a company that started out pitching its spy wares to HOAs and gated communities. Most cops in America now have access to Flock’s databases, either directly or by…
With bitcoin’s price stubbornly range-bound, the appetite for “directional optionality,” or bets on big price moves in either direction, has evaporated, he said. Directional optionality involves traders buying call or put options, or both, to profit from anticipated big moves in the underlying asset, but they aren’t doing that now. The demand for bitcoin options has weakened, and this is reflected in BVIV’s decline.A call option offers a way of buying an asset on the cheap should the price rise, in return for a small upfront cost. A put option offers insurance against price drops in the underlying asset.Despite the…
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In 1940, one of the great literary showdowns of the last century took place between one of Britain’s great men of letters and a writer whose name most readers of this essay will never have heard. From one corner of the literary ring strode George Orwell, the ancient-jacketed patron saint of plain speaking, cigarette adroop. Facing him was another assiduous smoker—a pipe man, in this case—and writer of popular children’s stories. This mismatched fight did not go as expected.The morbidly private Charles Hamilton was the undisputed world champion of that peculiarly British genre, the English school story, and over the…
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Payments-focused cryptocurrency XRP dropped about 5% to $1.03 last week, even as bitcoin BTC$64,992.63, ether ETH$1,918.56, and solana (SOL) each climbed 1% to 4%.…
The first sign that quantum computing has broken modern cryptography probably won’t be a splashy theft of Satoshi Nakamoto’s dormant Bitcoin. It could just…
Former US Defense Secretary Mark Esper says the CLARITY Act is not merely a financial services bill, its a national security one. Read the…
Bitcoin ‘anti-spam’ BIP goes nowhere fastSupporters of the BIP-110 soft fork hoped to eradicate spam from the blockchain, but after a lengthy and heated…
Hester Peirce, a two-term commissioner at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), head of the agency’s crypto task force and known to many…
In brief Fairshake claimed victory after six congressional candidates won Tuesday primaries with over $20 million in crypto industry support. But all GOP winners…
from the it’s-just-so-brazen dept There were two rumors last week regarding the supposed “settlement” of Donald Trump’s ridiculously problematic lawsuit against his own IRS,…
The New York Times is once again suing the Pentagon over its press rules, this time challenging a policy implemented in March that requires…
Cryptocurrency custody firm Copper has been out shopping itself, seeking a buyer willing to pay about $500 million for the platform, according to two…
Key points:Bitcoin is at a critical juncture, as a close below $76,000 may deepen the pullback toward $70,000.HYPE and ZEC are in an up…
In brief Individuals and entities tied to the trafficking of fentanyl were added to the OFAC sanctions list. Some members allegedly turned cash into…
The bipartisan surface transportation reauthorization bill released earlier this week by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee would reform an obscure safety rule that…