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View More NewsIn brief Strategy has sold thousands of Bitcoin since introducing its BTC Monetization Program in June. The program allows the company to sell BTC to fund dividends, replenish its cash reserve, and repurchase securities. Here’s why Strategy is selling Bitcoin and how much it has sold so far. Since 2020, publicly traded technology company Strategy has spent billions buying Bitcoin. After years of its leadership saying it would never sell, the world’s largest corporate holder of Bitcoin is now selling some of its stockpile.Strategy’s aggressive Bitcoin accumulation has become a model for other companies looking to add the cryptocurrency to…
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The story of Jason Arday, the Cambridge professor who has just resigned amid a scandal involving plagiarism, fabulism, and résumé-padding, has rattled a number of skeletons in Western academia’s closet. In 2023, Arday became the youngest black professor at the University of Cambridge when he was appointed professor in the sociology of education at the age of 37. Arday had obtained his PhD from Liverpool John Moores University in 2015. The son of immigrants from Ghana who lived on a Clapham council estate, he claimed to have overcome autism and other disabilities that left him unable to read or write…
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MoneyGram, which serves roughly 60 million active customers, views blockchain rails as a way to make cross-border transfers faster, cheaper and easier to track,…
The Coldcard hack is testing crypto investigators’ ability to measure losses from self-custody wallets, where victim reports are critical to establishing the scale of…
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Two Prime’s loan to MARA carries a fixed interest rate of 7.65% and matures in August 2028. Blume said borrowing demand has increased in…
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Bitcoin miners are emerging as an important part of the AI infrastructure supply chain because they control large amounts of power capacity and data…
From yesterday’s decision by Judge Hector Gonzalez (E.D.N.Y.) in Harr v. City of N.Y.: In 2003, in connection with the invasion of Iraq, the…
The research firm said bitcoin traders remain unusually defensive, reducing the risk of the kind of leverage-driven collapse seen in prior downturns. Read the…
Bitcoin (BTC) traders have shifted their focus lower after futures and order book data point to strong buyer interest in the $68,000-$70,000 zone.Sell pressure…
In brief Minnesota became the first state to ban prediction markets, making it a felony to operate or advertise such platforms. Hours later, the…
For years, civil society organizations, workers, journalists, and human rights experts have warned that major technology companies risk enabling grave human rights abuses when…
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. In this week’s newsletter, I wanted to share a recent feature story I wrote…