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View More NewsMorning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt.GM!Today’s top news: Crypto majors slightly green with BTC leading +1% at $64.2k Bond yields hit multi-decade high, pausing stock rally ETH Foundation researchers prioritize privacy for Hegota upgrade Robinhood rolls out agentic trading for crypto (for select users) Ansem introduces new curated launchpad and z500 index 📈 PUMP Prints First Golden Cross as Revenue Hits a Seven-Month HighPump.fun’s PUMP token has had a rough 10-month stretch after hitting $8B back in September 2025. But that…
In April, the en banc Fifth Circuit upheld the constitutionality of Texas’s law requiring the posting of Ten Commandments in public school classrooms. For much of the past four months, I wondered whether the ACLU would take the risk of filing a cert petition. On the one hand, separationists must publicly state they will fight to the last stage to ensure there is no religion in the classroom. On the other hand, the Supreme Court could set a broader that would set back separationism far more than Kennedy v. Bremerton did. Why not just let Louisiana and Texas go to avoid setting…
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The blockbuster success of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has led to a massive spike in demand for Homer’s original text. At one Brooklyn book store visited by a Guardian reporter, more than a dozen different editions of the Odyssey were on prominent display. Over the last month, a staffer said, sales had multiplied “several thousand per cent.”I fear many of these new readers will come away disappointed, as the ruthless 2,800-year-old version of Odysseus whom Homer conjured is quite unlike the more modern, guilt-addled protagonist that reviewers have found in Matt Damon’s performance. As Charlotte Allen argued in this space…
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Bitcoin’s BTC$64,435.66 price has been eerily calm for weeks, locked in a narrow range below $65,000. Options, or derivative contracts offering insurance against wild…
In brief Minnesota is fighting xAI’s attempt to block the state’s first-of-its-kind law targeting AI-generated sexual images. xAI says the law violates the First…
from the one-more-time-into-the-fray dept A few years ago a California appeals court produced the unfortunate Liapes v. Facebook decision. In this decision, it gave…
AI is also emerging as a growing threat to crypto companies, giving attackers tools to find vulnerabilities faster, automate attacks and make phishing and…
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…
The head of digital assets and tokenization at one of Germany’s largest asset managers said that USDT and USDC are not stablecoins, from his…