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View More NewsTether has expanded the use of its $23 billion gold reserves by bringing its tokenized product Tether Gold (XAUT) to crypto lender Ledn.Ledn said it is adding support for XAUT, alongside bitcoin BTC$60,741.45 and Tether’s stablecoin USDT, with borrowing against XAUT expected later this year.Tether is attempting to monetize what has become one of the world’s largely privately held gold reserves. The stablecoin company says it holds around $23 billion worth of physical bullion backing XAUT, with each token representing one troy ounce of gold stored in vaults in Switzerland.Gold-backed lending is traditionally the realm of central banks, major financial…
When Superman hit theaters last summer as the first in a new line of DC comic book movies overseen by James Gunn, it was more than just another franchise reset. It was a return to the comic book character’s brighter, lighter, more uplifting, and family-friendly roots after more than a decade mired in Zack Snyder’s grimdark vision of a brooding, murderous, alien god. It wasn’t a great movie, exactly, but it was fun and frequently charming—a movie designed for kids, not just sullen adults. So it’s rather baffling that Supergirl, the first follow-up to that film, takes the opposite tack.…
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It’s fitting that the embattled Keir Starmer resigned as prime minister of the United Kingdom almost exactly a decade after the Brexit referendum. More than anything else, it was that vote, on June 23rd 2016, which created Britain’s current political reality—a reality of which Starmer is just the latest victim.Perhaps the most ironic impact of Brexit is the fact that the United Kingdom has finally become a European country. By this I don’t mean that we’ve suddenly learned how to cook good food, or we’ve all become bilingual, or have embraced the siesta. We’re no more culturally European than we…
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