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Trump has wanted to humble Iran since 1980. He may be humbling the American empire instead — fortune.com
President Donald Trump has wanted to take down Iran since he was a 34-year-old soft-spoken realtor. His first known comment on foreign policy, ever, was in October 1980, when he declared that the clerical regime in Iran—which for a year had been holding 52
AI agents are going rogue. Here's what banks can do about it — americanbanker.com
Autonomous large language models sometimes do things they absolutely should not, such as suddenly go off and mine cryptocurrency. Here's what AI-forward banks can do about this problem.
Farage and Kwarteng’s bitcoin treasury company has just one non-executive director. Who is she? — ft.com
The mysterious oil tycoon in charge of board oversight at Stack BTC
Strategy Funds Entire $1 Billion Bitcoin Buy With Hybrid Securities — bloomberg.com
For the first time since launching its high-yield securities in July, Michael Saylor’s Strategy Inc. funded its latest $1 billion weekly Bitcoin purchase entirely through the sale of its “Stretch” perpetual preferred shares.
Nigel Farage makes £2m bitcoin purchase in first for British politics — independent.co.uk
Nigel Farage makes £2m bitcoin purchase as he backs Kwasi Kwarteng’s cryptocurrency firm — independent.co.uk
Stack BTC said the purchase was a ‘landmark moment’ in British politics
Bitcoin mining giant Foundry adds new pool for privacy-focused Zcash — fortune.com
Foundry, an upstate New York-based firm that launched in 2019, runs a mining pool that today commands around 31% of all Bitcoin production. On Monday, the company formally launched a second pool operation based around a cryptocurrency known as Zcash that
Trump Accounts Offer Little to Families That Aren’t Rich — jacobin.com
Instead of restoring or increasing funding to programs with a proven record of strengthening children’s long-term prospects, the Trump administration is creating investment accounts for kids that offer marginal benefit while widening income inequality.
A Fine Country for Old Men — theatlantic.com
Gerontocracy has always thrived in undemocratic places—Communist people’s republics, Gulf monarchies—where only death could pry power from the ruling elders. American gerontocracy is exceptional for being freely elected. Donald Trump will soon be an
What the latest search for Satoshi means for the crypto industry — fortune.com
My heart sank last week when I woke up to discover that The New York Times had “identified” Satoshi Nakamoto. I was less worried about the impact on the market than I was about the flood of well-meaning “Hey, did you see they found the inventor of Bitcoin”
CFTC bucks trend, seeks more money from Congress and proposes fees — rollcall.com
In a time of budget austerity for most Trump administration agencies, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission stands apart as a regulator that is asking Congress for more money. The CFTC is requesting $410 million for fiscal 2027, an increase of $45
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