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April 16, 2026
Hollywood’s First Big Budget AI-Generated Movie Is About Bitcoin, of Course — gizmodo.com
Casey Affleck and Gal Gadot star in 'Paycheck: The Movie.'
Bitcoin’s Greatest Mystery — nytimes.com
The creator of Bitcoin has hidden behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto for 17 years.
Experts call for tighter controls on prediction markets: ‘They pose underappreciated threats to democratic integrity’ — elpais.com
Will there be a peace agreement between Israel and Hezbollah before April 30? Who will win the 2028 U.S. presidential election? Will the price of Bitcoin rise or fall in the next five minutes? These are just some examples of bets available today on
North Korea targets macOS users in latest heist — theregister.com
Social engineering: 'low-cost, hard to patch, and scales well' North Korean criminals set on stealing Apple users' credentials and cryptocurrency are using a combination of social engineering and a fake Zoom software update to trick people into manually
Retirement: Trump’s risky plan to reform 401(k)s — theweek.com
President Trump wants to “open up workers’ retirement plans to his pet industries,” said Sam Gustin in The New Republic. The Labor Department recently proposed a long-awaited rule that would shield 401(k) plans investing in crypto and private equity and
Charles Schwab is launching direct bitcoin and ethereum trading — qz.com
The brokerage, which manages more than $11 trillion in client assets, will charge a 0.75% fee per crypto trade
Hegseth to Reporters: Whose Side Are You On? — talkingpointsmemo.com
Compares Press to the Pharisees A thin-skinned and prickly Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth went off on journalists in his press conference this morning, resorting to the classic “attack the messenger” defense to a unpopular war going poorly. It’s not the
Hacked Crypto Platform to Relaunch After Securing New Funding — bloomberg.com
Decentralized finance platform Drift Protocol, the victim of an exploit earlier this month where hackers stole approximately $285 million of users’ cryptocurrency, plans to relaunch after securing around $150 million in funding from a consortium led by
Trump’s Middle East envoys are partners in duplicity — salon.com
There was a time when the very concept of a conflict of interest in politics was a serious matter that could cause investigations and resignations in the federal government. Long before Watergate, Richard Nixon was famously accused of corruption when it
The digital euro is coming: A guide to the future of cash in Europe — independent.co.uk
More than 130 countries are exploring or have already launched their own digital currency
Creating Baby Geniuses to Thwart the AI Threat? (Yes, Really.) — motherjones.com
Additional reporting by Anna Rogers Two years ago, we devoted an entire issue to the rise of the American oligarchy. Since then, our oligarchic system has become more entrenched and pervasive, revolving around a small crew of tech titans whose quest for
Bitcoin vs. Stocks: It’s time to stop pretending they’re the same — nypost.com
It is dangerously easy to treat Bitcoin and traditional stocks as equals when they sit side-by-side in your brokerage app.
Exclusive: Top crypto VCs like Paradigm and a16z see portfolio values shrink amid market downturn and distributions to investors — fortune.com
The biggest names in crypto venture weren’t immune to the sudden collapse in the digital asset market in 2025. Top outfits like Paradigm and Pantera Capital saw their assets under management shrink amid the downturn, according to previously unreported
How Silicon Valley Humiliated the Democrats — newrepublic.com
For decades, democratic leadership has tried to market its willingness to craft pro-corporate policy as political sophistication. Last summer, 2028 presidential hopeful Ruben Gallego championed the GENIUS Act, a bill that deregulates parts of the
Can Cryptocurrency Go Mainstream? — aei.org
Stablecoins are rapidly becoming the infrastructure layer for global money movement, and their benefits are becoming increasingly apparent. However, the road to widespread adoption runs through significant regulatory uncertainty, concerns about the
CEO of bitcoin firm championed by Nigel Farage leaves company — theguardian.com
Resignation announced of Jai Patel, whose liquidated crypto firm was relaunched as Stack BTC this year The chief executive of a bitcoin company promoted by Nigel Farage has left his role as the venture attempts to convince investors that it is going to
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