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April 28, 2026
Ether Faces a Crossroad as Latest DeFi Hacks Shake Confidence — bloomberg.com
The value of the second-largest cryptocurrency is increasingly dependent upon the resilience of everything built on top of it.
A Boring Party for Trump’s Collapsing Meme Coin — motherjones.com
Several hundred of the top Trump meme coin holders converged on Mar-a-Lago over the weekend, and all they got were Trump watches and a rambling speech. Then the price of the coin dropped to its lowest level ever. Donald Trump launched the $TRUMP meme coin
Robinhood posts $1.07 billion in revenue as crypto trading falls 47% — qz.com
Net income rose 3% to $346 million, but a slump in cryptocurrency trading weighed on transaction revenue
“All of my fundees have blue eyes”Jeffrey Epstein and tech’s dark ideology — codastory.com
It starts with a simple search term in the Department of Justice’s Epstein Library. “Blue eyes.” Hundreds of results. Jeffrey Epstein’s international trafficking agents send him pictures and descriptions of blue-eyed young girls: potential victims to be
How Donald Trump has used the White House to boost his bank account — theweek.com
President Donald Trump is, by his own repeated admissions, first and foremost a businessman. Even after entering the rarified echelons of hegemonic decision-making, he often touts his track record as a corporate wheeler-dealer as proof he is prepared for
Somehow, Eric Trump's "money printing" bitcoin business left investors holding the bag — boingboing.net
Eric Trump sold his bitcoin company as a profit machine. But as the stock soared and then cratered, it was investors, not family insiders, who ended up stuck with the losses. Eric Trump's newest bitcoin venture may be selling a story more than a business.
The FTC says Americans lost at least $2.1 billion to social media scams in 2025 — engadget.com
Americans lost at least $2.1 billion in 2025 to scams that originated on social media, according to the Federal Trade Commission. That figure marks an eightfold increase since 2020. The FTC said Americans reported losing $1.1 billion last year to
Why Trump’s Crypto Empire Is in Chaos — motherjones.com
One of the Trump family’s biggest crypto plays is in turmoil. Investors are furious. The value of its digital tokens is tanking. And no one seems to know what exactly is going on with its finances. When it was unveiled 20 months ago, World Liberty
OPEC shocker as UAE leaves oil cartel days after negotiating swap lines with Scott Bessent’s Treasury — fortune.com
The United Arab Emirates stunned the already reeling global energy markets Tuesday by announcing it is quitting both OPEC and OPEC+, dealing a heavy blow to the oil exporters’ cartel and its de facto leader, Saudi Arabia—and doing so just days after
Trump wants do-over of failed airline fantasy — at taxpayers’ expense — salon.com
It looks like Donald Trump is taking on yet another side gig. In addition to his day jobs running the most powerful nation on earth, overseeing his family’s fortune and serving as general contractor for the rebuilding of the White House and Washington,
Ten years after Ethereum’s DAO disaster, it’s time to try again — fortune.com
It’s been a decade since I frantically pounded out a warning letter known as The DAO Moratorium. So urgent was the missive that we pushed the document live before it was complete, allowing anyone who was interested to read along in real time. Even as I and
Novogratz Says Bitcoin Retaking $100,000 Will Prove Difficult — bloomberg.com
Billionaire Michael Novogratz said a broad-based recovery in the cryptocurrency sector, as measured by market bellwether Bitcoin once again trading over $100,000, may prove difficult in the current macroeconomic environment.
Bob Diamond: The settlement window is closing as 24/7 trading opens up — fortune.com
When I started my career at Morgan Stanley in the early 1980s, trades were executed over landlines and settled with handwritten tickets. Over the following four decades, the industry built a system that is remarkably good at what it does within the
Hyperscale Data Announces $53.1 Million in Bitcoin Holdings — ft.com
Hyperscale Data Announces $53.1 Million in Bitcoin Holdings Financial Times
A guy bought Friendster for $30K and is rebuilding it to be more social, less network — boingboing.net
Friendster, the proto-social network that beat MySpace and Facebook to market in 2002 and then stopped operating in 2018, has a new owner with a strange plan for it. Mike Carson paid roughly $30,000 for the domain. The deal was $20,000 in Bitcoin plus
The Risks Of Anonymity In The Age Of Generative AI — techdirt.com
As its name suggests, generative AI is designed to generate material in response to prompts by drawing on its probabilistic database built up through analyzing huge quantities of training input. But it can draw on those patterns to analyze other files, and
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