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Meta quietly rolls out stablecoin payments four years after demise of controversial Libra project — fortune.com
Meta has reentered the stablecoin market. Four years after pulling the plug on an earlier attempt, the tech giant has quietly rolled out the digital currency payouts for select creators in Colombia and the Philippines, according to an update to the tech
Robinhood CEO says a ‘tokenization supercycle’ is underway — fortune.com
Crypto prices remain mired in a prolonged slump, but Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says the company remains bullish on the broader sector. During a first quarter earnings call on Tuesday, Tenev said he wants to get away from a strategy based around the price of
House overcomes floor hurdle on spy authority reauthorization — rollcall.com
The House is expected to vote as soon as Wednesday afternoon on a measure to reauthorize a powerful surveillance tool for three years — a day before its statutory authority is set to expire — after Republican leadership muscled through a resolution that
Bankers Scouring Porn Sites. Payment Processors Punishing Journalists. Here's How 'Big Finance' Is Chilling Speech — reason.com
Banks are scouring porn platforms in order to flag objectionable words and scenes. Payment processors are deciding what constitutes misinformation about war. And a credit union could decide whether your donation to a cannabis advocacy group can go through.
Option Traders Build ‘Electric Fence’ Around Bitcoin at $80,000 — bloomberg.com
Bitcoin has been pressing toward $80,000 and struggling to get through. One reason: a hidden force in the options market is working against it.
GOP revolt leaves House agenda in limbo — axios.com
An internal GOP revolt ground the House to a halt Wednesday morning, with the chamber stuck on a procedural vote to begin debate. Why it matters: House GOP leadership doesn't have the votes to advance any of the major legislation they planned to move this
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Meet all 37 White House ballroom donors funding the $400 million build, including Silicon Valley tech giants, crypto bros and the Lutnicks — fortune.com
The White House released a list of donors for the Trump administration’s new ballroom construction project in October, following a historic East Wing demolition. The projected cost of the 90,000-square-foot build has doubled to $400 million, up from its
Why Trump-backer Justin Sun is suing the Trumps’ firm — codastory.com
Donald Trump and the crypto world have done well out of each other. The Trump family has made profits of several billion dollars, and ‘cryptopreneurs’ have found the United States a newly supportive environment for their products. But the crypto world is
The Media’s Embrace of Prediction Markets Could Be a Devil’s Bargain — newrepublic.com
As prediction markets rise in popularity and notoriety, several news outlets have recently engaged in partnerships with the most prominent of these companies, raising questions about how and why media organizations would want to become entangled with an
30 ClawHub skills secretly turn AI agents into a crypto swarm — theregister.com
Yet another reason not to feast on OpenClaw Thirty ClawHub skills published by a single author are silently co-opting AI agents and creating a mass cryptocurrency mining swarm – without any malware or user consent.…
Treasury freezes $344M in crypto as 'Operation Economic Fury' pushes Iran to industrial breaking point — foxbusiness.com
The U.S. Treasury Department has frozen more than $344 million in cryptocurrency tied to Iran and is ramping up efforts to choke off the regime’s access to global revenue streams as part of an ongoing pressure campaign, officials said. The actions are part
Why Government Corruption Has Boomed in Trump’s Second Term — theatlantic.com
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