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December 15, 2025
From Bitcoin Pioneer to Building the World’s First Special Sustainability Zone — dailycaller.com
How Olivier Janssens Is Redefining Shared Prosperity When Olivier Janssens quietly began mining Bitcoin in 2010, few could have predicted where the technology, or his career, would lead. At the time, Bitcoin traded for roughly one dollar, was barely
Watch Stocks Fall as Bitcoin Extends 2025 Losses | Closing Bell — bloomberg.com
Watch Stocks Fall as Bitcoin Extends 2025 Losses | Closing Bell Bloomberg.com
Older Americans lost up to $81.5B in the past year to financial fraud, FTC report says — foxbusiness.com
Scammers are draining seniors’ life savings at staggering rates, a new Federal Trade Commission report shows, with older Americans reporting about four times more in fraud losses in 2024 than in 2020. Main findings from the FTC’s Protecting Older Consumers
Bitcoin Breaches $86,000 While Sinking Toward Year’s Lows — bloomberg.com
Bitcoin Breaches $86,000 While Sinking Toward Year’s Lows Bloomberg.com
JPMorgan debuts first money market fund tokenized on Ethereum — americanbanker.com
The New-York based bank on Monday debuted the My OnChain Net Yield Fund, or MONY, a private fund supported by JPMorgan's tokenization platform, Kinexys Digital Assets.
XRP price takes another hit today as digital asset slide continues. What’s happening with the crypto market? — fastcompany.com
The native token of the XRP ledger launched by Ripple Labs has struggled to stay above a key psychological threshold over the last several days. The value of cryptocurrency XRP continues to slide, dipping as low as $1.92 as of Monday morning. XRP—the
Bill Pulte Promoted a Memecoin Run by an Influencer Facing Fraud Charges — motherjones.com
Bill Pulte, the embattled head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), once promoted a dubious memecoin created by a social media influencer facing fraud charges. The previously unreported episode raises additional questions about the 37-year-old
JPMorgan launches new crypto fund for wealthy investors — after Jamie Dimon called bitcoin a ‘fraud’ and ‘Ponzi scheme’ — nypost.com
The bank's asset-management division, which handles $4 trillion, will start the fund with $100 million of its own money and open it to outside investors on Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Young People's Mental Health Is Improving. Tech Alarmists Take Note. — reason.com
Young people's mental health seems to be getting better. The most recent Healthy Minds Study, from researchers at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health, shows rates of anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation decreasing among U.S. college
Attackers Are Spreading Malware Through ChatGPT — lifehacker.com
You (hopefully) know by now that you can't take everything AI tells you at face value. Large language models (LLMs) sometimes provide incorrect information, and threat actors are now using paid search ads on Google to spread conversations with ChatGPT and
Strategy Buys Almost $1 Billion in Bitcoin Again in Past Week — bloomberg.com
Strategy Buys Almost $1 Billion in Bitcoin Again in Past Week Bloomberg.com
Bittensor, the AI-linked cryptocurrency founded by a former Google engineer, just halved its supply. Here’s what that means — fortune.com
Early on Monday, the supply of new cryptocurrency tied to Bittensor—a decentralized network of AI projects—dropped by half. The halving was the first the currency has experienced and came about by design, reflecting how Bittensor shares the same
Making Corruption Rampant Again — theatlantic.com
When Donald Trump pardoned U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar earlier this month, he added to a spate of clemencies that has directly attacked a founding principle of America’s democratic republic: the expectation that elected representatives will serve as
The Download: introducing the AI Hype Correction package — technologyreview.com
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the AI Hype Correction package AI is going to reproduce human intelligence. AI will eliminate disease. AI
Crypto wallets, long a painful experience, now feel a lot more like Venmo — fortune.com
Crypto wallets are having a moment. The latest example is Kalshi announcing an integration with Phantom to offer event contracts to the wallet’s 15 million users. While the prediction market angle is intriguing (these markets are a HUGE story right now),
Trump Is Hellbent on Crushing Federal Unions, But They’re Still Kicking — motherjones.com
Chandler Bursey used to have an office. It was a modest room at the Veterans Affairs campus in Idaho, a set of buildings nestled under one of the mountain ridges reaching into Boise. The office, a meeting place for members of the union chapter Bursey
The Magnificent 7 isn’t that magnificent: 5 of the stocks have underperformed the market this year — fortune.com
S&P 500 futures were up 0.44% this morning after the index lost 1.07% on Friday, a day after setting a new all-time high on Dec.11. The index is still up 16% year-to-date—an above-average performance for U.S. stocks. Analysts have long complained that the
Exclusive: Visa launches stablecoins advisory practice to keep up with crypto wave — fortune.com
Another major financial institution is doubling down on stablecoins and on crypto. This time, it’s Visa. The company announced on Monday the launch of its Stablecoins Advisory Practice, a service which aims to aid fintechs, banks, and other businesses with
What you need to know about new UK rules on cryptocurrency — independent.co.uk
AI coding is now everywhere. But not everyone is convinced. — technologyreview.com
Depending who you ask, AI-powered coding is either giving software developers an unprecedented productivity boost or churning out masses of poorly designed code that saps their attention and sets software projects up for serious long term-maintenance
Bitcoin investor plans Caribbean community — with its own court system — ft.com
Bitcoin investor plans Caribbean community — with its own court system Financial Times
Is Crypto an Opportunity or a Threat? — project-syndicate.org
Innovation should enhance economic fundamentals, not erode them. With enthusiasm for crypto remaining strong, speculative unbacked tokens and lightly regulated stablecoins must be contained before they threaten financial stability and become part of the
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