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Coinbase Revenue Likely Declined 20% Last Quarter, Analysts Say — bloomberg.com
Coinbase Global Inc. will probably say revenue dropped nearly 20% when it reports fourth-quarter earnings in two weeks, weighed down by tumbling cryptocurrency values, according to Bloomberg Intelligence.
Judge hits Chinese crypto scammer who helped swindle $37 million from U.S. victims with 46-month sentence — fortune.com
Jingliang Su, a Chinese national, faces almost four years in prison for his role in crypto fraud that relied on befriending Americans on social media, then winning their trust in order to fleece them. He laundered about $37 million from 174 U.S. victims
How Winter Storm Fern Slowed Down the Bitcoin Network — gizmodo.com
When an immutable blockchain meets unstoppable force of nature.
Here’s Who Could Profit from Trump’s Pursuit of Greenland — motherjones.com
On January 15, the governor of Louisiana appeared on Fox News to discuss the fate of an autonomous European territory nearly 3,000 miles away from his home state. “The president is serious about reinforcing the Monroe Doctrine,” Republican Gov. Jeff Landry
US Marshals Are Investigating a Possible Digital-Asset Hack — bloomberg.com
The US Marshals Service, which provides custody of cryptocurrencies seized by or forfeited to federal law enforcement agencies, said it’s investigating a possible hack of US government digital-asset accounts.
What the Neocons Got Right — theatlantic.com
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube On this week’s episode of The David Frum Show, David opens with his reflections on the recent shootings in Minneapolis. He argues that these killings, alongside ICE’s warrantless home raids and mistaken
Hackers Say They've Hacked Match Group, Maker of Hinge, OkCupid — 404media.co
Hackers claimed on Wednesday they’ve stolen a mass of internal data from Match Group, which runs dating apps Hinge, Match, and OkCupid. Match Group, the company that owns the targeted platforms as well as Tinder and other massively popular dating apps,
The new boss? Not the same as the old boss — codastory.com
In the good old days, all a money launderer had to do was take a bag full of cash into a bank, hand it over, and walk out with a cashier’s cheque. Annoying rules and regulations have long made that kind of thing difficult/laborious, but fortunately for
Congress Wants to Publicly Fund Lobbyists at the SEC — jacobin.com
House Democrats worked with the GOP to advance a bill establishing a publicly funded corporate lobbying committee within the Securities and Exchange Commission. Several lawmakers pushing the bill are heavily funded by businesses overseen by the regulator.
Fidelity enters crowded stablecoin field with new FIDD token — fortune.com
Fidelity Investments, one of the largest asset managers on the planet, announced on Wednesday it will launch its own stablecoin. Like other stablecoins, Fidelity’s token—known as the Fidelity Digital Dollar or FIDD—will be fully backed by reserves to
DDC Strengthens Bitcoin Treasury with Additional 100 BTC – Company Announcement — ft.com
DDC Strengthens Bitcoin Treasury with Additional 100 BTC – Company Announcement Financial Times
Windscribe review: Despite the annoyances, it has the right idea — engadget.com
Windscribe is a virtual private network (VPN) with intense "How do you do, fellow kids?" energy. It has servers in 69 countries and an annual plan that costs $69, an obsession with the sex number that rivals Elon Musk's. I'm shocked that it doesn't have a
Gold is going up because Trump is talking down the dollar, feeding ‘the narrative of relative U.S. decline,’ UBS fears — fortune.com
The price of gold hit another new record yesterday, soaring above $5,300. It’s up an astonishing 3% this morning, as measured by the Comex continuous contract. Gold has gained 22.31%, year to date. It’s not hard to see why. Gold is outperforming as a
[America Is at Its Wits’ End. What We Do
Now Matters.](https://newrepublic.com/article/205781/minneapolis-protest-resist-trump-fascism) — newrepublic.com MAGA men oil their guns with liberal tears, I know, but I have to admit I’ve been shedding them. Or not tears exactly, but a touch of liberal blood. Maybe that works on their guns too. A few days ago, back when I was forcibly trying to tune out the
Silicon Valley Wants to Make Greenland a Libertarian Dystopia — jacobin.com
Donald Trump’s push to acquire Greenland has alienated many longtime allies. But it has tantalized a cohort of tech billionaires who see the island as a potential laboratory for “freedom cities,” or privately governed zones without regulation or democracy.
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