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Bitcoin outperforms gold and stocks since beginning of Iran war — fortune.com
During the week and a half since the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran, Bitcoin is doing better than gold and stocks. Since the start of the war, the original cryptocurrency is up about 7%, and on Wednesday was trading at around $71,000, according to Binance.
Binance sues WSJ, panicked by gov’t probes into sanctioned crypto transfers — arstechnica.com
Binance is hoping that suing The Wall Street Journal for defamation might help shake off a fresh round of government probes into how the cryptocurrency exchange failed to detect $1.7 billion in transfers to a network that was funding Iran-backed terror
Binance sues Wall Street Journal over reporting on Iranian sanctions — theguardian.com
Journal reported that cryptocurrency exchange shut down internal investigation into transactions with network funding terror groups Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox The US government is investigating Binance
Circle, Binance Join Mastercard’s Crypto Partner Program — bloomberg.com
Mastercard Inc. is recruiting more than 85 digital asset firms, payments providers and financial institutions including Circle Internet Group Inc., Binance and Gemini Space Station Inc., into a new global partnership program designed to keep crypto
Why Kleptocrats go to war without a care in the world — codastory.com
Kleptocracy is a global system, which allows crooks, thieves, oligarchs, tycoons, and the like to enjoy their wealth while evading any responsibility to the society where they obtained that wealth. It infects different countries to different extents, and
The AI threat costing Americans $16.6 billion a year — vox.com
I was fortunate enough to spend several days last week at the Aspen Institute’s Crosscurrent summit on AI and national security in San Francisco. My first takeaway: I very much recommend being in sunny (at the moment, at least) San Francisco rather than
Iran’s new supreme leader is injured but reportedly ‘safe’ as traders sour on war exit strategy — fortune.com
Good morning. In today’s Fortune: Exclusive: Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Gates, Microsoft, and their web of sex, money, and secrets. Iran’s new supreme leader is injured but reportedly ‘safe.’ Investor sentiment sours on war exit strategy. $200 per barrel? Some
How the ultrawealthy use smartphone apps to avoid millions in taxes — fortune.com
Tax apps such as Monaeo, TaxBird, and TaxDay operate quietly in the background of smartphones, tracking physical location, counting days spent in each jurisdiction, issuing alerts as statutory thresholds approach, and generating exportable logs designed
White House signals safe passage for housing bill — semafor.com
The Senate is on track to pass President Donald Trump’s proposed ban on institutional investors in housing as part of a larger package of measures this week. Trump said he won’t sign any bills until Congress passes new voter ID legislation, which still
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