Month: March 2025

Crypto regulation must go through Congress for lasting change — Wiley Nickel

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Crypto regulations must be enacted through an act of Congress to become permanent and meaningful pieces of legislation, according to former Congressman Wiley Nickel. In an exclusive video interview with Cointelegraph’s Turner Wright, Nickel urged bipartisan collaboration to push through comprehensive crypto regulations. The former Congressman added: “I think it’s really important for anybody who … Read more

Solana rallies 8% as crypto markets recover — Is there room for more SOL upside?

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Solana’s native token, SOL (SOL), rose 8% on March 19 as investors turned to riskier assets ahead of US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s remarks. While interest rates are expected to stay unchanged, analysts anticipate a softer inflation outlook for 2025. Meanwhile, key onchain and derivatives metrics for Solana suggest further upside for SOL price. … Read more

Ghost connects its newsletters to the open web

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Newsletter platform Ghost switched on its fediverse connectivity this week, allowing bloggers to share their works across the various social platforms that support the open ActivityPub protocol. Ghost initially promised the feature would go live in 2024. But it’s available now in beta for Ghost(Pro) users, TechCrunch reports. With ActivityPub, users on platforms such as … Read more

Meta and Tax Prep Companies “Recklessly” Shared Taxpayers’ Data, According to Congressional Report

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Update, November 1: Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan responded in writing to the report led by Senator Elizabeth Warren and triggered by The Markup’s investigation into tax preparation companies’ use of the Meta Pixel. Khan’s letter acknowledged Warren’s request for FTC action and said that, “in response to public reporting on this issue,” the … Read more

OpenAI research lead Noam Brown thinks AI ‘reasoning’ models could’ve arrived decades ago

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Noam Brown, who leads AI reasoning research at OpenAI, says “reasoning” AI models like OpenAI’s o1 could’ve arrived 20 years earlier had researchers “known [the right] approach” and algorithms. “There were various reasons why this research direction was neglected,” Brown said during a panel at Nvidia’s GTC conference in San Jose on Wednesday. “I noticed … Read more

Trump to speak at Digital Asset Summit: Report

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United States President Donald Trump will reportedly speak at Blockworks’ Digital Asset Summit in New York on March 20, Blockworks said.  His speech will mark the first time a sitting US president has ever spoken at a cryptocurrency conference, Blockworks said in a March 19 announcement. Trump’s presence at the event underscores his embrace of … Read more

Apache Kafka’s New Tiered Storage: What Developers Need to Know

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Open source Apache Kafka has long been the backbone of real-time data streaming, but it’s traditionally come with a trade-off: keep expanding expensive broker storage or sacrifice historical data retention. With Kafka’s Tiered Storage, it’s a dilemma that’s finally fading (if you know what you’re doing). By offloading older data to cheaper cloud object storage … Read more

70% of EU crypto payments go to retail, food and beverages — Oobit

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70% of crypto payments in the European Union go toward retail, food and beverage purchases, according to a report from Oobit, a cryptocurrency payments platform that surveyed its users’ spending habits. The report, which denominated all transactions in US dollars, showed that the average payment size using the Oobit app was $8.36, while the average … Read more

Answer to Win from 15,000 USDT: How does Gluwa Facilitate Global Financial Inclusion?

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For a chance to win from 15,000 USDT in prizes, the Spacecoin Writing Contest challenges writers, web3 builders, and crypto natives to discuss how Gluwa facilitates global financial inclusion. :::info Below is a list of questions to help you get started on your draft. You can answer them here. ::: Title Question: How does Gluwa Facilitate Global Financial Inclusion? 1. … Read more