Month: September 2025

Bitcoin’s Choppiness Index Continues To Climb, Potential Breakout Looms

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Bitcoin’s continued volatility compression has intensified with what analyst Checkmate refers to as the “choppiness index,” a metric that gauges sideways price consolidation.Previous CoinDesk research has highlighted that bitcoin’s implied volatility remains at multi-year lows, which supports the sideways consolidation in bitcoin’s price. This choppiness reflects bitcoin’s recent rangebound behavior. For the past few months, … Read more

Spatial-Photonic Ising Machines and the Next Era of Computing

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Table of Links I. Introduction II. Spim Performance, Advantages and Generality III. Inherently Low Rank Problems A. Properties of Low Rank Graphs B. Weakly NP-Complete Problems and Hardware Precision Limitation C. Limitation of Low Rank Matrix Mapping IV. Low Rank Approximation A. Decomposition of Target Coupling Matrix B. How Fields Influence Ran C. Low Rank … Read more

David Zaslav thinks HBO Max is ‘way underpriced’

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Everyone’s favorite CEO, Warner Bros. Discovery head David Zaslav, thinks HBO Max is ripe for a price hike. Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia and Technology Conference (doesn’t that sound like a fun time?) Zaslav argued that his company’s premium output can command a premium price. “The fact that this is quality — and that’s … Read more

Avalanche Foundation Eyes $1B Raise to Fund Two Crypto Treasury Companies: FT

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The Avalanche Foundation aims to raise $1 billion to create two crypto treasury companies holding millions of AVAX tokens, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. The AVAX tokens would be bought from the foundation, the non-profit group that oversees the Avalanche blockchain, at a discounted price, according to the report, which cited people familiar with … Read more

Blockchain-Based Lender Figure Prices IPO at $25 Per Share, Raising Nearly $788M

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Figure Technologies, a blockchain-focused lending platform founded by SoFi co-founder Mike Cagney, has priced its initial public offering at $25 per share, which would raise $787.5 million. Shares of the company’s Class A stock is scheduled to begin trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “FIGR” later today, September 11, according to a press … Read more

Scroll DAO to Pause Governance Structure Amid Leadership Shake-Up, Redesign Plans

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The Scroll decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) is set to “pause” its governance process after leadership resignations and confusion over live proposals, key DAO members discussed during on a Wednesday delegate call. A DAO operates according to blockchain rules rather than a centralized authority. The rules are coded into smart contracts, and members typically hold tokens … Read more

Bull Trap Warning for Bitcoin, Dogecoin, XRP Emerges as S&P 500 Prints Rising Wedge; U.S. Inflation Eyed

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This is a daily analysis by CoinDesk analyst and Chartered Market Technician Omkar Godbole. Major cryptocurrencies are looking bullish, with market leader bitcoin (BTC) exhibiting a classic inverse head-and-shoulders breakout that could propel it toward $120,000. But there’s a catch. The daily chart for the S&P 500 E-Mini futures is displaying a bearish pattern, indicating … Read more

How SPIMs Tackle “Realistic” Spin Glass and Möbius Ladder Graphs

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Table of Links I. Introduction II. Spim Performance, Advantages and Generality III. Inherently Low Rank Problems A. Properties of Low Rank Graphs B. Weakly NP-Complete Problems and Hardware Precision Limitation C. Limitation of Low Rank Matrix Mapping IV. Low Rank Approximation A. Decomposition of Target Coupling Matrix B. How Fields Influence Ran C. Low Rank … Read more

AI-Driven User Intent Targeting for SEO

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Introduction to AI in User Intent Targeting The landscape of search engine optimization (SEO) has undergone a profound transformation. The days of simply stuffing a page with a keyword are over. Today’s search engines, powered by sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI), prioritize content that truly understands and addresses the user’s underlying need. This shift has made … Read more

Marketing Laws That Push the Boundaries of Ethics (In Google AI Overview’s Words)

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Foundational vs. Forbidden For decades, marketers worshipped The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Al Ries and Jack Trout. It was neat, digestible, safe enough to be quoted in classrooms and boardrooms. But time has revealed its flaw: immutability is a lie. Markets mutate daily. Attention fragments by the second. Strategy that does not adapt … Read more

The Death of Clicks: Why Google’s AI Overviews Are an Existential Threat to SEO

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For too long, we’ve treated SEO like an eternal fortress. We laid down keywords, fortified backlinks, and flooded content, believing we’d outlast the algorithm. Yet, even the strongest fortresses fall when the terrain shifts, and the search landscape has changed. SEO is not dead, but it’s coughing blood. The rise of AI Overviews is reshaping … Read more