Bitcoin Down 2.5% as China Slaps Retaliatory Tariffs on U.S., Probes Google

Bitcoin (BTC) and Nasdaq futures faced renewed selling pressure during Asia trading hours on Tuesday as China imposed retaliatory tariffs against the U.S. China also announced an antitrust probe into Google, while moving clothing firm PVH Corp and biotechnology firm Illumina to the list of unreliable entities. Beijing imposed a 15% duty on U.S. coal … Read more

TRON, Movement Labs Deny ‘Token Swap’ Deal for World Liberty Financial Inclusion

Representatives from two protocols that have tokens held by the treasury of World Liberty Financial (WLFI), a crypto project backed by President Donald Trump and his family, are denying the existence of a token swap agreement that required a $10 million – $15 million buy-in to get included in the project. A report from Blockworks … Read more

U.S. Prosecutors Charge Canadian Man With $65M Hacks of Indexed Finance, KyberSwap

U.S. prosecutors have charged a 22-year-old Canadian man with stealing a combined $65 million in crypto through two separate decentralized finance (DeFi) hacks — the 2021 Indexed Finance exploit and the 2023 KyberSwap hack. In a newly-unsealed indictment filed in the Eastern District of New York (EDNY), prosecutors say Andean “Andy” Medjedovic was the mastermind behind … Read more

Logarithmic Scaling: Handling Extreme Data Variability

Analyzing datasets with extreme variability is a common challenge. Whether it’s user activity on a platform, financial data, or scientific measurements, large values can overshadow smaller ones, making it hard to derive meaningful insights. Logarithmic scaling is a common technique for addressing this issue. It compresses wide-ranging data into manageable scales while preserving its relative … Read more

Can anyone stop President Musk?

Musk’s chaos comes for Washington. Elon Musk has an uncanny ability to sort out which of America’s rules are real. It turns out punishment from the National Labor Relations Board isn’t real, punishment from NASA isn’t real, and punishment from the FAA isn’t real. The Delaware Chancery Court is extremely real. Based on the past … Read more

Treasury Department sued over DOGE takeover

President Donald Trump’s administration is being sued over Elon Musk’s alleged “massive and unprecedented” intrusion into the American government’s payment systems. The suit, filed in a Washington, DC federal court Monday evening by the advocacy group Public Citizen, calls for the court to stop the “unlawful, ongoing, systematic, and continuous disclosure of personal and financial … Read more