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CFTC chair’s final message includes a call for crypto guardrails
In what he said would be his last remarks as CFTC chair, Rostin Behnam said he intended to advocate for the commission to address regulatory challenges over digital assets.
Mastodon CEO calls Meta’s moderation changes ‘deeply troubling,’ warns users cross-posting from Threads
Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko has spoken out about the significant moderation changes announced by Meta on Tuesday, which will see the social networking giant removing fact-checking across its apps in favor of a crowdsourced community notes feature, similar to X’s. The Mastodon founder, whose app competes with X and Meta’s X rival, Instagram Threads, called … Read more
Bitcoin Slips Below $93K in Crypto Selloff, but Trader Sees Short-Term Bounce
Bitcoin (BTC) erased all its early-2025 rise on Wednesday as macro jitters and the global bond rout accelerated the sell-off in crypto prices. The largest crypto slipped to a session low of $92,600 during U.S. trading hours, shedding nearly 10% in two days from its Monday peak above $102,000. It has recovered some of the … Read more
Crypto Crash, Inflation fears return, MLG hits $100M
Crypto crashes amidst escalating inflation fears. MicroStrategy plans $2bn capital raise to buy BTC.ETFs buying BTC 20x faster than it is being mined. Nation BTC adoption to drive crypto: Fidelity. Czech national bank considers BTC reserve. S. Korea to lift institutional crypto trading ban. BTC sell side liquidity at lowest level since 2018. XRP ETF … Read more
Gamers can’t fathom how 6x CEO Elon Musk found time to best Diablo IV
On October 16 and November 20, Elon Musk tweeted videos of himself clearing the highest level of the Diablo IV video game in about 2 minutes. While Diablo IV has been out since mid-2023, the latest “season,” called The Pit, launched on October 7. Many asked: How did he find the time to do it … Read more
The Fannie and Freddie trade is back
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This basketball robot uses AI to rebound the ball after you shoot
Like anything in life, the secret to becoming Steph Curry or Sabrina Ionescu is practice, practice, and more practice. You practice when it’s too hot, too cold, you’re tired, or you’re sick. Finding a willing one-on-one partner through all of that is, however, another question entirely. The good news is that later this year, you … Read more
COTI Agents Becomes First AI Project In The COTI Ecosystem
SINGAPORE, Singapore, January 8th, 2025/Chainwire/–COTI Agents has launched its advanced AI Agent platform, becoming the first AI project on the expanding COTI Network ecosystem. COTI Agents enable users to not only launch, but also train and even trade AI agents with a few clicks. As data privacy is a growing issue within the AI industry, … Read more
AIPUMP Rivals VIRTUALS On Solana; KuCoin Announces First AI Token Listing Of 2025
LONDON, United Kingdom, January 8th, 2025/Chainwire/–aiPump, a no-code platform for the creation and deployment of AI Agents in the blockchain space, has been listed on KuCoin as the exchange’s first AI token listing of 2025. This development positions AIPUMP as a competitor to VIRTUALS on the Solana blockchain, highlighting its innovative approach to tokenized AI … Read more
Do Kwon Criminal Trial Set for 2026 as Lawyers Deal with ‘Massive’ Trove of Evidence
NEW YORK, NY — Terraform Labs co-founder and former CEO Do Kwon’s criminal fraud trial in the U.S. has been tentatively scheduled for next January, allowing prosecutors and Kwon’s defense attorneys adequate time to review the “massive” six-terabyte trove of data expected to be produced during the discovery process. During an initial hearing in Manhattan … Read more
Don’t Fall Into the ‘Microservices Are Cool’ Trap and Know When to Stick to Monolith Instead
Monoliths and microservices are two basic approaches to building applications. Some people consider them to be legacy and modern, respectively. But this is not quite right. Choosing between them is a very complex question, with both having their pros and cons. Most new applications do not need to be microservices from the very beginning. It … Read more
Pudgy Penguins’ NFT sales nosedive as token rallies: Nifty Newsletter
Pudgy Penguins’ PENGU token jumps 13% despite NFT sales dropping over 50%, fueled by a viral marketing campaign.
Decentralization is in danger — We can fix it
We can preserve Bitcoin’s core principles while enabling advanced functionality and interoperability.
Gridware’s boxes literally listen to power lines to find outages
Gridware’s sensors listen for sounds that the company’s software has been trained to identify as different hazards to the grid. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Ukrainian hackers take credit for hacking Russian ISP that wiped out servers and caused internet outages
The Russian ISP blamed the Ukrainian hackers for causing a “complete failure” across its internet infrastructure. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
This Week in AI: More capable AI is coming, but will its benefits be evenly distributed?
Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. The AI news cycle didn’t slow down much this holiday season. Between OpenAI’s 12 days of “shipmas” and DeepSeek’s major model release on Christmas Day, blink and you’d miss some new development. And it’s not slowing … Read more
Bitcoin price dip to $92.5K caused by Fed interest rate concerns: Analyst
Rising concerns about Federal Reserve monetary policy and rising bond rates are having a negative impact on Bitcoin’s price.
Here’s how small Nvidia’s $3,000 Digits supercomputer looks in person
Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge One of the biggest announcements in Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s CES keynote was the small “Project Digits” AI supercomputer, and if you want to get an idea of just how tiny the $3,000 machine is in real life, we snapped a couple photos of the device under glass … Read more
C++26: A Placeholder with No Name
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U.S. CFTC Chief Benham’s Last Words to Crypto: Protect the Investors
Though U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission chief Rostin Behnam never managed to make it happen, the derivatives watchdog is likely to one day play a more prominent role in overseeing cryptocurrency trading, something he will “continue to advocate” for after he’s gone. Behnam, who will step down on January 20 to make way for President-elect … Read more
Movement Labs to close $100M VC round: Report
The deal would reportedly value the layer-2 developer at around $3 billion, Fortune reported.
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