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  • Blockchain needs a killer use case, and authentication is cold-blooded
    by Tyler Adams on December 8, 2024 at 7:00 pm

    The following article is an op-ed by Tyler Adams, CEO & Co-Founder at COZ. For the last two years, crypto developers and venture capital have been hyper-focused on supporting infrastructure projects to the detriment of consumer-facing applications. If you look around this industry, you will see a plethora of tools for developers to integrate privacy The post Blockchain needs a killer use case, and authentication is cold-blooded appeared […]

  • Crypto industry frustrated over possibility of SEC commissioner Caroline Crenshaw’s renomination
    by Monika Ghosh on December 8, 2024 at 6:51 pm

    On Dec 11, the U.S. Senate Banking Committee will decide whether to renominate Caroline Crenshaw, a Democrat Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) commissioner. Crenshaw has always been a staunch critic of cryptocurrencies and the crypto community is not happy with the prospect of her re-election. Crenshaw is ‘anti-crypto,’ says Coinbase COO Crenshaw, who was sworn The post Crypto industry frustrated over possibility of SEC commissioner […]

  • Trump, Bitcoin, and the race for tokenized capital markets
    by Jesse Knutson on December 8, 2024 at 1:18 pm

    The following is a guest article from Jesse Knutson, Head of Operations at Bitfinex Securities. Donald Trump’s re-election victory and the massive success of the Bitcoin ETFs earlier in the year have been major catalysts behind Bitcoin’s ascent towards $100,000. Gains over the last few weeks have been driven by the anticipation of Trump 2.0 The post Trump, Bitcoin, and the race for tokenized capital markets appeared first on CryptoSlate.

  • DeFi lending on Liquidium hits 4-month high as Bitcoin soars past $100K
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on December 7, 2024 at 1:30 am

    DeFi lending on Bitcoin-based Liquidium reached a four-month high of 21 BTC on Dec. 5, following the top asset climb to a new all-time high above $100,000. Onchain data reveals that loans against Runes accounted for 57% of Liquidium’s daily volume, contributing 12 BTC, while Ordinals accounted for the remaining 43%, contributing 9 BTC. These The post DeFi lending on Liquidium hits 4-month high as Bitcoin soars past $100K appeared first on […]

  • FSOC warns stablecoins pose stability risks, calls for legislative action to enhance oversight
    by Assad Jafri on December 7, 2024 at 12:00 am

    The Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) raised concerns that stablecoins pose a mounting risk to financial stability due to inadequate oversight and significant market concentration, according to its 2024 annual report. The report called for urgent legislative action to create a comprehensive federal framework for stablecoin issuers to mitigate risks tied to their rapid growth The post FSOC warns stablecoins pose stability risks, calls […]

  • SEC rejecting Solana ETFs is Gensler’s ‘parting gift’ to crypto industry – Bloomberg analyst
    by Gino Matos on December 6, 2024 at 10:30 pm

    The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will reportedly reject two spot Solana (SOL) exchange-traded funds (ETF) applications, according to Bloomberg ETF senior analyst Eric Balchunas. Balchunas said the rejections were Chair Gary Gensler’s “parting gift” to the crypto industry. Fox News reported Eleanor Terrett revealed sources at two Solana ETF issuers told her the The post SEC rejecting Solana ETFs is Gensler’s ‘parting […]

  • Australia intensifies crypto ATM oversight to curb money laundering risks
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on December 6, 2024 at 9:30 pm

    The Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) has intensified efforts to enforce Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing (AML/CTF) regulations among crypto ATM providers. On Dec. 6, the watchdog said that crypto ATMs are increasingly used for money laundering and other illicit activities. Despite the country having around 400 registered crypto exchanges, only a small portion The post Australia intensifies […]

  • Former US Treasury Secretary calls Bitcoin reserve ‘crazy’ idea
    by Gino Matos on December 6, 2024 at 8:45 pm

    Former US Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers said in an interview with Bloomberg that the idea of a national Bitcoin (BTC) reserve is “crazy. “ Summers said he understands the concept of other commodities’ reserves, such as oil and gold, but argued: “Of all the prices to support, why would the government choose to The post Former US Treasury Secretary calls Bitcoin reserve ‘crazy’ idea appeared first on CryptoSlate.

  • StanChart updates Bitcoin price projection to $200k by 2025-end
    by Assad Jafri on December 6, 2024 at 8:00 pm

    Standard Chartered believes Bitcoin (BTC) could reach $200,000 by the end of 2025 as institutional investments and anticipated regulatory shifts solidify its position as a mainstream asset. In its latest report, the bank attributed Bitcoin’s surge past $100,000 this year to unprecedented institutional inflows and projected a clear path for further growth. Growing interest StanChart’s The post StanChart updates Bitcoin price projection to […]

  • Coinbase exec publishes FDIC letters urging banks to halt or avoid crypto services
    by Gino Matos on December 6, 2024 at 7:02 pm

    Coinbase chief legal officer Paul Grewal has disclosed letters from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to banks throughout 2022, urging them to halt or avoid crypto-related activities. The letters, which date back to March 11, 2022, have been dubbed “pause letters” due to their repeated recommendations to suspend or refrain from engaging in crypto The post Coinbase exec publishes FDIC letters urging banks to halt or avoid […]

  • Introducing The New ZeroHedge Store!
    by Tyler Durden on December 9, 2024 at 2:40 am

    Introducing The New ZeroHedge Store! Since launching ZeroHedge in 2009, our mission has been to cut through the bullshit and provide you with an authentic, unfiltered platform for news and conversation from all over the world. Having earned your trust over the past 15 years, curating the world’s incessant newsflow – while battling the censorship industrial complex through subscriptions and partnerships – we have decided to create […]

  • Biden ‘Worst President’ In Modern History; Devastating New Poll Finds
    by Tyler Durden on December 8, 2024 at 7:35 pm

    Biden ‘Worst President’ In Modern History; Devastating New Poll Finds Voters have delivered a devastating verdict on Joe Biden’s time in office, branding him the worst president in almost 50 years. The poll results are extremely interesting because they partially reflect America’s profound partisan divide (Reagan and Obama had the same favorables, but Obama’s unfavorables were higher). Meanwhile, Donald Trump had the third […]

  • “Sharp Polar Blast” & Eastern Tracking Storm Could Bring More Lake-Effect Snow For Northeast
    by Tyler Durden on December 8, 2024 at 6:25 pm

    “Sharp Polar Blast” & Eastern Tracking Storm Could Bring More Lake-Effect Snow For Northeast A short blast of polar air next week, combined with a storm expected to track into the eastern part of the country, could bring wet, windy, and snowy weather conditions.  Meteorologists at the Weather Channel laid out what to expect next week: M​onday – Monday Night: An initial wave of moisture along this frontal system’s warm […]

  • House Overwhelmingly Passes ‘Crucial Communism Teaching Act’
    by Tyler Durden on December 8, 2024 at 5:50 pm

    House Overwhelmingly Passes ‘Crucial Communism Teaching Act’ Authored by Stacey Robinson via The Epoch Times, The House on Dec. 6 passed the Crucial Communism Teaching Act with a vote of 327–62. The bill, introduced by Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) and cosponsored by 33 members of the House, seeks to address a gap in the education system related to the history of communism. “Communism is one of the most destructive […]

  • Watch: Trump To Pardon J6ers, End ‘Birthright Citizenship’ On Day One
    by Tyler Durden on December 8, 2024 at 5:15 pm

    Watch: Trump To Pardon J6ers, End ‘Birthright Citizenship’ On Day One President-elect Donald Trump said he’s going to pardon Jan. 6 defendants on his first day in office, telling “Meet the Press” that “These people are living in hell.” “I’m going to be acting very quickly … First day,” Trump told NBC’s Kristen Welker. “They’ve been in there for years, and they’re in a filthy, disgusting place that shouldn’t even be allowed to […]

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  • Damascus Now Ruled By ‘Al Qaeda In Suits’ As Assad Emerges In Moscow
    by Tyler Durden on December 8, 2024 at 5:02 pm

    Damascus Now Ruled By ‘Al Qaeda In Suits’ As Assad Emerges In Moscow Update: BREAKING: Bashar al-Assad and family are in Moscow: Russian news agencies, via AFP * * * Since the overnight hours Damascus has been under the control of the Islamist militants led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and backed by Turkey. The country’s President Bashar al-Assad has been overthrown, and his whereabouts are unknown, after the extremely rapid […]

  • LA Times Owner May Add Bias Meter To Site Next Year
    by Tyler Durden on December 8, 2024 at 4:40 pm

    LA Times Owner May Add Bias Meter To Site Next Year Authored by Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov via Headline USA, The Los Angeles Times’ owner recently revealed that the newspaper will add a bias meter to its website in 2025… Patrick Soon-Shiong, the biotech billionaire who acquired the newspaper in 2018, told CNN political commentator Scott Jennings on his Flyover Country podcast that he’s been “quietly […]

  • Bird Flu: The “Next Pandemic” Is Right On Schedule
    by Tyler Durden on December 8, 2024 at 3:30 pm

    Bird Flu: The “Next Pandemic” Is Right On Schedule Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org, We haven’t published anything about bird flu since June. There hasn’t been much to say. Nevertheless, I still regularly comb through journals and news sites, ensuring we don’t miss anything potentially important. During one such search yesterday evening I found this article in the journal Science, its title asking simply: […]

  • Damascus Has Fallen: Assad Has Reportedly Left The Capital
    by Tyler Durden on December 8, 2024 at 3:00 pm

    Damascus Has Fallen: Assad Has Reportedly Left The Capital Update(2200ET): Damascus has fallen. Unverified reports say President Assad and top officials have fled to Dubai or elsewhere but the situation overnight is fluid and anything but clear in terms of the location of top leadership. They may be in Latakia on the coast, or headed there. What is clear, however, is that the jihadists have entered the heart of the capital. This […]

  • CEO Killer’s Backpack Held Monopoly Money But No Gun – Police Release New Photo
    by Tyler Durden on December 8, 2024 at 2:55 pm

    CEO Killer’s Backpack Held Monopoly Money But No Gun – Police Release New Photo In a colorful twist in a case playing out like a TV crime drama, the backpack ditched by the killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson held Monopoly money and a jacket — but not the murder weapon. With no name publicly attached to the suspect’s smiling face that was captured by a hostel’s camera, police on Saturday issued a new photo of the man, […]

  • CVS Removes Executives’ Photos From Website Amid Industry Security Concerns
    by Tyler Durden on December 8, 2024 at 2:20 pm

    CVS Removes Executives’ Photos From Website Amid Industry Security Concerns Authored by Rudy Blalock via The Epoch Times, CVS Health has removed photographs of its executives from the company’s website, a move confirmed to NTD News in an emailed statement on Friday. The reason for this action remains undisclosed. “We can confirm that we removed the photos from our website, but have no other comment,” CVS told NTD News. […]

  • Guinea Is The Deadliest Place In The World To Drive (Worse Than Libya!)
    by Tyler Durden on December 8, 2024 at 1:45 pm

    Guinea Is The Deadliest Place In The World To Drive (Worse Than Libya!) According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), an estimated 1.19 million people die in road accidents around the world each year. The United Nations General Assembly has set the target of halving this number by 2030. Road traffic injuries have become the leading cause of death for people aged between 5 and 29 years old. According to the WHO, more than […]

  • US Bill Would Reverse ATACMS Order
    by Tyler Durden on December 8, 2024 at 1:10 pm

    US Bill Would Reverse ATACMS Order Authored by Joe Lauria via ConsortiumNews.com, A bill introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) would prohibit the U.S. from sending long-range ATACMS missiles to Ukraine to be fired into Russia. ATACMS missile firing in May 2006. (U.S. Army/Wikimedia Commons) As U.S. personnel and satellites are required to fire the missiles from Ukrainian territory, […]

  • Lowers Mortality Risk: 11 Key Health Benefits From Drinking Coffee The Right Way
    by Tyler Durden on December 8, 2024 at 12:35 pm

    Lowers Mortality Risk: 11 Key Health Benefits From Drinking Coffee The Right Way Coffee, one of the world’s most beloved beverages, offers more than just a comforting warmth and an energizing caffeine kick. Increasingly, scientific research has begun to uncover the health benefits associated with coffee consumption, particularly due to its rich content of polyphenols like chlorogenic acid (CGA), which reduce inflammation and help […]

  • Rumors Swirl About The West Planning To ‘Exile’ Zelenskyy
    by Tyler Durden on December 8, 2024 at 12:00 pm

    Rumors Swirl About The West Planning To ‘Exile’ Zelenskyy Via Remix News, If a ceasefire is reached in Ukraine, the West is considering “exiling” Volodymyr Zelensky to London, writes Do Rzeczy, citing a report out of the Spanish daily El Mundo via government sources in Kyiv.  A rumor has been circulating in diplomatic circles in the Ukrainian capital for two weeks that if a ceasefire occurs, the West will convince Zelensky […]

  • From Marcus Aurelius To Omar Little: A Man’s Code Is Vital
    by Tyler Durden on December 8, 2024 at 4:20 am

    From Marcus Aurelius To Omar Little: A Man’s Code Is Vital Authored by Josh Stylman via The Brownstone Institute, With Thanksgiving weekend still fresh in our memory, my gratitude centers not on the usual holiday platitudes, but on something that has become increasingly precious in our artificial age: authentic relationships – both family and lifelong friends – that deepen rather than fracture under pressure. What binds these […]

  • How Populations Have Changed In Asia Since 1990
    by Tyler Durden on December 8, 2024 at 3:45 am

    How Populations Have Changed In Asia Since 1990 Since 1990, the world population has grown by 3 billion people. And half of those births occurred in Asia. But which countries have seen the most (relative) growth, and have any declined?  Visual Capitalist’s Pallavi Rao maps out the changes in population for every Asian country between 1990 and 2023. Data was sourced from the UN’s World Population Prospects 2024, and all […]

  • Preparing For The Unexpected: The Bug-Out Bag
    by Tyler Durden on December 8, 2024 at 3:10 am

    Preparing For The Unexpected: The Bug-Out Bag Authored by Emma Suttie D.Ac, AP via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), It’s the middle of the night. You wake from a deep sleep and smell smoke. When you come to, you see flames in the next room and realize your house is on fire. This is just one of many scenarios that can happen—at any time—to anyone. You may need to act in an instant, and having a bug-out bag prepared can help […]

  • Asia-Pacific Struggling To Regain Tourism Momentum
    by Tyler Durden on December 8, 2024 at 2:35 am

    Asia-Pacific Struggling To Regain Tourism Momentum Data from the UN Tourism dashboard shows that 1.3 billion international tourist arrivals were recorded worldwide for 2023, roughly 160 million short of 2019 levels. Tourism receipts, however, surpassed pre-pandemic levels by around $40 million. This potentially traces back to price increases rather than increased tourist activity. As Statista’s Florian Zandt details below, with […]

  • The Hunt For The Best Christmas Tree Ever
    by Tyler Durden on December 8, 2024 at 2:00 am

    The Hunt For The Best Christmas Tree Ever Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Americans will buy at least 25 million fresh-cut Christmas trees this year but the best one of them—the pinnacle in pine perfection—is the 8-foot Fraser Fir from Laurel Springs, North Carolina, that sold for $145 about 12:30 p.m. Nov. 30 on a church lawn in Lakeland, Florida. A “sold” Christmas tree is seen at Tree Riders NYC […]

  • IRS Expands Its Armed Wing To Highest Level In Nearly A Decade
    by Tyler Durden on December 8, 2024 at 1:25 am

    IRS Expands Its Armed Wing To Highest Level In Nearly A Decade The Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) division, the armed enforcement wing of the IRS tasked with combating financial crimes, has expanded its workforce by nearly 11 percent, bringing staffing levels to their highest in nearly a decade and boosting the division’s conviction rate to 90 percent, according to the IRS-CI’s latest annual report. […]

  • “Next Few Weeks”: FDA On Verge Of Possible Toxic Red Dye Ban Across America’s Food Supply Chain 
    by Tyler Durden on December 8, 2024 at 12:15 am

    “Next Few Weeks”: FDA On Verge Of Possible Toxic Red Dye Ban Across America’s Food Supply Chain  The Food and Drug Administration is considering a potential ban on a carcinogenic food dye derived from petroleum, commonly found in beverages, snacks, cereals, and candies, according to NBC News. On Thursday, FDA Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods Jim Jones stated at the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee […]

  • Paul Krugman Rides Into The Sunset
    by Tyler Durden on December 7, 2024 at 11:40 pm

    Paul Krugman Rides Into The Sunset Authored by William Andersen via The Mises Institute, After spending 25 years as a columnist for the New York Times, Paul Krugman is finally retiring from that position – 25 years too late, if one wishes to be honest. It is hard to measure the influence he had from that perch, but his columns surely were the deciding factor in his winning the Nobel in economics in 2008 after eight years of […]

  • USDA Orders Raw Milk Testing Under Guise Of Bird Flu Amid War On Small Farms
    by Tyler Durden on December 7, 2024 at 11:05 pm

    USDA Orders Raw Milk Testing Under Guise Of Bird Flu Amid War On Small Farms Nationwide demand for raw milk has never been higher, as out-of-control bureaucrats in their ivory towers in Washington, DC, exploit bird flu outbreaks in dairy herds to financially crush small farms while ensuring that large-scale farms owned by mega corporations, which produce questionable/unhealthy food (hence America’s obesity crisis), remain in […]

  • The Miserable Cost Of An Open Border
    by Tyler Durden on December 7, 2024 at 10:30 pm

    The Miserable Cost Of An Open Border Authored by Seth Barron via RealClearPolitics, The Biden-Harris experiment in dissolving the U.S. border has wrought massive changes to American society, most of which will not be understood for years, if not decades. Since 2021, U.S. border officials have had at least 10 million “encounters” with migrants, many of whom were allowed to enter the country. There is no telling how many more […]

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