a16z’s Guy Wuollet says crypto is leaving hoodie phase for ‘collared shirt’ decade

a16z crypto partner Guy Wuollet says crypto is entering its “collared shirt” era, as the firm doubles down on a 10‑year infrastructure bet even while high‑profile partners exit amid a new $2b fundraise. Summary a16z crypto partners have publicly reiterated a 10‑plus‑year investing horizon for the sector, comparing today’s market to the pre‑internet and pre‑AI…

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AI Research Is Getting Harder to Separate From Geopolitics

The world’s top AI research conference, the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems—better known as NeurIPS—became the latest organization this week to become embroiled in a growing clash between geopolitics and global scientific collaboration. The conference’s organizers announced and then quickly reversed controversial new restrictions for international participants after Chinese AI researchers threatened to boycott…

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Exploring Free Bitcoin Cloud Mining Sites in 2026 for U.S. Crypto Users

As Bitcoin mining difficulty adjusts periodically, many newcomers mistakenly believe that “lower difficulty = higher profits.” In reality, rising electricity costs, hardware depreciation, and global hash rate competition are squeezing the profits of individual miners. The traditional “buy your own miner + home mining” model is gradually being phased out, and cloud mining is becoming…

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97 Million Downloads and Growing Crypto Infrastructure From Bitgo to Coingecko – Crypto News Bitcoin News

AI Tool Integration Just Got Standardized — MCP Downloads Cross 97 Million in March 2026 Anthropic open-sourced MCP on Nov. 25, 2024, alongside reference servers for Google Drive, Slack, Github, and Postgres, with native support built into Claude Desktop. Early adopters included Block and Apollo; IDEs such as Zed, Replit, Codeium, and Sourcegraph began integration…

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