The Instagram post, precision-guided by sex and age, had zeroed in on its target. Yuchen Tu is a conservatory-trained viola player from Chongqing, China, a lover of science fiction, and an aspiring member of the US Army Reserve Officer Training Corps. She’s exacting and intense, with sky-high standards. And late last spring, just after her…
Federal authorities charged two Jacksonville brothers with allegedly operating a darknet narcotics vendor whose counterfeit pills were connected to at least 12 overdoses, including three deaths. Summary U.S. prosecutors charged two Florida brothers with allegedly distributing nitazene-laced counterfeit pills through darknet markets. Investigators traced Bitcoin withdrawals from three darknet marketplaces toward accounts associated with Stanislav…
Sometimes founders search high and low for the right startup idea, while other times it comes to them. Federico Felici and Jonas Buchli are two of the lucky ones. Over and over again, they heard the same thing from fusion companies: “We would ideally buy many of the components to make our our control system,…
Key Takeaways Schwab’s Sept. 8 N-MFP3 filing lists Grayscale, Canary, Franklin and Bitwise XRP ETFs as repo collateral. JP Morgan and Bofa Securities are the counterparties on five repurchase agreements worth $3.99 billion. XRP ETF collateral rose from $35,973 in April to at least $8.3 million by Aug. 31. What the Filing Shows Charles Schwab…
VVV has rocketed the most over the past 24 hours, jumping by more than 50%. LIT, ATOM, and DOT follow suit. In what is expected to be a highly volatile second part of the week, bitcoin’s price dipped to $77,600 yesterday after it was rejected at over $80,000 on Monday before it rebounded to…
China’s humanoid robots have gone from dancing for crowds to training for a far more serious job: fighting alongside soldiers. The shift became clearer after China’s World Humanoid Robot Games last month, where robots ran, boxed and danced. Two days later, the People’s Liberation Army’s official newspaper, PLA Daily, urged researchers to speed up the…
Polkadot’s community has opened a governance vote on a native decentralized stablecoin called dotUSD, with a proposal to make the dollar-pegged asset the network’s primary stable-value instrument and eventually back it mainly with DOT. Summary Polkadot OpenGov is voting on a proposal to create dotUSD as the network’s native decentralized stablecoin. The plan calls for…
Can you see anything in the sky tonight? The Moon is approaching the New Moon phase, so only a small sliver of light should be visible. What is today’s Moon phase? As of Wednesday, Sept. 9, NASA’s Daily Moon Guide tracker tells us the Moon is in Waning Crescent phase, with 4% of its surface…
Key Takeaways ZCSH listed on NYSE Arca on Aug. 25 and crossed $500 million in assets by Sept. 8. Outside inflows totaled just over $70 million, while DCG International added roughly $100 million in ZEC. Zcash traded above $1,200 this week, a level last seen in the fourth quarter of 2016. What the Filing Actually…
Balanced Price has historically identified deep-cycle bottoms, yet Bitcoin’s changing relationship with the metric raises a fundamental possibility. Bitcoin staged a strong rally in August, surging by almost 30%. While some believe that the bear market is over, others argue that the risk of a devastating plunge still lurks over the world’s largest crypto…
