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Search engine giant Google has emerged as a silent architect behind Bitcoin miners' rapid pivot towards artificial intelligence (AI). Instead of acquiring mining firms, the Alphabet-owned company has provided at least $5 billion of disclosed credit support behind a handful of BTC miners' AI projects. While markets often frame these announcements as technology partnerships, the […] The post Google is secretly bankrolling a $5 billion Bitcoin pivot using a shadow credit mechanism appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Charles Hoskinson comments on Trump's meme coin, the president's impact on crypto, and how the government ruined the super cycle: “The minute that Trump Coin got launched. It went from ‘crypto is bipartisan’ to ‘crypto = Trump = bad = corruption.'"

Defendant claimed woman he raped refused to have sex with him because he wouldn't use a contraception. Justices rule that 'the complainant's consent to come to the defendant's home and have sexual intercourse with him does not constitute permission for him to do whatever he pleases with her body'

Romanian startup Unfrosen, which launched a B2B marketplace for the fashion industry in 2023, expects to end 2025 with EUR6.5 million sales. The platform is operational in 13 European markets – Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Poland, Italy, France, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Slovakia, Croatia, Slovenia and the Republic of Moldova.

A recent study by the US Federal Reserve argues that despite periodic challenges, a lack of credible alternatives has kept the dollar at the center of global bond markets. A new Federal Reserve discussion paper finds that the US dollar’s role in global bond markets has risen and fallen in cycles over the past six decades, with no clear long-term trend toward either greater dollar dominance or de-dollarization. Using the Bank for International Settlements’ (BIS) international debt securities database, the authors identify three distinct “dollarization waves” since the 1960s, showing that shifts in currency use have followed cyclical patterns rather than a steady structural change in global financing. “We find no monotonic dollarization or de-dollarization trend; instead, the dollar’s share exhibits a wavelike pattern,” the paper says. Read more

On December 18, Ukrainian Defense Forces engaged in 183 clashes with Russian troops, with the fiercest fighting raging in the Pokrovsk sector, where 46 attacks occurred.

SOL falls behind multiple altcoin competitors as its onchain activity, fee and DApp revenues slump. Cointelegraph explains why. Key takeaways: SOL lagged the altcoin market as falling fees and DApp revenues signaled weaker Solana network demand. Growth shifted to Base, Arbitrum, Polygon and BNB Chain, reducing the odds of a near-term SOL rebound. Read more

Napoli heeft de finale bereikt van de Italiaanse supercup. In Riyad in Saoedi-Arabië versloeg de ploeg van trainer Antonio Conte AC Milan (2-0), de winnaar van de supercup vorig seizoen.

De Treffers van trainer Theo Janssen heeft zich donderdag tot beste amateurploeg in de KNVB-beker gekroond. De Tweede Divisie-club bereikte als enige amateurclub de achtste finales en krijgt de 'blauwe dennenappel'.

The values that are baked into the foundations of crypto — privacy, self-sovereignty, decentralization — are eroding, and we’re running out of time to address the problem. Not long before he died, Grandad said something that I thought was a little silly, a little old-fashioned. He declared that he didn’t trust the banks, and he didn’t want them to know what he did with his money. I scoffed at the time, paranoid old fella! But of course, it turns out I owe him an apology. As we were walking around his house, he motioned toward an off-white wall with an off-comfortable sofa in front of it. This piece of singularly ugly furniture hadn’t left its spot in more than a decade. Read more

Вечером 18 декабря россияне атаковали Одессу беспилотниками: под ударом оказалась жилая застройка города, где враг попал по многоэтажкам.

De onlangs vernieuwde Renault Espace rekent af met het vooroordeel dat grote, ruime auto’s per definitie niet zuinig zouden zijn. Tegelijkertijd lijden het comfort en de luxe daar niet onder.

The firm's Enovum unit will deliver 40 megawatts of critical IT load in two phases at a campus in Madison, North Carolina, under a 10-year agreement.

Beleggers reageerden onder meer op de inflatiecijfers over november. Die vielen mee, al kunnen de cijfers vertekend zijn door de Amerikaanse shutdown. 

Mai multe persoane din cartierul Râureni al municipiului Râmnicu Vâlcea au fost evacuate de urgenţă, joi seara, după ce o conductă de gaze a fost fisurată în urma unui accident rutier.

The discussions follow Intercontinental Exchange's $2 billion investment in prediction platform Polymarket in October. Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), is in talks to invest in crypto payments company MoonPay as part of the company’s latest funding round. MoonPay is seeking to raise funds at a $5 billion valuation, according to Bloomberg, which cited sources familiar with the deal and did not disclose the dollar amount of the potential investment. In October, ICE invested $2 billion in prediction platform Polymarket, in a funding round that brought the company’s valuation to $9 billion. Read more

Intercontinental Exchange is pursuing an investment in MoonPay at approximately $5 billion valuation, building on its $2 billion Polymarket deployment and Bakkt platform as the crypto payments company transitions into full-service custody with New York's Limited Purpose Trust Charter. The post NYSE Owner ICE in Talks to Invest in MoonPay at Nearly $5 Billion Valuation appeared first on Cryptonews.

CSAIL researchers find even “untrainable” neural nets can learn effectively when guided by another network’s built-in biases using their guidance method.

Ideea că jocurile video „dăunează inteligenței” spune mai mult despre fricile noastre decât despre cum funcționează creierul. Psihologii și sociologii explică de ce jocul poate susține învățarea și unde apare, de fapt, riscul.