The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reached a settlement with Justin Sun and the entities tied to the Tron blockchain over a 2023 securities violation case. One entity will pay $10 million, and all charges to be dismissed
www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/...
Summer of 2018 I legitimately needed to budget 3 or so hours for NJT to take me the roughly 35 miles to my office because something would break every single morning (and sometimes the evening)
Idk about the voters but the money is real. And given its Fairshake, I'll have to check but I'll bet that the ads don't mention crypto at all
Crypto super PAC Fairshake, through its Protect Progress affiliate, dedicated $1.5 million against Rep. Al Green, instead supporting current frontrunner Christian Menefee
www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/...
World Liberty Financial, a company associated with Trump and his family, offers its own stablecoin, USD1, and it recently sought to secure a trust charter under the OCC for an affiliated firm. The post about the Clarity Act was an abrupt dip into financial policy after Trump spent the last few days overseeing U.S. military strikes against Iran, in what the U.S. government has described as a "special combat operation." The emerging hostilities have disrupted air travel throughout the Middle East, as well as shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.
Had one of the stranger transitions I've had to write in here
Trump urged passage of crypto market structure legislation and metaphorically yelled at banks on Tuesday as negotiations over language addressing stablecoin yield drag on
www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/...
From my colleagues at CoinDesk: Six Polymarket accounts bought "yes" shares on a Polymarket bet that the U.S. would strike Iran by Feb. 28 in the hours before the strikes began, netting the holders approx. $1.2 million
www.coindesk.com/markets/2026...
Quartz's Matt De Silva got there first but basically Reggie Fowler was one of the financial backers of the AAF and his funds were frozen. And of course, we know why
qz.com/1611214/aaf-...
The biggest story I never wrote was how CCC basically killed the Alliance of American Football
New story from Protos:
How $850 million seized from Crypto Capital Corp was apparently tied to the Israeli Mafia moving cocaine directly out of Colombia and into Europe, 100 kilograms at a time.
Read the whole story here:
protos.com/crypto-capit...
...what
Evergreen really
I haven't tried since the airtrain reno began, curious how that's going
I'm an EWR lifer
Then again I also live in Jersey so that makes it somewhat (much) easier to get to
an obliquely overhead view of a Lufthansa 787. much of the fuselage is dark blue, with a large white crane (Lufthansa's logo) on it. the wings of the aircraft are also painted white, and they are aligned with the crane on the fuselage so as to suggest that they are the crane's wings.
i didn't realize until today that Lufthansa's special 100th-anniversary paint scheme deliberately casts the airplane's wings as the wings of the crane. very cool.
Cas has been doing important work for years. I've been following him since around when he literally went to Tether's offices but he's done so much
Before The Washington Post layoffs came down, a group of wealthy D.C. locals approached CEO Will Lewis with a proposal.
@passantino.bsky.social has the details in his Saturday @status.news column: www.status.news/p/washington...
Oh christ did not realize that was where we were
I thought the address was real but no one's been able to verify that that ransom note was legitimate, but I admittedly haven't been able to spend that much time on this
was '19 the one with the elevator posters?
“According to Coindesk, the average cost to mine one Bitcoin is currently around $87,000 — far higher than its current going rate, making it an extremely unprofitable proposition.”
The current price of Bitcoin is $64,000. Up slightly from the price cited in the article.
I just discovered someone emailed an article I wrote in 2020 and so technically my name's in the files. But also, 2020 was after certain events happened and I have to wonder who was emailing Epstein then? www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
Exclusive: Elon Musk’s flagship artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, continues to generate sexualized images of people even when users explicitly warn that the subjects do not consent, Reuters has found reut.rs/4qcVVaE
I gotta look through when I have a chance but seen quite a few familiar names already
I expect zero controversy over that first contract in 8 hours and 3 minutes
The catch may be in that contract defining a shutdown as based on what the Office of Personnel and Management says; another one that defines a shutdown as Trump not signing a funding bill(s) by midnight has (more correct) 99% chance of funding lapse
polymarket.com/event/us-gov...
My understanding of the way Congress works is even if the Senate votes on the funding bills today, the House likely won't pass them until Monday. As a result, the government will technically shut down at midnight and stay closed through the weekend.
Anyway, Polymarket polymarket.com/event/will-t...
Trump threatens ‘decertifying’ all Canadian-made aircraft theaircurrent.com/feed/dispatc... (via @willguisbond.com & @jonostrower.com) #staycurrent
🚨 The Senate has agreed to a deal to vote on 5/6 full appropriations bills and replace the DHS funding measure with a 2-week stopgap bill, per multiple sources. That gives time to negotiate on the Dem demands for ICE and CBP restraints.
Senate Ag Committee just voted on party lines to advance crypto market structure legislation out of committee and to the full Senate after less than an hour of debate (though, as @tphillips.bsky.social pointed out on another site, this version of the text will likely change)
