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View More Newsfrom the we’re-addicted-to-calling-habits-addictions dept This week, a major trial kicked off in Los Angeles in which hundreds of families sued Meta, TikTok, Snap, and YouTube, accusing the companies of intentionally designing their products to be addictive (though Snap and TikTok both settled on the eve of the trial) . From the Guardian: For the first time, a huge group of parents, teens and school districts is taking on the world’s most powerful social media companies in open court, accusing the tech giants of intentionally designing their products to be addictive. The blockbuster legal proceedings may see multiple CEOs, including Meta’s…
Financial technology company Dakota launched a stablecoin infrastructure platform as more enterprises look to adopt digital dollars without taking on the operational and regulatory burden of custody and compliance.Dakota will handle custody, compliance and settlement on behalf of its clients. CEO Ryan Bozarth told Cointelegraph that the company operates in the US as a registered Money Services Business, while working with licensed banking and regulated payments partners in other regions. It is also pursuing Electronic Money Institution and Crypto-Asset Service Provider licenses in Europe.This arrangement, according to Bozarth, enables Dakota to offer cross-border money movement without customers becoming regulated financial…
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It has now been a month since Australia’s under‑16 social media ban—officially known as the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act 2024—came into effect.I originally wrote this piece before the ban commenced on 10 December 2025, setting out my predictions for how it would play out. But after three weeks in Europe, I’m now back in Australia witnessing it firsthand. While I was broadly correct about the trade-offs that a blanket ban would involve, what I didn’t anticipate is how those trade-offs would manifest in the first month.The law puts the onus on social media companies to ensure…
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An onchain indicator suggests that most bitcoin BTC$88,336.23 investors are currently under pressure, with 63% of all wealth invested in the largest cryptocurrency having…
South Korea’s National Assembly has approved an overhaul of the country’s crypto licensing regime, tightening entry requirements for virtual asset service providers (VASPs) and…
In brief Trump-linked stablecoin USD1 crossed $5B in market cap in less than a year, boosted by Binance integration and a pending U.S. trust…
The weaker dollar is failing to spur bitcoin’s BTC$87,984.00 usual rally, and J.P. Morgan Private Bank explains the unexpected behavior as a window into…
Bitcoin dropped to the $88,000 level on Thursday as a rebound in the U.S. dollar and continued strength in commodities kept crypto trading in…
Bitcoin traded down on Wednesday as gold rallied 4.4% over 24 hours, adding a massive $1.65 trillion to its market cap in a single…
Fidelity Investments will expand its digital asset offerings with plans to launch its own U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin, the Fidelity Digital Dollar (FIDD), the firm…
from the wut? dept The travesty that is RFK Jr. in charge of American health and what he’s done to the CDC’s ACIP committee…
The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady on Wednesday, a decision that capped a sharp reversal in market expectations that had once favored an…
Bitcoin price breakouts fail to hold due to insufficient bid-side liquidity. Glassnode analysis identifies the key metrics that are likely to mark the next…
In brief Tokenized stocks and bonds remain subject to existing U.S. securities laws, regardless of whether ownership records are maintained on-chain or off-chain, the…
With another $25 million from Ripple and $24 million from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), the crypto industry’s chief campaign-finance fund, the Fairshake political action committee,…