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A person walks past a Bitcoin ATM in a mall in Madrid, on March 7, 2025. (Photo by Thomas COEX / AFP) (Photo by THOMAS COEX/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty ImagesEighteen months makes a world of difference in crypto banking. In October 2023, specialized crypto banks faced existential threats from regulators on multiple continents. BCB Group was under a Section 166 investigation in the UK. Signature Bank and Silvergate had collapsed. American institutions like Customers Bank and United Texas Bank were under regulatory scrutiny for their crypto services. The message was clear: touching digital assets made you a target.Fast…
A person walks past a Bitcoin ATM in a mall in Madrid, on March 7, 2025. (Photo by Thomas COEX / AFP) (Photo by THOMAS COEX/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty ImagesEighteen months makes a world of difference in crypto banking. In October 2023, specialized crypto banks faced existential threats from regulators on multiple continents. BCB Group was under a Section 166 investigation in the UK. Signature Bank and Silvergate had collapsed. American institutions like Customers Bank and United Texas Bank were under regulatory scrutiny for their crypto services. The message was clear: touching digital assets made you a target.Fast…
A person walks past a Bitcoin ATM in a mall in Madrid, on March 7, 2025. (Photo by Thomas COEX / AFP) (Photo by THOMAS COEX/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty ImagesEighteen months makes a world of difference in crypto banking. In October 2023, specialized crypto banks faced existential threats from regulators on multiple continents. BCB Group was under a Section 166 investigation in the UK. Signature Bank and Silvergate had collapsed. American institutions like Customers Bank and United Texas Bank were under regulatory scrutiny for their crypto services. The message was clear: touching digital assets made you a target.Fast…
A person walks past a Bitcoin ATM in a mall in Madrid, on March 7, 2025. (Photo by Thomas COEX / AFP) (Photo by THOMAS COEX/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty ImagesEighteen months makes a world of difference in crypto banking. In October 2023, specialized crypto banks faced existential threats from regulators on multiple continents. BCB Group was under a Section 166 investigation in the UK. Signature Bank and Silvergate had collapsed. American institutions like Customers Bank and United Texas Bank were under regulatory scrutiny for their crypto services. The message was clear: touching digital assets made you a target.Fast…
A person walks past a Bitcoin ATM in a mall in Madrid, on March 7, 2025. (Photo by Thomas COEX / AFP) (Photo by THOMAS COEX/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty ImagesEighteen months makes a world of difference in crypto banking. In October 2023, specialized crypto banks faced existential threats from regulators on multiple continents. BCB Group was under a Section 166 investigation in the UK. Signature Bank and Silvergate had collapsed. American institutions like Customers Bank and United Texas Bank were under regulatory scrutiny for their crypto services. The message was clear: touching digital assets made you a target.Fast…
A person walks past a Bitcoin ATM in a mall in Madrid, on March 7, 2025. (Photo by Thomas COEX / AFP) (Photo by THOMAS COEX/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty ImagesEighteen months makes a world of difference in crypto banking. In October 2023, specialized crypto banks faced existential threats from regulators on multiple continents. BCB Group was under a Section 166 investigation in the UK. Signature Bank and Silvergate had collapsed. American institutions like Customers Bank and United Texas Bank were under regulatory scrutiny for their crypto services. The message was clear: touching digital assets made you a target.Fast…
Ethereum is showing renewed strength after days of intense selling pressure and widespread uncertainty across the crypto market. Following a sharp drop below the $3,300 level, bulls are now attempting to reclaim $3,600, with the next major objective set at $4,000 — a level that could confirm a shift in market momentum if conquered. Related Reading Amid this recovery effort, key on-chain data highlights a surprising move from one of the market’s most closely watched traders — the so-called Anti-CZ Whale. This investor gained notoriety for shorting ASTER shortly after Changpeng Zhao (CZ) — the former CEO of Binance and…
Why Are We Sleeping on China’s AI Invasion? When Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky recently admitted his company is “relying a lot” on Chinese AI models because they’re “very good…fast and cheap,” it should have set off alarm bells in Washington. Here’s a CEO choosing Alibaba’s Qwen over his friend Sam Altman’s OpenAI—not because of superior technology, but because Chinese AI is dramatically cheaper. According to Bloomberg columnist Catherine Thorbecke, Alibaba’s Qwen has racked up roughly 385 million cumulative downloads on Hugging Face, surpassing Meta’s Llama at 346 million. Chinese AI models now account for more than 40 percent of new…
The Rodecaster series of podcast mixers have become a mainstay among audio creatives. Last year, the company expanded the line with its first multimedia model — the Rodecaster Video. It was a more niche proposition, aimed at streamers, video podcasters and live producers, and, at $1,200, people with deeper pockets. Today, Rode returns with the Rodecaster Video S (RCV-S), a streamlined version that offers much of the same functionality for less than half the cost of the original ($499).If you currently use Ecamm Live, OBS, a Stream Deck, a Rodecaster Pro/Duo, a video capture card or Blackmagic Atem type switcher,…
Paramount+ is making some changes that will make its streaming service get more to watch. During Paramount’s earnings report today, the company announced that it will increase the subscription prices for Paramount+ in the US during the first quarter of 2026. Price hikes were also announced today for viewers in Canada and Australia. The new pricing was not shared, but a dollar or two more per month has become the standard change. Considering most streaming services jack their prices every year or two, the news was probably inevitable; the last increase for Paramount+ was back in June 2024. But today’s…