Bitcoin and select altcoins turned down sharply on April 19 but a minor positive is that the bulls are trying to defend their respective support levels. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/price-analysis-4-19-btc-eth-bnb-xrp-ada-doge-matic-sol-dot-ltc
Members of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee turned their attention to stablecoins Wednesday, picking up where they left off on regulation pushed back last year. But lawmakers said any progress made since then is tenuous at best. FSC ranking member Maxine Waters (D-CA) suggested that lawmakers are “starting from scratch” after Republicans made alterations to a bill that died…
OpenAI may soon face its biggest regulatory challenge yet as Italian authorities insist the company has until April 30 to comply with local and European data protection and privacy laws, a task artificial intelligence (AI) experts say could be near impossible. Italian authorities issued a blanket ban on OpenAI’s GPT products in late March, becoming the first Western country to…
Crypto lender Maple Finance has rolled out a United States Treasury pool for non-U.S. accredited investors and entities. According to an Apr. 19 post, Maple Finance has launched a new Cash Management Pool for institutional Web3 investors to access U.S. Treasury Bills directly. The offering is not available to U.S. individuals or entities. The pool will source yield from one-month…
Prices of gold, and other precious metals, fell on Wednesday due to stronger U.S. yields and national currency. The decline comes on the backdrop of expectations of new interest rate increases next month amid persistent inflation in the United States and elsewhere. Gold and Silver Slip as Investors Bet on Another Rate Hike in May Gold prices dropped more than…
Crypto mining firm Mawson Infrastructure Group will be exiting Texas following an $8.5-million sale of its local subsidiary as well as lease agreements and contracts related to operating in the state. In an April 19 announcement, Mawson said it had arranged the sale of its subsidiary Luna Squares Texas to Singapore-based fund manager M Turing VCC Oracle Phase 1 Fund…
press release PRESS RELEASE. Seattle, WA, April 19, 2023 — Space and Time and Microsoft announce that developers can now deploy the Space and Time data warehouse directly from the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Azure. The one-click deployment provides customers with an accelerated on-ramp to easily access, manage and perform analytics…
The National Bank of the Republic of Belarus has prepared a pilot program for a central bank digital currency (CBDC), according to the official BelTA news agency. The country will make a decision on the issuance of a digital Belarusian ruble by the end of the year, chairman of the national bank Pavel Kallaur said. “By the end of…
God works in mysterious ways—and now it wants to work through ChatGPT. Lots of people, it turns out, are creating AI bots in the image of their favorite gods. You’ve got your AI Jesus, your AI Buddha, a dozen Hindu deities, even a Robo Rabbi. And why not? If we can create erotic and evil bots, why not create a…
Crypto-fueled wireless network Helium has successfully completed its anticipated migration from its own layer-1 blockchain platform to Solana. Helium founders and backers see potential for Solana to unlock additional use cases around the network—which may be facilitated by a mass-scale NFT mint tied to the migration. As part of the migration process, an NFT is being minted to represent each…
