ZachXBT: crypto exchange Bybit has experienced $1.46B worth of "suspicious outflows"; Bybit CEO confirms hacker took control of cold ETH wallet (Oliver Knight/CoinDesk)
Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: ZachXBT: crypto exchange Bybit has experienced $1.46B worth of “suspicious outflows”; Bybit CEO confirms hacker took control of cold ETH wallet
Tel Aviv- and New York-based Blockaid, which offers crypto security tools, raised a $50M Series B led by Ribbit and says it stopped 71M attacks in 2024 (Suvashree Ghosh/Bloomberg)
Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg: Tel Aviv- and New York-based Blockaid, which offers crypto security tools, raised a $50M Series B led by Ribbit and says
Argentina's president Javier Milei backtracks on an X post promoting a memecoin called Libra, which rose to a $4.4B market cap before plunging by 95%+ (Oliver Knight/CoinDesk)
Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: Argentina’s president Javier Milei backtracks on an X post promoting a memecoin called Libra, which rose to a $4.4B market cap
Trump nominates Apple exec Jonathan Morrison to the NHTSA; Morrison was NHTSA chief counsel in Trump's first term and informed Tesla of inaccurate safety claims (David Shepardson/Reuters)
David Shepardson / Reuters: Trump nominates Apple exec Jonathan Morrison to the NHTSA; Morrison was NHTSA chief counsel in Trump’s first term and informed Tesla
A look at WikiTok, a site that lets users vertically swipe through an endless stream of random Wikipedia article stubs without algorithmically tracking the user (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: A look at WikiTok, a site that lets users vertically swipe through an endless stream of random Wikipedia article stubs
Apple is at the center of an escalating US-China geopolitical fight spanning tariffs, regulatory probes, and a backlash due to growing anti-US rhetoric in China (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple is at the center of an escalating US-China geopolitical fight spanning tariffs, regulatory probes, and a backlash due to growing
OpenAI's Deep Research hands-on: very good at nuanced, complex research, and the first narrow agent to do sophisticated and likely economically valuable work (Ethan Mollick/One Useful Thing)
Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing: OpenAI’s Deep Research hands-on: very good at nuanced, complex research, and the first narrow agent to do sophisticated and
Tether had $13B in 2024 net profits, including ~$7B from its US Treasuries and repo holdings, and $5B from unrealized appreciation of gold and bitcoin holdings (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)
Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: Tether had $13B in 2024 net profits, including ~$7B from its US Treasuries and repo holdings, and $5B from unrealized appreciation
Spotify says it paid out a record $10B to the music industry in 2024, up from a then-record $9B in 2023, taking its total to nearly $60B since its 2006 founding (Jem Aswad/Variety)
Jem Aswad / Variety: Spotify says it paid out a record $10B to the music industry in 2024, up from a then-record $9B in 2023,
Sources: people affiliated with DOGE have met with representatives of various public blockchains as they explore using a blockchain to track federal spending (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: Sources: people affiliated with DOGE have met with representatives of various public blockchains as they explore using a blockchain to track federal spending —
