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Mark Karpelès, the former CEO of Mt. Gox, is calling on community support for a proposal to recover more than $5.2 billion stolen from his Bitcoin exchange more than a decade ago. On Friday, Karpelès submitted a proposal on GitHub to add a consensus rule that would allow the 79,956 Bitcoin hacked from Mt. Gox (currently sitting in a single wallet) to be moved to a recovery address without the original private key.  “These coins have not moved in over 15 years. They are among the most well-known and publicly tracked UTXOs in Bitcoin’s history,” he wrote.  Source: Jameson Lopp…

Andy O’Dower argues fintech voice AI strategies must prioritize issue resolution and trust over conversational realism to close the customer satisfaction gap.By Andy O’Dower, Vice President of Product Management for Voice & Video at Twilio.     FinTech moves fast. News is everywhere, clarity isn’t. FinTech Weekly delivers the key stories and events in one place. Click Here to Subscribe to FinTech Weekly’s Newsletter Read by executives at JP Morgan, Coinbase, BlackRock, Klarna and more.      In the race to modernize customer service, the industry has hit a dangerous blind spot. According to recent data, 90% of businesses believe…

Recent market dynamics, most especially the launch of Spot Dogecoin ETFs, have seen Dogecoin slowly transitioning out of its meme coin status. Notably, a crypto pundit on X is of the notion that the transition is now at a tipping point. According to the pundit, there are three major reasons as to how Dogecoin could transition from a speculative asset into something far more functional as real money. If this plays out, the analyst believes Dogecoin’s price could rise from around $0.30 to $1.20 in a short time.  Network Activation Through X Dogecoin has always been linked as a possible…

International Women’s Day (IWD) is this Sunday – and while it is easy to lament the tiny percentage of venture capital funding that typically flows to women founders, at Birchal we’re making it easy to take action and help change that. Crowdsourced funding allows everyone to back companies and ideas they believe in. With a minimum investment of just $250, it’s much more accessible than $25,000 for most angel cheques and $250,000 to invest into a fund. Birchal has four incredible women-led businesses live on the platform right now – check them out, and use your power as an investor…

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A public security review has raised alarms about Huntarr security vulnerability, prompting users to take the tool offline following claims of exposed API endpoints and stored API keys without authentication.

Key Takeaways Kevin O’Leary says if a Gen Z candidate brings a parent into a job interview, their resume “goes right into the garbage.” He called parents in interviews a “horrific signal” and “really, really bad idea” because it suggests the applicant cannot handle professional situations. He frames the issue as one of independence, arguing employers need people who can “think” and “make decisions” on their own. Kevin O’Leary is speaking out about a new Gen Z job-search behavior: bringing parents along to interviews. On a recent appearance on Fox Business’ Varney & Co., O’Leary argued that the practice sends…

Bitcoin has remained in a consolidation phase since its early February breakdown below the $70,000 threshold, oscillating around the mid-$60K region without establishing a clear directional bias. The loss of $70K marked a structural shift in short-term momentum, transitioning the market from trend continuation to range-bound stabilization. While volatility has moderated, underlying stress signals suggest that the correction may not be fully resolved. Related Reading According to a recent report by CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost, Short-Term Holders (STH) are still carrying substantial unrealized losses. With Bitcoin trading near $66,000, this cohort’s average unrealized loss stands at approximately 26.3%. Historically, periods in…

Banco Santander and Mastercard have completed end-to-end payment executed by an artificial intelligence agent. The live trial involved an AI system completing a transaction within a regulated banking framework. It also tested the technology’s security and operational controls in real conditions.Transaction Tested Under Real Banking ConditionsAgentic AI in payments refers to autonomous software agents that can initiate and complete transactions on behalf of a user, under explicit controls such as spending limits, pre-set rules, and strong authentication, while being cryptographically identified as distinct actors in the payment flow.In frameworks such as Mastercard Agent Pay, these AI agents are registered and…

Have you ever not taken a trade and then looked back in hindsight and wanted to kick yourself? Ever entered a great trade and exited too early due to low confidence or over-thinking it, only to see the trade go on to be a huge winner? How often do you find yourself in these situations or similar? Truthfully, these situations are unavoidable sometimes, but if you’re finding that you are in a constant state of frustration and regret with your trading decisions you need to do something about it. What if there was a way to reduce these trading errors…