Agentic commerce will run on crypto rails, PayPal and Google reps tell Consensus Miami

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — The next wave of internet commerce will run on a crypto rail because artificial intelligence agents are structurally unable to use traditional financial accounts, senior figures from Google Cloud and PayPal said Thursday at the CoinDesk Consensus Miami conference. Richard Widmann, global head of Web3 strategy at Google Cloud, said existing…

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Maine Democrat Graham Platner claims tax-the-rich policies aren’t ‘trying’ hard enough

Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Plattner said in a new interview that real plans to tax the wealthy have yet to be properly tried. Plattner discussed his goal of reining in billionaires on the “More Perfect Union” podcast Thursday, arguing they have “too much power” and are “currently running the country” instead of President Donald…

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A bitcoin whale that went silent in 2013 moves $40 million in BTC

A Bitcoin whale came to life on Sunday, moving $40 billion worth of Bitcoin to new addresses after more than a decade of inactivity. According to data from blockchain tracking service Whale Alert, the transfer occurred around 19:16 UTC. The tokens were transferred from the address “1KAA8GGhVjjUjVTz1HKAjCyGNzAKQd882j” to “bc1qm6m6d33d02edr0k8yj9jgt027zl6dvx6thjrxy”. The wallet has been idle since…

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