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The right voices in the right rooms can reshape products, policies and hiring outcomes in the cryptocurrency space, three executives said Tuesday at the CoinDesk Consensus Conference in Miami. Each cited a moment in their own organization when an outside perspective changed what was being built, debated, or prioritized. Maja Lapcevic, senior vice president of…
Investigators from multiple agencies are searching the woods of northwest Tennessee for an armed Special Forces veteran suspected of trying to kill his wife, the Stewart County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday. Stewart County Sheriff Frankie Gray said 53-year-old Craig Berry shot and killed his wife in Dover, Tenn., near the Kentucky border and had been…
DETROIT — The Red Sox took out their frustrations on Tigers left-hander Framber Valdez early in Tuesday’s game with a 10-run double. Valdez seemed to express his frustration by hitting Trevor Story with a pitch, which resulted in his ejection and the emptying of the bench and bullpen. After back-to-back home runs by Wilson Contreras…
The path to mainstream cryptocurrency adoption is through more visible and controllable product design, executives from PayPal, Robinhood, Public.com and 248 Ventures said Tuesday at the CoinDesk Consensus Conference in Miami. “It’s important to tell users of AI products what the underlying system is not doing in addition to what the underlying system is doing,”…
The cryptocurrency market is experiencing a seismic shift today, May 6, 2026, as Bitcoin (BTC) has surged past the critical $81,000 mark. This explosive rally isn’t merely a fleeting pump but the culmination of a powerful confluence of macroeconomic and regulatory forces, signaling a profound maturation of the digital asset landscape. Global investors are witnessing…
“We’re entering a world where basically the entire economy is going to be tokenized,” Consensys CEO and founder Joseph Lubin said during a fireside chat at the Consensus Miami 2026 conference on Tuesday. In a fireside chat with Rollup founder Robbie Klages, Lubin said he believes tokenization is no longer experimental but inevitable. The founder…
Representatives from the National Cryptocurrency Association, Circle, Bank of America and ChangeNOW at the Consensus 2026 conference in Miami said trust remains a major barrier to wider cryptocurrency adoption. Ali Tager of the National Cryptocurrency Association said research shows that “the number one barrier non-cryptocurrency holders face is that they don’t understand,” citing complexity, jargon…
Kevin O’Leary says paid activists and some artificial intelligence-generated activists are opposing his Utah data center. Despite protests, the 40,000-acre project received unanimous approval Monday. Built data centers are expected to generate and consume twice as much energy as the entire state. “Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary is defending his plan to build a data…
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Disclosure: The author of this article owns shares of Strategy (MSTR). Strategy (MSTR), the world’s largest publicly traded corporate holder of Bitcoin, has floated the idea of selling Bitcoin to meet its dividend obligations. Executive Chairman Michael Saylor said on the first quarter 2026 earnings call that the company may sell some of its Bitcoin…