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A whitehat hacker group that breached the Liquid Network over the weekend has returned three thousand four hundred of the four thousand bitcoin they took, but nearly forty-seven million dollars worth remains outstanding. Talks are reportedly continuing, leaving the crypto community watching closely to see whether this ends as a cautionary tale or a clean resolution.
Meanwhile, bitcoin itself slipped under seventy-nine thousand dollars on Tuesday, with Zcash leading losses across major tokens. Traders are pricing in roughly a sixty percent chance of a Federal Reserve rate hike next week, and that uncertainty is doing what uncertainty always does to speculative assets — applying quiet, steady pressure downward.
And on a more philosophical note, a new survey finds that over a third of UK workers believe an AI boss would actually make them more productive. Here's the tension though — nearly seventy-five percent of those same workers still prefer a human manager. People want the efficiency, just not the relationship. That gap between what we say we want and how we actually want to work is a conversation this industry will be having for years.
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