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Coinbase is pointing fingers at Amazon Web Services after a hours-long outage knocked out crypto trading for customers earlier this week. The exchange says the disruption has been fully resolved, but the incident raises familiar questions about how deeply the crypto industry depends on centralized cloud infrastructure — a tension that sits awkwardly at the heart of a sector built around decentralization.
Meanwhile in the world of decentralized governance, Arbitrum DAO voted to unlock seventy million dollars in relief funds tied to a Kelp exploit, only to have a United States court restraining notice throw that approved transfer into legal jeopardy. It's a striking collision between on-chain democracy and off-chain law, and a reminder that blockchain governance doesn't exist in a vacuum outside traditional legal systems.
And in Utah, a state senator at the center of a proposed data center debate made headlines for the wrong reasons, physically slapping a phone out of a reporter's hand during an interview. Senator Jerry Stevenson was apparently trying to limit coverage of harassment directed at employees connected to the Box Elder County project — a story that has now become considerably bigger because of his response to it.
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