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British Transport Police spent more than three hundred twenty thousand pounds scanning the faces of half a million commuters across London's rail network over six months, and the result was a clean sweep — of precisely nothing. Not a single match. Civil liberties group Liberty obtained the figures through freedom of information requests, raising serious questions about whether surveillance spending of this scale can ever be justified without measurable outcomes.
Shifting to the roads less travelled in crypto infrastructure, Gemini — the exchange owned by the Winklevoss twins — has upgraded its Zcash nodes to new software called Zakura ahead of a network upgrade that will bring block times down to just twenty-five seconds. The practical improvement is striking: where the old software took nearly a full day to sync with the network, Zakura caught up in just over six hours.
And for European bitcoin investors who've long had to stomach currency risk on top of price volatility, asset manager HANetf has listed new exchange-traded products on exchanges in London, Frankfurt, and Paris. The instruments offer exposure to bitcoin hedged in pound sterling and euros, removing the dollar from the equation entirely.
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