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The U.S. government has moved roughly one billion dollars in bitcoin seized from the two thousand sixteen Bitfinex hack, and the destination is raising eyebrows. Blockchain analytics firm Arkham tracked twelve thousand two hundred sixty seven bitcoin flowing into unlabeled wallets, not exchanges, suggesting the government is repositioning rather than selling, at least for now.
Shifting to privacy, Google has quietly released an experimental app called AI Edge Foresight that transcribes and summarizes your meetings entirely on your device, no cloud, no server, no data leaving your machine. It runs on macOS using Google's on-device Gemma two model, and while it's still experimental, it signals a meaningful push toward AI tools that don't require you to hand your conversations to a remote system.
And in regulatory news, Europe's securities watchdog ESMA has given crypto platforms three months to remove stablecoins that don't comply with the continent's MiCA framework. Authorized platforms must block new access to non-compliant tokens while national regulators handle existing customer holdings, a move that underscores just how seriously the EU is enforcing its landmark crypto rulebook.
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