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Bitcoin is holding firm above eighty-one thousand dollars after briefly touching eighty-two thousand overnight, while Michael Burry — the investor made famous by The Big Short — is warning that the Nasdaq one hundred has reached dot-com bubble territory. Oil surging past one hundred and five on Iran ceasefire doubts is adding to the uneasy backdrop.
That price action may soon have a clearer regulatory framework to live inside. The U.S. Senate Banking Committee has publicly released the text of the Clarity Act, a crypto market structure bill that had previously only circulated behind closed doors. Lawmakers are moving toward a formal vote, and the industry is watching closely to see whether the language matches what was negotiated in private.
Meanwhile, a security researcher has uncovered a nine-month phishing operation targeting users who searched for Tailscale, the popular networking tool. The so-called ClickFix campaign served convincing fake pages to unsuspecting users, a reminder that malicious actors are increasingly buying their way into search results rather than breaking down any technical doors.
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