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Charles Schwab has opened Bitcoin and Ethereum trading to select US customers, letting them buy crypto directly alongside stocks and bonds. It's a quiet but significant signal — when one of America's largest brokerages folds digital assets into the everyday investment experience, the mainstream moment crypto has long claimed is arriving feels less like hype and more like infrastructure.
Meanwhile, in London, Nigel Farage is facing a parliamentary investigation over a six point eight million dollar donation from a crypto billionaire. If the probe finds he violated the House of Commons code of conduct, he could face suspension. It's a reminder that as crypto money flows into politics, the old questions about influence and accountability don't disappear — they just get a new address.
And in a San Francisco courtroom, Sam Altman took the stand and told a federal judge, quote, I believe I am an honest and trustworthy business person. Whether the court agrees remains to be seen, but the spectacle of the world's most prominent AI executive defending his character under oath is a moment worth sitting with — trust, after all, is what the entire AI industry is asking us to extend.
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