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Bitcoin is holding near sixty-four thousand dollars for the sixth consecutive week of ETF outflows, and the picture is one of competing pressures. Eased selling and improving risk appetite are being cancelled out by a stronger dollar and cautious institutional money, leaving the market essentially frozen in place.
Shifting from markets to governance, Ethereum validators are being asked to consider redirecting up to ten percent of their staking rewards toward ecosystem funding under a new proposal making the rounds. It raises genuinely hard questions about who decides where that money goes, and whether redirecting income changes the incentives that make validators reliable in the first place.
And in Denmark, privacy activist Lars Andersen has reportedly been raided by police, according to posts on social media. Details remain thin, but the story is drawing attention precisely because Andersen has been a vocal critic of surveillance practices, making the timing and circumstances something observers are watching closely.
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