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Bitcoin's spot ETF market is having a rough June. Investors have pulled roughly four billion dollars from U.S.-listed spot bitcoin ETFs this month, putting it on track for the worst outflow on record. The retreat signals that institutional enthusiasm for the product, once celebrated as a landmark for crypto legitimacy, has real limits when sentiment turns.
Shifting to infrastructure and sovereignty, Malaysia is consulting on whether to regulate the management of IP addresses and autonomous system numbers within its borders. Regional internet registry APNIC isn't enthusiastic, having long deprecated the national registry model Malaysia wants to revive. It's a familiar tension between national control and the open, distributed architecture the internet was built on.
And on the quieter end of the spectrum, a developer has published Kivo, a lightweight open-source desktop teleprompter application. It's a small tool solving a specific problem, but it speaks to a broader pattern of individuals building focused, no-frills software for workflows that commercial apps tend to over-complicate or over-monetize.
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