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Cloudflare's latest internet reliability report is a striking document. It logs a typhoon, two earthquakes, drone damage to an AWS region, and thirteen government exam shutdowns — but perhaps its sharpest detail is that Tanzania's accidental power blackout looked almost identical in the data to its deliberate election-day internet shutdown. The infrastructure tells no lies, only patterns.
Shifting to crypto security, Binance founder CZ is urging Bitcoin holders to spread funds across multiple wallets after a Coldcard hardware wallet exploit that Galaxy Research now estimates cost victims roughly seventy million dollars — nearly double the initial figure. CZ's message was blunt: nothing is one hundred percent safe, and concentration of holdings is its own form of risk.
And on the question of whether stablecoins are actually making remittances cheaper — the Bank of Italy ran a mystery-shopping experiment and found the answer is often no. Exchange fees, foreign exchange spreads, and the banking rails underneath still eat into transfers, leaving stablecoin remittances roughly competitive with, but not clearly better than, traditional options.
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