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Binance has handed Russian authorities the crypto donation records of users who sent money to Ukrainian causes, according to Reuters. The exchange shared client details that were then used to charge a Russian national over Ukraine-related fundraising, raising serious questions about user privacy and the risks of centralized control over financial data.
Shifting to Washington, the Treasury Department is moving to implement the GENIUS Act, the stablecoin legislation Congress finalized last year. The new proposal lays out core definitions and jurisdictional boundaries for stablecoin issuers, a sign that the federal government is finally building the regulatory scaffolding the crypto industry has long said it needed, for better or worse.
And in a story about memory and the fragility of digital infrastructure, a judge has cleared public broadcaster Nine PBS to recover fifty terabytes of archival data spanning seventy years of television history. The station lost access when its cloud storage provider abruptly shut down, and the ruling allows retrieval from Iron Mountain servers before that irreplaceable material disappears permanently.
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