Let’s talk about something that mainstream financial media has been reluctant to say plainly: right now, with Bitcoin trading at just under $70,000 and the all-in cost to mine a single coin running between $60,000 and $80,000 depending on the operator, most publicly traded Bitcoin mining companies are either scraping by at break-even or quietly hemorrhaging cash with every block...
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Rent Freeze. COPA. Property Tax Hike. ADU Traps. Is This a Housing Plan or a Slow-Motion Seizure?
Let’s talk about a quiet but consequential piece of policy making its way through New York City right now — one that could fundamentally reshape who gets to own property in the five boroughs, and why it matters far beyond the Hudson River. Mayor Zohran Mamdani has thrown his weight behind the revival of COPA — the Community Opportunity to...
Voter ID Laws: Is It Really About Illegal Immigrants — Or Is Something Else Going On?
Let’s be honest with each other for a minute. Every election cycle, the debate over voter ID laws gets loud, gets tribal, and gets exhausting — and both sides walk away more convinced than ever that the other is either naive or malicious. Conservatives say you need an ID to buy beer, board a plane, and open a bank account,...
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- Move over, Apple: Meet the alternative app stores available in the EU and elsewhereby Sarah Perez on February 22, 2026 at 9:00 am
A list of some of the […]
- Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, tooby Anthony Ha on February 21, 2026 at 9:38 pm
"It also takes a lot of […]
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Mining at the Margin: Publicly Traded Bitcoin Miners Are in Survival Mode
Let’s talk about something that mainstream financial media has been reluctant to say plainly: right now, with Bitcoin trading at...
Rent Freeze. COPA. Property Tax Hike. ADU Traps. Is This a Housing Plan or a Slow-Motion Seizure?
Let’s talk about a quiet but consequential piece of policy making its way through New York City right now —...
Voter ID Laws: Is It Really About Illegal Immigrants — Or Is Something Else Going On?
Let’s be honest with each other for a minute. Every election cycle, the debate over voter ID laws gets loud,...
The Shutdown Charade: How Congress Turned Budget Deadlines Into Political Hostage-Taking
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The cryptocurrency designed to escape government oversight has instead enhanced the state’s ability to tax, monitor, and seize digital wealth
In 2008, an anonymous figure using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto released a white paper describing Bitcoin as “a peer-to-peer electronic...
From Revolution to Casino Chip: How Wall Street Transformed Bitcoin Into Just Another Leveraged Gamble
An investigation into how the anti-establishment cryptocurrency became the very thing it was designed to oppose When Satoshi Nakamoto published...
The Epstein-Barr Problem: A Web of Coincidences That Defies Belief
There’s a running joke among alumni of Manhattan’s elite Dalton School — a dark, uncomfortable joke that landed differently after...
The Legal Minefield of Paying Protesters: Can Organizations Face Liability for Creating Unsafe Working Conditions?
Picture this: An organization hires dozens of people to attend a demonstration, pays them cash or provides other compensation, and...
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- Move over, Apple: Meet the alternative app stores available in the EU and elsewhereby Sarah Perez on February 22, 2026 at 9:00 am
A list of some of the alternative app stores iPhone users in the EU can try today.
- Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, tooby Anthony Ha on February 21, 2026 at 9:38 pm
"It also takes a lot of energy to train a human."
- Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today after alleged DDoS attackby Anthony Ha on February 21, 2026 at 8:20 pm
Wikipedia editors have decided to remove all links to Archive.today, a web archiving service that they said has been linked to more than 695,000 […]
- Microsoft’s new gaming CEO vows not to flood the ecosystem with ‘endless AI slop’by Anthony Ha on February 21, 2026 at 5:41 pm
Is Microsoft's gaming division doubling down on AI?
- Google VP warns that two types of AI startups may not surviveby Rebecca Bellan on February 21, 2026 at 4:00 pm
As generative AI evolves, a Google VP warns that LLM wrappers and AI aggregators face mounting pressure, with shrinking margins and limited […]
- OpenAI debated calling police about suspected Canadian shooter’s chatsby Tim Fernholz on February 21, 2026 at 3:25 pm
Jesse Van Rootselaar's descriptions of gun violence were flagged by tools that monitor ChatGPT for misuse.
- 7 days until ticket prices rise for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026by TechCrunch Events on February 21, 2026 at 3:00 pm
Lowest ticket prices to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 end February 27. Up to $680 off individual passes and up to 30% off group passes. Register before […]
- India’s Sarvam launches Indus AI chat app as competition heats upby Jagmeet Singh on February 21, 2026 at 1:00 am
Sarvam's Indus chat app is currently available in beta.
- The creator economy’s ad revenue problem and India’s AI ambitionsby Theresa Loconsolo on February 20, 2026 at 11:00 pm
The creator economy is evolving fast, and ad revenue alone isn’t cutting it anymore. YouTubers are launching product […]
- Remember HQ? ‘Quiz Daddy’ Scott Rogowsky is back with TextSavvy, a daily mobile game showby Amanda Silberling on February 20, 2026 at 9:00 pm
The former HQ host Scott Rogowsky is back with TextSavvy, a live mobile game show that he's building on his own terms.
- Anthropic-funded group backs candidate attacked by rival AI super PACby Rebecca Bellan on February 20, 2026 at 8:52 pm
Dueling pro-AI PACs have centered around backing or targeting one New York congressional bid: Alex Bores, whose RAISE Act requires AI developers to […]
- Apple’s iOS 26.4 arrives in public beta with AI music playlists, video podcasts, and moreby Lauren Forristal, Sarah Perez on February 20, 2026 at 7:44 pm
Several updates are introduced in iOS 26.4, including an AI-powered playlist-generation feature in Apple Music, support for video content in the […]