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This past February, financial planner Alex Chalekian and Altruist founder Jason Wenk were on vacation in Zihuatanejo, Mexico, when the firm’s tax planning tools sent Wall Street into a tizzy.Processing ContentInvestors dumped shares in giant rivals such as Charles Schwab, LPL Financial and Raymond James after the upstart custodian and registered investment advisory platform unveiled its new AI-powered analysis of clients’ tax documents and other materials. After Chalekian, the founder of Pasadena, California-based RIA firm Lake Avenue Financial and an early beta tester of Altruist’s services, received the email about the rollout, Wenk’s phone “started blowing up” and he “pretty much…

Key TakeawaysOn Aug. 8, BIP-110 failed after drawing only 2.5% miner support, triggering a chain split at block 961,632.Industry leaders like Leo Fan noted Bitcoin’s difficulty rules successfully halted minority forks.Disillusioned nodes using Bitcoin Knots are planning a hard fork to adopt a brand-new PoW algorithm. A Fracture in Node Sovereignty In the wake of the now-failed attempt to restrict non-financial data on the Bitcoin blockchain, prominent ecosystem voices, including BIP-110 proponent “Bitcoin Mechanic,” have declared that the protocol has suffered terminal “protocol capture” by centralized mining cartels. The fallout follows the Aug. 8 activation deadline for BIP-110, yielding barely…

In brief Bill Swearingen’s noRecognition project generates patterns that stop camera software from classifying what it covers—people, faces, or cars. The patterns defeated all 11 open-source detection algorithms he tested, including the software behind Flock license plate readers, Axon body cameras, and Clearview AI. The first public test came Friday at Def Con in Las Vegas: a 2009 Toyota Yaris wrapped in the pattern, driven past a Flock camera. Bill Swearingen spent the past year running one experiment over and over from his home in Kansas City, where he co-founded the SecKC security meetup. About 31 million tests later, he…

BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF (BITA) recorded $79,073 of realized gains and $265,776 of unrealized appreciation on written options in its first operating period, helping offset losses on its Bitcoin holdings and shares of the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT).BITA posted an $860,335 decrease in net assets from operations through June 30, its first quarterly filing shows. IBIT is BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin fund and one of BITA’s underlying investments. Related ReadingBlackRock’s new Bitcoin ETF offers monthly income, but caps gains when Bitcoin surgesThe Nasdaq-listed ETF offers monthly income potential through covered calls while capping part of the rally trade.…

Like any regulated trading platform under authority of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, prediction markets firms try to encourage heavy traders and for firms to act as market makers in ways that can deepen participation and trading volume. But the CFTC is concerned about how they’re doing it, according to guidance issued on Wednesday.The U.S. derivatives regulator cautioned the event-contracts platforms that it’s seeing an increase in their filings in pursuit of incentive programs, and they are often “procedurally or substantively deficient,” the document said. That hinders the agency from figuring out whether the platform “has provided adequate notice of…

Felix Pinkston Aug 12, 2026 09:55 AAVE is grinding at $89.69, pinned below every major moving average and bleeding quietly while smart money quietly builds long exposure. The next 7–30 days hinge on whether buyers can reclaim $91.3… AAVE’s Technical Reality Check There’s no sugar-coating this chart. AAVE is trading below its 7-day, 20-day, 50-day, and 200-day simple moving averages simultaneously — that’s not a consolidation, that’s a slow-motion capitulation until proven otherwise. The short-term EMAs confirm the same story: price is sitting beneath both the 12 and 26-period EMAs, and with the…

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The GBP/JPY holds firm on Wednesday at around 215.00, as neither buyers nor sellers are reluctant to open fresh directional bets amid fears of renewed intervention in the FX markets by US and Japanese authorities to propel the Yen. At the time of writing, the cross-pair hovers below the 50-day Simple Moving Average (SMA), barely unchanged.GBP/JPY Price Forecast: Technical outlookGBP/JPY faces significant resistance levels that are capping its advance, resulting in sideways trading. The Relative Strength Index (RSI), remains flat at the neutral level of 50, suggesting a lack of strong conviction from either buyers or sellers to drive the…

Sterling spent the London morning building a case for a break and the rest of the session dismantling it, trading near 1.3495 after a high just short of 1.3550 and a loss of not quite a tenth of a percent. The mid-July peak sits a handful of pips above where today’s advance stopped, which makes this the second time in four weeks that one level has turned the Pound around.What sits underneath the day is better than the day itself. The 50-day and 200-day Exponential Moving Averages (EMA) are converged just above 1.3400 and have crossed back with the faster…