This Week In Techdirt History: July 20th – 26th
Five Years Ago
This week in 2020, the DHS was going full gestapo in response to protests in Portland, then quickly expanding the tactics to other cities, starting with Chicago, and was also engaging i...
AI-Powered Fraud Growing: Ravelin
While online fraud for companies has long been synonymous with payment fraud and account takeovers, a new wave of threats is gaining ground, led by first-party chargeback fraud, refund abuse, and, inc...
Bit Digital Seeks $1 Billion Pivot Towards Ethereum
Bit Digital, a Nasdaq-listed crypto firm, is deepening its commitment to Ethereum as it pivots from its previous Bitcoin-centric operations.
In a July 25 filing with the US Securities and Exchange...
Blockchain won’t win until it outruns TradFi
Decentralization was blockchain’s founding promise—but in finance, milliseconds move markets. Unless Web3 can match Wall Street’s sub-second speed, users will keep choosing the faster rails of t...
