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Iran has full control over the Strait of Hormuz, according to Iranian Parliament Deputy Speaker Hajji Babaei, elevating Tehran to the status of a new regional superpower. More details

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🇺🇸🏦 U.S. Senate Banking Committee Receives Over 100 Amendments to Crypto Market Structure Bill According to Politico, ahead of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee’s markup vote on the crypto market structure bill, the CLARITY Act, committee members have submitted more than 100 amendments. Crypto journalist Eleanor Terrett disclosed that Senator Elizabeth Warren submitted over 40 amendments, including one aimed at preventing the Federal Reserve from granting master accounts to crypto companies. Senator Jack Reed proposed explicitly banning cryptocurrencies from being used as legal tender, including prohibiting tax payments in crypto assets.

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New Syscoin Security Improvement: Blockchains can have two types of attacks: 1. Temporary attacks Someone briefly causes reorgs or network issues. 2. Takeover attacks Someone gains enough control to permanently take over the chain’s “finality” system and lock everyone else out. The important part: Fast finality is great because it makes transactions settle quickly and securely. But if a finality system is ever captured, it must NOT be able to rewrite deep old history. Syscoin combines: • Bitcoin merge-mined Proof-of-Work security • ChainLocks for fast finality PR #560 adds an extra safety rule so ChainLocks can only finalize chains that are already close to the current honest chain. ELI5 version: If someone shows up with an old hidden fork from far in the past, the network now says: “Nope, too far away, rejected.” This prevents deep hidden forks from suddenly becoming the main chain later on. The result: • faster and safer finality • stronger protection against takeover scenarios • another hardening improvement for Syscoin’s hybrid security model PR #560: https://github.com/syscoin/syscoin/pull/560 Thread: https://x.com/i/status/2054271259832451151

Strategy CEO Phong Le indicated to CNBC that the company will sell Bitcoin only under specific circumstances, such as financing an 11.5% dividend on preferred STRC shares or for tax optimization. On Polymarket, traders currently estimate an 89% likelihood of Strategy divesting its Bitcoin holdings. More details.