Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said he disagrees with the strongly emotional reactions to the anti-data-center movement that emerged this week. According to Foresight News, Buterin argued that algorithmic advances could allow existing data centers to achieve in about four years, possibly sooner, capabilities that would otherwise require more and larger data centers over the next two years. He said that even if the movement were highly successful, the outcome would not be catastrophic. Buterin said the world needs as much time as possible to strengthen defenses against known cybersecurity problems and emerging risks, including biological threats. He added that scientific applications face constraints beyond AI, so slowing AI development by a year would have a much smaller effect on scientific progress. He said slowing the hyperscale expansion of computing capacity therefore appears to offer more benefits than costs, a conclusion that does not depend on the disputed view that catastrophe is inevitable.

According to ChainCatcher citing Lookonchain, about 1,670 ETH from Tornado Cash was transferred to Hyperliquid and sold to buy approximately 2,959 ZEC over the past 20 hours.

A whale was the only individual trader among the top five on Hyperliquid’s 24-hour profit leaderboard. According to Odaily, the address 0x45d...4029 earned $2.13 million over the past 24 hours, has cumulative profits of $72.85 million and holds positions worth $145 million.

Predictions, Cryptocurrency, Crypto Market, Undervalued Opportunities in the Crypto Market: Funding Rates Can Be Traded Separately (Golden Finance) - Almost every crypto transaction hides another transaction within it.

Analysts believe that the SpaceX-Anthropic contract contains a "90-day two-way exit clause"—if the supply of computing power tightens, Musk can reprice the computing power to 2-3 times the original contract price, directly determining the fate of Anthropic and the future of the entire AI landscape.

With the release of results from multiple referendums and local elections across the United States in November, public resistance to the expansion of AI data centers has reached unprecedented levels, with 76% of surveyed voters explicitly opposing the construction of data centers in their own communities in exit polls.

For many people working in the crypto industry, the real concern may lie in another direction: since domestic policies have clearly prohibited virtual currency mining activities, would purchasing mining machines in China and exporting them to overseas mining farms also constitute smuggling?

Nomura believes that the "blue wave" will slow down the construction of US data centers through tightened regulations, thereby lowering global AI chip prices and easing the difficulty for Chinese companies to obtain high-end GPUs and HBMs, which is generally beneficial to China's AI economy.

The U.S. Treasury Department's restrictions on MEXC start with its fund transfers with U.S. financial institutions.

With the establishment of the regulatory framework, the proportion of first-launch/exclusive listings in South Korea has decreased significantly.

The wave of protests has spread from Scotland to Spain, with 2,000 people rallying simultaneously in Dublin and 1,300 in Helsinki in just one day, and clashes and arrests breaking out in Amsterdam.

This week, 14 blockchain startups raised $43.5 million. Uranium Digital raised $16.5 million in Series A funding, the largest funding round this week.

From the history of the Russian trade in dead souls in the 19th century to the world's iris and palm print recognition, in an era of rampant AI forgery, proving the existence of a real human being is becoming an economic technology with a clear price tag.