JD.com and Ant Group’s Offshore Yuan Stablecoin Gambit: A Pratchettian Take

The world of stablecoins is expanding faster than a wizard’s spell gone wrong. Currently, more than 99% of all stablecoins are tied to the U.S. dollar, with Tether USDT and Circle USDC leading the charge. But JD.com and Ant Group are not content to let the dollar have all the fun. They aim to give the yuan a bigger slice of the digital pie, ensuring that Chinese currency flows more freely across international borders.

You Won’t Believe What This Time-Traveling Whale Just Did With 50,000 BTC! 🐋💸

On July 4, 2025, the so-called TopMob announced (with the kind of excitement generally reserved for discovering that your towel is missing) that this arcane leviathan had already stirred, moving 30,000 BTC—or, to put it another way, a stack tall enough to flatten a Vogon poetry collection—worth over $3 billion. Now, for its encore, the whale has heaved out an additional 50,000 BTC, originally netted on May 4, 2011—a date that only slightly predates the invention of blockchain hair tonic.

Bitcoin Wallets Wake Up After 14 Years, Drop $8.69 Billion Like It’s Hot! 😲🚨

According to Lookonchain (a group that apparently watches the blockchain more closely than I watch my neighbor’s Amazon deliveries), two wallets originating back to the days when Bitcoin was something you used to buy pizza or, apparently, forget entirely, just moved 20,000 BTC each. If you’re counting, that’s “we can skip the Avocado Toast” money and then some.

Bank of Canada’s CBDC: A Privacy-Focused Digital Dollar?

The central bank’s research team examined OpenCBDC 2PC, a model developed in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Digital Currency Initiative. This design prioritizes privacy, speed, and decentralization by allowing users to hold digital funds directly, much like digital cash. 💸

10 Best Justice League Stories of the 90s

During the ’80s, the Justice League regained popularity due to the era known as Justice League International, which featured B and C-list heroes in humorous superhero tales. However, DC kept this version of the Justice League active for too long, with lesser-known heroes making up the team. As a result, readers started to dwindle during the ’90s. Eventually, DC found the ideal creator to address this issue – Grant Morrison. This marked the return of the Justice League, though many of the ’90s were unsuccessful for the team. Nevertheless, some remarkable Justice League stories emerged from that decade. Here are ten exceptional stories that stand out as the best of the best, true classics in the Justice League canon.

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Wuxia Open-World Action-Adventure Where Winds Meet a PlayStation Console Exclusive for at Least 6 Months

The new video on the PlayStation YouTube channel provides confirmation (about the game). This trailer, which is available across multiple platforms, offers a glimpse into the game’s narrative. Towards the end of this teaser, it was revealed that “Where Winds Meet” will be exclusively available on PS5 for at least six months. However, it’s also going to be released on mobile and PC devices as well.

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