Former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao will remain in the US until his sentencing date, a judge ruled Thursday.

Judge Richard Jones sided with the government’s motion to prevent Zhao from returning to the United Arab Emirates — where he resides with his partner and children. Originally, Magistrate Judge Brian Tsuchida leaned towards letting Zhao return to the UAE until his sentencing hearing. 

However, Judge Jones put a temporary hold on the decision until the government could file its motion. The government, in its filing, argued that while they don’t believe that Zhao needs to be detained while he awaits sentencing, the US does not have an extradition treaty with the UAE. 

“The…

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As the first blockchain and cryptocurrency, Bitcoin (BTC) paved the way for everything that’s come since: nonfungible tokens (NFTs), smart contracts, tokenization, layer-2 solutions, and all the rest. Due to Bitcoin’s value to the cryptosphere, forming the bedrock that supports the rest of the market, its protocol is rarely altered. With hundreds of billions of dollars and global trust in the decentralized network at stake, it doesn’t make sense to meddle.f

While the ossification of Bitcoin’s codebase has brought stability and reliability, it’s made Bitcoin a little… well, boring. Where once the Bitcoin ecosystem formed a hub of innovation and a hive of activity, that momentum…

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Bitcoin and the broader crypto market have been gleefully declared dead more than a few times during bear markets, but some experts say it would take a genuinely extreme set of events for it to truly die.

According to 99Bitcoins — a website that, among other things, tracks how many times Bitcoin (BTC) has been declared dead by mainstream media outlets — the largest crypto by market cap has died 474 times since 2010.

Often, the proclamation is met with cheering by crypto skeptics as evidence that BTC is not a viable asset, but it might not be so simple to kill off crypto — at least according to some experts in the space.

A year ago #Bitcoin hit $69,000. One of the main reason for the…

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Earlier this week, Google launched its latest artificial intelligence (AI) model, Gemini, which it claimed to be the most advanced model currently available on the market, more so than the popular model developed by OpenAI GPT-4. 

This bold claim was treated like a challenge by community sleuths across the internet, who swiftly moved to examine the methods and benchmarks used by Google to assert supposed Gemini’s superiority, and poke fun at the company’s marketing of the product.

David Gull, CEO of AI-powered wellness startup Vital, told Cointelegraph that each model, be it GPT-4, LLaMa, or now Gemini, has its own set of strengths and challenges.

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As crypto markets turn bullish, nonfungible token (NFT) trading has started to join the wave, with a volume nearing $1 billion in November, according to data published by the decentralized app tracking platform DappRadar. 

The report highlighted that the NFT industry maintained an upward momentum for the second month in a row. Trading volume surged by 125% in November, suggesting a shift in user behavior compared to earlier downturns in NFT trading.

NFT trading volume and sales count data. Source: DappRadar

On Nov. 6, analytics firm Nansen reported that NFT sales volumes showed continued weekly increases in October. NFT sales consistently went up, from $56 million in the week ending on…

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