One of the greatest gifts you can offer your children is your presence. Not just your physical presence—I’m talking about bringing your whole entire being into every interaction. These moments are precious, and you only get one shot to be the mother or father of your three-year-old. Once they turn four, you never get that previous phase back. Not only that, but they will never get your presence back for each stage of life they progress through.

We live in a fast-paced world full of a million distractions. Life is hard, and most people have a difficult enough time tending to their own priorities. Throw in raising whole additional human beings—and now life feels like pure chaos…

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Bootoshi is one of the more curious minds pushing the boundaries of art, AI, and bitcoin. Part builder, artist, and tinkerer, he’ll be bringing his latest work to both the Bitcoin Conference Las Vegas and Inscribing Vegas during Bitcoin Week in late May. In 2024, he launched SatoshiAI through the Cyphergenesis Runes project—an experiment probing autonomy, sentience, and the evolving role of AI in a decentralized world. When he’s not coding live on Twitter or Twitch or leading the AI development agency Agent 42, you’ll likely find him speaking at Bitcoin events. 

During B25 Las Vegas, SatoshiAI will run daily on a large LED screen inside the Art Gallery, inviting attendees to…

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XRP demonstrated notable resilience amid volatile crypto markets in Q1 2025, experiencing a substantial rise in transaction costs to $0.00918 per transaction—an impressive 91.10% increase. This surge coincided with an 89.41% growth in XRP’s average closing price, reaching $2.70. Institutional interest surged as Franklin Templeton applied for a spot ETF, and CME introduced XRP futures, further endorsing XRP’s position in institutional markets.

Ripple achieved a significant legal milestone when the SEC withdrew its appeal, considerably reducing regulatory penalties and signaling a more favorable U.S. regulatory environment for cryptocurrencies. Additional support from the new U.S. administration, including relaxed accounting rules for banks and proactive stablecoin legislation, enhanced market confidence. Ripple also strategically acquired Hidden Road for $1.25 billion, underscoring institutional adoption of XRP Ledger technology.

Despite a quarterly decline in on-chain transactions (down 37.06%) and new wallet creation (down 40.28%), trustlines increased by 7.10%, indicating sustained confidence in XRP’s ecosystem. Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse announced an evolved approach to reporting, shifting to transparent, real-time updates starting Q2 2025, ensuring stakeholders remain consistently informed.

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This morning, a letter filed by the defense of Samourai Wallet developers Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill revealed that the Southern District of New York (SDNY) had suppressed exculpatory evidence in the criminal case. 

According to the filing, the prosecution had consulted FinCEN prior to the indictment of the developers on the viability of bringing unlicensed money transmission charges against a non-custodial service.

“A mixer like Samourai that does not take custody of the cryptocurrency by possessing the private keys would strongly suggest that Samourai is not acting as an MSB,” FinCEN told the prosecutors, according to the filing.

In internal communications,…

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The U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crime Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) is now facing serious questions after a new court filing reveals it charged the developers of Samourai Wallet with operating an unlicensed money transmitter—despite being told by the relevant regulator that no license was required.

On May 5, 2025, lawyers for Samourai Wallet founders Keonne Rodriguez and William Hill filed a letter to Judge Richard Berman in the Southern District of New York disclosing that FinCEN explicitly told U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutors in August 2023 that Samourai Wallet did not qualify as a Money Services Business due to its non-custodial nature. The DOJ moved…

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