Tether acquires a 12% stake, worth $150M, in Gold.com, which enables access to physical and tokenized gold, and plans to integrate its gold-backed XAUT token (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/02/05…
Fucking yes… finally! Thank you, Ireland, Spain, and Netherlands!
“Ireland will not participate in next year’s Eurovision Song Contest, and it will not be broadcast on RTÉ, after organiser the European Broadcasting Union confirmed today that Israel will be allowed to take part … Spain’s national broadcaster RTVE and the Netherlands’ AvroTros also announced that they would boycott the contest.”
Maybe we should rename it to the Genocidevision Song Contest?
Now… any more Euro…
Colts' Alec Pierce ejected amid career day after making contact with official
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/colts-alec-pierce-ejected-contact-with-official/
Ofcom makes 'urgent contact' with X over concerns Grok AI can generate 'sexualised images of children' | Science, Climate & Tech News | Sky News
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contact: Haggle human proximity network (2006)
A network of human proximities, as measured by carried wireless devices. Each node represents a person, and an edge denotes when two people were within a certain proximity of each other, as measured by a wireless protocol (Bluetooth or Wifi). The edges are timestamped.
This network has 274 nodes and 28244 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps
So it's official, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Scandinavia aren't concerned to allow a genocidal terror state to take part in their schmaltzy show.
Credit to Ireland, Spain, Netherlands and Slovenia for boycotting.
Eurovision: Which countries are boycotting the song contest and can it survive? - BBC News
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Raiders player making no contest plea in DUI case, attorney says https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/courts/raiders-player-making-no-contest-plea-in-dui-case-attorney-says-3604195/
BNP Paribas says it is joining nine other European banks including ING, UniCredit, and CaixaBank developing a euro-pegged stablecoin in a JV called Qivalis (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/12/02/bnp…
A US judge sentences Rui-Siang Lin, who pled guilty to operating the $105M dark web narcotics marketplace Incognito Market, to 30 years in US federal prison (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/02/04