The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Department of Justice filed lawsuit against Illinois, Arizona, Connecticut and various state officials on Thursday over the state’s efforts to shutter prediction market providers. Illinois, alongside numerous other states, sent cease-and-desist letters to some prediction market providers, arguing that the companies were offering sports gambling products that should…

Google’s Quantum AI team said earlier this week that a future quantum computer could derive a bitcoin private key from a public key in roughly nine minutes. The number ricocheted across social media and spooked markets. But, what does it actually mean in practice? Let’s start with how bitcoin transactions work. When you send bitcoin,…