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Tether Launches Self-Custodial Wallet Supporting USDT, Bitcoin, & Tokenized Gold Authored by Naga Avan-Nomayo via TheBlock.co, Tether, issuer of the world’s largest stablecoin USDT, is stepping further out from behind the rails with the launch of its self-custodial wallet, which it says is designed to put its payments infrastructure directly in the hands of users, rather than operating solely as a backend layer for crypto markets. The application, dubbed tether.wallet, targets "billions of users left behind by the traditional financial system," the firm said in a Tuesday announcement. Tether stated that it also builds...

Now They Think Babies Can Be Racist... Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, A woman sat in front of a camera this week and told the internet she had witnessed a "racist baby"... Not a joke account. Not a sketch. A straight-faced lecture about an infant who looked at someone for a few seconds - and, in her telling, revealed the original sin of race hatred barely out of the womb. The woman declares that "watching children mirror racist behavior is WILD." She describes a baby staring at her 'friend of colour',...

Despite Record Surge In Subprime Car Loan Originations, US Household Debt Dropped In Q2: First Since COVID Something unprecedented happened in the second quarter: aggregate household debt balances declined by $13 billion, a 0.1% decline from Q1. Balances stood at $18.8 trillion, up $4.6 trillion since the end of 2019, just before the pandemic recession. But the reason why we say it was unprecedented, is that the Q2 drop was the first quarterly decline in total household debt since the second quarter of 2020, when the US economy was gripped...