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Brazil Elections: Right-Wing Bolsonaro Takes Early Lead Over Socialist Lula As Vote Count Begins
Brazil Elections: Right-Wing Bolsonaro Takes Early Lead Over Socialist Lula As Vote Count Begins
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Right-Wing Bolsonaro Leads Socialist Lula
Polling closed at 4 pm local time
Brazil Votes In Tight Presidential Election With South America's Future On The Line
Right-Wing Bolsonaro Leads Socialist Lula
Polls closed at 4 p.m. Brazil time, and the latest figures from the Superior Electoral Court show right-wing Senator Flávio Bolsonaro leading socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva 50.2% to 41.3%, with just 4.3% of votes counted in Brazil's first-round presidential election Sunday.
The preliminary results offer only a limited...
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Authored by Juan Galt via BitcoinMagazine.com,
The Liquid Network said Sunday that purported white-hat hackers withdrew about 4,000 bitcoin, worth about $320 million, from the federation wallet that backs L-BTC.
Bridge nodes were disabled, and the sidechain was paused. Other issued assets, including USDT, DePix and RWAs, were unaffected, the official account said on X.
The Liquid Network is a federated sidechain of Bitcoin, founded by Adam Back’s Blockstream. The Liquid chain issues a variety of assets such as LBTC, which...
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