James Howells, a Welsh Bitcoin investor, is escalating his decade-long quest to retrieve 8,000 Bitcoins he accidentally discarded, now worth an astounding $557 million, according to Protos. Howells is reportedly threatening to sue the Newport City Council, which oversees the landfill housing the…
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Mastercard is looking to support central banks with its central bank digital currency (CBDC) program and believes that the “continued global interest” made this summer the right time to launch its program. “Our goal is to drive and support interoperability across the different ways of making…
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Game of Thrones and Eternals star Kit Harington won’t be donning armor or spandex for his next role. The Hollywood Reporter can exclusively reveal the first images from Harington’s upcoming feature, What Remains of Us, in which the British star plays a man with a dark secret. Set in 1965, the film…
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Hotel rooms at the new Ritz-Carlton will start at $473; apartments cost up to $8.9 million. But on the surrounding blocks, Portlanders camp in tents and doorways. A gleaming, sail-like 35-story tower has emerged on the corner of Southwest Washington and 10th Avenue in downtown Portland, Oregon,…
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Ripple has expanded its blockchain portfolio by acquiring a Nevada-based chartered trust company. Former CEO of Turkish crypto exchange Thodex, Faruk Fatih Özer, has been sentenced to 11,196 years in prison by a Turkish court after being convicted of fraud, money laundering and other charges.…
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President Joe Biden heads to a Vietnam that’s looking to dramatically ramp up trade with the United States.
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“Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe” director Aitch Alberto became emotional talking about the the title characters’ first kiss, which makes for a tense scene in Aristotle’s (Max Pelayo) red pickup truck. The film, based on the young adult Pen/Faulkner prize-winning novel by…
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After experiencing a significant downward move that brought Bitcoin’s price quickly close to the $25K threshold, bearish momentum has temporarily subsided, giving way to a phase of consolidation marked by low volatility. Despite this, the most likely scenario for Bitcoin appears to be a period of…
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The world of men’s tennis was ready to anoint its new Big Two. There was Novak Djokovic, the 36-year-old winner of 23 Grand Slams, and there was Carlos Alcaraz, the 20-year-old prodigy fresh off his Wimbledon title. Then came the rest.
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Today on Indicators of the Week: government iPhone restrictions in China that walloped Apple's market value. Plus plans emerge over how the US government plans to negotiate drug prices. Also, a mass exodus of employees from a top dating app that sheds some light on where the whole working from…
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Universal’s new deal on streaming royalties underscores how the major labels have remade themselves throughout the digital era
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Fintech giant Square says its services are coming back online after a day-long outage left small business owners unable to process payments. The Block-owned company had, up until Friday morning on the U.S. west coast, been battling a prolonged outage that had downed its services since Thursday…
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Today, Sheldon the Sniper is going live to show us how we can trade Altcoins that are supported by a titan! Larry Fink recently …
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