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Bitcoin Hits All-Time High of $69,000, Then Falls Dramatically

Bitcoin hit an all-time high of $69,170 Tuesday morning, according to CoinMarketCap, breaching the previous all-time high of $68,990 in November 2021. The price then slipped back under $68,000 soon after reaching its peak. The Biggest Crypto Heists of 2022…So FarEthereum, which currently sits at $3,815, has also been steadily climbing, though it still has a ways to go before reaching $4,721, the all-time high from November 2021.Bitcoin and every other cryptocurrency rather famously nosedived in 2022, a year that opened…

Bitcoin Surges Toward All-Time High as Everyone Forgets What Happened Last Time

Bitcoin’s price surged past $63,000 and then receded just a bit under on Wednesday, reaching a level the crypto coin hasn’t seen since November 2021. While it still has a little way to climb to reach an all-time high of $68,000, that level feels comfortably within reach. And if you’re feeling uneasy about the rally, given what happened two years ago, you’re not alone.The Biggest Crypto Heists of 2022…So FarWhat’s causing Bitcoin’s dramatic climb? The consensus seems to be it’s all FOMO, or the fear of missing out.“We’ve…

avail funding: Blockchain startup Avail raises $27 million in funding led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund

Blockchain technology start-up Avail said on Monday it had raised $27 million for its early-stage funding round led by billionaire Peter Thiel's Founders Fund and crypto investment firm Dragonfly Capital.Venture capital firms SevenX, Figment, Nomad Capital and others also participated in the round, according to Avail.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIndian School of BusinessISB Product ManagementVisitIndian School of BusinessISB Professional Certificate in Product…

Are We Really Doing the Bitcoin Hype Cycle Again?

It’s safe to say crypto is experiencing renewed interest since the crash of 2022. Bitcoin just hit its highest price since 2021, the SEC’s approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs has investors very excited, and the market cap for all crypto just breached $2 trillion. But everyone who’s ready to FOMO their way into crypto should ask themselves: Should we really be doing this again?He Tossed His Bitcoin, Now He Wants It BackThe last time the crypto market was this hot was late 2021, and things were looking very rosy in the world of…

Peter Thiel Is Funding a New Olympics, Steroids Not a Problem

There’s good news for steroid fans: juicers will finally get their day on the field. A who’s who of extremely online investors pitched in to fund a series of events called the Enhanced Games, which describes itself as “the 21st Century Olympics without drug testing.” The list includes Christian Angermayer, venture capitalist, Balaji Srinivasan, former Coinbase CTO, and Peter Thiel, PayPal co-founder and frenemy of Elon Musk. Alex Winter on the Most Important Modern Horror Movie “Unlike the Olympic Games, Enhanced believes…

Twitter’s Bird Logo Dies By Musk’s Hands, Now It’s Time to Drive X Into the Ground

Tired of that lovely bird song, Musk has smothered the cage housing Twitter’s classic bird logo. The site is still called “Twitter,” microblogging posts are still called “Tweets” but the little blue bird logo appearing in the top corner of the site for over a decade has become a big, bland, black “X.”Mr. Tweet Fumbles Super Bowl TweetMusk announced the change in a Tweet over the weekend, and come Sunday the Twitter owner was firing off a storm of half-jokey tweets talking up the change as some grand moment in the history…

Ecstasy-for-Medicine Advocate Looks for Cash Lifeline

MAPS, a nonprofit, is working on an $85 million private share sale to keep itself afloat until mid-2024, when it hopes to start selling MDMA in the U.S. MAPS, a nonprofit, is working on an $85 million private share sale to keep itself afloat until mid-2024, when it hopes to start selling MDMA in the U.S. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is…

Jeb Bush’s Company Discussed Selling NSO Spyware to Cops

Jeb Bush, former Florida governor, Bush family scion, and flop presidential candidate, once considered helping to sell NSO Group spyware to U.S. federal law enforcement agencies. Yvette Nicole Brown on the Frog and Toad Series and Voice ActingBush’s private equity firm, Finback Investment Partners, mulled buying a 5 percent stake in a holding company that was being used to sell NSO’s surveillance products inside the U.S., the Financial Times reported. That holding company, Gideon Cyber Systems, is primarily owned by…

Tech Billionaires Bet on Fusion as Holy Grail for Business

Sam Altman became a tech sensation this year as the CEO of OpenAI, the artificial-intelligence startup that seems pulled from science fiction.  But Mr. Altman, who has been among Silicon Valley’s most prominent investors for more than a decade, has placed one of the biggest bets of his career on a company that might be even more futuristic: a nuclear-fusion startup called Helion Energy Inc.  Sam Altman became a tech sensation this year as the CEO of OpenAI, the artificial-intelligence…