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Jan 14
Brazilian mayor to reportedly invest 1% of city reserves in Bitcoin

Rio de Janeiro mayor Eduardo Paes talked about Bitcoin with Miami mayor and BTC bull Francis Suarez at Rio Innovation Week. 160 Total views 11 Total shares Eduardo Paes, mayor of Brazilian city Rio de Janeiro, wants to allocate 1% of the city’s treasury into Bitcoin (BTC), Cointelegraph Brazil reported. Paes reportedly announced plans for […]

Jan 14
BJ's Wholesale stock dives after J.P. Morgan swings to bearish from bullish as stimulus benefits are set to fade

Shares of BJ’s Wholesale Club Holdings Inc. BJ, +0.43% dove 5.2% toward a two-month low in premarket trading Friday, after J.P. Morgan analyst Christopher Horvers swung to bearish from bullish on the membership-based warehouse retailer, following their sizable outperformance the past two years. Horvers cut this rating to underweight from overweight and cut his stock […]

Jan 14
Second Life creator returns to lay claim to the metaverse

Philip Rosedale, founder of Linden Lab’s virtual online world Second Life, will be rejoining the project as a strategic adviser to guide its entry into the metaverse. While he is negative on content interoperability in the metaverse, describing it as “a total fail,” he believes a nonfungible token (NFT)-based future is the way forward long […]

Jan 14
Coronavirus tally: U.S. sets fresh hospitalizations record as experts lament Supreme Court ruling on vaccine mandates

The average number of Americans who are currently in hospitals with COVID-19 set another record, as the highly transmissible omicron variant continued to spread across the country, a day after the Supreme Court struck down a Biden administration vaccine mandate for large companies. There were 148,782 people in hospitals with COVID-19 on Thursday, according to […]

Jan 14
Vitalik deluged after asking for the 'most unhinged' criticisms about him

Buterin has been both the golden child of crypto, and the recipient of some of the most trenchant criticism. For a bit of fun, he decided today was the day he wanted to dig some notable digs up and share them with his Twitter followers. 4269 Total views 47 Total shares Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin […]

Jan 14
Microsoft, Salesforce and Apple cutting about 116 points off the Dow's price

The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.49% is rising 47 points, or 0.1%, to buck the selloff in the broader market, but it be up a lot more if it wasn’t for the blue-chip barometer’s biggest technology components. The biggest drag on the Dow is Microsoft Corp.’s stock MSFT, -4.23%, which is down $8.64, or […]