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Left: China’s new “Eye of Heaven”- Giant radio telescope with a 500m aperture. Right: NASA’s radio telescope in Puerto Rico -Arecibo.

U.S. Supreme Court expectedly strikes down Biden's eviction moratorium in 6-3 vote: “If a federally imposed eviction moratorium is to continue, Congress must specifically authorize it.”

When the problem of money is fixed via broad bitcoin adoption, the provisionary instruments will be repriced to a pure market value and utilized where it makes most sense: houses for living, bonds for predictable cash flow, stocks for capital allocation. These instruments are useful for society, but they have no place serving as a store of value. This is a role for sound money. https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/not-too-late-wealthy-with-bitcoin

I’m not sure how many of you out there are T-Mobile customers, but if you are, you should be aware of the news this week about the possible breach of 100 million T-Mobile accounts, with information potentially including social security numbers, phone numbers, names, physical addresses, unique IMEI (mobile device identifier) numbers and driver license information. This hack has NOT been confirmed by T-Mobile, who is currently investigating the claim. An anonymous hacker claimed, in an online chat, that they had breached T-Mobile as part of an international group that had access to the company’s servers for weeks. If you are a T-Mobile customer, if they co…

A group of researchers has published a blog post at the International Monetary Fund’s website in which they call for a significant shift in how credit scores are assessed. Instead of being based on traditional metrics, the group believes banks should begin incorporating additional information, including your browser history. The rise of fintech services and cryptocurrencies have changed modern banking in a number of ways, and banks face an increasing number of challenges as various third-party payment processors interpose themselves between financial institutions and their traditional customers. The credit scoring systems used broadly in the US and Europe are based o…

Amid one of the craziest bull runs in stock markets in all of our history, calling out a bubble can be quite scary for many investors, but not for Jeremy Grantham. In a frenetic era of meme stocks, cryptocurrencies, and bidding wars, most people tend to overlook the risks and focus on the promise of future gains. However, there is an imminent and growing danger that this unprecedented mania might end up triggering the greatest stock market crash ever recorded. That's what the chairman of the board of famed asset managers GMO has been warning, stressing that we're in the middle of the greatest financial bubble ever seen. Grantham, an experienced investor who spent dec…

Strike > Muun > Ledger? I saw a very interesting conversation on Reddit about this today:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-58195419 Six people, including a suspected gunman, have died in a shooting in Plymouth. Devon and Cornwall Police said three females, two males and the suspect had died in the Keyham area of the city on Thursday evening. One of the dead was a child under 10, according to an MP, but the shooting is not terror-related, police confirmed. The death toll means it is the worst mass shooting in the UK for more than a decade. Emergency services were called to Biddick Drive shortly after 18:00 BST on Thursday. People were told to stay inside a…

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"Hello Mom, this is Mark Bingham" said a passenger in a phone call from the hijacked Flight 93 on 9/11. Who uses their surname when talking to their own mother??? http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=alice_hoglan_1 However, even his own mother appears to have found what he said bizarre. From the timeline entry: Alice Hoglan finds it strange that he has used his full name to introduce himself. [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 10/28/2001] “He was so flustered, I guess, giving me his last name,” she will later comment. [ABC, 9/11/2001] “I remember being amused that he used his last name,” she will say. [San Francisco Chronicle, 9/10/2003]

Over the last decade the annual return on Bitcoin is 132% and the annual return on Gold is 0%.

2010: Won't work 2015: Too risky 2021: Bad for the environment 2025: Not fair