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Follow Frank on X. Often, when I speak with everyday Bitcoiners — plebs, if you will — they share with me that they’re torn between carrying on with their “fiat job” and getting more involved in the Bitcoin space on a professional level.I usually tell them that they can start by incorporating Bitcoin into what they currently do for a living, though, I haven’t had a great example of someone doing this that I can point them to — until this morning.When it’s time for the clients of osteopath Rob Shaw, based in Essex, UK (just outside of London), to…

Traitors finalist Alexander Dragonetti has told the BBC he’s “incredibly grateful” after people donated more than £70,000 to Mencap. “The funny thing is I said I’d donate some of my winnings to a charity and, in it’s own way, this is a version of winning, right? This is more than I’d ever have won,” he said. The former British diplomat’s brother had Global Developmental Delay and autism. Alexander said that every year he and his brother would go to a summer camp, where his brother “could be himself, he’d have infinite attention… and my parents could get a break.”

By Terry Ashton, updated January 31, 2025 As cryptocurrencies continue to make headlines, they are seen not only as a new investment form but also as a tool for cryptocurrencies in national reserves. Some countries remain cautious about adopting digital currencies. However, ignoring them in national reserves could pose significant risks. Bitcoin, often regarded as the flagship cryptocurrency, has the potential to become a key reserve asset. It can contribute to economic stability and act as a safeguard against inflation. The growing use of digital currencies, including central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), calls for a reassessment of traditional reserve structures.…

Sairaj Bahutule (Photo credit: MCA) MUMBAI: Former India and Mumbai leg-spinner Sairaj Bahutule has quit the BCCI’s Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru due to personal reasons. Bahutule was the bowling coach at the CoE since November 2021. Friday was his last day in ‘office.’“Yes, I have quit the COE due to personal/family reasons. I am thankful to former BCCI secretary Jay Shah, BCCI, Rahul Dravid (previous head of COE) and VVS (current head of COE) for giving me the opportunity to work with India’s top spinners across formats. I was with the India/India A and India Under-19 teams in at…

If Elon Musk is the rocket soaring through space, then his father Errol Musk is the launchpad—solid, sometimes controversial, but undeniably important. Born in 1946, Errol is more than just the father of the world’s richest tech mogul. He’s an engineer, a businessman, a former politician, and the guy who somehow managed to make emerald mines a regular topic in the Musk family lore.Errol Musk: A man of many hatsErrol Musk, the man who raised a space-faring, electric car-making genius, is quite the character himself. Born in 1946, Errol’s life has been one rollercoaster of engineering feats, property deals, and,…

Ross Ulbricht lost $12 million to an MEV bot while trying to provide liquidity for the ROSS meme coin on Raydium, a DEX on Solana. Some traders are indeed “minting” money trading meme coins. Getting a piece of the $105 billion market cap industry seems to be the order of the day. The bad news is that out of the millions, even billions, of ROI scooped, only a tiny percentage of meme coin traders win. Most lose, not only due to bad entries and rug pulls but sometimes to bots. Ross Ulbricht Loses Money: What Happened? Arkham Intelligence analysis from…

Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage The Dogelon Mars price surged 25% in the last 24 hours to trade at $0.0000003034 as of 3.55 a.m. EST on trading volume that soared 437% to $62.82 million. This increase in the ELON price comes after the meme coin’s value declined for days in an attempt to find its bottom and stabilize following the disruptive pump to $0.0000006 just before Trump’s inauguration. After days of strong fluctuations, the price seemingly stabilized at $0.00000025, only to surge to $0.00000030 once again. The project is still heavily focused…

In his book, “Mechanical Trading Systems: Pairing Trader Psychology with Technical Analysis,” author Richard Weissman identifies three basic trader personality profiles. Can you identify with one of the trading personalities below? Let’s discuss the trend-followers, day traders, and mean reversion traders: 1. Trend-Following Trader Weissman enumerates two traits necessary for successful trend followers: patience and fortitude. Trend-following mechanical systems get traders in strong directional moves, and signals typically form when the trend has already begun. A typical entry strategy may be to buy at recent highs or sell at recent lows, anticipating that the price will make a new high or low later on. This may seem…

The working environment can be potentially filled with hazards and dangers. It is little surprise that hundreds of thousands of accidents take place every year in workplaces around the world. These can range from simple slips, trips, or falls that only result in minor injuries to catastrophic accidents that can lead to the death of an employee at work. At present, the construction sector is widely recognized to be one of the most dangerous working environments, with deaths at work in this industry surpassing other sectors and places of work. However, it is important to understand that many accidents at…

It’s prac­ti­cal­ly guar­an­teed that we now have more stu­pid peo­ple on the plan­et than ever before. Of course, we might be tempt­ed to think; just look at how many of them dis­agree with my pol­i­tics. But this unprece­dent­ed stu­pid­i­ty is pri­mar­i­ly, if not entire­ly, a func­tion of an unprece­dent­ed­ly large glob­al pop­u­la­tion. The more impor­tant mat­ter has less to do with quan­ti­ty of stu­pid­i­ty than with its qual­i­ty: of all the forms it can take, which does the most dam­age? Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Pow­er and The Laws of Human Nature, address­es that ques­tion in the…