MSCI Just Put Saylor’s Strategy on the Road out of Its Global Indexes
MSCI has adopted a rule that could push Strategy, the company holding 848,250 BTC, out of its flagship indexes after Nov. 30, and JPMorgan puts the possible forced selling at $2.8 billion. What Did MSCI Actually Decide? On Oct. 15, MSCI published the results of its consultation on “non-operating companies.” These are firms that mostly […] Powered by...
Pipeline Workers Found a 400-Year-Old Shipwreck in the Baltic, and One Object on Board Still Baffles Experts
A 17th-century clinker-built sailing vessel, discovered in 2023 during survey work for an underwater gas pipeline in Germany’s Bay of Greifswald on the southern Baltic Sea, has been dated by tree-ring analysis of its oak timbers to wood felled between 1626 and 1639. The rescue excavation led by University of Warsaw underwater archaeologist Michał Grabowski […] Powered by...
Polymarket’s Paid Promos Reach Esports, With Orders to ‘Look Organic’: Report
Polymarket is paying more than 800 X users to quote-post content from its esports accounts, at $10 to several hundred dollars a post, paid in crypto, ReaderGrev’s Mikhail Klimentov reported on Thursday. In a private Discord server, a company representative told them the posts needed to “look organic.” A Discord Server and a Payout Dashboard […] Powered by...
Steve Jobs Didn’t Become a Billionaire Thanks to Apple. He Got Rich From a Company He Bought From George Lucas
On February 3, 1986, Steve Jobs bought Lucasfilm’s computer graphics unit from George Lucas for $10 million and renamed it Pixar, taking roughly a 70% stake. Pixar’s November 29, 1995 IPO priced shares at $22 and made Jobs a billionaire years before his 1997 return to Apple, and Disney later acquired Pixar in 2006 for […] Powered by...
CZ Takes Aim at Bank of America Over $1.21 Billion AML Penalty
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) took a swipe at Bank of America on Wednesday after the banking giant was slapped with more than $1.21 billion in federal penalties for anti-money laundering (AML) and sanctions violations. Regulators found the bank failed to timely report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions, yet no executives faced criminal […] Powered by...
Scientists Stumbled Back Onto a Forest Experiment Abandoned for 30 Years, and the Results Stunned Them
Researchers who revisited the long-forgotten Silvicultural Systems Project plots at Tanjil Bren in Victoria, Australia, found that heavily thinned mountain ash stands grew trees about 20% larger in diameter than unharvested controls and, within 30 years, recovered all carbon removed in the 1987 harvest. The findings, published July 1, 2026 in Forest Science, also reported […] Powered by...
