Bitcoin’s $80K Safety Net Held Once but Glassnode Says It Is Eroding
Oct16

Bitcoin’s $80K Safety Net Held Once but Glassnode Says It Is Eroding

Big buyers caught bitcoin at $80,000 on Thursday, but Glassnode’s order book data shows the bids under that level are getting thinner. A Day on the Order Book Glassnode posted a heatmap of resting orders on the Binance BTC/USDT spot book from Oct. 15, and relayed the following message: The large bids that sat at […] Powered by...

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MSCI Just Put Saylor’s Strategy on the Road out of Its Global Indexes
Oct16

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...

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Pipeline Workers Found a 400-Year-Old Shipwreck in the Baltic, and One Object on Board Still Baffles Experts
Oct16

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...

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Steve Jobs Didn’t Become a Billionaire Thanks to Apple. He Got Rich From a Company He Bought From George Lucas
Oct16

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...

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Polymarket’s Paid Promos Reach Esports, With Orders to ‘Look Organic’: Report
Oct16

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...

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