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[Link] Meme Stock Traders Pump Fake Company Enough to Get It Trending
Read: 13/4/2022 www.vice.com
The increasingly bored-seeming WallStreetBets crowd has decided that instead of pumping real companies, it’s going to start focusing its energy on a fake one.
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[Link] Amazon referred to US attorney general over ‘potentially criminal conduct’
Read: 13/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
Members of the Democratic-controlled House judiciary committee have referred Amazon to the Department of Justice, alleging “potentially criminal conduct” by the company and some of its senior executives.
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[Link] 'Escape From Tarkov' Players Feel the Squeeze of the Ruble's Collapse
Read: 9/3/2022 www.vice.com
Russia’s currency, the ruble, has collapsed. It’s worth less than Roblox's in-game currency, robux. The economic collapse has also affected the video game Escape from Tarkov, which uses the ruble, euro, dollar, and bitcoin as in-game currencies and uses real world exchange rates within the game.
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[Link] A Poop Emoji NFT Shows That ‘Web3’ Is Actually Pretty Centralized
Read: 11/1/2022 www.vice.com
Last Friday, he published a blog post that went viral in which he explained some of web3’s early failing points—most notably the fact that some important aspects of this decentralized internet aren't really decentralized at all.
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[Link] State of emergency declared in Kazakh capital as protests escalate
Read: 5/1/2022 www.abc.net.au
Protesters in Kazakhstan's largest city, Almaty, have stormed the presidential residence and mayor's office and set both buildings on fire, according to news reports, as demonstrations sparked by a rise in LPG prices in the Central Asian nation escalated sharply.
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[Link] ‘Domino effect’ warning as $200 billion wiped off cryptocurrency market
Read: 16/11/2021 www.news.com.au
Hundreds of billions of dollars have been wiped off cryptocurrencies in a market-wide crash that has brought the price of bitcoin down below $60,000.
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[Link] Article 16 ‘very much on the table’ in Brexit row, says Frost
Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
David Frost, the UK’s Brexit minister, has said triggering article 16 to suspend post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland is “very much on the table”, as he met his EU counterpart in Brussels.
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[Link] Data-breached Guntrader website calls in liquidators, is reborn as Guntrader 2 Ltd
Read: 3/11/2021 www.theregister.com
A British firearms sales website's owner has called in the liquidators as his company faces data breach lawsuits – while continuing to trade from a newly incorporated business. Guntrader Ltd entered a creditors' voluntary liquidation on 22 October.
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[Link] How the 'Craigslist of Guns' Helps Arm Cartels in Mexico
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
Investigators traced guns found in the border city of Reynosa back to Americans who used the website Armslist.
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[Link] An $8K Shiba Inu Investment Turned Into $5.7 Billion. But Can They Cash Out?
Read: 29/10/2021 www.vice.com
In the fast-moving world of cryptocurrencies, kingdoms can rise and crumble in the space of months or days. It’s in that spirit that Shiba Inu (SHIB), a Dogecoin-inspired token, surged past its original inspiration by market cap this week, which is the total value of all tokens in circulation.
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[Link] Why Does FaZe Clan Think It’s Worth $1 Billion?
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
FaZe Clan, the esports and gaming influencer group, announced plans on Monday to become “the only digitally native, youth-focused lifestyle and media platforms publicly traded on a U.S.
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[Link] China’s infant formula golden days are gone, says Bega
Read: 26/10/2021 www.afr.com
Bega Cheese chairman Barry Irvin has warned that infant formula markets in China are unlikely to recover to pre-COVID-19 levels, but on a brighter note, said the company gained a bargain in last year’s acquisition of the Lion portfolio of milk and flavoured milk brands.
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[Link] Federation 'ill-equipped' to deal with 21st-century challenges as Australia grows 'vulnerable'
Read: 21/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
More than 250 stakeholders are behind a report, as part of the National Resilience Project (NRP), that makes recommendations on topics including energy security, climate change responses, global and regional security risks, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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[Link] Bitcoin Just Hit an All Time High Price: $67,000
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
The price of Bitcoin hit an all time high on Wednesday, one day after the first Bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund (ETF) launched. At its height, the cryptocurrency was trading for $67,016.50, several thousand more than its $64,895.22 high in April.
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[Link] Zillow Pumps the Brakes on Buying Homes
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
After preparing to go on a massive home-buying spree, Zillow abruptly reversed course and announced on Monday that it will not sign any new contracts for additional homes for the remainder of the year.
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[Link] People Are Taking Out Loans Against Their NFTs—And Defaulting
Read: 15/10/2021 www.vice.com
In the ongoing speedrun to turn everything into a non-fungible token, savvy traders and entrepreneurs have recently taken a few steps to squeeze more investment opportunities out of their JPEGs. Case in point: it’s now a thing to take out a loan and offer up an NFT as collateral.
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