Author: bibhuti

The El Salvador Freedom Visa program opens the path to citizenship to 1000 crypto millionaires per year in a bid to build a stronger economy. Nearly three years after El Salvador made headlines by adopting Bitcoin (BTC) as legal tender alongside the United States dollar, the country has grown into a robust economic hub in Latin America. El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has remained steadfast in transforming the country to an improved financial position despite the heavy criticism from Western banking institutions like the World Bank. Moreover, El Salvador could be in profit if it decided to sell its Bitcoin…

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The elements of the super-heavy lift SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for NASA’s Artemis II mission are undergoing final preparations before shipment to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for stacking and pre-launch activities in 2024. Teams at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, recently rotated the Orion stage adapter– a ring structure that connects NASA’s Orion spacecraft to the SLS rocket’s interim cryogenic propulsion stage (ICPS) – in preparation for the installation of its diaphragm. The installation Nov. 30 marks one of the final steps for the adapter before it is readied for shipment to Kennedy via…

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Polar Capital Technology, the tech-focused investment trust, said today that it believes global tech stocks remain attractive despite their recent performance, valuation, and general economic concerns. The trust, which recorded a 12.1 per cent increase in net asset value (NAV) per share over the six months to 31 October, compared to a return of 12.8 per cent for its benchmark, the sterling-adjusted Dow Jones Global Technology Index, said it had rotated “decisively towards AI as a primary investment theme,” during the first quarter. However, while its AI-focused stock selection helped the trust, its performance was hampered by its average cash…

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Timothee Chalamet, 27, revealed how he plans to celebrate his 28th birthday on December 27, when he appeared on The Drew Barrymore Show this week. The actor, who is reportedly dating Kylie Jenner, admitted he will most likely spend the special day with his family, as he’s done in past years. “I don’t know. This movie will be freshly out. I usually spend it with my family, my parents,” he told host Drew Barrymore while promoting his new film, Wonka, alongside co-star Hugh Grant. “Last year I had like eight people over…I had a bowling party once.” Timothee at the…

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Omidyar Network, backed by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, is shutting down its India operations, two sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch, in a stunning development for the impact venture firm that has backed nearly 75 startups in the South Asian market. TechCrunch couldn’t determine why Omidyar had decided to abruptly pull from the Indian market, a development that was shared with the local team Monday, a source familiar with the matter said, requesting anonymity as the matter is private. Omidyar Network India unveiled five new investments in India in just last two months and its executives engaged in public conference…

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In his talk with Elon Musk last month, Rishi Sunak suggested that Brits should be more willing to give up regular pay and get “comfortable with failure” in order to take the risk of starting their own ventures. However, this sentiment is not reflective of the economic reality that many aspiring entrepreneurs find themselves in.Sunak isn’t wrong that there’s an underlying problem: the UK produces startlingly few entrepreneurs, with relatively few British startups scaling up compared to other leading economies. The startup rate in the UK is just 5.2%, compared to 10.7% in the US.Speaking with Musk, Sunak suggested this…

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Bitcoin core developer Luke Dashjr has denied playing any part in adding Bitcoin inscriptions as a cybersecurity risk on the United States National Vulnerability Database’s (NVD) Common Vulnerabilities and Exposure (CVE) list. Dashjr courted controversy in a Dec. 6 post to X (formerly Twitter) claiming that inscriptions — used by the Ordinals protocol and BRC-20 creators to embed data on satoshis — exploit a Bitcoin Core vulnerability to “spam the blockchain.”PSA: “Inscriptions” are exploiting a vulnerability in #Bitcoin Core to spam the blockchain. Bitcoin Core has, since 2013, allowed users to set a limit on the size of extra data in…

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View of the Interamna Lirenas excavation from above and from the North. Photograph taken in September 2023. The remains of the theater can be seen in the center, with the remains of the basilica behind it. Credit: Alessandro Launaro A rare roofed theater, markets, warehouses, a river port and other startling discoveries made by a Cambridge-led team of archaeologists challenge major assumptions about the decline of Roman Italy. New findings from Interamna Lirenas, traditionally written off as a failed backwater in Central Italy, change our understanding of Roman history, its excavators believe. Their thirteen-year study—published today in the edited volume…

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