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The cryptocurrency sector is a hard place to learn, but it offers many eternal investing lessons.Alex Carchidi | The Motley FoolTrump signs Genius Act, first major U.S. crypto law, into effectPresident Donald Trump signed the Genius Act, establishing the first U.S. crypto law regulating stablecoins.Cryptocurrencies can rise by thousands of percentage points in a few months and then drop 70% or more in the same amount of time. That makes the crypto sector a brutal teacher of quite a few basic investing truths.In that vein, if you hold Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH), Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) or even Dogecoin…
While there are lots of great Black Friday sales on cheaper devices, it’s the big ticket items that really make a world of difference. Take Apple’s 2024 Mac mini M4, which has dropped to $479 from $599 as part of early Black Friday deals. The 20 percent discount brings Apple’s mini desktop computer with 16GB of RAM and 256GB of SSD to only $10 more than its all-time low.We gave the Mac mini M4 a 90 in our review, in part, because it packs an incredible amount of power into such a small design. It also has front facing USB-C…
What to Know: Saylor’s ‘I Won’t Back Down’ message comes as Bitcoin slides toward $80K–$85K, pressuring leveraged players and reigniting crash warnings. Strategy’s 649K+ BTC stack remains profitable on paper, but the stock premium has nearly vanished, testing investor patience with the treasury bet. U.Today+1 Bitcoin Hyper aims to solve Bitcoin’s throughput, fees, and programmability issues with an SVM-based Layer-2 that keeps Bitcoin as the settlement layer. The $HYPER presale has raised over $28M, offers around 41% staking rewards, and targets multi-X upside if its Layer-2 roadmap and ecosystem delivery succeed. Bitcoin just pulled off one of the nastiest rug-pull-looking…
Two of the Pakistan Super League’s (PSL) most prominent and commercially successful outfits, Lahore Qalandars and Peshawar Zalmi, have renewed their franchise rights for another 10 years, the country’s cricket board announced on Monday. The agreements, finalised at market valuations determined by global audit firm Ernst & Young after what the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) described as a “comprehensive and transparent assessment”, come ahead of the league’s expansion to eight teams from its 11th edition next year. Lahore Qalandars — the PSL’s most valuable franchise and winners of three of the last four editions under Pakistan ODI captain Shaheen Shah…
Brands including Saucony and Rabbit had a major presence at the second-annual Every Woman’s Marathon, held in Scottsdale, Arizona Through rain and relentless desert heat, over 4,000 women (and a handful of men) pounded Scottsdale’s streets in a sea of colorful energy, community and pain as they came together to run 26.2 miles in the second annual Every Woman’s Marathon. Featuring major sponsors like Saucony and Rabbit, the race was marketed as “By women, for women” in an event that women weren’t widely allowed to participate in until the 1970s. “It was (about) starting to correct the path a bit…
XRP’s decline in recent weeks has led to questions among holders who worry that Ripple may be pushed into selling more of its XRP reserves to maintain operations. This concern resurfaced as discussions around Ripple’s shifting business model gained traction, especially with the company’s RLUSD stablecoin. The conversation was held on the social media platform X, where Ripple’s Chief Technology Officer, David Schwartz, stepped in to address whether a lower XRP price could force Ripple into additional token sales. Ripple CTO Says Falling Prices Do Not Increase Selling Pressure Schwartz’s comment came as a response after a user argued that…
Amazon is hosting a Black Friday sale that covers many of its ereaders. This includes the Kindle Colorsoft, which has been discounted to $170. This thing usually costs $250, so this is one heck of a deal and a record low price.The model came out earlier this year and we gave it a glowing review, calling it “the missing link in Amazon’s ereader lineup.” It’s the first Kindle ereader in color, which makes this thing one of the best ways to read comic books and graphic novels. The pinch-to-zoom feature lets you get closer to details, to make each panel…
A lifetime ban and month-long legal fiasco that ensued didn’t stop Salman Butt from coaching Arshad Nadeem to yet another global javelin title at the Islamic Solidarity Games last week. With the ban recently being declared “illegal and void” by the Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) Adjudicator, Salman has already gotten back to work. “We feel that justice has been served,” Salman told Dawn in a phone call while attending an overseas conference. “And now, I’ll continue with the work I’m doing,” added Salman, who serves as the Asian Director of Development for World Athletics. The Athletics Federation of Pakistan (AFP)…
On a hazy afternoon in May 2021, Daniel Gonzalez, alias “Rafael Arocho,” sped through Pasadena in a white Lexus packed with about $600,000 in cash — drug profits bound for a handoff at a San Gabriel Valley stash house in southern California. A few miles away, a Chinese money broker known as “Dr. P” had been hired by a Sinaloa Cartel intermediary to convert the cash into cryptocurrency and push it through a digital maze to clients in Mexico. But that day, US federal agents were tailing Gonzalez. He tried to flee, ramming the Lexus into an SUV driven by…
A lifetime ban and month-long legal fiasco that ensued didn’t stop Salman Butt from coaching Arshad Nadeem to yet another global javelin title at the Islamic Solidarity Games last week. With the ban recently being declared “illegal and void” by the Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) Adjudicator, Salman has already gotten back to work. “We feel that justice has been served,” Salman told Dawn in a phone call while attending an overseas conference. “And now, I’ll continue with the work I’m doing,” added Salman, who serves as the Asian Director of Development for World Athletics. The Athletics Federation of Pakistan (AFP)…