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%...
Balaji’s ‘Singapore of social media’ begins with a wave of bans
Network School founder Balaji Srinivasan wants to turn Farcaster into a haven for well-mannered techno-optimists. He had to do a bit of housekeeping first....
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...
New Tree-Based Bitcoin Scaling Proposal Targets Millions of Users
Bitcoin developer Olaoluwa Osuntokun has unveiled Layertree, a proposal that could squeeze millions of bitcoin owners into a single blockchain output without surrendering control of...
Three Canadian Soldiers Arrested in Armed Crypto Kidnapping Plot
The men were part of a group of seven that conducted a violent cryptocurrency abduction targeting a victim in Toronto back in July. The group...
XRP Whales Move 1.67 Billion Tokens to Binance as Price Slips
Large XRP holders have transferred 1.669 billion XRP to Binance over the past 30 days, pushing the exchange’s whale inflow metric to its highest level...
Three in Beasley NBA Betting Case to Plead Guilty, Prosecutor Says
Three of the five remaining defendants in the federal case accusing former NBA guard Malik Beasley of fixing his own stat lines for bettors intend...
MSCI adopts index exclusion rules that could oust Strategy
Strategy, Metaplanet and Upexi were previously identified for deletion under the methodology, with MSCI set to announce its final list on Nov. 11....
Sullivan & Cromwell unveils OpenAI-built Agreement Analyzer
Sullivan & Cromwell said it worked with OpenAI to build Agreement Analyzer, an AI tool designed to identify issues in draft agreements. (Read More)...
Solana Breaches China’s Crypto Wall With New Shanghai Office
The establishment of a new Solana Foundation office in one of Shanghai’s highest commercial buildings has drawn out criticism from industry leaders, who wonder how...