Reports are in that Softbank Group has sold “nightmare inducing” robot dog maker Boston Dynamics to Hyundai Motors for “1 trillion won (US$917 million)“.
If you don’t want to sell your Bitcoin and need cash to buy more Bitcoin, today may be your lucky day now that apparently “Fidelity Digital Assets will allow its institutional customers to pledge Bitcoin as collateral against cash loans”
The FCC has “reported gigabit internet was available to 84% of Americans, up from just 4% in 2016.”
Hold, please:
“those numbers are closer to 56% in 2020, up from 2.4% in 2016, and could be even less.”
Reports are in that London’s Standard Chartered bank is going “to launch a crypto trading platform for institutional investors”
But wait, there’s more:
It “will include an Ethereum-based settlement token”
The folks over at Bitstamp would like you to know that they sincerely apologize for publishing a report yesterday “that included coarse language and colorful descriptions of” token like “Bitcoin (BTC) forks, Stellar Lumens (XLM) and Litecoin (LTC)” http://ow.ly/PtWp30rnUks
Stock up on February popcorn futures and think about Bitcoin, because that is when a “movie based on darknet market Silk Road” is set to premier: http://ow.ly/RIOe30rnUjU
According to a recent survey “conducted by the Linux Foundation” open source developers “spend less than 3% of their time on security issues”
But wait, there’s more:
“and have little desire to increase this.”
Here is a post about how “Morgan Stanley Investment Management’s chief global strategist” is making a case “for Bitcoin becoming the world’s global reserve currency” because reasons, and why the heck not:
According to this report “four U.S. lawmakers want Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to rethink his rumored crypto wallet regulations” that they feel will be a major munch on to “hinder American leadership”
According to this post “the approach New York’s top financial regulator said she’s taking toward the crypto sector” includes ““all the regulation that is needed and not a drop more.”
Reports are in that “Bitcoin payments company BitPay has filed paperwork with the top U.S. banking regulator to create a national bank” because why the heck not: http://ow.ly/9ZfH30rnUmd
Apparently this needs repeating, especially if you work with US hospital networking devices:
Change your device default password.
Meanwhile, in Artificial Intelligence news from Japan: “The Cabinet Office wants to raise the birth rate through indirect means”
Hold, please:
“and it plans to do that using artificial intelligence programs.”
Today’s data leak news includes the dark web and “personal data of 7 million Indian credit, debit cardholders”.
But wait, there’s more:
The data includes “mobile numbers, income levels, email addresses, and Permanent Account Number (PAN) details”
Believe it or not, this report says that in Venezuela “anonymous sources from the nation’s central bank” have claimed that the country is going to “boost Bitcoin use for funding Turkey and Iran imports.”
DBS Bank in Singapore announced today “that it will set up a digital exchange” and it will offer currency exchange services between SGD, USD, HKD, JPY and “four of the most established cryptocurrencies, namely Bitcoin, Ether, Bitcoin Cash and XRP.”
Reports are in that Wells Fargo have reconsidered and have now upgraded their opinion of Bitcoin to “admit that Bitcoin is by far among the best-performing assets of 2020.”
Bonus content:
Financial bubbles “don’t last 12 years”
According to this report “France’s data privacy watchdog” has fined Google $121 million in an online cookie monster ruling:
