Meanwhile, the cryptocurrency market is doing its usual impression of a mood swing. Bitcoin decided to play the role of the overachiever (↑1%), while Ethereum took a coffee break (↓1% at $2,801). 📉☕
With the release of Avatar: Fire and Ash just weeks away, early reviews are starting to appear. Members of the press have had a chance to see the film and are sharing their first impressions. Here’s a look at what they’re saying on social media:
Well, Japan is officially joining the crypto revolution! The government has decided that a flat 20% crypto tax is the way to go. Out with the old, high-as-the-sky tax rates, and in with this simplified system. The old tax rate could hit a whopping 55%, but now, get ready to bask in the glory of a much cooler 20%. It’s like getting a discount on tax season, right?
A new framework uses artificial intelligence to move beyond predicting corporate bankruptcy toward understanding the underlying causes.
In a grand gesture of ecological pretense, Canaan and SynVista unveil a mining rig armed with an AI-powered scheduling engine, a contraption so sophisticated it could synchronize the tides with a flick of its digital wrist. 🧠
Finance Minister Katayama kicked things off by highlighting the urgent need for objective metrics to review tax expenditures. Why? Because Japan is staring down a projected annual revenue shortfall of 1.5 trillion yen. That’s right, 1.5 trillion yen-almost enough to buy Elon Musk’s Twitter twice. 😅
A new graph-based forecasting framework leverages network structures and trend similarities to predict the spread of diseases, beliefs, and behaviors with improved accuracy and insight.
Dominic McLaughlin shared a memorable story on BBC’s Saturday Mash-Up! Live about the day he received a surprising letter. He was traveling home to Glasgow by train when his father gave it to him. As he read the letter and saw who signed it, he was completely shocked.
“Skew’s sharp plunge,” Forster mused in a note so dry it could parch a desert, “reveals traders piling puts like children stacking autumn leaves-into December 26, where open interest clings stubbornly at $84K and $80K strikes.”
In the month that just tiptoed by, trading volume floated down to a modest $1.6 trillion. Seems like our dear traders have decided it’s time for a little R&R after months of roller-coaster antics-who can blame them? 🥱
