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El Salvador reportedly urged by IMF to remove bitcoin as legal tender – CNET
The nation adopted bitcoin as legal tender in June 2021.Read original article here.Written by: Corinne Reichert
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NYC mayor Eric Adams converted his first paycheck into Bitcoin and Ether last week — then the crypto market crashed
Adams announced in November after winning the mayoral race that he would take his first three paychecks in Bitcoin.Read original article here.
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Astronomers Detect the Background Gravitational Waves of the Universe
In February 2016, Gravitational Waves (GWs) were detected for the first time in history. This discovery confirmed a prediction made by Albert Einstein over a century ago and triggered a revolution in astronomy. Since then, dozens of GW events have been detected from various sources, ranging from black hole mergers, neutron star mergers, or a…
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Extreme Tidal Forces Have Deformed an Exoplanet
Among the thousands of known exoplanets, there are some that are very odd. Take, for example, the exoplanet known as WASP-103b. It’s a large planet with a mass about 1.5 times that of Jupiter, but 103b is so close to its star it makes a complete orbit every 22 hours. At this proximity, many astronomers…
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GLAAD Awards 2022: See all the LGBTQ+ talent and stories nominated in music, entertainment, and media
The nominations for the 33rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards are live, and the names included in the coveted list couldn’t be more deserving of the recognition. The annual awards honoring “media for fair, accurate, and inclusive representations of LGBTQ people and issues” will be held in Los Angeles on April 2, 2022, and New York…
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Stanford University ignores ‘serious drug problem’ on campus: lawsuit
PALO ALTO, Calif. (KRON) — A lawsuit filed against Stanford University is accusing the prestigious private school of having a “major drug problem on campus,” and failing to uphold accountability in the wake of one student’s death. A 19-year-old Stanford University freshman, Eitan Michael Weiner, overdosed from fentanyl-laced Percocet on Jan. 15, 2020 in his…
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Education deepens partisan divide during Florida legislative session
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Politics in education is getting more intense in Florida as the 2022 legislative session continues. Two bills are making their way through both chambers that would change how the state conducts its local school board elections. One piece of proposed legislation, House Bill 1467, would take away school board members’ salaries…
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Peter Dinklage says the new ‘Snow White’ live-action casting is hypocritically ‘woke’ because of the dwarf characters
Peter Dinklage attends the UK premiere of “Cyrano” at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on December 07, 2021 in London, England.Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing via Getty Images Actor Peter Dinklage says the upcoming “Snow White” remake is hypocritically “woke.” He said the studio was “very proud” to cast a Latina actress but kept the “backward story” of…
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NFL’s Odell Beckham Jr. took his $750,000 salary in bitcoin — how much did that end up costing him?
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