~Bitcoin News of the Day

• It’s clear that Satoshi Nakamoto was an early Bitcoin miner – after all, he sent bitcoins to early contributors, and since he didn’t set himself up with a sweet “founder’s allocation,” they could have only come from mining. That said, we don’t really know how many bitcoins Satoshi mined. (He never commented on it publicly, aside from one reported instance where he claimed to "own a lot" of bitcoins.) Most of what’s “common knowledge” is from one study done in 2013, and while it’s become something like lore, there’s a lot of dispute about what it proves.

Global Trade & ~Econ

• Markets are in danger of being “whipsawed” by the combination of regional conflict in the Middle East and rising unemployment in the United States, says Stephen Roach, senior fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center. The conflict in the Middle East escalated on Tuesday, with Iran launching a ballistic missile attack on Israel after its killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and an Iranian commander in Lebanon."

~Politics_and_Law

• Israel's foreign minister said on Wednesday that he was barring U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres from entering the country because he had not "unequivocally" condemned Iran's missile attack on Israel.

~Stacker_Sports News

• Michael Jordan’s NASCAR team, 23XI Racing, and fellow team Front Row Motorsports filed an antitrust lawsuit against NASCAR and CEO Jim France on Wednesday, arguing that they have used anticompetitive practices to prevent fair competition in the sport.

~Tech & ~Science

• Microsoft has given its consumer Copilot, an artificial intelligence assistant, a more amiable voice in its latest update, with the chatbot also capable of analyzing web pages for interested users as they browse.

~History with Mystery

• As fashion changed, undergarments changed with it. “Bras are a steward of fashion,” says Cheree Berry, author of Hoorah for the Bra. Sometimes, a flatter bosom was in style—as in Ming Dynasty China (1368-1644), when women achieved the courtly fashion of flattening their chests with a dudou, or in America and Europe in the Roaring Twenties, when bandage-inspired bras helped flappers achieve boyish-straight figures. Other times, curves were en vogue—enter the bust-enhancing bullet bra and Wonderbra of the 1950s and ‘60s.

~Entertainment World

• More than 100 people are to sue rap musician Sean 'Diddy' Combs for sexual assault, rape and sexual exploitation, a US lawyer has said. Texas-based lawyer Tony Buzbee said that some of the alleged victims include minors who were abused when they were as young as nine years old.