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Welcome to the 26th edition of The Daily Zap — A Daily Newspaper (Kind of 🙏). Here, you'll get links to all of the latest news and updates mostly from the last 24 hours, divided in Sections (much similar to pages on a newspaper).
Let's unfold!

~Bitcoin News of the Day

  • Argentine Senators and the executive are very interested in bitcoin. During an official visit to Argentina, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele met with a group of national senators and the country’s vice president, who touched on the cryptocurrency subject.

Global Trade & ~Econ

  • Bonds dropped Monday, extending a plunge late last week following surprisingly robust September payrolls data. The 10-year yield rose as much as four basis points to 4.01%, while the two-year yield was up nine basis points to the same level.

~Politics_and_Law

  • Tesla CEO Elon Musk is offering $47 to every registered voter who refers others to sign a petition supporting the First and Second Amendments. This initiative, launched by Musk's Elon's America PAC, seeks to gather one million signatures from voters in key swing states, News.Az reports. These states include Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, and North Carolina. The deadline to participate is October 21.

~Stacker_Sports News

  • We're here to help get you up to speed with intel on all 32 teams, including the key players who were added or subtracted, best- and worst-case scenarios, X factors and fantasy tips, plus bold predictions. Our season preview also features the first edition of our Power Rankings, which provide the order in which these teams are presented. The weekly rankings are formulated through votes from ESPN hockey broadcasters, analysts and reporters.

~Tech & ~Science

  • Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for the discovery of microRNA, which plays a crucial role in determining how organisms develop and function — and how they sometimes malfunction.

~History with Mystery

  • In June 2002, Peter Gotti was indicted on federal racketeering and extortion charges. His trial brought to light some interpersonal drama that had been brewing in Peter’s life, turning the whole matter into something of a public spectacle — one that makes for a far more interesting story than Peter Gotti’s life of crime.

~Entertainment World

  • In a turn of events that only Arthur Fleck would find funny, the follow-up to Todd Phillips’ 2019 origin story about the Batman villain opened in theaters nationwide this weekend to a muted $40 million, according to studio estimates Sunday, less than half that of its predecessor. The collapse was swift and has many in the industry wondering: How did the highly anticipated sequel to an Oscar-winning, billion-dollar film with the same creative team go wrong?
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I wish Elon Musk gives away Indian people a few dollars in the next year's for any petition. 1.4 billion people will sign it.
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Joker 2 just doesn't look that interesting. I really enjoyed the first one.
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I hated the first one. After half of the movie I realized it was MKULTRA programming. The smoking. The "rebel" and the color pallet are all meant to evoke a consumer rebel and materialist view which falls in nicely to bond consumer nonsense. Kind of similar to Spencer in the mall selling Anarchy shirts in the 1980s.
Same drivel and same programming.
Escaping the nonsense is a rewarding daily activity.
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The first one was epic.
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Thank you for your excellent newsletter, El Salvador continues to be in the news and Bitcoin is its flag.
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People have been focused on BRICS, when Latin America might be where the real action is, wrt monetary policy.
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Definitely, I agree. Barring the north western part of SA, all countries are doing pretty well. They haven't caught up with the Rest of the world just because the colonialism left their land later than the rest of the world.
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There are a bunch of reasons they haven't caught up. I would say it's primarily the frequent trysts with outright socialism and hyperinflation that have held them back. The regular US coups haven't helped either and America's War on Drugs has been a disaster for them.
Still, it's very encouraging to see several Latin American countries trying out more promising approaches.
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You are right. However, America's impact on SA has declined rapidly in recent years as I see it and it's definitely helping them. I've been following one female biker on YouTube who travelled from the south of SA to Alasaka covering all countries from both the continents in 2023. To my surprise, she didn't even have a single security issue there. Also, it was impressive how people were happy and friendly there.
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Yeah, it's generally a lively and friendly culture. We've enjoyed our trips to various parts of Latin America and are looking forward to more in the future.
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I wish I could also visit one day. There's a lot of beauty to behold there.