Welcome to the 28th 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
- An 86-year-old former California attorney, David Kagel, has been sentenced to five years of probation and ordered to pay nearly $14 million after admitting to conducting a multimillion-dollar Bitcoin Ponzi scheme.
Global Trade & ~Econ
- The ECB has already lowered rates twice this year and a cut to the 3.5% deposit rate on Oct. 17 is almost fully priced in by financial markets, indicating investors expect the bank to accelerate the pace of policy easing given a weak economy and an unexpectedly quick slowdown in price growth.
~Politics_and_Law
- Musk, who had denounced the orders as censorship and called Moraes a "dictator," started to reverse his position in recent weeks, with his social media network blocking accounts flagged by the court, tapping a local representative and paying pending fines.
~Stacker_Sports News
- The All England Club announced Wednesday that artificial intelligence will be used to make the ‘out’ and ‘fault’ calls at the championships from 2025.
~Tech & ~Science
- The Nobel prize in chemistry 2024 has been awarded to David Baker, Demis Hassabis (Google Deepmind Founder) and John M. Jumper for their work on understanding the structure of proteins, which play vital roles in all living organisms. Hassabis and Jumper, of Google DeepMind, developed an artificial intelligence tool that predicts the structure of proteins. Baker, at the University of Washington, has been recognised for his work on designing new proteins.
~History with Mystery
- According to many ancient maps, China’s worldview often reflected a hierarchical structure, with China at the top. Neighboring states were ranked based on their proximity to China, cultural similarities, and their willingness to acknowledge Chinese authority.
~Entertainment World
- Hoback does not definitively say that Todd is Nakamoto, though he comes close. “I obviously made the film. And, I mean, I’m very convinced,” he told me. There’s no question that the overall body of evidence — pored over many times — hardly gives a satisfying answer. Adam Back is adamant that it will remain a mystery. “My supposition for some years now is that, given that nobody found anything electronic, that we’re probably never going to know, and so what’s left is more circumstantial,” Back told me.
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