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Welcome to the 38th 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

  • A new survey shows the lackluster state of bitcoin adoption in El Salvador, even when President Nayib Bukele’s government has rallied to support it. The “Country’s Path” survey, carried out by the Center for Citizen Studies, Disruptive Magazine, and Francisco Gavidia University, examined the answers of over 1,200 citizens on several relevant topics for the country, including bitcoin.

Global Trade & ~Econ

  • The global economy is heading toward year end with unexpected tailwinds as slowing inflation clears a path for an unlikely soft landing. But while the economics side of the equation is looking up, political hurdles lie ahead.

~Politics_and_Law

  • Based on 23 interviews with local law enforcement officials and thousands of pages of documents from various authorities, the bipartisan task force concluded “the tragic and shocking events of July 13 were preventable and should not have happened.”

~Stacker_Sports News

  • Two of baseball’s most successful teams face each other starting Friday at Dodger Stadium, the Yankees coming off their 41st American League pennant and the Dodgers their 25th National League championship. New York is seeking its 28th World Series title but first since 2009, the Dodgers their eighth and second in a five-year span.

~Tech & ~Science

  • Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab will allow its customers to build autonomous artificial intelligence agents from next month, in its latest push to tap the booming technology amid growing investor scrutiny of its hefty AI investments. The company is positioning autonomous agents - programs that need little human intervention unlike chatbots - as "apps for an AI-driven world" that can handle client queries, identify sales leads and manage inventory.

~History with Mystery

  • Typically considered an outbreak of the bubonic plague, which is transmitted by rats and fleas, the Black Death wreaked havoc on Europe, North Africa and Central Asia in the mid-14th century. It killed an estimated 75 million people, including 30 to 60 percent of Europe’s population. According to the traditional narrative, the crisis reached England in the spring of 1348 and began assailing its capital by late summer. Scores of Londoners developed painful swellings that oozed blood and pus before suffering fevers, chills, vomiting and severe aches and pains that often heralded their imminent deaths.

~Entertainment World

  • Many of the video titles and voiceovers have pushed fake narratives that stem from recent rape and sex trafficking lawsuits against Combs, including a high-profile case settled between him and entertainer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura. Other videos have implicated figures like Jakes in the allegations against Combs without evidence and used manipulated media to depict the celebrities engaging in lewd acts and exaggerated displays of emotion in video thumbnails.
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Good morning! 😊 It's nice to have early and accurate information!!! Today I'm sticking with Sports ⚾ That World Series between the Yankees and Dodgers is going to be a heart-stopper!!! 🫀!! Keep posting no matter what!!
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I wanted Mets to be there but it's fine Dodgers are a very good fut against Yankees
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Maybe you're right... but you still shouldn't miss a single game!! ⚾💪
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People need to have patience with bitcoin adoption, even in El Salvador. Economic interventions rarely sustain themselves in developing countries. It's just too difficult to account for all of the factors keeping current norms in place.
Organic adoption is sustainable adoption.
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Yes, I agree with you.
The poll found that bitcoin usage is now at one of its lowest levels, with only 7.5% declaring they had used bitcoin to make transactions. This number shows a decline compared with last year’s adoption figures, which another national poll put at 12%.
7.5% is still a good percentage compared to most other countries. I also believe that most of the people from El Salvador have Bitcoin and just aren't going to tell any surveyors the right thing about adoption
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aren't going to tell any surveyors the right thing about adoption
Good point. Just like most of us, they're going to answer "Nice try, fed!"
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The more educated they get the more these surveys gonna dip in percentage. Last time they were 12%, I'll be happy if they come up below 5% the next time.
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