~Bitcoin News of the Day

• Data from The Miner Mag shows that seven other publicly traded Bitcoin miners and data centers have collectively raised $5.2 billion through convertible bond offerings since June. Notably, 70% of these funds were secured in the four weeks leading up to December 5th, highlighting the trend of using convertible notes for expansion in the sector.

Global Trade & ~Econ

• The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) said on Tuesday its Small Business Optimism Index jumped 8.0 points to 101.7 last month, the highest level since June 2021. Donald Trump won the race for the White House and his Republican Party clinched control of the U.S. Congress in last month's elections.

~Politics_and_Law

• Assad’s downfall and the “de facto defeat” of Russia and Iran in the process, Blain said, has “massive implications for markets in terms of unwinding fears around the dollar’s pre-eminence, while increasing the momentum that could develop behind Trump’s global trade vision” — both in terms of putting the U.S. and the U.S. dollar front and center, he noted.

~Stacker_Sports News

• Coming off his third MVP award, Ohtani is doubtful to pitch while recovering from right elbow surgery in September 2023. Roberts said a mound appearance for the two-way star in his home country is “very unlikely."

~Tech & ~Science

• Two years of data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have now validated the Hubble Space Telescope's earlier finding that the rate of the universe's expansion is faster - by about 8% - than would be expected based on what astrophysicists know of the initial conditions in the cosmos and its evolution over billions of years. The discrepancy is called the Hubble Tension.

~History with Mystery

• In 1950, the FBI launched its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives program, which has led to the location or capture of nearly 500 dangerous fugitives. These outlaws evolved from bank robbers, car thieves and burglars in the 1950s, to social revolutionaries involved in kidnapping, sabotage and the destruction of government property in the 1960s, to organized crime and terrorism in the 1970s, to drug traffickers, sexual predators and international terrorists in the 1980s and 1990s.

~Entertainment World

• Sources close to Cinecittà have told The Hollywood Reporter Roma that a two-hour-long meeting of shareholders on Monday evening discussed the company’s financial crisis and decided upon urgent actions aimed at saving the fabled Rome institution.
• Cinecittà insiders say that mounting losses this year will completely wipe out Cinecitttà’s share capital, requiring a government injection of money in order to avoid technical bankruptcy.

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