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A man looks at digital paintings by US artist Beeple at a crypto art exhibition entitled Virtual Niche: Have You Ever Seen Memes in the Mirror?, one of the world’s first physical museum shows of blockchain art, ahead of its opening in Beijing on March 26, 2021. (Photo by NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP via Getty Images) Turns out Warren Buffett is just a few degrees of separation away from that crazy $69.3 million Christie’s auction of the artist Beeple’s NFT work “Everydays: The First 5000… Source link

Robinhood, the app-based trading platform, looks set to hit the public markets this year after filing confidential paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission this week. It has been among the most talked about firms on Wall Street as retail investing has grown in popularity amid the pandemic, and more recently, as Reddit-fueled investors used the platform to buy up heavily shorted stocks like GameStop (GME). But Robinhood is far from the only financial technology, or fintech, startup… Source link

The past week has marked a watershed moment in Russia’s relations with the West — and the US in particular. In two dramatic, televised moments, US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin have changed the dynamics between their countries perhaps irrevocably. Most commentators in the West have focused on Putin’s “trolling” of Biden by dryly — though, according to Putin, unironically — wishing his American counterpart “good health”. This, of course, came after… Source link

It’s an exciting Saturday in the NHL with six of the seven evening games that make up the featured contests at Yahoo projected to be close contests according to the odds. Toronto is the lone sizable favorite, and the Maple Leafs-Oilers game also has the highest over/under total. It’s also worth noting that Winnipeg beat Calgary 3-2, and Arizona topped San Jose 5-2 on Friday, so all four clubs are playing the second leg of a back-to-back start. All statistics from Natural Stat Trick and Hockey… Source link

Tennessee became the third state to pass a bill requiring transgender athletes to compete in school sports according to their assigned sex at birth, with Gov. Bill Lee signing the bill on Friday, according to The Tennessean. The state joins Mississippi and Arkansas in limiting trans athlete participation, with similar bills currently on the docket in more than 20 state houses across the country. The bill moved quickly through the Tennessee legislature, with lawmakers advancing the legislation… Source link

It has been an eventful year for James Harden, but he still seems to be playing like James Harden. The Brooklyn Nets star posted 44 points, 14 rebounds and 8 assists on Friday against the Detroit Pistons in a 113-111 win, continuing a strong run for the Nets over the last month in the absence of Kevin Durant. In addition to Durant, the Nets were also missing Kyrie Irving due to a personal matter. That led to an interesting question after the game: Does Harden believe he belongs in the MVP… Source link

TipRanks These 2 EV Stocks Have Over 100% Upside on the Horizon, Says Analyst They say that politics are downstream from culture – but so are the stock markets. And sometimes, culture informs our investment decisions in ways that we could never have predicted just a decade earlier. The electric vehicle sector is one such sector, in the early stages of its takeoff. EVs are more than just the flagship of an environmentalist’s wish list. They are the showboats of new automotive technology,… Source link

Oscar De La Hoya’s opponent is TBD. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) Oscar De La Hoya is becoming the latest legendary boxer to come out of retirement, and he has high hopes for a potential opponent. The 48-year-old boxer announced Friday that he is officially returning to the ring on July 3, during a Triller Fight Club event alongside Snoop Dogg. He did so with a literal mic drop. De La Hoya’s opponent is currently TBD, but Triller founder Ryan Kavanaugh told Yahoo Sports’ Kevin Iole that… Source link

Microsoft Corporation’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) decentralized identity platform ION is now live on the Bitcoin blockchain. What Happened: After four years in the making, the layer two network was successfully deployed on the Bitcoin mainnet, according to the company’s recent announcement. “We have deployed an ION node to our production infrastructure and are working together with other companies and organizations to do so as well,” said Daniel Buchner of Microsoft’s Decentralized Identity… Source link

(Bloomberg) — GameStop Corp. is ending the week lower than where it started, even after retail investors refused to let go of their commitment to the stock following an earnings-related selloff. Investors were quick to get over GameStop’s 12th consecutive quarter of slowing sales and management’s decision to not take questions on its earnings call on Tuesday, despite warnings from most Wall Street analysts. On Thursday, shares erased the earnings-led slump. More than $6.4 billion in… Source link