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Yearly Archives: 2021

Jack Dorsey’s ditched Twitter for bitcoin. Has the social media bubble burst?

With major platforms struggling to make a profit, Dorsey is following the money. Cryptocurrency may be about to go mainstream By Richard Seymour Jack Dorsey is resigning from Twitter to spend more time with his other company, Square. In some ways, the choice between Twitter and Square is a straight choice between political clout and profit. Square, a payments platform …

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US billionaire Michael Steinhardt surrenders $70m of stolen art

Michael Steinhardt ‘displayed rapacious appetite for plundered artefacts’, says district attorney An American hedge-fund billionaire has surrendered 180 looted and illegally smuggled antiquities valued at $70m and been handed an unprecedented lifetime ban on acquiring other relics as part of an agreement with the Manhattan district attorney’s office.

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