The Daily Zap — Latest News and Updates \ stacker news ~alter

Welcome to the 42nd 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).

I apologise to the readers for making an unannounced long holiday on the weekend. I'll try to pre-announce the holiday for 'The Daily Zap' from the next time if it won't be possible to publish it for day/days. I hope you understand and know the reason well for the absentee.

Let's unfold!

~Bitcoin News of the Day

Bitcoin Facing Potentially Destructive 'Vampire Attack' by Third Parties

You “siphon” liquidity and value from one chain or protocol and move it to another, together with its users. The attacker puts all that value into their own pocket! Congratulation BlackRock, you won!

Global Trade & ~Econ

A surprisingly resilient US economy is once again leading stocks higher

China is considering approving next week the issuance of over 10 trillion yuan ($1.4 trillion) in extra debt in the next few years to revive its fragile economy, a fiscal package which is expected to be further bolstered if Donald Trump wins the U.S. election, said two sources with knowledge of the matter.

~Politics_and_Law

Steve Bannon is released from prison in time for the last-week push to Election Day

Bannon, a right-wing podcast host and the chief executive of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, has remained a strident supporter of the former president. Even as he reported to federal prison in Connecticut in July, Bannon insisted he would influence the presidential race from behind bars and that his “War Room” podcast would continue to energize the Trump base.

~Stacker_Sports News

Silence in the Bronx: As Yankees fall down 3-0 in World Series, buzz killed by quiet bats

Be it celebrity pleas for more noise from Ken Jeong in Los Angeles to Flavor Flav in the Bronx, or blaring sirens and pounding organs, Yankee Stadium and its Dodger counterpart crank the volume to 11, ostensibly to engage the masses and fill in the gaps in a game that can provide many of them.

~Tech & ~Science

Apple Intelligence debuts across latest software update to Apple operating systems

Apple Intelligence is set to bring a variety of AI-powered tools and services to users. Chief among this is gen AI-powered writing tools, which are integrated across iOS, iPadOS, and macOS alike. With these tools, users will be able to summarize lengthy notes (across Mail, Messages, Notes, Pages, and third-party apps), adjust the tone of messages to suit professional or casual contexts, as well as proofread texts to identify spelling or grammatical errors and even access suggestions for the same to name some functionalities. With this, users will be able to produce high-quality written content with minimal effort.

~History with Mystery

The Year Election Night First Became a TV Event

On the night of Tuesday, November 4, 1952, Americans across the nation gathered around their television sets to follow the results of the presidential race between Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower and Democrat Adlai Stevenson. That year, a television could be found in roughly one-third of U.S. households—compared with less than 1 percent in 1948—and politicians were just beginning to experiment with TV as a communication tool.

~Entertainment World

Sean “Diddy” Combs Accused In New Lawsuits of Sexually Assaulting 10- and 17-Year-Old Boys

The 10-year-old boy who was not identified in the lawsuit was an aspiring actor and rapper who had traveled with his parents from California for meetings with music industry representatives. During what was supposed to be an audition for Combs, he was given a drug-laced soda by a Combs’ associate and sexually assaulted by the Bad Boy Records founder, according to the lawsuit.

Thanks for reading 🙏

41 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 23h

I think I get the argument about "vampire attacks", but unless those third parties were otherwise going to use the bitcoin network, that kind of usage isn't costing bitcoin anything.

If the ETF custodians and investors (for instance) were not going to use the bitcoin network in either case, then all their doing is reducing the supply of circulating bitcoin, which increases the purchasing power of bitcoin users.

61 sats \ 2 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 23h

The think you're right. If someone is not gonna use Bitcoin network, how can he even think of harming it. The thought of 'vampire attack' is correct but this ETF thing is not close to that.

Yesterday, we read something about paper Bitcoin and we, all Bitcoiners', just need to put brakes on letting more percentage go into the hands of ETF and centralized channels. I don't know exact figures but except for Satoshi's wallets, most of the top Bitcoin holders are centralized entities. I only doubt one day they all might join hands together and start distributing paper Bitcoin.

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 23h

If bitcoin does what we're anticipating, then those ETF holders will be able to convert them into bitcoin at some point in the future, because bitcoin will have won the race for monetary supremacy.

22 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 23h

I hope for the same. I believe Bitcoin will eventually win but I also believe that it won't be an easier ride and there will be speed breakers almost after every mile.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 21h

Thus far the Yankees have been proven to be frauds. They finally play an elite team (sorry KC and Cleveland but you aren’t even close to elite) and they crap the bed.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 23h

Nice recap

1952 television 📺 were black and white

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Akg10s33 21h

Good morning 😊 News on time💪... there are several news that caught my attention today... but I will stick with Apple's progress in terms of AI. The new features seem innovative to me and I even think I would be encouraged to buy one new model is excelent 💪

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @orangecheckemail_isthereany 23h

Is there a version of this that appears monthly or maybe 2 times per month? Daily is a bit too frequent for me and might contain a bit more noise than I'd like. High quality curation and selection of news seems to be one of the most useful services one can provide in these days of information over-abundance. Would be nice to be able to stay up to date on the most important developments on a monthly basis with small time investment.

31 sats \ 1 reply \ @Coinsreporter OP 23h

Good question. There's only one that's daily. It's not going to be weekly, monthly or yearly ever. It's 'The Daily Zap'.

So, you should also zap it more or less but try finding value not the noise.

If you look for noise, you'll find noise, if you look for value, you'll get value.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @orangecheckemail_isthereany 23h

Too bad but thanks for the reply If you look for value you'll also find lots of noise it seems to me. That's the problem that curators are supposed to solve. A good curator sifts through all the news and filters it like a gold-miner gathers lots of rock and filters out the gold. I think there's a place for the daily zap and also for the weekly and monthly zap etc. Different boats for different folks. I happen to be looking for a more infrequent publication at this stage.