~Bitcoin News of the Day

• Bitcoin miner Hut 8 forecasts its self-mining hash rate will increase by 66% around the first quarter of 2025 after agreeing to buy 31,145 Bitmain Antminers S21+ machines.

Global Trade & ~Econ

• Powell’s remarks were striking as he worked hard to dodge every other politically-charged question lobbed at him from reporters. He strictly avoided speculating on what policies might emerge from the incoming administration. But he readily weighed in when the matter involved protecting the institution he’s served since 2012.

~Politics_and_Law

• Biden’s decision to run for re-election, while demanding that his party rally behind him, effectively cleared the field. That meant that Harris did not endure the rigors of a competitive primary process that might have sharpened her qualities as a candidate. And it meant that a party that once had reservations about Harris never had the option of watching her compete against other Democrats before settling on its nominee.

~Stacker_Sports News

• It was not clear how the violence began. Dutch and Israeli leaders denounced the attacks as antisemitic. Video showed Israeli fans chanting anti-Arab slogans in the streets before the game. Peter Holla, the city’s acting police chief, told a news conference that the fans were “willfully attacked.” He said people on scooters staged “hit-and-run” attacks, making it difficult for police to track them down.

~Tech & ~Science

• Mesyatsev Island was a slab of ice and grit located just off the coast of the larger Eva-Liv Island in Franz Josef Land — a Russian archipelago of more than 190 islands in the Arctic Ocean. The smaller island, which was essentially just an iceberg, used to be an icy cape attached to its larger neighbor, but it likely broke away at some point before 1985, according to a 2019 study published in Geosciences.

~History with Mystery

• On June 26, 1974, a checkout employee at a Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio became the first person to scan a grocery item—a pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit chewing gum—using a Universal Product Code (UPC). Better known as a barcode, UPCs soon became ubiquitous, used everywhere from grocery and retail stores to hospitals and Mars rovers.

~Entertainment World

• The report found that 95 percent of households will have the capacity to watch TV over the Internet by 2040, but 5 percent, or 1.5 million people, will still rely on traditional linear broadcasting by the same year unless the government intervenes. This group tends to be significantly older, have a lower socioeconomic status and live in rural communities.”

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