LensLinks: Issue 306

BlackRock's #Bitcoin ETF Outpaces 500 New 2023 ETFs Combined, brought to you by Regiment LLC

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Len Pacek
January 19, 2024

  • BlackRock's #Bitcoin ETF Outpaces 500 New 2023 ETFs Combined

  • Saudi Arabia pumps $590m into VR headset rival to Apple’s Vision Pro

  • Donald Trump says he’ll ‘never allow’ CBDC issuance if elected

  • Grayscale Sees Over $477 Million Bitcoin Exodus

  • And Much, Much, More…

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“As your president, I will never allow the creation of a Central Bank Digital Currency. Such a currency would give the federal government, our federal government, absolute control over your money… They could take your money and you wouldn’t even know it was gone.”

- Donald Trump

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Metaverse & Gaming

Saudi Arabia pumps $590m into VR headset rival to Apple’s Vision Pro

Public Investment Fund puts cash into Magic Leap, which has not turned a profit

www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/01/15/saudi-arabia-invests-590m-magic-leap

Blockchain, Tokens & DeFi

Donald Trump says he’ll ‘never allow’ CBDC issuance if elected

The former US president said in a campaign speech in New Hampshire that he won’t allow a central bank digital currency if he gets elected.

www.theblock.co/post/273273/donald-trump-says-hell-never-allow-cbdc-issuance-if-elected

Crypto Trading

Roy King on LinkedIn: Grayscale Sees Over $477 Million Bitcoin Exodus as Blackrock and Fidelity…

Updated data highlights a substantial decrease in #Grayscale's holdings, amounting to over 11,189 #bitcoins valued at approximately $477 million, within three…

www.linkedin.com/posts/roy-king-28124413_grayscale-sees-over-477-million-bitcoin-activity-7153691213055811584-lXvI?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios

Blockchain, Tokens & DeFi - a little more…

How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity

Once, drug dealers and money launderers saw cryptocurrency as perfectly untraceable. Then a grad student named Sarah Meiklejohn proved them all wrong—and set the stage for a decade-long crackdown.

www.wired.com/story/27-year-old-codebreaker-busted-myth-bitcoins-anonymity

The Singularity:
AI, Quantum Computing, Robotics, Bio-engineering & Other Stuff on the way

Sam Altman's $375 Million Bet: Can Fusion Energy Power Our AI Dreams?

The rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence (AI) stands at a crossroads

www.financial-world.org/news/news/financial/24633/sam-altman-s-375-million-bet-can-fusion-energy-power-our-ai-dreams

DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman warns AI is a 'fundamentally labor replacing' tool

Despite today’s AI hype, it’s still a “truly transformational” technology that will replace jobs unless policy steps in, Suleyman said.

fortune.com/2024/01/17/mustafa-suleyman-deepmind-ai-a-i-labor-replacing-tool-over-the-long-term

AI Evolution on LinkedIn: #artificialintelligence #chatgpt #ai #cheatsheet | 13 comments

🚀 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐭-𝐆𝐏𝐓 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐒𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐭! Say goodbye to lengthy dialogues! The Chat-GPT Cheat Sheet helps you create precise tasks quickly. Efficient AI… | 13 comments on LinkedIn

www.linkedin.com/posts/ai-evolution_artificialintelligence-chatgpt-ai-activity-7153467157501075456-D8Sp?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios

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