Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has highlighted the positive impact that Donald Trump’s victory has had on Ripple’s business. Garlinghouse also referenced the “Trump bull market,” which undoubtedly provides a bullish outlook for coins like XRP. Brad Garlinghouse Highlights Trump’s Impact On Ripple In an X post, Brad Garlinghouse discussed the impact of Donald Trump’s election victory on Ripple’s operations. He ...
The Israeli military has enlisted the first batch of about 50 recruits into its new ultra-Orthodox brigade after a controversial decision to end their decades-long exemption from service. By the end of the day, about 100 additional ultra-Orthodox recruits will be enlisted for reserve service, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Sunday. “The two companies enlisted today mark the initial ...
Some 102 men were executed by the Congolese government in the past week, and 70 more are set to be executed, the country’s minister of justice said Sunday in a statement to the Associated Press. It said the men, aged 18 to 35, were armed robbers and “urban bandits,” locally known as Kulunas, who were executed in northwest Congo at ...
A soccer-loving nun from Brazil is believed to have become the world’s oldest living person at nearly 117 following the recent death of a woman from Japan. Sister Inah Canabarro was so skinny growing up that many didn’t think she would survive childhood, Cleber Canabarro, her 84-year-old nephew, told The Associated Press. LongeviQuest, an organization that tracks supercentenarians around the ...
Tampa Bay Buccaneers safety Jordan Whitehead was injured in an automobile accident Saturday, the team announced. The Buccaneers released a statement Saturday afternoon saying Whitehead was ‘involved in an auto accident’ on his way to practice. The injuries he sustained were severe enough for Tampa Bay to place him on the Reserve/Non-Football Injury (NFI) list. The 27-year-old safety was reported ...
Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin is back from his fractured left fibula and remains red hot in his pursuit of Wayne Gretzky’s NHL career goal record. Ovechkin, 39, had missed 16 games after absorbing a leg-on-leg collision during a Nov. 18 game against the Utah Hockey Club. He returned on Dec. 28 and has scored goals in four of his first five games back. ...
The defending champion United States can reach the final in back-to-back years for the first time in its history at the world junior hockey championship. But first it will need to get past the team that prevented it from getting a medal in 2022. Saturday’s semifinals opponent is Czechia, which defeated the USA in the quarterfinals three years ago. Since ...
Pro-crypto lawyer John Deaton is taking a frontline role with the quest to probe the Operation Chokepoint 2.0 of the digital currency ecosystem. In a recent post on X, the XRP holders’ lawyer said he is volunteering to lead the Federal investigation into Chokepoint 2.0. Notably, the pro-crypto attorney comes off as one of the first industry personalities to call ...
RLUSD, the stablecoin floated by American blockchain payments firm Ripple Labs is growing at a fast pace, currently flipping its core rivals in 24 hour trading volume. Despite the stablecoin’s young age, it has printed a sustained growth track to beat Paypal’s PYUSD and Circle’s EURC tokens. This milestone comes despite Ripple USD showcasing a much smaller market capitalization than ...
Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson took to the X platform recently to inform members of the ADA community of what the future holds for Lace Wallet. He hinted at the numerous upgrades planned out for the Cardano-based light wallet platform this year. The Potential Lace Wallet Upgrades In his X post, Hoskinson suggested that Lace would make a debut on multiple ...
Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died, an Ashiya city official said Saturday. She was 116. Yoshitsugu Nagata, an official in charge of elderly policies, said Itooka died on December 29 at a care home in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, central Japan. Itooka, who loved bananas and a yogurt-flavored Japanese ...
Thousands without heating in Moldova’s breakaway Transnistria region, after Russian gas supplies cut
The head of Moldova’s breakaway region Transnistria has urged residents to burn firewood for heating and warned that blackouts cannot be avoided, after Moscow stopped supplying gas via Ukraine. Vadim Krasnoselskyi, the president of the Russian-backed separatist slither on Moldova’s eastern flank, said in a message on Telegram on Friday that “1,500 multi-story apartment buildings have no heating and hot ...