👉 Michael Saylor, the executive chairman and co-founder of MicroStrategy, has been bullish on bitcoin for some time.

👉 MicroStrategy shares are up 107.83% year-to-date, while bitcoin is up 71.96% year-to-date, but still far from its peak in November 2021.

👉 Trump was the first former US president to be arrested on criminal charges, in connection with hush money payments to Stormy Daniels and others before the 2016 presidential election.

👉 Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records and conspiracy for his alleged role in the payments.

👉 The court has set the next date of hearing in the case for December 4.

👉The DOGE logo was briefly displayed on Twitter, causing a 20% price surge before disappearing again.

👉 Elon Musk has not explained why the logo changed, but he frequently promotes DOGE on Twitter.

👉 DOGE was created in 2013 as a joke and has since gained a cult following, with Musk and Mark Cuban suggesting it could be used for payments in the future.

👉 The layoffs represent about 3.6% of Disney's global workforce, with the entire metaverse team of around 50 employees being let go.

👉 The team leader, Mike White, was spared from the layoffs.

👉 Affected employees have taken to LinkedIn to look for new jobs and support their colleagues who have also been laid off.

👉 Many talented Designers, Software Engineers, Product Managers, and Program Managers are now on the hunt for their next opportunity.

👉Two new cloud offerings from NVIDIA will be hosted on Microsoft Azure: NVIDIA Omniverse™ Cloud and NVIDIA DGX™ Cloud.

👉 NVIDIA Omniverse™ Cloud is a platform-as-a-service that provides access to a full-stack environment for designing, developing, deploying, and managing industrial metaverse applications. | 👉NVIDIA DGX™ Cloud is an AI supercomputing service that offers infrastructure and software for training advanced models for generative AI and other innovative applications.

👉 The collaboration will also connect Microsoft 365 applications like Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint with NVIDIA Omniverse™, a platform for building and operating 3D industrial metaverse applications.

👉 An industry report on best practices in due diligence and risk management for firms providing payment services may be published in the next two months.

👉 The MAS says there are no rules stopping banks from doing business with firms handling cryptocurrencies, but banks will decide based on their risk appetites.

👉 US authorities have been cracking down on banks serving crypto customers, leading to crypto companies scrambling to find banking partners and jurisdictions.

👉 USDT is the largest stablecoin in terms of market capitalization and is pegged to the U.S. dollar.

👉 The "@wallet" attachment was first introduced in 2022 with Bitcoin and Toncoin as the first cryptocurrencies available on the wallet.

👉 The feature is expected to make it easier for traditional users to buy and send crypto and could positively impact mainstream adoption of blockchain technologies.

👉 Telegram, launched in 2013 by brothers Pavel and Nikolay Durov, has over 700 million users and has previously introduced other web3-related initiatives such as personalized links as non-fungible tokens and the Open Network blockchain project.

👉 The exchange group has applied for a limited-purpose trust company charter from the New York Department of Financial Services to monitor the new business.

👉 Other financial giants such as BNY Mellon and Fidelity Investments already provide crypto custody services.

👉 Nasdaq established its Digital Assets division in September 2022 to assist institutions exploring the asset class and is well-positioned to drive broader adoption and growth.