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Michael Saylor Maps Bitcoin Into 4-Part Digital Money Stack

August 14, 2026
Michael Saylor’s framework assigns separate roles to bitcoin, Strategy’s STRC preferred stock, Solstice Finance’s yield-bearing SR-strcUSX token, and USDT. The model shows how financial companies could convert volatile bitcoin capital into credit, savings products, and payment assets. Key Takeaways Saylor assigns separate purposes to bitcoin, credit, and payments. STRC supplies the existing…
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XRP Slides 69% From Peak While Existing Wallet Activity Climbs

August 14, 2026
XRP closed near $1 on Aug. 13, about 69% below its January 2025 peak. Daily active addresses rose roughly one-third in August, while new-address creation remained virtually unchanged from July. Key Takeaways XRP recorded its lowest daily close since November 2024. Active…
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The Perseid meteor shower peak was spectacular: Here are our favorite photos

August 14, 2026
The Perseid meteor shower peaked last night in spectacular fashion, dazzling stargazers as countless shooting stars blazed overhead mere hours after a total solar eclipse saw the lunar disk hide the sun over Greenland, Iceland and Spain. Perseid shooting stars appear as Earth enters the debris trail cast off by the icy comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. Each year, countless shards of this ancient comet…
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Top 5 Cheapest Countries to Buy the Google Pixel 11 Pro and Pixel 11 Pro XL

August 14, 2026
Google’s Pixel 11 Pro and Pixel 11 Pro XL may look similar on paper, but their pricing varies quite a bit depending on where you buy them. In India, the Pixel 11 Pro starts at Rs 1,19,999, while the Pixel 11 Pro XL costs Rs 1,34,999. If you’re curious about how those prices stack up internationally, we’ve compared the two models across several major markets to find the cheapest…
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Nvidia’s new $500B plan is risky but brilliant, especially for aging GPUs

August 14, 2026
Nvidia announced this week that Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR were willing to commit up to $500 billion to build AI data centers. That eye-popping figure got a lot of the attention, but the bigger story is Nvidia’s effort to create a secondary market for aging GPUs. To convince those big-name financial companies, Nvidia has agreed to guarantee, with its…
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