Bitcoin network transaction fees soar, high priority reaches 2000 Sat/byte

Share link:In this post: Microsoft is forcing its AI assistant, Copilot, onto Microsoft 365 users in Australia and Southeast Asia, raising subscription prices whether people want the feature or not. Copilot interrupts users like Australia-based YouTuber Alistair Fleming with constant pop-ups, while monthly fees in the region jumped from A$11 to A$16. Microsoft charges $20 per month for Copilot in the U.S. and $30 per user for businesses, but adoption lags far behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT, with just 37 million d

Share link:In this post: Bitcoin is stuck around $95,000, down 3.6% in 24 hours, and has been moving between $92,500 and $96,000 after hitting a high of $108,000 earlier this month. Wall Street’s Santa Claus rally fizzled out as the Dow barely rose, the S&P dipped, and the Nasdaq went flat, with rising Treasury yields putting pressure on growth stocks. The top 10 U.S. stocks now make up a record 40% of the S&P 500’s market cap, outpacing the Dot-Com bubble levels, leaving the market dangerously concentrate

Share link:In this post: The former CEO of Alameda Research, Caroline Ellison, had her two-year sentence reduced due to her cooperation with prosecutors. Ryan Salame, former co-CEO of FTX Digital Markets, also got a year shaved off his initial sentence. The former head of engineering, Nishad Singh, avoided further prison time by testifying against the head of the fraudulent operation.

Bitcoin may be more serious now, but we can’t forget about the Lightning Network