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Russia's strong currency puzzles economists, signals economic woes: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/16/russias-strong-currency-puzzles-economists.html

Mord en miniature: True-Crime-Doku „Crafting Crimes“ für Meta Quest ausprobiert
Die interaktive True-Crime-Doku „Crafting Crimes“ verleiht berühmten Kriminalfällen eine räumliche Dimension und führt damit zu den Wurzeln der Forensik.

NY-based Octane, which offers "instant" financing for large recreational and lifestyle purchases, raised a $100M Series F at a post-money valuation of $1.3B (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/re

Exclusive: Octane Lands $100M Series F At $1.3B Valuation To Help People Finance Large Lifestyle And...
Octane, a startup that offers “instant” financing for large recreational and lifestyle purchases, has raised $100 million in a Series F round with a post-money valuation of $1.3 billion, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively.

RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/116083163291394415
I am in this picture, and I don't like it.

Why don’t they capture these vessels and display what they were carrying?
Wouldn’t that be better PR?
Unless maybe it’s all a big scam.
-- @ambientheat.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/ambientheat.bsky.social/post/3lyvo6edkrk27

MJ (@ambientheat.bsky.social)
Why don’t they capture these vessels and display what they were carrying? Wouldn’t that be better PR? Unless maybe it’s all a big scam. 🧐

🎵 "In come the dollars, and in come the cents.
To replace the pounds and the shillings and the pence." 🎵
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-14/australia-marks-60-years-since-switching-to-decimal-currency/106328652…

Australia marks 60 years since switching to decimal currency
Six decades ago, Australia swapped its old currency for dollars and cents. A catchy jingle sung by a cartoon character named Dollar Bill helped the country adapt.

Total global VC funding to fintech startups totaled $51.8B in 2025, up 27% YoY and above pre-pandemic totals, but much lower than 2021's peak of $141.6B (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/fintech/funding-jumped-big-checks-ai-ye-2025/<…

Fintech Funding Jumped 27% In 2025 With Fewer Deals But Bigger Checks
Global venture funding to fintech startups climbed in 2025 to its highest level in several quarters, boosted by later-stage deals, Crunchbase data shows.

Atlantic Council: China-led cross-border digital currency platform mBridge, still a prototype, has processed 4,000 cross-border transactions totaling $55.5B (Marc Jones/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/chi…

The Marshall Islands unveils a national UBI scheme that offers payments of ~$200 per quarter to every resident citizen via stablecoin or traditional currency (Prianka Srinivasan/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025…