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☆ Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian paid only $15,000 for ether worth $80 million today - and has made $50 million on the crypto and Coinbase stock
  + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Theron Mohamed | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
If the Reddit cofounder kept all of the coins, they would be worth about $80 million today. Ohanian made a total of $50 million from early bets on the crypto and Coinbase stock. "In hindsight, I didn't invest nearly as much as I should have," Ohanian told Forbes. Ohanian told Forbes that he owns at least 700 non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Moreover, in 2021, Ohanian spent over $500,000 worth of ether at today's prices on seven NFTs that he thought looked like Williams, and gifted his favorite one to her.
☆ A twisted tale of celebrity promotion, opaque transactions and allegations of racist tropes
  + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( Elle Reeve Samantha Guff | Elle Reeve | Samantha Guff | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +18 min
Bored Ape Yacht Club was not the biggest crypto phenomenon, but it was one of the top beneficiaries of celebrity hype. The Bored Apes — a computer-generated collection of 10,000 cartoons — were being presented as a status symbol, membership in an exclusive club. Yuga sued Ripps for trademark infringement, and argues that his maligning of the Yuga apes is nothing more than a profiteering tactic. Hickman, who is Black, thought the Bored Apes looked like stereotypical portrayals of Black people as stupid or lazy. He said he thought this would be obvious to most people the second they saw an image of a Bored Ape.
☆ Biden played the State of the Union perfectly, but the raucous GOP proved he's dealing with a whole new kind of opposition
  + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
Tuesday's State of the Union address was an at times raucous affair. Tuesday night showed that this is no longer your father's State of the Union address. Parts of Biden's second State of the Union resembled the United Kingdom's raucous "Prime Minister's Questions" sessions that C-SPAN nerds delight in. The State of the Union is not supposed to resemble the real-time grilling of a world leader though. To be clear, opposition party members have long trolled the president during the State of the Union.
☆ 5 ways the Democrats trolled and mocked Republicans during the speaker vote chaos
  + stars: | 2023-01-08 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
Democrats trolled Republicans in various ways as the chaos of electing a speaker stretched for days. This included pointed reading material, a popcorn prop, and several memes shared on social media. Some Democrats also wore black to commemorate the second anniversary of the Capitol riot. Loading Something is loading. The election was the first time in a century that the House needed even a second ballot to select its leader.
☆ George Santos arrived in D.C. this week. No one is more riled than N.Y.'s other gay congressman.
  + stars: | 2023-01-04 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Matt-Lavietes-Byline-Jm.Jpg | Matt Lavietes | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +7 min
“The House Republican chaos has a silver lining,” Torres tweeted Wednesday, referring to Republicans’ difficulty in electing a House speaker. Does Stefanik have George Santos in mind?” Torres tweeted Tuesday. In another tweet last week, Torres posted a screenshot of an invitation Santos sent to supporters, inviting them to celebrate his swearing into Congress. “He’s a pathological liar who cannot be trusted to serve the very public he defrauded,” Torres told MSNBC’s Joy Reid on Monday. “No one has handed me anything on a silver platter,” he previously told NBC News.
☆ Russia's former deputy PM said he was injured by a shell blast in occupied Ukraine after his location was leaked
  + stars: | 2022-12-24 | by ( Bethany Dawson | Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
A former Russian space chief said he was wounded by an exploding artillery shell in a Donetsk hotel. The former head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos said that he was wounded on his shoulder and needed surgery. FILE PHOTO: Russia's Roscosmos former space agency Director General Dmitry Rogozin looks on at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan July 20, 2019. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File PhotoWriting on Telegram, Rogozin suggested that his location had been "leaked," resulting in what he says was a "targeted attack." Rogozin now appears to lead a volunteer unit that supports Russia's proxy forces in eastern Ukraine, the BBC reported.
☆ Warren Buffett trolled Bill Gates by proposing he spend almost $400 million on an engagement ring
  + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Theron Mohamed | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
Warren Buffett helped Bill Gates pick out an engagement ring at Berkshire-owned Borsheims in 1993. Buffett spent 6% of his net worth on a ring in 1951, and told Gates he should do the same. Gates, worth around $6.2 billion in 1993, declined to shell out $370 million on a piece of jewelry. Buffett met them at the airport and escorted them to Borsheims, a jewelry business he bought four years earlier. Gates was worth around $6.2 billion in 1993, according to Forbes.
☆ The inside story of Trump’s explosive dinner with Ye and Nick Fuentes
  + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Marc Caputo | Marc Caputo Is A Senior National Political Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +15 min
“We saw everybody in the dining room get up and start applauding, and then the president entered,” Fuentes told NBC News. “He greeted us, and he invited Ye into dinner and Ye said that he wanted to bring us with him to the table. “Trump is really impressed with Nick Fuentes,” Ye said in the video. Giorno said she had been caught in the blast radius of the dinner with Ye and Fuentes but was an unwitting participant. About halfway to Mar-a-Lago, Giorno said in an interview, she realized that Ye, Fuentes and the other man weren’t properly attired.
☆ Trump claims Kanye West tricked him by bringing white supremacist Nick Fuentes to Mar-a-Lago dinner: report
  + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Oma Seddiq | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Trump's team has claimed that the rapper Ye tricked him by bringing a well-known white supremacist to Mar-a-Lago. "Kanye punked Trump," one Trump adviser told NBC News of the dinner with Nick Fuentes. The Trump campaign is now reviewing their processes to prevent someone like Fuentes from getting near Trump again, sources with knowledge of the discussions told NBC News. "The master troll got trolled," one Trump adviser, who spoke anonymously, told NBC News. One Trump adviser told NBC News that the former president said Ye's attendance at Mar-a-Lago "would be fun for the members."
☆ Former astronaut Scott Kelly says Russians have been 'brainwashed' over Ukraine
  + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( Ryan Hogg | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Former astronaut Scott Kelly said Russians defending the war in Ukraine have been "brainwashed." The former astronaut became an online "troll" of Russia's former space chief earlier this year. Kelly has used his 5.3 million followers on Twitter to blast Russia's attack on Ukraine, and played a part in the departure of Russia's top space official. Trolling to oblivionKelly spent 340 days on the International Space Station with NASA as part of a program run in collaboration with Russia's space agency Roscosmos. But he also directed his anger at Russians more generally who endorse a message that Russia is defending itself from Ukrainian "Nazis".
☆ Trump trolls DeSantis, sharing old video showing his fawning Trump support as the two emerge as rivals for 2024
  + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
He shared a 2018 campaign video that showed DeSantis raising his kids as Trump superfans. Ron DeSantis and his son Mason in a video to support his 2018 campaign to become governor of Florida. Ron DeSantis campaignTrump shared an old DeSantis campaign video on his Truth Social website, in which DeSantis is described as a "pitbull Trump defender" and takes his support for the president to comical lengths. The ad, from when DeSantis ran for governor in 2018, shows DeSantis with his family in spoof home videos. Ron DeSantis and his daughter Madison in a video to support his 2018 campaign to become governor of Florida.
☆ Nick Cannon gets trolled by Ryan Reynolds over baby no. 11
  + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +1 min
CNN —Nick Cannon is adding to his family, and Ryan Reynolds is having some fun with it. Scott and Cannon are featured in a bathtub in the images, where he both touches and kisses her pregnant belly. Reynolds shared a tweet from People magazine about Cannon’s coming 11th child on Twitter writing, “We’re gonna need a bigger bottle.”That joke could mean either be a reference to a baby bottle or a liquor bottle. Cannon welcomed his ninth and tenth children in September with other co-parents. He and Scott also shared son Zen, who died in December 2021 at five months old after being diagnosed with brain cancer.
☆ Elon Musk, with his bombastic tweets, is filling the void vacated by Trump on Twitter
  + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
Then, when media outlets reported on his irresponsible behavior, Musk assailed them. Like Trump, Musk has eschewed the traditional, more formal style of corporate governance used by his predecessors. Instead of communicating through conventional means, Musk has chosen to make significant news through seemingly off-the-cuff tweets — just like Trump. The worry about Musk’s behavior, however, is not about how he announces changes to the platform. The right has for years lashed out at “blue checks,” whom in their eyes represent elitist gatekeepers who control the conversation, even though many conservatives also don blue badges.
☆ Elon Musk complimented a top Putin official for trolling Liz Truss, and got invited to Moscow
  + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Elon Musk praised a Putin ally for trolling the UK's prime minister over her resignation. On Thursday, Dmitry Medvedev trolled UK Prime Minister Liz Truss for resigning after only 44 days in office, and alluded to a running joke in UK tabloid The Daily Star about whether she'd last longer than a lettuce. Musk was criticised for the jokey interaction with Medvedev, who has previously served as prime minister and president of Russia, and now leads its security council. Musk, the world's richest man, has recently made a series of outspoken pronouncements on the Ukraine war and tensions between Taiwan and China. Fiona Hill, a former White House Russia expert, said Putin was likely manipulating Musk.
☆ US trolls Hungary, the most pro-Russian EU state, reminding its leaders they are supposed to be allies with the West
  + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
The US called out Hungary stance on the invasion of Ukraine, which has been softer than many nations. The US embassy reminded the EU and NATO member that the US and Hungary are supposed to be allies. Hungary has been the EU member least critical of Russia since it invaded Ukraine in February. In response to the sanctions, Russia is threatening to cut off gas supplies. The campaign also involved a government poster that describes EU sanctions as bombs falling on Hungary.
☆ Ukraine's UN rep trolls Russia after UN vote it badly lost, using binoculars to spot its 4 allies among 183 nations
  + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Only four countries against condemning Russia's annexation of Ukrainian regions at the UN. Ukraine's UN representative mocked Russia, sharing a photo of himself at the UN with binoculars. …"Reuters reported that the photo of Kyslytsya using the binoculars was taken in the room shortly before the vote on Wednesday. 143 countries voted in support of the resolution at the at the UN General Assembly to condemn Russia's annexation and demand that it return the territory to Ukraine. Four countries joined Russia in opposing the resolution: North Korea, Belarus, Syria, and Nicaragua.
☆ Vladimir Putin fires Russia's space chief Dmitry Rogozin, who trolled Elon Musk and astronaut Scott Kelly
  + stars: | 2022-07-16 | by ( Ryan Hogg | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Dmitry Rogozin has been fired as Russia's space chief, the Kremlin announced on Friday. Rogozin has had public spats with Elon Musk and astronaut Scott Kelly in recent months. The former space chief also said Elon Musk should be held accountable for sending Starlink satellites to help Ukraine in the early days of the invasion. Rogozin previously threatened to send the space station crashing into the US or Europe if Russia was hit by sanctions. Last week, NASA rebuked Roscosmos after Russian astronauts flew separatist flags on the ISS in support of Russia's invasion.
☆ Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene just bought stock in 2 more companies that back Black Lives Matter
  + stars: | 2021-09-07 | by ( Dave Levinthal | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
Greene has purchased stock in several companies that contradict her political positions. download the app Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy PolicyIn April, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Black Lives Matter "is the strongest terrorist threat in our county." She also introduced legislation to award Congressional Gold Medals to law-enforcement officers "who protected American cities during the Black Lives Matter (BLM) riots" of 2020. Speaking up because BLACK LIVES MATTER." Consumers may also buy numerous Black Lives Matter-themed products at Walmart.com — but no "all lives matter" merchandise.
☆ Mark Zuckerberg's dad said he could go to Harvard or have a McDonald's franchise
  + stars: | 2019-02-06 | by ( Sarah Berger | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
Mark Zuckerberg famously started Facebook in his Harvard University dorm. But before he even went to college, Zuckerberg's father Edward offered his son an alternative — a future as a McDonald's franchise owner. "I think [my parents] were like 'Okay, you probably should have taken the McDonald's franchise money if you wanted a business. A 2016 report from CNBC and Franchise Business Review pegged the average profit of food and beverage franchises at $90,388 a year. It's unclear how much Zuckerberg's father would have had to invest for a McDonald's franchise in the early 2000s, but today, according to the McDonald's website, the total investment to begin operation of a traditional McDonald's franchise ranges from $1,013,000 to $2,185,000, and that "profitability depends on many factors."
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