The Bloomberg Billionaires Index is a daily ranking of the world’s richest people. The figures are updated at the close of every trading day in New York. Today, the new rich people predominantly made their fortune in the tech or fintech industry.
Bitcoin used the most energy of any cryptocurrency in 2020, producing as much as 59.9 million tons of CO2. 299.6 million trees would've needed to be planted to offset this volume. Bitcoin is an incredibly unsustainable cryptocurrency. Studies suggest that the cryptocurrency's carbon footprint is as large as some of the world's biggest cities. This needs to be changed if Bitcoin wants a future in the dawning law-carbon cybersocie
She still believes in Tela. According to Barron's, Cathie Wood’s ARK Investment ETFs purchased 33,482 shares of the electric-vehicle company Tesla recently. On the day of the new investment, the Tesla stock closed Thursday at $829.10, down 11.6%. At that price, Wood paid an estimated $27.76 million for the shares.
Houston, we have a problem! Elon Musk alerted us to this problem via Twitter this week. Falling fertility rates in nearly every country could have shrinking populations by the end of the century. 23 nations including Spain and Japan are expected to see their populations halve by 2100. Countries will also age dramatically, with as many people turning 80 as there are being born.
In a jaw-dropping twist that reeks of conspiracy, Virginia Giuffre, the fearless accuser of Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew, was found dead at her remote Western Australia farm on April 25, 2025, in what authorities hastily labeled a suicide. The 41-year-old mother of three, who bravely exposed the sordid underbelly of Epstein’s sex trafficking empire, allegedly took her own life just months after a bizarre car crash she claimed nearly killed her.
In the spring of 2025, as Easter dawns with its promise of renewal and resurrection, Changpeng Zhao—known to the crypto world as CZ—stands as a figure both fallen and reborn. Once the towering architect of Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, Zhao’s journey mirrors the Easter narrative: a descent into legal purgatory followed by a reemergence into the public eye.