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View More NewsProminent economist Bryan Caplan and political commentator Richard Hanania have started a “Sixteen Fun Facts About Me” meme on their respective blogs/substacks. Here is my list (in rough chronological order): 1. I was born in the then-Soviet Union. As an infant and toddler, I spent a lot of time in the hospital, due to various ailments. One time, a nurse asked my mother if I was her only child. She said yes. “That’s unfortunate,” the nurse commented, with typically awful Soviet bedside manner, “because this one probably won’t live.” Fortunately, the nurse turned out to be wrong, and I survived.…
Adam Back’s Bitcoin Standard Treasury Company (BSTR), the bitcoin treasury company backed by the Blockstream CEO and bitcoin pioneer, is renegotiating the terms of its planned public listing through a merger with Cantor Equity Partners I (CEPO), with the parties abandoning the original structure agreed last year in an effort to better reflect current market conditions.The companies said Wednesday they will not complete the transaction under the terms of the July 2025 business combination agreement. Instead, they are discussing a revised structure, with further details expected in future filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.As part of the changes,…
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