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 The world’s leading electric car manufacturer, Tesla, has hinted that it may resume accepting Bitcoin and crypto payments for its vehicles. According to its third quarterly report filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Tesla could restart accepting cryptocurrency payments. It stated that during the nine months that ended Sept. 30, the company purchased an aggregate of $1.5 billion in BTC. Up until the end of March, it accepted Bitcoin as a payment for sales of certain products in specified regions but suspended this practice in May 2021. “We may in the future restart the practice of transacting in cryptocurrencies (“digital assets”) for our products and services.” The filing reported that the “fair market value” of Tesla’s digital asset holdings as of Sept. 30 was $1.83 billion. The company added: “We believe in the long-term potential of digital assets both as an investment and also as a liquid alternative to cash.”

 The eCash (XEC) project builds on the success of Bitcoin Cash and expands on its mission to provide the world with a more secure P2P electronic cash system . Notably, the developers took the valuable lessons learned from Bitcoin Cash and incorporated the solutions into eCash. As such, the protocol is more flexible, secure, and scalable than its predecessor. What Problems Does eCash (XEC) Attempt to Fix? There are a lot of problems that eCash seeks to do reduce in the market. For one, the project was designed to help alleviate investor confusion. Projects like Bitcoin can throw users off due to its abnormal format and unique technical structure. There are new terms and symbols that all add to the technical barriers to adoption. Recognizing these issues as hurdles, eCash’s developers decided to stick with a 2-decimal layout that mimics fiat currency. ecash (XEC) -Twitter Hard Forks Hard forks are another vital issue that eCash eliminates. Anyone who remembers the birth of

  New York (CNN Business) Facebook has confronted whistleblowers , PR firestorms and Congressional inquiries in recent years. But now it faces a combination of all three at once in what could be the most intense and wide-ranging crisis in the company's 17-year history. On Friday, a consortium of 17 US news organizations began publishing a series of stories — collectively called "The Facebook Papers" — based on a trove of hundreds of internal company documents which were included in disclosures made to the Securities and Exchange Commission and provided to Congress in redacted form by Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen 's legal counsel. The consortium, which includes CNN, reviewed the redacted versions received by Congress. CNN's coverage includes stories about how coordinated groups on Facebook ( FB ) sow discord and violence, including on January 6 , as well as Facebook's challenges moderating content in some non-English-speaking countries, and

Shiba Inu SHIB , touted as a Dogecoin DOGE killer, is going from strength to strength. Following its record run on Sunday, the meme currency hasn't lost any of the momentum and is headed higher yet again. What Happened: Shiba Inu, which touched an all-time high of $0.000044 intraday Sunday, ended the day at $0.000036. The crypto retested the $0.000044 level yet again on Monday but could not break above the level. Profit taking at the day's high pushed the currency lower and it ended the session at $0.000042. Some blamed the pullback on  Elon Musk's reply to a tweet highlighting a Benzinga story on Doge's popularity. Musk said in reply that Doge is the people's currency and he supports Doge. After moving sideways, Shiba Inu began to rally hard in the last few hours and scaled a

  New Delhi (CNN Business) The parody cryptocurrency shiba inu coin just climbed to an all-time high and is one of the biggest digital currencies by market value. Shiba coin — which appears to be inspired by dogecoin, itself a meme currency — is up more than 40% over the last seven days, according to CoinGecko . The website ranks the coin as the 11th biggest cryptocurrency. The token has gained more than 45 million percent in the past year, the site indicated. It later fell about 10% from its all-time high after Tesla CEO Elon Musk — who is a big fan of dogecoin — tweeted that he does not own any shiba coin. Musk's tweets have frequently moved crypto markets. Interactive: 15 experts. 11 questions. All your crypto questions, answered. Like another quirky digital currency Dogecoin — which is the ninth biggest crypto by market value — shiba coin features the Shiba Inu dog as its mascot. Its meteoric rise has made some investors millionaires overnight. The c

  NCIS , thankfully, rests this Monday. There will be no  new episode . We should use it as a time for post-Gibbs reflection and to process all these changes. But once there’s some  NCIS  quiet time, we can look ahead to some future episodes. The one that runs Nov. 8 is called  Docked . There’s no handy CBS plot summary. Nor are there photos available to tease the episode. Only the name of the episode is available at this point.   What does it all mean? The folks at cartermatt.com  speculate  that  Docked has to do with a big Naval ship. Cause docked is what ships do. Maybe there’s a fascinating c***e on deck, while docked. Plus, maybe the name has something to do with who might be agent in charge. It looks obvious to everyone the new boss will be  Alden Parker (Gary Cole) . That’s the direction Vance (Rocky Carroll) is headed. It seems that Gibbs (Mark Harmon) still is calling some personnel shots from his Alaska fish camp. Off-camera, he dropped some of

 Long-time star of  NCIS: Los Angeles  Eric Christian Olsen has been  expanding  out of acting and more into writing as time goes on. In fact, he claims he has “15 episodes” already written in his head. He’s just waiting for the right times to get them made. When Christian Olsen made the statements, it was  back in 2019 . Since then, he has been greenlighted for writing an episode and that will come out later this season. So, he has at least 14 episodes still in his brain then. That’s pretty much an entire season! “I think I probably have about 15 episodes written in my head right now,” the actor said when asked about writing. “You wake up in the middle of the night and you’ve got an amazing new cold open.” He doesn’t just want to write episodes. Christian Olsen says he wants to dive into the background of the show’s most beloved figure. “I think that for me, the thing that I love the most about the show — the pillar of the show — is Linda [Hetty]. Aft