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A former Wall Street convict is turning his prison experience into a startup pitch. Richard Bronson, once a partner at the infamous Stratton Oakmont, has launched Commissary Club, an AI-powered platform designed to help people leaving incarceration find jobs, housing, community, and even romantic connections. It's a rare case of lived experience driving a product roadmap.
Shifting to crypto, the US government just moved roughly one billion dollars in Bitcoin seized from the Bitfinex hack, sending twelve thousand two hundred sixty-seven coins to a new, unlabeled wallet address. The move, flagged by blockchain analytics firm Arkham, raises fresh questions about when and how the government plans to liquidate those assets, and what that sale might do to markets.
And for anyone who grew up in the early nineteen eighties staring at a beige box in the living room, Retro Games Limited has something for you. Pre-orders opened today for a modernized recreation of the Atari eight hundred XL, complete with mechanical keyboard, twenty-five built-in games, save states, and four USB ports, while still keeping the original cartridge slot and Atari BASIC intact.
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