Mike Alfred says he bought another 100,000 shares of Vivek Ramaswamy’s Strive

Key Takeaways Mike Alfred increased his stake in Strive Asset Management by purchasing another 100,000 shares. Strive Asset Management, led by Vivek Ramaswamy, recently agreed to acquire Semler Scientific. Share this article Hedge fund manager Mike Alfred said Wednesday he had added 100,000 shares of Strive Asset Management (ASST) at $1.05 and $1.06, bringing his […]

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How would native staking reshape XRP’s role in a DeFi economy?

For more than a decade, the XRP Ledger (XRPL) has, for one reason or another, stood apart from the rest of the blockchain industry. Built in 2012, long before the rise of modern DeFi, it embraced a minimalist design of fast settlement, deterministic consensus, and no economic incentives for validators. That architecture helped XRPL grow […]

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Quake was the only game to support DOS and Win95 with TCP/IP multiplayer in one executable—deep dive explains how id Software did it

The mid-90s was arguably the period in PC history with the most whiplash-inducing changes. The arrival of 3D acceleration cards, the transition from plain-textbox DOS to fancy Windows 95, and the advent of the Internet all . This rapidly shifting landscape posed quite the challenge for game developers, as they had to consider writing their […]

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