“We know that despite the moribund state of markets, many hedge funds, family offices, venture funds and even pension funds and endowments are looking seriously at the long-term benefits of including crypto in their portfolios. Below I lay out why post-Merge ether could figure prominently in their future allocations.” (CoinDesk Chief Content Officer Michael Casey) … “Call me the worldâs happiest cynic, then, because when I predicted the utter and catastrophic failure of Facebookâs rebranding as âMetaâ starting less than a year ago, I genuinely didnât think it would all unravel as quickly and ignominiously as it has. Horizon Worlds, Metaâs intended metaverse, went live in December and, my god, it has been downhill from there.” (CoinDesk columnist David Z. Morris) … .@MicroStrategy’s R&D is now working on enterprise-grade functions of the #LightningCommunity know-how, together with the enterprise Lightning pockets, @saylor stated at #BH2022. (CoinDesk investigative reporter Anna Baydakova)