Joe Turkel

American actor of "Blade Runner" and "The Shining" fame Joe Turkel dies

Character actor Joe Turkel, whose indelible performances included roles as the sinister bartender Lloyd in Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining' and the maker of artificial humans in 'Blade Runner', recently passed away at the age of 94 at St. John's Hospital, reports 'Deadline'. Jul 2, 2022
RBI

RBI hits hard on Bitcoin, DeFi, crypto trading platforms

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has slammed unbacked crypto assets (such as Bitcoin), stablecoins and decentralised finance (DeFi) and crypto asset trading platforms, underscoring the need for regulatory guardrails to ensure financial stability and consumer and investor protection. Jul 2, 2022
Cryptocurrencies

Stablecoins not stable, have 'no role' as money; warns top banker [details]

As cryptocurrencies get hammered in the economic meltdown, stablecoins -- whose value is pegged to another asset like a fiat currency or a commodity -- are also bad investments and are ill-suited as a form of money, Siddharth Tiwari, the Asia-Pacific head of the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), has said. Jun 28, 2022