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Bitcoin Drops 5% After Elon Musk's Breakup Meme Tweet

On the morning of June 4, Elon Musk tweeted a meme with the hashtag #Bitcoin alongside a broken heart emoji, implying that he has broken up with the cryptocurrency. Hours later, the entrepreneur posted another meme suggesting a market crash.While Musk didn't disclose whether or not he had sold his bitcoin, his tweets affected bitcoin’s price. According to Coindesk, the digital coin dropped from $39,212 USD to $35,814 USD once Musk shared the meme. In the span of 24 hours, the cryptocurrency f...

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Michelle Wie West Announces Return to Competitive Golf

Michelle Wie West will compete at the U.S. Women's Open for the first time since 2018, a comeback that follows wrist injuries, surgery and the birth of her first child. Her return to competition is fueled by frustration: in a new interview with The New York Times, the pro golfer says that vulgar comments about her underwear -- voiced by none other than Rudy Giuliani -- launched her back into the game.During a February episode of Steve Bannon's right-wing podcast War Room, Giuliani recalled a con...

info@hypebae.com (HYPEBAE) Thu, 03 Jun 2021 HYPEBAE
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Please, Do Not Try Dry Scooping

TikTok is full of trends that run the gamut from outrageous to downright dangerous. The latest fad circulating on the platform is "dry scooping," eating a scoop of pre-workout powder dry, instead of diluting it with water as instructed.One TikTok user, 20-year-old Briatney Portillo, is warning viewers against partaking in the risky trend. "Taking a dry pre-workout scoop because I saw it trending on TikTok," one of her videos begins, only to continue with a dark conclusion: "Ending up in the hos...

info@hypebae.com (HYPEBAE) Thu, 03 Jun 2021 HYPEBAE
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High School Valedictorian Scraps Prepared Speech To Address Abortion Rights

In a brave act of defiance, Paxton Smith, the valedictorian of her class at Lake Highlands High School in Dallas, scrapped a speech approved by her school's administration to protest Texas' new abortion law, one of the most restrictive in the country. Going off-script, Smith delivered a powerful address on the bill, which bans abortions -- even in instances of rape and incest -- after six weeks."Under light of recent events, it feels wrong to talk about anything but what is currently affecting m...

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