Donald Trump’s impeachment trial will open with a debate about whether the U.S. Constitution allows a former president to face trial after he has left office. Here’s a look at the five Senate Republicans who voted that the trial was constitutional reut.rs/36RCpuL 👇 1/6
Ben Sasse
The Nebraska senator handily won reelection in 2020 and is considered a potential contender for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. He denounced Trump's false claims of widespread electoral fraud and said there was no basis to object Joe Biden's win 2/6
Lisa Murkowski
Murkowski of Alaska became the first U.S. senator in 50 years to win an election with a write-in campaign in 2010 after losing in the Republican primary. She called for Trump to resign after his supporters rioted at the Capitol 3/6
#Bitcoin took another large stride toward mainstream acceptance after Elon Musk’s Tesla revealed it had bought $1.5 billion of the cryptocurrency and would soon accept it as a form of payment for cars, sending the cryptocurrency shooting higher reut.rs/2MGNIz8
The announcement of Tesla’s investment, buried in Tesla’s 2020 annual report, follows months of tweets by Musk related to cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, sometimes helping fuel its rally reut.rs/3oYIVG5
So what’s all the fuss about?
#Bitcoin has been rallying hard, jumping over 300% in 2020, breezing past its record high reut.rs/3jB6ljN
Watching the business news first thing is a new routine for 12-year-old South Korean Kwon Joon, as he dreams of becoming the next Warren Buffett after earning stellar returns of 43% from a hobby picked up just last year: buying stocks reut.rs/2YWc7TM 1/6
Kwon pestered his mother to open a retail trading account last April with savings of $22,400 as seed money, just as the benchmark KOSPI index began recovering from its biggest dip in a decade 2/6
'My role model is Warren Buffett,' said Kwon, who rode the steepest jump by year-end among MSCI’s country indexes 3/6
Buying a Tesla with #Bitcoin? How payments might work:
If Tesla were to accept bitcoin payments the way other companies have, customers would transfer bitcoins from their 'digital wallets' to another entity that converts them and sends the sum to Tesla reut.rs/2YXkbU2
For example, companies including AT&T and Microsoft have accepted bitcoin through BitPay, a cryptocurrency payment processor. BitPay has facilitated payments for luxury auto dealers, but is not working with Tesla now, a representative said
Shoppers can also buy items from merchants that have never officially accepted bitcoin by using payment cards that convert the cryptocurrency into U.S. dollars ahead of the transaction
Indonesian single mother Puryanti bows stiffly like a robot, as she and her five-year-old son, their bodies gleaming in silver paint, appeal to passersby for an occasional coin at a busy intersection outside the capital Jakarta reut.rs/3cLWG8O
They are among a group of people dubbed 'manusia silver,' or 'silver people' who use the strategy to draw attention, while struggling to make ends meet after the coronavirus pushed Southeast Asia’s largest economy into recession last year
Puryanti uses a homemade paint, a mixture of screen-printing powder and cooking oil, to coat their bodies and add dramatic effect to the robot act. She says the silver paint causes no ill-effects
Tesla said it had invested around $1.5 billion in #bitcoin and expected to begin accepting payment for its cars and other products with it in the near future reut.rs/2NajPGY
Tesla said in a filing the decision was part of its broad investment policy as a company and was aimed at diversifying and maximizing its returns on cash. #Bitcoin surged after Tesla made the disclosure to hit a record high reut.rs/2O7gU2n
#Bitcoin jumped more than 10% to a record high after Tesla said it had invested $1.5 billion in the cryptocurreny last month reut.rs/3tDfUDy