The HackerNoon Newsletter: Donald Trump Executes The Ultimate Crypto Rug Pull (1/21/2025)

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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, January 21, 2025?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Steve Jobs unveiled the MacBook Air in 2008, King Louis XVI of France was executed in 1793, The first nuclear-powered submarine was launched in 1954, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Why Pay for the Cloud? Build Your Own with Raspberry Pi and Open Media Vault to Crypto’s $3.5 Trillion Market Cap is Impressive—But the Real Money’s Hiding in Plain Sight, let’s dive right in.

Why Pay for the Cloud? Build Your Own with Raspberry Pi and Open Media Vault

By @cybershivank [ 8 Min read ] Learn how to turn your Raspberry Pi into a secure personal cloud server with Open Media Vault, giving you full control over your storage and privacy. Read More.

Tech Founders Are Using These 5 Resources to Build Their First Prototype

By @marinacher [ 6 Min read ] Useful sources for founders and early tech entrepreneurs for building their first prototype.  Read More.

Donald Trump Executes The Ultimate Crypto Rug Pull

By @maken8 [ 3 Min read ] Donald Trump has already withdrawn $500m from his memecoin $TRUMP. Read More.

AI Search Company Makes Bid for TikTok In New Twist to Ban Saga

By @davidjdeal [ 7 Min read ] Read this article for insight into the implications of a merger between Perplexity and TikToks U.S. operations, which Perplexity proposed on January 18, 2025. Read More.

Crypto’s $3.5 Trillion Market Cap is Impressive—But the Real Money’s Hiding in Plain Sight

By @obyte [ 5 Min read ] There’s a whole crypto industry right now, built by people and companies from all around the world, and it’s likely bigger than you think. Read More.

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