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October 22, 2025 Gistlover Stella Extra 0
A young Nigerian lady, Jesulade Elizabeth, has captured hearts online after sharing a touching post about her faith during the ongoing Hallelujah Challenge 2025 and receiving a real laptop in return.
Jesulade had posted a photo of herself holding cardboard cutouts shaped like an iPhone 14 Pro Max and an HP laptop, labeled “Hallelujah Challenge October 2025.” She wrote that she was trusting God for the real items, adding, “See ya tonight. I’m so sat. I’ll be coming back to these, I know. #HallelujahChallenge2025.”
Her post quickly went viral, drawing attention and admiration from many Nigerians online who were inspired by her faith and creativity.
Moments later, a popular tech vendor known as Gadget Plug (@tizzydgreat) announced on X (formerly Twitter) that an anonymous donor had ordered a brand new HP laptop for Jesulade.
“Dear Jesulade,
Anon just ordered a brand new HP laptop for you. Kindly check your DM. Thank you,” the vendor wrote.
The gesture sparked excitement and warm reactions across social media, with users celebrating how her act of faith led to an instant miracle.
However, a lighthearted exchange followed when another user, Walter Black, commented that the laptop looked “UK-used,” to which Gadget Plug replied, “It’s a brand new system.”
Many have since praised Jesulade’s unwavering faith, using her story as a reminder that persistence and belief can yield surprising blessings.
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TikToker Tristin Trivers, known for his skill in content creation and digital marketing, presented at Florida Atlantic University’s chapter of the American Marketing Association on Tuesday night.
FAU’s chapter of AMA was able to facilitate a space for students to engage with peers who aspire to become social media influencers, content creators, and, in the case of Trivers, a motivation not just for his fellow students but also for his 124,000 social media followers.
“If you really want to be successful on social media, I believe in reputation, longevity, and sustainability,” said Trivers in the session. Trivers, who uploads content centered on personal mindset and self-improvement, rose in popularity after posting TikToks and Instagram reels of himself running to the beach in the mornings.
A senior studying finance with the hope of someday being a successful entrepreneur, Trivers said he believes that showing up as your most authentic self will allow you to optimise your image on social media. After graduating from high school, Trivers moved to Orlando, Florida, from New Jersey. Through rolling admissions, he chose FAU.
While scrolling through social media, he began to notice a pattern: the creators he had watched growing up were making a fair amount of money. He said his primary motivation for pursuing a career in content creation was financial, but along the way, he discovered that there was much more to it than just the money.
Trivers then explained the process and evolution of his success using keywords to drive his point home. “It’s all about emotions and the feeling that you’re able to showcase to your audience,” said Trivers as he explained how to make your personal brand unique to you. “I think you really just need to be authentic, transparent, real, vulnerable.”
Junior finance major James Melillo discussed how this lecture, which he had not intended to attend, helped him gain a better understanding of his internship experiences. “When I was in there being trained for my internship, they also talked about ‘have your why, have your values.’ Don’t just do it for the money, do it for what you believe in and what you think should be done,” said Melillo.
Alessia Bosdhetti, a study abroad student from Italy majoring in film with a minor in fashion, stated, “I want to work in the entertainment industry, so now social media is the best way to promote yourself. I want to be an actress. The influencers are more considered because their faces are out there.”
Bree-Ann Ferraro is a Contributing Writer for the University Press. Email her at [email protected] or contact her on Instagram @blackbird.bree for information regarding this or other stories.
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There is a tasty £8.3m triple rollover jackpot up for grabs in the National Lottery Lotto game tonight (Wednesday, October 22).
Players have failed to get the magic six main numbers to unleash a cash windfall in recent Lotto draws, so that prize pot has kept on growing.
It it's claimed tonight, it will shower any lucky winner with a fortune to spend as they wish – holidays, cars, homes, clothes.
We'll have the winning numbers below for Lotto and Thunderball. Remember, play responsibly and for fun.

Winning Lotto numbers: 3, 24, 26, 34, 35, 36. Bonus ball: 9
Winning Thunderball numbers: 4, 15, 17, 24, 33. Thunderball: 10
It costs £2 per ticket to play for the Lotto.
You can buy a ticket throughout the week, but on draw days – Saturday and Wednesday – until 7.30pm.
And if you want more games to play, there is also EuroMillions every Tuesday and Friday and the Set for Life game on Mondays and Thursdays.
The Thunderball draw takes place every Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.
While EuroMillions in on Tuesdays and Friday, which has seen some big wins for UK players this year.
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The results are in for the 10th-largest jackpot ever in the Mega Millions lottery game.
The jackpot has been rolling since it was last won at $348 million in Virginia on June 27. A ticket sold in Ohio for the April 18 drawing won a $112 million prize before that, according to megamillions.com.
Here are the numbers drawn and prizes won in the Oct. 21 drawing:
Here are the Tuesday, Oct. 21, Mega Millions winning numbers: 2, 18, 27, 34 and 59. The gold Mega ball is 18. The Mega Millions lottery jackpot was an estimated $650 million with a cash option of $304.1 million for Tuesday night’s drawing.
No one won the jackpot in Tuesday night’s Mega Millions drawing. One ticket, sold in Illinois, matched the five white balls to win the second-tier prize; with the 3X multiplier, it is worth $3 million.
Friday’s jackpot is estimated to be $680 million with a cash option of $318.2 million. This is the ninth largest jackpot since the game started in 2002.
The next drawing is Friday, October 24, at 11 p.m. ET.
Drawings are every Tuesday and Friday at 11 p.m. ET.
The largest Mega Millions jackpot won on a single ticket is a $1.602 billion prize won in Florida on Aug. 8. Other large single-ticket Mega Millions prizes have been $1.537 billion won in South Carolina on Oct. 23, 2018; $1.348 billion won in Maine on Jan. 13, 2023; $1.337 billion won in Illinois on July 29, 2022 and $1.050 billion won in Michigan on Jan. 22, 2021.
Mega Millions tickets cost $2 per play. 
There are nine ways to win a prize, from the jackpot to $2. 
Players can pick six numbers from two separate pools of numbers: five different numbers from the white balls numbered 1-70 and one number from the gold balls numbered 1-25.
You win the jackpot by matching all six winning numbers in a drawing. 
You can pick your lucky numbers or select Easy Pick or Quick Pick and have the numbers auto-drawn. If you can’t decide, the Mega Millions website has a random number generator.
Most states offer the Megaplier feature, which increases non-jackpot prizes from two, three, four and five times.
It costs an additional $1 per play. 
Before each regular Mega Millions drawing, the Megaplier is drawn. From a pool of 15 balls, five are marked with “2X,” three with “4X” and one with “5X.”
You can play Mega Millions in 47 localities: 45 states, plus the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. To find locations, search the Mega Millions website.
In Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana, you can buy a Mega Millions ticket at gas stations, convenience stores and supermarkets until 10:45 p.m. on drawing night.
In Kentucky, residents can also purchase tickets online at kylottery.com.
In Ohio, residents can use the Lottery Card available in Kroger, Buehler’s Fresh Foods and Giant Eagle stores. It allows Ohio consumers to enter draw games on their phones and get notified and paid electronically if they win.
The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are about 1 in 290 million. 
The overall chance of winning any prize is 1 in 23.

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The digital currency industry’s electricity consumption is equivalent to that of an average European country
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Mining cryptocurrencies, especially Bitcoin, the oldest and most successful digital currency, requires vast amounts of energy and contributes significantly to greenhouse gas emissions. Energy expenditure in the sector increased approximately 34-fold between 2015 and 2023, reaching 121 terawatt-hours (TWh), equivalent to the consumption of an average European country, such as Poland. Demand is expected to increase by a further 40% by 2026, predicts the International Energy Agency (IEA).
“Executing a single Bitcoin transaction equates approximately to the greenhouse gas emissions of a moderate-sized electric or gasoline engine sedan vehicle traveling between 1,600 and 2,600 km,” state the authors of the article “Carbon footprint of global bitcoin mining: Emissions beyond borders,” published in the journal Sustainability Science in January.
The energy consumption is so high due to competition between miners, who are part of the cryptocurrency industry. To validate a block of cryptocurrency transactions, miners try to solve a mathematical problem as quickly as possible, a process called proof-of-work (PoW). The miner who solves the equation first receives bitcoins as payment. Performed by thousands of computers around the world, these calculations ensure the reliability of digital currency purchase and sale operations, but they consume a lot of energy.
“The problem is the consensus method used by Bitcoin: PoW. Although it is distributed [run by multiple computers in different locations] and reliable, it uses too much energy. Miners will always try to use the cheapest possible energy source, which may not always be clean and renewable,” says computer scientist Arlindo Flavio da Conceição of the Institute of Science and Technology at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Jose dos Campos campus.
A few years ago, the cryptocurrency Ethereum migrated from proof-of-work to another consensus mechanism known as proof-of-stake (PoS), reducing energy consumption by 99%. “The problem is that to modify the core algorithm of a cryptocurrency, the community needs to agree—and the people operating with Bitcoin cannot agree because they are worried that any mistake that might occur in the migration process would affect the currency’s price,” says Conceição, coauthor of the book Blockchain: Conceitos básicos (Blockchain: Basic concepts; independently published, 2020).
In PoS, participants called validators are randomly chosen to verify and add blocks to the blockchain (a type of digital ledger), dispensing with the need for competition between them, as occurs in PoW. “With minimal energy consumption, PoS has a much smaller carbon footprint, making it better aligned with sustainability goals,” concludes the Sustainability Science article, written by researchers from Qatar, the USA, and Canada.
The story above was published with the title “Cryptocurrencies take a toll” in issue in issue 349 of march/2025.
Scientific articles
ONAT, N. C. et al. Carbon footprint of global bitcoin mining: Emissions beyond borders. Sustainability Science. Vol. 20, pp. 173–89. Jan. 2025.
Book
CONCEIÇÃO, A. F. & ROCHA, V. E. M. Blockchain: Conceitos básicos. Independent edition. Apr. 2020.
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Cryptocurrency ATMs remain unregulated by the federal or state government, but one Kalispell legislator is working with the Commissioner of Securities and Insurance and local law enforcement to change that
Imagine: you’re sitting home alone, it’s late and, suddenly, your device lights up with a phone call from a number you don’t know.
You answer, only for them to tell you they’re a representative from Apple. They tell you your computer has been hacked. If you don’t follow instructions, they claim you’ll be charged with a crime. You’re to go to the bank, withdraw $36,000 in funds and deposit them into cryptocurrency machines. Scared of what they’re saying, you listen and follow instructions — and before you know it, you’ve lost the money for good.
That story isn’t imaginative. It’s the story of a real fraud victim from Bozeman, one that Kaitlyn Wenzel, a policy analyst and public outreach coordinator with the Montana Commissioner of Securities and Insurance’s (CSI) office, shared with a crowd of seniors in Kalispell Tuesday morning.
“Now, a crypto ATM is a machine that is used to convert cash to cryptocurrency. In this case, it is a Bitcoin ATM,” Wenzel said, pointing to a photo. “So, the money put into this machine is converted from cash to Bitcoin. Now, Bitcoin payments are final. When you put money into this machine and send it to someone’s digital wallet that is not your own, that money is gone in the drop of a penny. It is gone instantaneously and forever.”
She added crypto ATMs remain unregulated by the federal or state government.
Wenzel presented at Immanuel Living and joined a panel of representatives from the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office to warn local seniors about the ways scammers are using cryptocurrency to defraud their victims. Nationally, Wenzel said people aged 60 and over are the most-commonly defrauded age group. They are also susceptible to the growing threats of cryptocurrency related scams.
Her presentation covered statistics, how to recognize scams and offered several stories like the fraud victim in Bozeman, while the law enforcement panelists shared ways to keep safe in the digital world.
Wenzel told the crowd that spotting a scam requires looking for the “four Ps.” A scammer will pretend to be someone trustworthy; present either a problem to solve or a prize to be gained; put pressure on their victim to act quickly; and ask for payment in an unusual way. She also encouraged those who are victims of a scam to report it to CSI.
Per a March press release from State Auditor James Brown’s office, 15 Montanans made crypto fraud complaints to the state in 2024. Those 15 cases totaled nearly $900,000 in financial losses. The actual figure is likely higher, as Wenzel said shame can be a barrier to reporting scams.
Wenzel also highlighted that crypto ATM scams are also on the rise at the federal level. In the first half of 2025 alone, Americans lost $240 million to crypto ATM scams across the country. But what concerns Wenzel and CSI more is that that figure represents the total amount lost to similar scams in 2024. It means the scams are increasing in pace.
The increase in crypto crimes and fraud, along with the urging of CSI and local police, have spurred State Rep. Courtenay Sprunger, R-Kalispell, to action. Sprunger organized Tuesday’s “Scam Smart” seminar for seniors in the Flathead Valley to begin educating the community, something the panelists said was important in fighting scams. But in the long term, Sprunger said she plans to work with CSI to draft legislation regulating crypto ATMs in Montana.
“I always joke that I don’t have all that many great ideas, but I know people who do,” Sprunger said.
She’s in the early phases of working through several options for potential legislation, she shared with the crowd Tuesday morning.
She said she doesn’t think banning cryptocurrency machines outright is the answer. The machines have a place in a free marketplace, but more regulation could help cut down on the damage they can cause.
For instance, what if the machines were put behind the counter at stores, requiring interaction with a real human before depositing money into it? Or, what if there were limits on how much you could deposit per transaction?
Similar ideas have been explored in other states of all political stripes. Democratic-run Illinois, deep-red Oklahoma and more purple Arizona have all passed crypto-related legislation this year. Their legislation runs a gamut of regulations from requiring warnings on machines, limiting how much money customers can dispense or withdraw in a day and allowing customers to have recourse in the event that they are defrauded.
Sprunger said she’s examining what other states are doing for inspiration as she works with CSI and local law enforcement agencies to determine what type of policy might be a good fit for Montana.
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