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The first National Lottery draw was held on November 19 1994 when seven winners shared a jackpot of £5,874,778.
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Gareth Bull, a 49-year-old builder, won £41million in November, 2020 and ended up knocking down his bungalow to make way for a luxury manor house with a pool.
Sue Davies, 64, bought a lottery ticket to celebrate ending five months of shielding during the pandemic — and won £500,000.
Sandra Devine, 36, accidentally won £300k – she intended to buy her usual £100 National Lottery Scratchcard, but came home with a much bigger prize.
The biggest jackpot ever to be up for grabs was £66million in January last year, which was won by two lucky ticket holders.
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The aggregated open interest for Bitcoin options has climbed to record levels, creating concentrated put exposure for dealers.
Bitcoin traded at approximately $109,000 on Oct. 23, reflecting a monthly decline exceeding 3%. Timothy Misir from BRN described the current market conditions as testing investor patience beneath the short-term cost basis, with options open interest reaching new highs.
The aggregated open interest for Bitcoin options has climbed to record levels, creating concentrated put exposure for dealers. Short gamma positions are forcing aggressive hedging on modest delta moves, which expands intraday ranges and increases vulnerability to sudden price squeezes around key strike levels.
Multiple attempts to breach the $113,000 resistance have pushed weaker participants into selling positions. A breakdown below the $108,000 support band could trigger drawdowns toward $104,500, with potential extensions to the $97,000 zone according to BRN analysis.
Spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds recorded $101 million in outflows yesterday, while Ethereum ETFs posted $19 million in withdrawals. These flows demonstrate wavering institutional appetite following recent liquidity disruptions across digital asset markets.
The U.S. government shutdown has suspended most economic data releases, leaving Friday's CPI print as the sole major indicator. QCP Capital noted that this Bureau of Labor Statistics report could reshape the soft-landing narrative and influence Bitcoin's price trajectory depending on whether inflation comes in near 0.2% or runs hotter than expected.
Analysts remain divided on near-term price direction. Standard Chartered warned that a dip below $100,000 appears probable by the weekend, though the institution expects any pullback to be temporary rather than marking a sustained bearish trend.
Several market observers are monitoring the 50-week simple moving average at $102,500 as a critical support level. Analyst Sykodelic noted substantial leverage remains in the system alongside a large liquidity cluster near $104,000, suggesting this technical indicator could be tested despite current holder reluctance.
BRN characterized the current environment as a proof-of-conviction phase where ETFs and treasuries accumulate paper instruments while long-term holders distribute their positions. This dynamic keeps Bitcoin trapped below the short-term holders' cost basis, rendering upward movements fragile and susceptible to reversal across the range bound market structure.
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Of the four winners in Wednesday’s big money Florida Lottery draw games — Powerball, Florida Lotto, Cash4Life, Fantasy 5 — two found good fortune at South Florida Chevron stations and one didn’t even have to pay for the ticket.
The other two winners, from Georgia and Virginia, each won $1,000 a week for life from the Cash4Life game.
The Fantasy 5 evening drawing came up 18, 27, 29, 34 and 36, numbers on the tickets bought at a Sunrise Chevron, 10001 Sunset Strip, and a free Quick Pick ticket from a Northeast Miami-Dade Chevron, 1540 NE 205th Ter. The share for each ticket: $55,320.
These tickets must be cashed at one of the Florida Lottery district offices or the main office in Tallahassee, all of which are open 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. The closet office to the Chevron stations is the Miami district office, 14621 Oak Ln. in Miami Lakes, which can be reached at MIARC@flalottery.com or 305-364-3080. Appointments can be made, but aren’t required.
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Only time stands between Bitcoin and gold’s price rally.
While gold has surged 60% this year to over $4,350 per ounce, Bitcoin has been stuck in neutral. The top crypto is up just 15% in 2025, and has fallen 10% in recent weeks as trade tensions flared up between the US and China.
The divergence is brutal. Gold keeps hitting fresh all-time highs while Bitcoin seemingly can’t hold on to $110,000 — despite a recent record of $126,000.
For investors who bought into the “digital gold” narrative, watching the precious metal lap Bitcoin has been painful.
But there’s a twist, say market watchers.
“Don’t look at gold’s meteoric rise with envy. Look at it with anticipation,” Matt Hougan, chief investment officer at Bitwise, wrote in an October 21 note to investors. “It could end up showing us where Bitcoin is headed.”
The pattern matters because gold’s 2025 surge didn’t happen overnight.
Central banks started buying aggressively in 2022, but prices crept up slowly for three years before going parabolic. Bitcoin’s institutional buying spree, meanwhile, mostly kicked off in 2024.
If the same delayed explosion pattern holds, Bitcoin may not be lagging behind gold for much longer.
How high can Bitcoin go? Depends on who you ask. Arthur Hayes, Bernstein, and Standard Chartered have all called for a $200,000 Bitcoin price tag. Others, like 10xResearch, aren’t sold. They said it’s a coin toss that Bitcoin even tops $140,000 by the end of the year.
The key to understanding both assets lies in who’s buying them — and when.
Central banks have been massive purchasers of gold since the US seized Russia’s holdings of US Treasuries following its invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
According to Metals Focus, central bank purchases have roughly doubled since the war began, from about 467 metric tons per year to roughly 1,000 metric tons today.
“That’s roughly twice the estimated buying by gold ETPs,” wrote Hougan.
What about Bitcoin? Well, it just doesn’t have that institutional buying power yet. Sure, Bitcoin ETFs have devoured more than 6% of total supply, and corporate treasuries now control more than 1 million Bitcoin, but central Banks aren’t buying — at least not yet.
Although Central Banks have been on a multi-year shopping spree, gold’s price didn’t immediately rocket.
It went to $1,800 in 2023 from $1,800 in 2022 — an 8% gain — and $2,386 in 2024. Moreover, prices didn’t really explode until this year, when they flew about 60% to nearly $4,400.
Hougan’s theory is that price-sensitive investors sold into rising demand as central banks pushed prices up. Eventually that pool of sellers was exhausted, and prices took off.
The same pattern may be playing out in Bitcoin. Since Bitcoin ETFs launched in January 2024, ETFs and corporations have bought 1.39 million Bitcoin while the network produced less than a quarter of that.
Bitcoin prices have climbed 135% since then.
During that run, price-sensitive holders have taken gains. But as gold’s example suggests, those sellers will eventually be exhausted.
“As long as the combination of ETF and corporate purchases persists, Bitcoin will have its ‘Gold 2025’ moment,” Hougan wrote.
Not everyone is convinced.
Mike McGlone, senior commodity strategist at Bloomberg Intelligence, sees gold’s velocity as a warning sign.
“Gold is just plain scary,” he said on The Deep Dive podcast on October 21. “The velocity of this rally — up 60% in the year — last matched in 1979.”
That 1979 rally marked the end of massive inflation before Fed Chair Paul Volcker aggressively raised rates.
“When every major risk asset underperforms the rock, the ancient store of value, it’s not a good sign,” McGlone said.
Pedro Solimano is DL News’ Buenos Aires-based markets correspondent. Got a tip? Email him at psolimano@dlnews.com.

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The market is made up of winners and losers—the same as always. XRP continues to fail to break above $2.50, while Digitap ($TAP) rolled out global Apple Pay access on its new Visa card program, unlocking crypto payments at millions of merchants.

The cross-border payments trade is not over. But it certainly has a new frontrunner. While XRP focused on institutions, Digitap has focused on optimizing the front end for consumers. And Digitap, the product that makes digital dollars spend like cash anywhere, is running way out in front.
Capital is migrating toward payment rails and stablecoins—especially those that touch daily life. Stablecoins have become crypto’s most adopted and successful product because they are simply better rails than the existing legacy system.

Now, banks are experimenting with tokenized credit, and finance continues to go mobile. The Trump admin wants stablecoin supply to hit the trillions, and a golden age has begun for crypto banking tokens like $TAP, which blend the old world with the new.

Buying XRP in November last year was a beautiful trade. Buying XRP here looks horrible. Ripple has lost the 200-day moving average, signaling the start of a more prolonged bearish trend, and its fundamentals look worse than ever.

Constant rejections at $2.50 and the failed breakout at $3. This is what exhaustion looks like. The original Ripple story was brilliant, modernizing remittances, but that was more than a decade ago. Now, stablecoins and new stablecoin chains, such as Plasma, are eating Ripple’s lunch in real time.

Stablecoins are pegged to the dollar and ride whatever rail is faster. The product is simply better than the XRP ledger. Ripple now sits at an inflated valuation of more than $140 billion and processes no real-world volume—adoption from here on favors stablecoins and stablecoin adjacent products, which are both bearish catalysts for XRP. 

Digitap is the world’s first omni-bank uniting crypto and fiat, and it seems to have learned from Ripple’s mistakes. While XRP went after banks, Digitap has one goal only: distribution. It rolled out Apple Pay and Google Pay integrations for its Visa card recently, meaning crypto is now spendable practically anywhere in the globe.

Fiat, stablecoins, and crypto all in one place, and now all riding along existing rails. Millions of terminals across the world already understand a tap from Apple Pay—and Digitap is bringing crypto into that system. An on-chain balance can now fund tap-to-pay, and Digitap’s smart routing engine finds the best price and lowest slippage execution points for swaps.

This is how crypto enters the real world. By using behaviors that regular people already know and understand. 
This omni-bank features both traditional banking corridors and blockchains with its multi-rail architecture. When a user initiates a payment or transfer, the AI routing engine evaluates cost and speed across available routes and optimizes the process.

Users interact with the neobank interface they know and love, but turbocharged by blockchain under the hood. And Digitap’s master move is that users don’t need to learn any new steps; they continue sending regular payments, and all they notice is that the payments arrive faster. No more delays, no more 6.2% fees for international payments, just real-time value flow.

Digitap is an interoperability layer between two worlds and can integrate new stablecoin chains as they come online. It is consumer-focused, and that’s what gives it a real edge over XRP. Even better, the $TAP token has superior tokenomics.

50% of platform profits are used to purchase $TAP on the open market. Half of these are burned to reduce supply, and the other half go to reward stakers.

More adoption of Digitap products means a lower supply and boosted rewards for holders—this token has a genuine claim on growth. This explains why some call $TAP a top crypto to buy now, and why the presale is smashing records daily. Available for just $0.0194 today and soon jumping to $0.0268, $TAP looks incredibly undervalued as the banking bull run kicks off.

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       <time datetime="2025-10-23">October 23, 2025</time>           <span> | </span>           <a href="https://blog.kraken.com/category/news/industry-news" rel="category tag">Industry News</a>        <br>Every bull market attracts a new wave of scammers, and their attempts at fraud take many forms. We cover <a href="https://support.kraken.com/articles/115012482687-beware-of-phishing-scams" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">11 different scams and how to identify them</a> in our Support Center.<br>Lately, scammers have found a new angle: impersonating Kraken recruiters and support staff. Their goal? To steal your trust first and your assets second.<br>They’ll promise jobs, partnerships or quick money. They’ll spin stories that sound plausible. They’ll try to make urgency feel like opportunity. But here’s the truth: <strong>real employment opportunities can be found through </strong><a href="https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kraken.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>our official Kraken jobs portal</strong></a><strong> </strong>and aren’t driven by FOMO.<br>These bad actors are shapeshifters. They’ll show up as “recruiters” on LinkedIn, email you from lookalike domains, or DM you on Telegram with “exclusive” openings. They’ll even borrow real Kraken employee photos or copy legitimate job postings.<br>Many scams are elaborate. Some will go slowly before to better gain the trust of their victims, a process often referred to as “pig butchering.” <a href="https://blog.kraken.com/news/industry-news/usss-crypto-fraud-seizure" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">We collaborated with the U.S. Secret Service</a> in an operation that recovered $225 million from such fraud.<br>Other scams move fast, trying to use pressure and FOMO to get you to act quickly and without thinking too much. Then comes the ask, often to:<br>Let’s be clear: <strong>Kraken will never ask for payment </strong>during hiring, ever. <strong>Kraken will never ask for your wallet keys</strong>, at any point, ever.<br>Think you’ve found a scammer impersonating Kraken? <a href="https://support.kraken.com/forms/33616932532628" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>Tell us about it here</strong></a>.<br>If someone doesn’t check all four boxes, stop engaging immediately.<br>Scammers don’t win because they’re smart. 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The Oakdale Police Department will be making a stop at the Gladys Lemmons Senior Center next month to educate area senior citizens on how to avoid scams.
Department representatives will be talking about some key factors to watch out for, common scams that are happening, and what to do if someone feels like they have been scammed.
The holidays are approaching and unfortunately, that is “scam season” so organizers said they want as many seniors to be a part of this as possible.
The presentation will take place on Wednesday, Nov. 19 at 10 a.m. at the Gladys Lemmons Senior Center, 450 E. A St., Oakdale.
Senior citizens from throughout the area that would like to attend are asked to call the center at 209-845-3566 to reserve their spot.

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