BC.GAME integrates Polymarket to launch Prediction Center, covering sports, crypto, and real-world event markets
June 16: Cryptocurrency entertainment platform BC.GAME has officially launched its "Prediction Center." The platform integrated Polymarket’s infrastructure to embed prediction market functionality directly into its product ecosystem, covering multiple sectors including sports events, cryptocurrency price trends, and real-world global events.
According to the announcement, users can now join various prediction markets right on BC.GAME—from forecasting Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana’s price movements to judging major global event outcomes, macro trends, and sports match results. The platform stated this feature is designed to let users complete a full "watch-judge-participate" cycle entirely within its ecosystem, eliminating the need to switch to external applications.
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Bernstein: South Korea's Semiconductor Equipment Import Diverges, AI Storage Investment Still Ongoing
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June 16 — Bernstein analysts, including David Dai, noted in a June 15 report that South Korea’s semiconductor equipment imports fell 5% month-over-month in May, but their year-to-date (YTD) year-over-year growth rate climbed to 39%. The firm says these import figures track tightly with combined capital expenditures (capex) from Samsung and SK hynix. Even though both chipmakers’ Q1 capex dipped, that’s purely seasonal and tied to prior infrastructure builds — Bernstein expects spending to bounce back soon.
South Korea’s imports of lithography gear from the Netherlands hit €928 million in May: a 28% month-over-month jump and nearly 150% year-over-year surge, marking the second-highest quarterly level on record. Bernstein projects ASML’s Q2 system sales in Korea will land around €2.31 billion, more than double last year’s same-period total. That momentum is likely fueled by DRAM capacity expansions and faste
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Serenity: Micron On Track to Become the "Next NVIDIA"
June 16: "White-Haired Stock God" Serenity took to social media to update followers, noting his earlier prediction that Micron Technology ($MU) could emerge as the next NVIDIA is on track to play out—with the chipmaker’s market capitalization now sitting at roughly $1.23 trillion.
Looking back, Serenity shared that his account has been focused on leading storage chip companies like Samsung Electronics and SK hynix since 2025, and this January, he upped his allocation to the storage chip theme, adding stakes in SanDisk ($SNDK) and other related assets.
He added that his overall returns on the "memory chips" (storage chip) theme have been strong, pointing out that Micron’s rally and the broader storage cycle thesis are steadily being validated. Additionally, his long position in the iShares MSCI South Korea ETF ($EWY) has delivered significant gains.
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Global Central Banks' Gold Buying Intent Hits New High Since 2018, Gold Price Pullback Seen as Allocation Opportunity
June 16 — Global central banks are showing renewed eagerness to add gold to their reserve piles, even amid a recent price dip for the precious metal, according to a new survey from the World Gold Council.
Conducted with market research firm YouGov, the poll of 74 central banks found 45% plan to increase their gold holdings over the next 12 months — the highest share since the survey launched in 2018. Only one central bank signaled it would cut its gold reserves, a sign of strong long-term demand for the metal from official institutions despite its pullback from recent all-time highs.
Gold has doubled in price over the past three years, fueled largely by consistent net purchases from central banks. But the market landscape shifted in 2026: Middle East tensions have roiled energy markets, while expectations of prolonged high interest rates have dulled gold’s short-term appeal as a non-yielding asset. Add in speculative fund outflows, and gold has now fallen to its lowest level since la
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Bybit launches 18 World Cup Net Goal contracts covering Group Stage matches from June 17th to 21st
Bybit recently expanded its World Cup derivatives lineup, adding 18 new group stage net goal difference contracts covering matches from June 17 to June 21. Trading for these contracts is available ahead of the match days.
Each contract has a base price of 10, and its settlement price is calculated via the formula: 10 + (Home Team Goals – Away Team Goals). Only goals scored during the standard 90 minutes of regulation play count for settlement—extra time and penalty shootouts are not included. Settlement occurs 130 minutes after the match starts, with the final 20 minutes of that window running in liquidation-only mode. The platform offers up to 5x leverage, and the minimum margin requirement is 10 USDT.
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Musk Responds to Space Data Center Discussion, Emphasizes SpaceX's Scale Advantage of Over 10,000 Satellites in Orbit
June 16: The conversation around the engineering feasibility of space data center heat dissipation is still ongoing. In a post from user XFreeze, it’s argued that a space-based data center isn’t just science fiction—its core relies on already established thermodynamics and aerospace engineering systems, not any groundbreaking new physics.
On Earth, data centers rely on air convection, water cooling, fans, and cooling towers to shed heat. But in a vacuum, convection and conduction can’t be used to release heat outward, so a totally different approach is required: heat from computer chips transfers to a liquid cooling system, gets pumped into large radiators, and is then released into deep space via infrared radiation. This follows the Stefan-Boltzmann Law, where radiation power ties directly to the fourth power of radiation area, emissivity, and temperature.
This mechanism isn’t just theoretical—it’s a mature tech system long used on spacecraft like the International Space Station (IS
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