🏛️🪙 The DOJ recently seized more than $3.36 billion worth of bitcoin as part of a fraud investigation involving the Silk Road dark web marketplace. It’s the second-largest crypto recovery in US history.

🎰 Saturday's record $1.6 billion Powerball drawing has come and gone – and still no winner. Since then, the record jackpot ate a Mario mushroom and powered-up (😉) to reach $1.9 billion, according to California officials, the new largest lottery prize in history.

🏛️📈 The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 0.75% for the fourth straight time yesterday in an effort to tame inflation; benchmark rates are now set at 3.75%–4%, the highest level since 2008, and up from near-zero as recently as March.