ANNALS OF CAMPAIGN FINANCE: “Alek Skarlatos, a hero soldier-turned-Republican congressional candidate, started a nonprofit shortly after his 2020 defeat in a western Oregon race, pledging to advocate for veterans ‘left high and dry’ by the country ‘they put their lives on the line for.’” But, The Associated Press’ Brian Slodysko reports, “the group, which Skarlatos seeded with $93,000 in leftover campaign funds, has done little since then to advance that cause.”
DAVIDSON: Maybe the best answer is slowly at first and then all of a sudden, which is the same way people go bankrupt, by the way.
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Notes: This figure plots weekly averages of log price and log computing power (log hashrate) of Bitcoin and Ethereum over the period from August 2015 to January 2019. We normalise both time series by subtracting their mean and dividing by the standard deviation.
Unlike traditional payment processors, such as PayPal and credit cards, most cryptocurrencies have no built-in refund or chargeback functions, although some newer cryptocurrencies have rudimentary refund features.
NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart denied any partnership with the digital currency Litecoin after a fake news release led to a brief flurry of inaccurate reports from national news outlets and social media users on Monday.
BitTorrent lost its relevance ever since the decentralised media network, Tron, made sharing files easier and faster, and the TRON Foundation purchased BitTorrent. Later, BitTorrent purchased DLive, a blockchain content-sharing platform where creators can monetise content without having to share with the network.
Over in the world of video games, a Saints Row reboot is on the way from Deep Silver and Volition. Although the game features a set cast, there’s still plenty of room for crazy character customization. Speaking of crazy — playing Psychonauts 2 is like living a bizarre fever dream. Find out more about Double Fine’s latest in the GR review, along with how the game could set itself up for another sequel.
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Bitcoin had rallied 220% in 4Q 2017 and if history repeats itself, Bitcoin could reach $96,355, which could potentially be this cycle’s top.
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From finding a solution to producing renewable energy and solar energy through turbines in Gambia, to upgrading the platform to V2 for enhanced security, SafeMoon has pulled the right cards at the right time in a short period.
NEW YORK -- The CEO of Binance.US, the American arm of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, has resigned, robbing the company of a heavyweight former regulator as it grapples with increasing scrutiny from authorities around the world.
Now, to be fair to the bitcoin bros (not great) and XRP army (worse), even the World Health Organisation had around that time started pushing the idea that Covid could be being spread by banknotes (while simultaneously recommending that people should not wear masks), now thought to be “very unlikely”. Even if banknotes were a key transmission vector, however, we are not sure that “dirty fiat” itself could be held responsible, given that the vast majority of it only exists in digital form. Why would you use bitcoin, or XRP, or any other crypto token when you can transact digitally using fiat currencies?
In a recent report from Kraken exchange, analysts said that the current quarter’s price action has a correlation of 0.88 with the fourth quarter of 2017.
Here is Bitcoin’s price today, why Bitcoin is up and the latest crypto news and prices for Ethereum, Shiba Inu coin, Dogecoin, XRP and more.