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Pearson Hack Exposed Details on Thousands of U.S. Students (#GotBitcoin?)
Breach affected more than 13,000 school and university accounts, company said. Pearson Hack Exposed Details on Thousands of U.S. Students (#GotBitcoin?) Pearson PLC, the British maker of educational software, is warning school districts that a far-reaching data breach has exposed details on thousands of students, chiefly in the U.S. Pearson…
Americans Leave Billions In Unclaimed Savings Bonds (#GotBitcoin?)
Kansas, Indiana and others say forgotten money should be given to them to return to owners they can find. Americans Leave Billions In Unclaimed Savings Bonds (#GotBitcoin?) Three Missouri sisters from a Russian immigrant family—Bessie, Anna and Mary Segal—socked away money into U.S. savings bonds for decades starting in the…
Dow Falls Sharply As Trumponomics Fails To Deliver (#GotBitcoin?)
Stocks slide broadly; Trump accuses China of engaging in currency manipulation. Dow Falls Sharply As Trumponomics Fails To Deliver (#GotBitcoin?) Stocks were pummeled by selling Monday, pushing indexes from New York to Shanghai lower, as the yuan reeled and fresh trade threats between Beijing and Washington raised fears of an…
Bitcoin’s Computing Power Sets Record As Over 100K New Miners Go Online (#GotBitcoin?)
The total computing power now dedicated to securing the bitcoin blockchain has set yet another record. Bitcoin’s Computing Power Sets Record As Over 100K New Miners Go Online (#GotBitcoin?) According to data from mining services operator BTC.com, the average bitcoin mining hash rate over the last two weeks has reached…
Trump Pays No Taxes Unlike His Financially-Illiterate Followers
Comments come after report found Trump paid no income tax in eight of 10 years in the ’80s and ’90s. Trump Pays No Taxes Unlike His Financially-Illiterate Followers President Trump said Wednesday that the deep losses he reported for tax purposes in the 1980s and 1990s amounted to “sport,” citing…
When Battlefield Surveillance Comes To Your Town (#GotBitcoin?)
All-seeing 24/7 video surveillance technology, first developed for use in war, is now affordable enough to be used domestically to fight crime and terrorism. Some lawmakers are wary. When Battlefield Surveillance Comes To Your Town (#GotBitcoin?) Over a period of three months in 2016, a small aircraft circled above the…
Walmart Coin And Libra Perform Major Public Relations For Bitcoin (#GotBitcoin?)
United States-based cryptocurrency index fund provider Bitwise declared that Facebook’s Libra stablecoin accelerated Bitcoin’s (BTC) progress by three years in a letter to investors published on its website on August 1. Walmart Coin And Libra Perform Major Public Relations For Bitcoin (#GotBitcoin?) In the letter, Bitwise’s global head of research…
Judge Says Buying Bitcoin Via Credit Card Not Necessarily A Cash Advance (#GotBitcoin?)
Southern District of New York Judge Katherine Polk Failla has ruled that purchasing cryptocurrency with a Chase Bank credit card does not necessarily count as a cash advance, as per Chase’s contract. Judge Says Buying Bitcoin Via Credit Card Not Necessarily A Cash Advance (#GotBitcoin?) According to an opinion and…
Grayscale To Conduct $3 Billion Crypto Transfer To Coinbase (#GotBitcoin?)
Today, digital asset management fund Grayscale Investments will transfer nearly $3 billion worth in cryptocurrency holdings to American major crypto wallet provider and exchange exchange Coinbase. Grayscale To Conduct $3 Billion Crypto Transfer To Coinbase (#GotBitcoin?) Largest Single Crypto Transfer? As Forbes reported on Aug. 2, Grayscale is going to…
Warren Buffett Shuns Stocks And Hoards Cash (#GotBitcoin?)
Buffett Steers Clear of Buying Stocks. Warren Buffett Shuns Stocks And Hoards Cash (#GotBitcoin?) With stocks at record highs, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. sold $1 billion more worth of stocks than it bought last quarter, its biggest net selling since the end of 2017. Berkshire’s total return has trailed the S&P…
The S&P 500 Suffered Its Worst Week of 2019 — And Its Not Finished Falling (#GotBitcoin?)
Investors entered the week hoping for a repeat of the 1990s. Instead, they might get a rerun of That ’70s Show. The S&P 500 Suffered Its Worst Week of 2019 — And Its Not Finished Falling (#GotBitcoin?) This past week began with the market expecting a quarter-point rate cut from…
Poll: If You’re A Stockowner Or Crypto-Currency Holder. What Will You Do When The Recession Comes?
What Will Bitcoin Do In A Recession? The answer to this question depends on the type of recession as well as the conditions that caused it, as Dan McArdle of Messari pointed out. The two largest depressions in US history were deflationary, and a light-to-moderate recession is likely if history is telling.…