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Venezuela’s Cryptocurrency Petro Finds Foreign Investors, ICO To Take Place In March

Venezuela's Minister of Foreign Trade and International Investment José Vielma Mora reported on Thursday, Feb. 8, that outside financial specialists will acknow...

Bitcoin Dev Jimmy Song Is Now a Blockchain Capital Partner

Investment firm Blockchain Capital reported today that bitcoin center designer Jimmy Song has joined the organization as a wander accomplice. With his ability a...

Indeed, even With Energy Surplus, Canada Unable to Meet Electricity Demands of Bitcoin Miners

Canada's Hydro Quebec should dismiss digital money mineworkers looking to setup operations in the area. The power provider has been immersed with demands from c...

6 Euphemisms for Conduct Unbecoming a President

Now that Trump has been president for almost a year, it’s time the media called his behavior for what it is rather than try to normalize it. Here are the six mo...

Pfizer, pocketing a big tax cut from Trump, will end investment in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's research

Corporations aren't using their tax cuts to invest workers or expand their businesses. As expected, they're using the extra cash to buy back shares of their own...

Essay: Seriously, How Dumb is Trump?

For more than a year now, I’ve been hearing from people in the inner circles of official Washington – GOP lobbyists, Republican pundits, even a few Republican m...

Happy New Year

Happy New Year, especially to 4.5 million low-wage workers who will get more pay starting today because their states raised their state minimum wage. Instead of...

The new tax bill represents everything that’s wrong with Trump and his Republican enablers

Today we lost a big one. The new tax bill represents everything that’s wrong with Trump and his Republican enablers (and the oligarchs behind them) – unbridled ...

THE THREE BIG LIES ABOUT TRUMP’S TAX PLAN

Tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations will weaken our economy for years – reducing demand, widening inequality, and increasing the national debt by at least...

U.S. lawmakers are redistributing income from the poor to the rich, according to massive new study

Conservatives love to claim that government policies have redistributed wealth downwards from the rich to the poor, when actually the opposite is true. Beginnin...

IRS Bitcoin Hunt Ramps Up, But Tax Amnesty Could Follow: Expert Blog

Master Blog is Cointelegraph's new arrangement of articles by crypto industry pioneers. It covers everything from Blockchain innovation and digital currencies t...

The coal excavators leader: Trump moves to debilitate dark lung assurances

Trump's agenda is a cruel hoax. He promised to "save coal country" during the campaign, but now his administration has begun to eliminate protections for miners...

High income gains during US expansions

Income gains during U.S. expansions have increasingly gone to the rich, as shown in the chart below (orange shows gains for bottom 90 percent, gray shows gains ...

A CITIZEN'S GUIDE TO WHY THE TRUMP-REPUBLICAN TAX PLAN IS A TOTAL DISGRACE (you may find this useful over the holidays when you confront your Republican Uncle Bob).

Here are the 3 main Republican arguments in favor of it, followed by the truth. 1. It will make American corporations competitive with foreign corporations, whi...

US ISIS Supporter Caught Sending $150k In Laundered Crypto To Syria

Long Island, New York: a lady is looking up to 110 years in prison subsequent to endeavoring to send $150,000 in Bitcoin and altcoins to ISIS. The New York Post...

Lady in Denmark Imprisoned for Hiring Hitman Using Bitcoin

An Italian lady has been condemned to six years in prison in Denmark for procuring the murder of her previous sweetheart utilizing Bitcoin, as indicated by Reut...

Behind Trump's intend to focus on the government security net

Trump and Republicans in Congress are quietly plotting the next phase of their agenda: Use the huge deficit increase caused by their tax cut for the wealthy to ...

In the midst of Net Neutrality Debate, Biggest ISPs Spent At Least $26.3 Million On Lobbying

The Federal Communications Commission received millions of public comments in opposition to the repeal of Net Neutrality. So why did they vote to abolish it? Fo...