The joint venture will see Marathon co-locate a bitcoin mining facility within Beowulf’s Big Horn Data Hub at its 105-megawatt power station in Hardin, Montana. Source link
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Senate Banking Committee member Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) said Monday that he intends to take up digital currency regulation and payments system reform if he becomes the committee’s next chairman. Source link
From the robotic arms of the Shuttle era and the International Space Station to synthetic aperture radar programs and satellites studying critical elements of Earth’s changing climate to telecommunication needs in the northern parts of the country, Canada has been a mainstay of space exploration from the beginning. While many champion the current “golden age” of commercialization of space, that very commercialization is what has always driven Canadian space goals: to boost scientists and universities and industry through government investment designed to put private entities in charge of space projects instead of government. Now, those public-private partnerships will propel Canada to […]
With the Fed’s decision on rates due later Wednesday, bitcoin traders will be watching the U.S. dollar action. Source link
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A new app that allows users to buy bitcoin, as well as earn interest on holdings, is reportedly looking at going public in the U.K. UPDATE (Sept. 7, 13:50 UTC): This article has been updated to clarify that Mode Banking uses custodial provider BitGo to hold customer assets. Source link
However, it has also faced criticism and questions from some Western countries and companies, especially those developing their own vaccines—often based on technologies yet to be proven for safety and efficacy, such as mRNA or monkey adenoviral vector-based platforms. Following the publication of the results of the Phase 1 and Phase 2 clinical trials of Sputnik V in The Lancet, we would like to summarize answers to these questions and ask some of our own.wn. Question 1: Did you steal your vaccine? No, we did not steal it. The vaccine uses a unique two-vector human adenovirus technology which no-one else in […]
The exchange giant is hoping to capitalize further on the DeFi boom with a new centralized trading platform that makes it a rival of the likes of Uniswap. Source link
The Financial Conduct Authority is seeking to oblige more firms, including some working with cryptocurrency, to report how they manage the risks of financial crime. Source link
Bloomberg It’s never a good sign when someone gives a speech and people’s reaction is to talk about something other than the words. And this is what happened Monday night to the president’s large adult son, who came to the speaker’s podium on night one of the Republican convention with very red shrunken eyes that did not escape the Internet’s notice. People wondered and wondered what was up with Junior’s eyes. In fact, after the speech, #cocaine started trending. As for the words, Junior accused the left of “trying to “cancel” all of those Founders.” He also said that this election […]
John Thompson, a Black man who was friends with Philando Castile, won the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) nomination for the 67a District (St. Paul) seat for the Minnesota State House on Tuesday. On Saturday Thompson terrorized a group of white children in a residential neighborhood in the Minneapolis suburb of Hugo, using a sound system to scream obscenities at several teenage white girls standing in a nearby driveway watching a Black Lives Matter protest at the home of Minneapolis police union president Bob Kroll. Thompson screamed, “Come get your blue eyes medicine! Blue eyes ain’t shit!” Video of Thompson was posted to […]
Known as Project Harbour, the initiative will use distributed ledger technology as a register for a bond marketplace. Source link
Top cryptocurrency exchanges including Coinbase will release a white paper detailing a way to comply with the Financial Action Task Force’s “Travel Rule.” Source link
Predictions about the end of the European project have long been bandied about in the corridors of power and in newspaper columns. However, one Finnish MEP has joined the long list of those making the claim that the end may be on the horizon. The European Union is on track to “inevitably” collapse due to increasing concerns over the bloc’s plan to further centralise power in Brussels, a Finnish MEP has told The Express. Laura Huhtasaari, an MEP for the Finns Party and a well-known Eurosceptic in her country, has said that the EU’s continued attempts to bring member states under […]
Paige VanZant looks set to become the latest high-profile free agent in MMA after the flyweight fighter added her voice to growing discontent about fighter pay, suggesting she earns more through endorsements than via the UFC. VanZant is scheduled to face Amanda Ribas at UFC 251 on ‘Fight Island’ next month but the appearance could well be the last of her six-year UFC tenure after she announced to ESPN that she would allow her contract to expire in a bid to gauge her worth on the open market. Also on rt.com The naked truth: Paige VanZant set to return to action […]
While a Labour Party proposal to ban marriage between cousins, which is prevalent in certain immigrant circles, failed to garner government support, the issue has been revamped by the Oslo police, who see the ban as a tool to combat honour-related crime. The Oslo police have triggered a hot debate by advocating a ban on cousin marriage as part of efforts to battle honour-related violence and adverse social control. “Such a ban will be of great importance to families, and will be an effective means of preventing and combating crime associated with negative social control, forced marriage, honour-related violence, and ill-treatment […]
In earlier negotiations with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell set out the prospect of new limited areas of cooperation between the bloc and America by pressing China to reopen access to markets. EU ministers Tuesday are set to discuss the potential for enhanced defence and intelligence cooperation in the bloc, amid fears that US-China tensions will ratchet up still further, growing into a permanent big power standoff, according to a joint Franco-German paper first obtained by Bloomberg. As the memo reads, deeper defence integration is necessitated by “the return […]
Some see these latest revelations as fitting within a broader global pattern of increasing economic protectionism at a time when the ideals and assumptions of globalisation are under increasing scrutiny. The European Commission is to take unprecedented action against non-EU governments that provide subsidies of more than €200,000 to companies working within Europe’s single market, with a particularly strong eye on China and the United States, according to POLITICO. The news site says that it has obtained a 57-page “draft plan” drawn up by the European Commission that shows the body is planning to create new powers that would bolster Brussels’ ability […]
United Launch Alliance has announced their Vulcan rocket is progressing towards its maiden launch as soon as early-2021. While an exact launch target isn’t known yet, the mission will use a newly-built Launch Umbilical Tower while sharing Atlas V’s Vertical Integration Facility and SLC-41 launch pad in Florida. When first announced in 2014 as a “new booster,” ULA stated that Vulcan’s first flight was targeting 2019. Given an early-2021 target in mid-2020, that is the rocket-world equivalent of “remarkably on-time”. Vulcan’s history: The need for Vulcan began in 2014 when Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula in what was internationally considered an […]
Polymath is closing in on the launch of the first test network for its new blockchain – one designed to bring new safeguards for financial institutions working with security tokens. With the Aldebaran testnet, the security token issuer is implementing a relatively new type of protocol scheme known as nominated proof-of-stake (NPoS), which the firm says brings “absolute transaction finality,” a factor “crucial” for the trading of blockchain-based securities. With a launch date now slated for June 23, according to an announcement on Thursday, Aldebaran will allow testing of the permissioned chain, which aims to be an additional security layer allowing […]