The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s research and development wing, the Science & Technology (S&T) Directorate, on Friday awarded $817,712 in total to five blockchain startups in a bid to reimagine the federal government’s anti-forgery and counterfeit prevention operations. From creating digital Social Security Number alternatives to building e-commerce tracing systems, the winners have up to six months to develop blockchain proofs-of-concepts for DHS’ client agencies. […]
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During the police suppression of post-election protest in Belarus, the authorities in Minsk bought surveillance drones with almost $900,000 of EU money. And it happened as Brussels publicly condemned the Lukashenko government. The funds to purchase the 15 drones was provided through a Latvia-Lithuania-Belarus cross-border cooperation program – part of the EU’s European Neighborhood Instrument, the mission of which is to promote human rights, development, and […]
Three of the largest asset managers are diversifying their funds to hold blockchain stocks, throwing more establishment financial might behind bitcoin’s technology. Charles Schwab has begun purchasing shares of Riot Blockchain, joining Fidelity and Vanguard – already investors in Riot, HIVE Blockchain Technologies, Hut 8 and BC Group – in allocating mutual fund holdings to a cryptocurrency company, according to financial filings with the U.S. Securities […]
Leaked recordings of a private conversation suggest crypto lender Babel Finance leveraged some user funds to long bitcoin and faced potential default risks during this year’s Black Thursday market crash in March. Seven audio files first emerged online on Sept. 25 that appear to be parts of a longer in-person conversation between Del Wang, co-founder of Beijing-based Babel, and an unknown person. The recordings offer a […]
Saving Local Newspapers Squeezed By Hedge Funds By Steven Waldman, Journalism and Liberty. September 28, 2020 Saving Local Newspapers Squeezed By Hedge Funds2020-09-282020-09-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/news.jpg200px200px Above photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images. A Replanting Strategy. Hundreds of newspapers are languishing in the hands of hedge funds and chains. It’s time to replant them with community nonprofit groups and mission-driven owners. Download this white paper as a pdf The conversation about […]
Artificial intelligence and data service Ocean Protocol has suspended its old contract on the Ethereum blockchain and hard-forked its project, following the $150 million KuCoin hack. On Sunday at 22:00 UTC, Ocean Protocol announced it had migrated from its old token address to a new one to thwart the KuCoin hacker’s attempts to offload 21 million OCEAN tokens worth some $8.6 million, according to the Ocean […]
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Mediterranean The reportage written by Hala Nouhad Nasreddine for Middle East Monitor is a truly disturbing one. It is a detailed investigation that connects the financial scandal on money laundering and the money transaction for very suspicious transactions revealed by the documents of the dossier called FinCEN Files and revealed by Buzzfeed. Operations they would have helped to fund […]
A boom in decentralized finance (DeFi) has turbo-charged returns for Pantera Capital’s bitcoin and mixed cryptocurrency hedge funds this year. From Jan. 1 to Aug. 31, Pantera’s bitcoin (BTC) fund gained 61%, its digital asset fund 168%, its initial coin offering (ICO) fund 323% and its long-term ICO fund 270%, thanks in large part to Yearn Finance’s YFI, Terra’s LUNA, Polkadot’s DOT, Flexa’s AMP and Ampleforth’s […]
An Asian cryptocurrency exchange’s funds have been compromised in a security breach. The Singapore-headquartered digital asset exchange KuCoin said in a statement that it detected large withdrawals of bitcoin and ethereum tokens to an unknown wallet beginning at 19:05 UTC time on Friday. In a live stream on 4:30 UTC time Saturday, KuCoin CEO Johnny Lyu said that one or more hackers obtained the private keys […]
There has been a tradition where political ads are pulled down on 9/11. But never before have we had a president who attacked the men and women who rose to defend our country, calling them suckers and losers. This ad is necessary to remind Americans of the character of Trump. pic.twitter.com/96bONFPBQc — The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) September 11, 2020 This should be read: A Timeline Of […]
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After laying off a third of its staff in April, the project is looking for ways to increase the “diversity of funds” in its budget. Source link
Crypto exchange Shakepay, which describes itself as “Canada’s fastest-growing bitcoin platform,” conducted a “proof-of-reserves” audit and acquired an insurance policy to reinforce its security, perhaps learning a lesson from fellow Canadian platforms QuadrigaCX, Einstein and Coinsquare, which all lost customer funds or have otherwise been involved in scandals over the past 20 months. The Montreal-based crypto exchange hired blockchain forensics firm CipherBlade to conduct a full […]
The funds likely boosted short positions to take advantage of attractive “cash and carry” yields. Source link
Every epic tale needs a tragic hero, and one of the top candidates for that role in this century’s dramatic passage so far has to be the hedge fund manager. Toppled from their masters-of-the-universe pedestal in the early 2000s, they now eke out meager gains, dodge investor recriminations about fees and occasionally attempt to stay relevant by explaining to the rest of us where the current confusion […]
Prince Harry issued a furious denial of impropriety today after an anti-monarchy campaign group accused the prince of violating rules around charity funding. In a letter to the Charity Commission, Graham Smith, the CEO of anti-Royal campaign group Republic, alleged that funds were transferred from William and Kate’s royal foundation to Harry and Meghan’s foundation because of the “personal relationship” between the two patrons and accused […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202007211079946584-white-house-vows-to-veto-national-defence-authorisation-act-over-afghanistan-funds-renaming-policy/ The Trump administration has threatened to veto the National Defence Authorisation Act in its current form. The White House said the bill would constrain the president’s authority on security and noted that it objects to the legislation’s requirement to rename military institutions and limit funds for the US military campaign in Afghanistan. According to an amendment to the National Defence […]
[ Editor’s Note: This news is showing up very late after its death, obviously due to a coverup at the time. That could have been done to give authorities time to investigate if someone had bumped him off, or if it was a suicide, or it staged to look like one. We will probably never know what the investigation really showed as British Intel has long […]
Chile: Night Of Fury To Demand The Withdrawal Of Pension Funds July 17, 2020 Chile: Night Of Fury To Demand The Withdrawal Of Pension Funds2020-07-172020-07-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/chile.jpg_1718483346.jpg200px200px Above photo: Burning barricade in the streets, Santiago, Chile, July 14, 2020. Twitter/ @frente_foto. Citizens expect lawmakers to pass a law allowing them to withdraw 10 percent of the savings which private pension fund insurers control. From Tuesday night until early Wednesday […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – James Le Mesurier, the now-deceased founder of the Mayday Rescue non-governmental organization overseeing the funding of the White Helmets organization in Syria, had acknowledged misuse of donor funds before death and offered to step down, Germany’s Volkskrant daily reported on Friday. Le Mesurier was found dead in the garden of his house in Istanbul last November. According to Volkskrant, claiming that it had […]
They don’t exactly scream “small business.” At least 1,322 companies backed by private equity investors received Paycheck Protection Program loans from the Small Business Administration, according to a review by the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) and the Anti-Corruption Data Collective. The pandemic bailout loans obtained by the companies are worth, in total, between $1.5 billion and $3.4 billion. (The loan data released by the government […]
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex will have to face allegations from New York State that it hid millions in lost funds, according to a ruling by the State Supreme Court’s Appellate Division on Thursday. iFinex, which operates both Bitfinex and Tether, argued the funds had been deposited with a Panama-based company and were later seized by authorities in different countries. The firm had earlier also said that it […]
Blockchain startup Kirobo says its technology can prevent the loss of cryptocurrency caused by human error when sending what are normally irreversible transactions between wallets. The firm’s Retrievable Transfer feature works by building a new layer onto existing blockchain protocols. Users then have the ability to “cancel” a transaction sent to an incorrect cryptocurrency wallet address, the Israeli company said in a press release Tuesday. “Our […]
The Austrian government is taking a considered approach to COVID-19 tech solutions after an initial rush to get some kind of contact tracing app out the door. The nation’s second wave of projects now includes blockchain. Announced Wednesday, the country’s Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs awarded a €60,000 ($67,600) grant to a project called QualiSig, which uses elements of Austria’s digital identity system to […]
Fulton County District Attorney Paul L. Howard, Jr. announced charges on Wednesday afternoon in the death of Rayshard Brooks last weekend at a Wendy’s restaurant in Atlanta. Brooks was killed by police after resisting arrest, wrestling with the police, punching one officer in the face, stealing the officer’s taser and then firing on the officers. DA Howard, Jr. says officials spoke to three witnesses and reviewed […]
“You are Peter, and on this stone I will build my Church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it”.Jesus Christ from Matthew Gospel (16, 18) by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy VERSIONE ORIGINALE IN ITALIANO «The entire Garibaldi expedition was monitored by British Freemasonry, which had the historic goal of eliminating the temporal power of the Popes. The United States, despite which […]
The planned recapitalisation, which is conditioned on environmental measures, may further increase the share of the state in Scandinavia’s flagship carrier, which has suffered greatly during the coronavirus, having furloughed 90 percent of its staff and announced massive layoffs. Sweden and Denmark have unveiled a plan to rescue their struggling flagship carrier SAS, one of numerous airlines hit hard by the coronavirus and its travel restrictions […]
The National Science Foundation has given blockchain startup KRNC $225,000 to design cryptocurrency features for the U.S. dollar. The National Science Foundation, an independent agency of the U.S. federal government, awarded a $225,000 grant to private blockchain startup KRNC to design crypto features for the dollar at a time when the digital dollar is a topic of national debate. Key Retroactivity Network Consensus, or KRNC, is […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/105167/28/1051672857_17:0:1356:753_1200x675_80_0_0_a6d36b1e412838742e70a61b3c4a9c12.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202006111079589244-us-senate-panel-approves-more-funds-for-missile-defence-in-2021-ndaa-act/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The US Senate Armed Services Committee approved additional funding for missile defence, including for hypersonic weapons, in the National Defence Authorization Act (NDAA) for the fiscal year 2021, a summary of the draft bill revealed. The Armed Services Committee on Thursday voted 25-2 to advance the fiscal year 2021 NDAA to the Senate floor. “The amended […]
Bitfinex-incubated DeversiFi claims its re-released decentralized exchange (DEX) is receiving interest from institutions, thanks to a privacy layer that can protect their trading strategies from rivals. A DeversiFi spokesperson told CoinDesk that the firm had already had a “significant pipeline of funds” interested in integrating with the exchange following the implementation of its new software implementation, DeversiFi 2.0, which went live on Wednesday. Although they wouldn’t […]
Black And Minority-Owned Businesses Are Denied Virus Relief Funds By Ama Nundoo, Face 2 Face Africa. May 29, 2020 Black And Minority-Owned Businesses Are Denied Virus Relief Funds2020-05-292020-05-29https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/terra-cafe-in-baltimore-serving-free-lunches.-e1590764912290.jpg200px200px Above photo: Terra Cafe staff prepare 150 free lunches to distribute to local residents as part of Terra Cafe’s longstanding Neighbors Without Walls program. Dickson was able to receive a $1000 grant from the social impact organization, Cllctivly so […]
Famed Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) stirred up some discussion last week by dividing crypto history into cycles that look something like this: The price goes up, which leads to new interest, which triggers new ideas and use cases, which leads to new startups and funding, which leads to product launches that bring in more people. Rinse and repeat. This would pass […]
Report Summary1 – Mondialists hands on dangerous GMO SARS-HIV2 – Prodi’s EU Commission & Australia funded Wuhan’s tests3 – Chimeric viruses SARS-Like infected with HIV4 – Stratagene: the kit for genetic mutations5 – Vaccine for HIV thanks to an influenza6 – Other researches in Wuhan wuth AIDS’ patogen “If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have observed my word, they will also […]