While the market expects bitcoin to be calm over the next few days, attention is now on the economy, with the U.S. looking as if it turned a corner in May. However, some observers see fundamental problems ahead. Bitcoin (BTC) was trading around $9,735 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. […]
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Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency, has its eyes on the popular bitcoin privacy tool Wasabi Wallet, documents verified by CoinDesk show. Marked for “law enforcement only,” a two-part report by Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) analyzed the privacy tool’s impact on using the Bitcoin blockchain to investigate crimes. […]
It’s the highest-profile job listing in Washington these days: being the public face of one of the biggest government accountability projects in U.S. history. The gig entails five years of exhaustive work to safeguard trillions of taxpayer dollars. The successful applicant will have years of experience in public service, comfort […]
With the US economy reeling from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee agreed to give Israel a minimum of $3.8 billion in military aid per year. A full vote on the gift is expected soon. The US unemployment rate now stands at 14.7 percent, the […]
People wearing masks walk past a mural of encouragement displayed outside a store amid the coronavirus pandemic on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images People wearing masks walk past a mural of encouragement displayed outside a store amid […]
77-year-old Biden held a virtual round table to discuss the Coronavirus from his basement on Thursday. As usual, his virtual town hall was marred by glitches and audio problems. Biden struggled for 20 seconds to remember who briefs him on the Coronavirus every morning. Then he confused the number of […]
Israel’s Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Wednesday night that he’d managed to form a government sending an official notification to Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin. The new Israeli government will be sworn in later today after a series of speeches that will start at 1600 GMT and will include the introduction […]
Jacket design by Layla Mac Rory The Arab Winter: A Tragedy, by Noah Feldman. Princeton University Press. Hardcover: ISBN: 9780691194929 Noah Feldman, author of the Arab Winter contends that the Arab Spring did not accomplish what it set out to do—Bring self-government to the Middle East by ending dictatorship. Only […]