Virus or not, people are still paying for goods in bitcoin. That’s the verdict from new numbers out of Coinbase’s retailer payment portal Coinbase Commerce, which on Thursday passed a milestone in its two-year history: $200 million in total transactions processed. That comes from a massive network: 8,000 integrated retailers now accept cryptocurrencies alongside their other payment streams. It’s a bright spot for adoption in an [...]
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Hillary Clinton went after Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg earlier this year, calling Zuckerberg “authoritarian” and even “Trumpian” when it comes to responding to disinformation online. Sunday morning Clinton sat down with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, who brought up a Vox article from Super Tuesday that said, “According to data compiled by CrowdTangle, the most total interactions on Facebook came on a Fox News article about a federal [...]
GrainChain, a commodities tracing platform that uses smart contracts to open up liquidity for low-income farmers, has raised $8.2 million in its latest funding round, the company announced Friday. Luis Macias said the money will bolster GrainChain’s burgeoning operations in Mexico, Honduras and the southwest United States. “This funding is really going to allow us to add to our operations and scale up the levels that [...]
An Air Canada flight had to make an emergency landing at San Francisco International Airport, with passengers forced to evacuate using the plane’s slides – and jumping down from the wings. Flight 8839 to Vancouver encountered difficulties shortly after takeoff on Sunday, with smoke detectors sounding the alarm from the lavatory at the rear of the plane. As is standard procedure, air traffic control ordered the [...]
Brett Carlsen/Getty Images Left wing news outlets and magazines are sounding the alarm as Mike Bloomberg’s 2020 campaign began dominating the news cycle and gaining in polls this week. On Tuesday, The Week’s Ryan Cooper called Bloomberg “a right-wing authoritarian with nakedly racist views” in a piece warning of his candidacy, and the New Republic’s Osita Nwanevu warned that a Bloomberg nomination would be “nothing less than [...]
Hope Hicks, the former White House aide who served as communications director during the first turbulent year of Trump’s term, is reportedly planning to leave Fox News and return to the White House and work alongside Jared Kushner, according to the New York Times. This time, 31-year-old Hicks’ is stepping into an even more senior role, adopting the title “counselor to the president.” The move suggests [...]