Bitcoin's spiking prices have been driven almost entirely by Chinese money-launderers trying to beat the country's currency controls -- controls that have tightened so much that it's tanking the world's real-estate markets as offshore buyers abandon their deposits and disappear. (more…)
Popular Posts
-
Looking for something to illustrate a post about crunch-time in game development, I ran into this video depicting many forms of footwear (...
-
Tomorrow's the day: the EU will vote on the text of the new Copyright Directive , including the most sweeping and invasive internet reg...
-
A British company named "<SCRIPT SRC=HTTPS://MJT.XSS.HTLTD" was ordered to change its name after regulators realized what was f...
-
In the 1970s, the CIA created a dragonfly-shaped drone that carried a microphone, with the goal of using it to snoop on remote targets. It ...
-
States have a patchwork of arcane, antiquated laws that disenfranchise citizens deemed to be "incompetent," "incapacitated,&...
-
Perspective. pic.twitter.com/k53zRHbg9Y — IM🍑HIM (@ziyatong) May 6, 2017 Ziya Tong , producer and host of The Daily Planet on Discover...
-
Rock promoter Bill Graham's East Village venue, Fillmore East , was only open from March 1968 to June 1971. But in that short time, man...
-
Up until the end, Trump's truest believers thought something was going to happen . Biden arrested as he walked onto the inaugural stag...
-
It's a political no-brainer for Trump, who gets to clobber the renewables market, rattle his saber at China, extend the viable economic...
-
Reddit user u/Dinaeh has been posting updates of their project to recreate the world from Zelda Breath of the Wild in Minecraft . They ar...
