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From ZH When GM earlier this year started recalling Bolts, it issued a warning to owners of the EV: don’t charge your car battery to 100 percent. Normally, this would be easy enough to do. But what if your charger got hacked? Last year, researchers from the Southwest Research Institute in Texas successfully hacked the most popular charging […]
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From ZH It’s a tale of two crackdowns – and two cultures. While Beijing scrambles to stamp out immaturity and laziness among its males, Washington is terrified of… wait for it… cryptocurrency. Gary Gensler, Joe Biden’s deeply establishmentarian SEC head, has dropped a bomb on the crypto community with his sudden attack on Coinbase, the […]
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From Bloomberg U.S. officials are discussing launching a formal review into whether Tether and other stablecoins threaten financial stability, scrutiny that could lead to dramatically ramped-up oversight for a fast-growing corner of the crypto market. After weeks of deliberations, the Treasury Department and other federal agencies are nearing a decision on whether to launch an examination by the Financial […]
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Shermin Voshmgir The “scalability trilemma” describes the trade-off in distributed consensus between decentralization, security, and scalability. Decentralization is the premise of a distributed network, security is the most important aspect when the network involves a set of untrusted actors, and scalability refers to the number of transactions a system can process per second. In order […]
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FinTech Cryptocurrency Cryptocurrency serves as a medium of exchange, a store of value, and a unit of measure. While cryptocurrencies have little inherent value, they are used to price the value of other assets. Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency (means of payment) but it can bee seen as a speculative commodity (how much is it trading for), it […]
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Tamara E. Holmes The credit card industry is a big business, and it is dominated by a handful of companies. American consumers collectively were juggling $974 billion in credit card debt as of the end of 2020, according to the Federal Reserve consumer credit report. Top networks by market share Visa Visa is the largest […]
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Michael D McDonald and Ezra Fieser El Salvador bought 400 Bitcoins as it prepares to adopt the cryptocurrency as legal tender from Tuesday, President Nayib Bukele said in a post on Twitter. The currency has a market value of about $20 million at current prices. The country plans to buy “a lot more” of the […]
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Becca Cattlin | Financial writer Forex and stocks are two of the most popular global markets. Before you start trading either, it’s vital to know which is best suited for your trading strategy and risk appetite. Look at our comparison and learn the differences. What is the difference between forex and the stock market? The largest difference […]
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By: Eric Bleeker I consider myself blessed… As an Investing Analyst at The Motley Fool, every day I wake up and get the chance to live my lifelong dream — help everyday investors like you identify and profit from the world’s most promising investment opportunities. It’s hard to believe, but 2021 marked the 28-year anniversary […]
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Our Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request asked for the release of any documents attesting to Tether’s reserve composition. Article for CoinDesk By Lawrence Lewitinn, Nikhilesh De New York State Attorney General Letitia James (Getty Images) The parent company of stablecoin issuer Tether and crypto exchange Bitfinex has petitioned the New York Supreme Court to block […]
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