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Bitcoin Mining Uses More Energy Than Mining Gold And Platinum Combined
Researchers have also found that Bitcoin mining is more energy-intensive than mining both gold and platinum.
Elon Musk Drives Up Cryptocurrency Price With $1.5 Billion Bitcoin Purchase
The announcements, buried deep in Tesla’s 2020 annual report, drove a roughly 20% surge in the world’s most widely held cryptocurrency.
“You Have A Union When You Say You Have A Union”
“Millions of people will wake up and see this story and see that you don’t need to wait for the labor board to approve your union.”
FBI Looking Into Bitcoin Payments To Capitol Coup Alt-Right Groups
The bureau is examining payments of $500,000 in bitcoin to key figures & groups in the alt-right before the riot.
Trump’s PAC And Campaign Donations Banned After Capitol Coup
“Stripe asks users to agree that they won’t accept payments for ‘high risk’ activities.”
Pandemic Is Speeding Up Automation – 85 Million Jobs Are On The Chopping Block
More than two-fifths of large companies surveyed by the WEF plan to reduce their workforces due to integration of technology.
If Bill Gates gave every person on Earth $10, he would still have $20 billion left over
The tech mogul’s net worth is estimated at over $96 billion. Gates was also the richest person in the world from 1995 until 2008 when he was surpassed by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
Top antitrust enforcer warns Big Tech over “surveillance capitalism”
The government’s top antitrust official warned large technology companies they could be pursued for antitrust law violations.
Microsoft Japan tried a 4-day work week and it was a big success
Microsoft Japan this week released the findings of a pilot 4-day work week program and the results were surprising. The effects of the shortening of the work week were positive across the board.
