If you like time warps, read Bill Clinton’s 2000 speech urging Congress to admit China into the World Trade Organization. China’s entry would enrich Americans and help convert China to freedom, he said. “There’s no question China has been trying to crack down on the internet,” Clinton conceded to laughter. “Good luck! That’s sort of
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In a featureless function suite in Derby, less than 30 miles from the geographic centre of England, about 800 political activists gathered at the weekend for what they see as an uprising from the heart of the nation. Reform UK is the successor to Nigel Farage’s Brexit party. Shorn of its primary political goal, it
Bitcoin (BTC) may be struggling at $30,000, but under the hood, all-time highs of a different kind keep coming. The latest data shows that Bitcoin network fundamentals — difficulty and hash rate — will hit new records this week. Bitcoin mining difficulty, hash rate refuse to slow down Bitcoin’s 2023 recovery has been about more
After announcing the production of bitcoin application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), Intel, the world’s largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, appears to be abandoning its blockchain chip production. On Tuesday, a spokesperson for the chip manufacturer explained that Intel has “end-of-lifed the Intel Blockscale 1000 Series ASIC.” Intel Spokesperson Discloses Company Has End-of-Lifed the Blockscale 1000
European stocks slipped on Wednesday ahead of the latest eurozone inflation figures and a fresh batch of US corporate earnings, with investors on the lookout for signs of slowing growth and the impact of higher interest rates. The region-wide Stoxx 600 fell 0.2 per cent, though Germany’s Dax rose 0.4 per cent and France’s CAC
Bitcoin (BTC) abruptly reversed gains on April 19 as a cascade of long liquidations sent BTC/USD plummeting lower. Bitcoin sees “beautiful” retracement Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView followed the pair as it made lows of $29,015 on Bitstamp. The sudden move followed an equally strong rebound above the $30,000 mark the day prior, with
Australia, the country that hosts the third-largest network of Bitcoin (BTC) ATMs, surpassed the continent of Asia in terms of the total number of crypto ATMs installed. Since the beginning of 2023, Australia has been on a crypto ATM installation spree, climbing from fifth to third in January alone. Data from Coin ATM Radar confirms that
A U.S. lawmaker has announced that he is introducing legislation to remove the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman in order to “correct a long series of abuses.” The SEC, under Chair Gary Gensler, has been heavily criticized for its enforcement-centric approach to regulating the crypto industry. Lawmaker Seeks to Remove SEC’s Chairman U.S. Congressman
India has surpassed China as the world’s most populous country, according to UN data released on Wednesday, marking a historic crossover moment for the two Asian neighbours and geopolitical rivals. According to the UN’s Population Dashboard, India’s population has surpassed 1.428bn, just overtaking China’s more than 1.425bn people. The update in the population estimates came
It has been a week since Ethereum’s Shapella hard fork, and statistics indicate that ethereum deposits on April 18 have exceeded withdrawals for the first time since the upgrade. At present, 929,999 ether worth $1.94 billion is pending withdrawal, and over the past three days, 112,568 ether has been added to liquid staking protocols. Just
Cryptocurrency wallet provider MetaMask has denied claims that an exploit of its wallet is the cause of a “massive wallet draining operation” that has claimed over 5,000 Ether (ETH). On April 18, MetaMask tweeted in response to a series of tweets posted on April 17 by Taylor Monahan, the founder of Ethereum wallet manager MyCrypto,
The co-founder of the nonfungible token (NFT) project Rebase is facing a lawsuit from his apparent business partner accusing him of going “rogue” by stealing $2 million from a joint crypto wallet and ousting an apparent co-founder out of the firm. An April 17 filing in a United States District Court in California from Krzysztof
UK inflation remained in double digits in March with annual price rises of 10.1 per cent, raising the chances of further interest rate rises from the Bank of England. Consumer price inflation had been 10.4 per cent in February and was expected to drop to 9.8 per cent last month. Although petrol and diesel prices
Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, started his tour of Latin America on April 17, landing first in Brasilia to hold high-level talks with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio ‘Lula’ da Silva and Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira. Lavrov insisted that Russia was building a “multipolar” world, while Vieira rejected the unilateral sanctions enacted against Russia.
Rising “population anxiety” is leading governments to adopt ineffective and harmful fertility policies that damage human rights and gender equality, the UN has warned. Climate change, mass displacement, the Covid pandemic and economic uncertainty have fuelled a widespread fear of both overpopulation and underpopulation across the globe in recent years, according to research by the
Imagine for a moment that Danco Laboratories made widgets, instead of mifepristone, the abortion drug now on the front lines of the US culture wars. Strip away the angry rhetoric about bodily integrity and unborn babies and focus on what has happened to this New York-based company’s basic livelihood over the past two weeks. A
Squinting in the late afternoon sun on a square in downtown Wilmington, Delaware, on Tuesday, lawyer Justin Nelson told the world’s media there would finally be “vindication and accountability” for lies spread about election fraud following former US president Donald Trump’s defeat almost 30 months earlier. A last-minute $787.5mn settlement from Fox, accused of airing
Ukraine will plead for urgent shipments of surface-to-air missiles at a meeting of its western allies this week, fearful that an acute shortage could allow Russia to launch widespread bombing attacks. Kyiv will press allies to bolster their dwindling stocks at the so-called Ramstein military co-ordination group on Friday, according to three officials briefed on
Immunocore is a success story for the UK’s ambitions in biotechnology. Spun out of Oxford university in 1999, it is pioneering a new generation of medicines to treat cancers, viral infections and autoimmune diseases from the leafy market town of Abingdon-on-Thames. But for Sir John Bell, the Canadian-British chair of the company and one of
Asset management firm Eurizon SLJ’s strategists have warned that the erosion of the U.S. dollar’s global reserve currency status has accelerated at an alarming pace in recent years, especially following the onset of the Russia-Ukraine war. They noted that the USD has declined 8% in one year, which is “equivalent to 10 times the average
A luxury waterfront building in Washington, D.C., broke the record for the most expensive condo sale in the city’s history, selling for $12.762 million earlier this month. The split-level, four-bedroom Penthouse 1 has about 5,800 square feet of living space, five full bathrooms and two half baths. In addition, the condo offers three parking spaces.