The Department of Justice confirmed Friday afternoon that it had arrested Florida man Cesar Sayoc in connection with the series of apparent explosive devices mailed to leading Democratic figures all through the past week.
The company and its defenders have made “XRP is not Ripple” a continuous mantra over the past few months, changed the digital token’s logo, and even amended testimony to the U.K. parliament in a transparent attempt to fend off regulatory scrutiny.
The price of Bitcoin (BTC) continues to slide, with the decentralized digital currency suffering its most dramatically bearish market movements since 2014.
The Biden bombshell is one of many revealed in a new investigative book Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends by Government Accountability Institute President and Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer. Schweizer’s last book, Clinton Cash, sparked an FBI investigation into the Clinton Foundation.
Garrett Camp, the creator and co-founder of Uber, has unveiled a new Bitcoin-like digital currency, “Eco,” with elite gatekeepers and unlimited inflation built into its protocol — and he needs a billion-strong email list to distribute it.
It’s been a tough time for new owners of Bitcoin. After the decentralized digital currency rocketed to prices of $20,000 for one whole BTC, those values dropped roughly 50 percent and have bounced back and forth between $10k and $12k for the past week. And, while the asset’s 9-year history suggests the bear market won’t last forever, Bitcoin critics are out in force warning the recent adopters that the fundamentals of their investment are not sound.
Reuters published a misleading report Thursday giving the impression that South Korea was certain to ban the trading of cyber currencies such as Bitcoin, contributing to a panicked sell-off of digital blockchain assets.
Mike Allen writes at Axios that Michael Wolff, author of Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, has “dozens of hours” of recordings to corroborate the controversial quotes attributed to senior White House personnel in the new book — including former White House Chief Strategist and Breitbart executive chairman Stephen K. Bannon.
I didn’t pay attention to new music in 2017 as much as I normally do, so this list leans heavily on releases from the first half of the year. In no particular order, these are some of the best songs I heard that still hit me just as hard at year’s end.
This was the year that I finally jumped down the rabbit hole known as “cryptocurrency” — decentralized, blockchain-based digital money — and a big part of what sparked my interest was the concept of “mining,” or using my computer’s processing power to mint new units of these “coins.”
Bitcoin owners and enthusiasts spent Tuesday night and Wednesday morning raging against Coinbase — one of the most popular apps for exchanging U.S dollars to blockchain-based digital currencies — after the trading platform unexpectedly began exchanging BTC’s controversial rival “Bitcoin Cash,” then quickly crashed as its new product became illiquid.
I just “bought” my first .1 Dash about five minutes ago on a currency exchange you may not have heard of.
The price of one full Bitcoin, the original decentralized digital currency, officially hit 10,000 U.S. dollars early Tuesday morning, according to data from CoinMarketCap.
Brave, the Internet browser from Brendan Eich — the creator of JavaScript and former Mozilla CEO chased out of the company because of political wrongthink — has announced a new feature that users might use to combat YouTube’s growing censorship of independent channels in favor of corporate brands.
Dash ($DASH), a decentralized digital currency, released an upgrade to its blockchain code Wednesday that promises to reduce most transaction fees to less than a third of a penny, boasting that it has upgraded its scaling capabilities as Bitcoin struggles under the load of its users’ activity.
The price of Bitcoin surged to nearly $8,000 per unit Wednesday afternoon after the upcoming Segwit2x “hard fork” in the digital currency’s blockchain was called off, but it has since receded to $7,200 and boosted many alternative coins.
The price of Bitcoin smashed another record early Thursday morning — $7,000 for each unit of the digital currency.
CNN published on Sunday morning the letter that former President Barack Obama gave to President Donald Trump on the day of his inauguration — but instead of writing it up as a humanizing moment, as its leaker may have intended, the piece from Kevin Liptak just uses the occasion to bash Trump and praise Obama.
Far-left journalists, activists, and entertainers expressed rage and disbelief Friday as a local report confirmed that Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is a paid columnist for Breitbart News.
Nationally syndicated radio host Glenn Beck announced Thursday afternoon that his media company The Blaze had laid off over one fifth of its workforce.
James Warren, Chief Media Writer for Poynter, pointed a finger Thursday morning at Jewish billionaire Sheldon Adelson after the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) — of which Adelson is a “prime backer” — recommended that President Donald Trump reassign his National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster.
With a seemingly hostile special counsel team, led by Robert Mueller, fishing for crimes to pin on Trump and his associates, the president’s new pick for DOJ would be politically radioactive no matter their qualifications.
The Resurgent, a blog run by “Never Trump” pundit Erick Erickson, has published its first hit piece on Deep State cheerleader Evan McMullin, ending a nearly 3/4-year bromance between Erickson and the failed spoiler candidate in 2016’s presidential election.
The Washington Post awed the news world Friday morning with a monster “exclusive” story promising to reveal “Obama’s secret struggle to punish Russia for Putin’s election assault.” Instead, what it delivers is a magnum “Rusher” opus.
Establishment news outlets reviewing Megyn Kelly’s controversial interview with radio host and Infowars publisher Alex Jones have mostly panned the NBC News host for a “shallow” profile that spends more time trying to justify itself than revealing anything interesting to her audience.
This week’s biggest political controversies exposed fault lines within the country’s major political factions, with the right fighting about civil disobedience while the left fought over the attempted murder of a Republican Congressman.
Alex Jones leaked the audio of a phone conversation Thursday night revealing Megyn Kelly promising him a fair, non-“gotcha” interview as she invited him to appear on her new NBC News program.
TIME Magazine’s latest cover story is another shot at trolling President Donald Trump by suggesting he is not truly in charge of the White House — this time profiling son-in-law Jared Kushner, asserting that the two men “are bound to rise or fall together.”
Politico warns of “political risk” for Lara Trump, wife to President Donald Trump’s son Eric, because she supports a beagle adoption advocacy group whose founder once served time in prison for encouraging activists to torment animal researchers.
President Donald Trump broke the Internet once again during the inauguration of the Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology Sunday in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.
