Cryptocurrency

This week on the New World Next Week: Weed turns to crypto to relieve the cash crunch; Whole Foods backtracks on GMO labeling; and the police get ALPR help with digital license plates.

[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2018-05-30%20James%20Evan%20Pilato.mp3"][/audio]This week on the New World Next Week: Weed turns to crypto to relieve the cash crunch; Whole Foods backtracks on GMO labeling; and the police get ALPR help with digital license plates.

Quiet aircraft, big data and gait recognition + this day in history w/the flight of the Faith 7 and our song of the day by Justice on your Morning Monarchy for May 15, 2018.

(ANTIMEDIA) — In the midst of its biggest executive shakeup in company history and only a few months removed from one of the biggest data and privacy scandals of the decade, Facebook announced earlier this week what many have anticipated for years: The social media and tech giant will enter the blockchain arena. David Marcus, previously the head of Facebook’s […]

Remote mind control, facial recognition tests and space miner trillionaires + this day in history w/Hubble Space Telescope launch and our song of the day by Girl Talk on your Morning Monarchy for April 24, 2018.

(ANTIMEDIA) — In the wake of Bitcoin’s meteoric rise in popularity, interest in the dynamics of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies has skyrocketed over the past year. With bank-based blockchain projects poised to revolutionize the world of financial services, researchers continue to study the new technology to better understand the inner-workings of the blockchain, as well its economic, social, […]

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Spring’s chorus of bullish predictions for Bitcoin appears to be having some corroboration from recent markets, as Bloomberg reports on Bitcoin’s 4 percent gain today, April 20, putting the coin on track for its first back-to-back week of gains this year.

(ANTIMEDIA) — The salient facts of the new Cambridge Analytica scandal are bad, and the optics are even worse for Facebook, which is already facing multiple battles both in legal courts and the court of public opinion. But this really is just the spilled pot of a long-boiling problem: growing discomfort within our citizen-consumer class over […]

U.S. President Donald Trump has announced fresh sanctions against Venezuela’s fledgling Petro cryptocurrency, which was launched specifically to help stabilize the Latin American nation’s economy.
The blockade, due to be signed and implemented today, restricts the use of Petros in U.S. financial transactions, McClatchy reports.
Trump and other critics have claimed the Petro, backed by Venezuela’s oil reserves – the largest in the world – is unreliable. Yet in presales alone, Venezuela has already made over US$5 billion dollars.

Google banned ads for cryptocurrencies including ICOs, crypto wallets, cryptocurrency exchanges, and services related to providing crypto trading advice. Twitter is considering a similar ban. The price of Bitcoin dropped 12% in response to the news. [...]