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The Weather Channel was hit with a ransomware attack, taking it off the air for over an hour on Thursday morning. Authorities are currently investigating what The Weather Channel calls a “malicious software attack.” Powered by WPeMatico

John McAfee is well known for accepting cash and crypto in return for positive tweets promoting specific companies and their initial coin offerings. However, many companies, as well as McAfee’s former CEO Jimmy Watson, say that McAfee failed to deliver…

Bitcoin supporter and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang is calling on the federal government to provide the crypto community with clear and concise guidelines concerning how cryptocurrency and digital assets will be treated and regulated. Yang specifically calls out…

James Felton Keith is running for a seat in New York’s 13th Congressional District. Keith talks about universal basic income, owning one’s personal data, and Elizabeth Warren’s plan to break up big data companies. Powered by WPeMatico

The newly released Mueller report claims Russia’s primary military intelligence service and its facilitators leased servers located within the US, as well as used bitcoin to hide Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election. Powered by WPeMatico

Shirin Emami, executive deputy superintendent for banking at the New York State Department of Financial Services, breaks down why Bittrex was denied a BitLicense. Emami cites deficiencies in the areas of transaction monitoring, customer identification, and listing standards. Powered by…

Rabbi Michael Caras, also known as the Bitcoin Rabbi, talks about the similarities between Judaism and crypto culture, writing a bitcoin children’s book, and the special Passover message he has for his Twitter “congregation.” Powered by WPeMatico

Judge Jed Rakoff of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed the Winklevoss case against Charlie Shrem in which the twins allege Shrem stole $26 million worth of cryptocurrency. The judge said a settlement was…

Economist Will Ruddick of Grassroots Economics developed the Sarafu Network to allow Kenyans to swap digital currency via a smartphone app. The network is intended to bring financial services to those who traditionally lack access to them. Powered by WPeMatico

Research conducted by PitchBook reveals that investments in cryptocurrency and blockchain startups by venture capitalists have reached $850 million in the first four months of 2019. However, corporations such as the London Stock Exchange Group and Microsoft are still unwilling…