Spot Ether ETF Applications Prompt S&P Alarm on Ethereum’s Concentration Risks
S&P Global warned on Tuesday that approving proposed Spot Ethereum ETFs in the US could worsen the network’s concentration issue by centralizing staked tokens among a few providers. Certain proposed US spot ether ETFs, including applications from Ark Invest and Franklin
South Korean Province Collects $4.6M in Taxes Using Crypto Tracking System
South Korean province of Gyeonggi is utilizing a clever new system to catch tax dodgers hiding their wealth in cryptocurrency. The innovative approach has already recovered a total of $4.6 million in owed taxes from just one group of delinquents. Previously,
Why Finland Could be Europe’s Next Crypto Mining Giant
Finland is emerging fast as an attractive place for crypto mining due to its relatively cool climate, which helps with cooling mining rigs, and its abundant renewable energy sources. Additionally, Finland has a stable political and economic environment, which can be
Biden faces major challenge on Gaza in next week’s Michigan primary
A Michigan group backed by prominent state and local lawmakers is making a last-minute push to get 10,000 Democrats to vote “uncommitted” in the state’s primary next Tuesday as a warning to President Biden that his support for Israel and
Younger people are less likely to express worry about American democracy
President Biden’s reelection campaign is hoping to frame his expected November rematch against Donald Trump in near-apocalyptic terms: A vote for Trump is a vote for the end of American democracy. Biden hopes to leverage the same hostility to Trump that
Supreme Court seems poised to halt EPA plan to cut cross-state pollution
The Environmental Protection Agency’s effort to cut emissions from power plants and factories to reduce pollution that blows into neighboring states seems likely to be halted by the Supreme Court, a blow to an ambitious federal initiative that environmentalists have
Lying about 2020 fraud was just ‘a political game’ to one Republican
Don Bolduc is a patrolman on the police force of Pittsfield, N.H., population 4,100. But this is not the job he had hoped to be doing in February 2024. In September 2022, he won the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in
James Biden says President Biden had no involvement in his business deals
President Biden’s younger brother James, in a lengthy opening statement at the start of a deposition for the House Republican-led impeachment inquiry, said Joe Biden had no role in any of his business dealings that are now under scrutiny. “I have
Trump and allies planning militarized mass deportations, detention camps
Faced with a surge of migrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2018 and 2019, Donald Trump’s White House discussed ways to more aggressively deploy the resources and the might of the U.S. military. Aides and officials spoke privately about detaining
10 Republicans who treated the Biden bribery claim like gospel
When we learned last week that the Justice Department had indicted the informant behind the severest claims against President Biden for allegedly lying about those claims, the House GOP impeachment leader, Rep. James Comer (Ky.), downplayed the news. “To be clear,