The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on the world’s economy. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 5.4% from the previous year, with a third of it being caused by the prices of used cars and trucks due to a global semiconductor shortage as a result of the lockdowns. However, consumers have also…
This week Robinhood announced the long awaited feature of Cryptocurrency Wallets. Up until now, Robinhood allowed users to buy and sell cryptocurrency, which was stored on a Robinhood central wallet. Since individual users did not have their own wallets however, sending and receiving cryptocurrency was not an option for Robinhood users. The wallet feature on…
The elusive promise of earning Bitcoin through an app is littered with scams. It’s a tale as old as Bitcoin. There are endless apps known as Faucet Apps that promise to pay you Satoshis, the bigger the promise the more likely it’s a scam. If an app promises to pay you Satoshis right up front…
Elon Musk recently sent bitcoin prices plummeting when he announced that Tesla would no longer accept the cryptocurrency, citing concerns over the environment. “Energy usage trend over past few months is insane,” said Musk, one of bitcoin’s highest-profile supporters, in a May 12 tweet. Tesla & Bitcoin pic.twitter.com/YSswJmVZhP — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 12, 2021…
In the latest episode of Revolution’s Revival, I welcome my friend Shane Hazel to the program. The host of the popular “Radical” podcast joins me to discuss how lovers of liberty can best resist the tyranny of Texas Rep. Sheila Lee Jackson’s H.R. 127, which would set up national gun registration and make popular gun accessories…
It’s been rough for the stock market in the year of COVID-19. A number of stocks in the hospitality, financial and manufacturing sectors have yet to dig themselves out of the hole and reach their pre-COVID highs. The talk of Wall Street is Tesla, just recently added to the S&P 500 Index, that has far…
As the first cryptocurrency to break into the finance market, people are keen to know about Bitcoin’s future. And for a good reason, Bitcoin is a unique brand that promises a new world of restriction and inflation-free monetary exchange. With the development of blockchain over the past ten years, the cyber-currency industry is looking forward…
At the time of this writing, the cryptocurrency known as Bitcoin has seen its value skyrocket to around $18,000 (11/19/2020 12 AM EST) after dropping down to around just $4,840 in mid-March. This is significant because the all-time high for the cryptocurrency is $19,783 back in December of 2017, only to drop down to as low as…
Mary Rose Corkery A 17-year-old from Tampa, Florida, was arrested Friday for allegedly carrying out the massive Twitter hacking scam on July 15, according to WFLA. Graham Ivan Clark was arrested Friday around 6 a.m. and faces 30 felony charges in the alleged scam, which prosecutors have dubbed the “Bit-Con” hack, according to a press release from…
Andrew Kerr on July 15, 2020 The Twitter accounts for former Vice President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama were compromised Wednesday afternoon by hackers pushing a bitcoin scheme amid a wide-scale attack on the social media platform. “I am giving back to the community,” a now-deleted tweet posted on the presumptive Democratic presidential…