Egypt’s currency devaluation and economic malaise
Concerns are intensifying over Egypt’s stumbling economy after the country’s central bank devalued the Egyptian pound by 13 percent this week in an effort to recusitate it. In an attempt to ease a US dollar shortage that has heavily pressured…
Fed & Treasury – Are We Headed Toward A Cashless Society?
Fed Policies – We Are Headed Toward A Cashless Society? by Thomas J. DiLorenzo, Mises Institute In this article, Claudio Grass, Managing Director at Global Gold Switzerland, talks to economist and Mises Institute Senior Fellow Thomas DiLorenzo. This exclusive interview…
Apple To Bolster Its iCloud Encryption
First the iPhone, now iCloud. Apple is strengthening the encryption of its cloud storage service, so that even it wouldn’t be able to access its customers’ iPhone backups, according to unnamed sources speaking to the Wall Street Journal. Apple could…
People who give in to ransomware demands are encouraging attackers
Schwerte, Germany (dpa) – Ransomware trojan viruses like the recent Locky are spreading round the globe and are being encouraged, in effect, by thousands of computer users who cave in to their blackmail demands. Around one-third of the victims of…
C-bit Offers Bitcoin Classic a Block-size Solution
C-bit Press Release: We are pleased to announce the launch of C-bit; An exact clone of Bitcoin Core .12 with a 2-Meg block-size already built into the source code. C-bit negates the need for a Bitcoin Core Hard Fork. C-bit…
Lisk Raises Over 1.9 Million USD – Establishes Partnerships With Microsoft Azure and IoT Research Lab Chain of Things
Bitcoin Press Release: Having raised over 4600 BTC in their ICO so far, Lisk is pleased to announce it has been added to the Microsoft’s Azure Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) program, and has also formed a Strategic Partnership with…
GOP Elites Have Only Themselves to Blame for Trump
Ed. Note: GOP billionaires seem content to dump tens of millions of dollars on their corrupt consultants who tell us how to vote. If the establishment can’t figure out that voters are horrified by the mess Obama has gotten us…
Apple Fires Back At FBI
Apple shot back at the Department of Justice on Tuesday in its battle to defend its encryption technology, arguing that the government is attemping to “rewrite history” by treating a centuries old All Writs Act as an “all-powerful magic wand”…
Microsoft Confirms Commitment To Support Bitcoin
Microsoft said Tuesday that it has no plans to end support for bitcoin as a payment method for its apps and services after reports this week suggested it had quietly ended support for the cryptocurrency. On Monday, a number of…
Is the global economy heading for a recession?
There is a growing concern that the world is heading towards a recession. If a recession were to occur, what policy instruments can be used to deal with the situation? The heads of three major central banks, the Federal Reserve…