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Amazon Is Preparing to Accept Cryptocurrency

Jack J. Kelly Amazon, Cryptocurrency July 26, 2021

Amazon doesn’t allow you to pay for orders using cryptocurrency. There are ways around that, but they won’t be necessary for much longer as the company has confirmed it is gearing up to start accepting cryptocurrency as a valid form of payment. As Tom’s Hardware reports, ...Read More

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US stocks could tumble 15% in a rough fall – and the bitcoin bubble could deflate further this year, Guggenheim’s Scott Minerd says

Jack J. Kelly Bitcoin, Stock Market, Stocks July 22, 2021

US equities could drop 15% by the end of October, driven lower by concern over the delta variant of COVID-19 and its impact on global growth, while cryptocurrencies could continue to face pressure, according to Guggenheim’s Scott Minerd. The chief investment officer told Bloomberg on Wednesday ...Read More

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Man busted in 2020 Twitter hack, bitcoin scam of Biden, Obama, Musk, Buffett accounts

Jack J. Kelly Cyber Crime, Cyber Fraud, Cybersecurity July 21, 2021

A British man was arrested Wednesday in Spain in connection with the 2020 hack of Twitter accounts belonging to Apple, President Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama, Tesla chief Elon Musk, Warren Buffett, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and more than 100 others to swindle their followers out of bitcoin, the Justice ...Read More

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JPMorgan gives Jamie Dimon a special stock option bonus to keep him as CEO for several more years

Jack J. Kelly CEO, Leadership July 21, 2021

JPMorgan Chase granted Jamie Dimon new stock options as a retention bonus to incentivize the chief executive officer to lead the banking giant for a few more years. The 65-year-old Dimon was awarded 1.5 million stock appreciation rights, a form of options contracts he can exercise in ...Read More

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New bill would make some companies report cyberattacks to the government

Jack J. Kelly Cybersecurity July 21, 2021

A new bill unveiled Wednesday would make some companies tell the government when they’ve been hacked. The bipartisan Cyber Incident Notification Act is a response to the recent attacks on SolarWinds, which impacted government agencies, and Colonial Pipeline, which disrupted access to fuel across a large ...Read More

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Jack Dorsey Announces New Square Division To Build DeFi on Bitcoin

Jack J. Kelly Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, DeFi July 20, 2021

Square founder and CEO, Jack Dorsey, has announced the creation of a new Square division dedicated to building decentralized financial services using Bitcoin. Dorsey followed that tweet with a thread explaining that, like Square’s new Bitcoin hardware wallet, the developments will be completely open-source. “Like our ...Read More

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Viral video shows Malaysian police destroying 1,069 bitcoin mining rigs with a steamroller

Jack J. Kelly Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency July 19, 2021

Call it a crypto crackdown — literally. Malaysian authorities seized 1,069 bitcoin mining rigs, laid them out in a parking lot at police headquarters, and used a steamroller to crush them, as part of a joint operation between law enforcement in the city of ...Read More

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Andreessen Horowitz taps 30-year-old partner Arianna Simpson to help run world’s largest crypto fund

Jack J. Kelly Blockchain, Cryptocurrency July 19, 2021

Andreessen Horowitz is adding a new, high-profile partner to help deploy its $2.2 billion cryptocurrency fund. Thirty-year-old Arianna Simpson is being promoted to general partner from deal partner roughly a year after joining, the company announced Monday. Simpson has become somewhat of a celebrity ...Read More

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Robinhood warns retail trading is slowing down, especially in cryptocurrencies

Jack J. Kelly Cryptocurrency, Robinhood July 19, 2021

Stock trading app Robinhood — which is expected to go public as soon as next week — warned of a potential slowdown in trading revenue and new clients as the boom in retail investing starts to decelerate. “We expect our revenue for the three ...Read More

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U.S., NATO and EU to blame China for cyberattack on Microsoft Exchange servers

Jack J. Kelly China, Cyber Crime July 19, 2021

WASHINGTON — A new joint effort made up of NATO member states, the European Union, Australia, New Zealand and Japan is coming together to confront the global threat posed by Chinese state-sponsored cyberattacks. In its first action on Monday, the countries will publicly blame ...Read More

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Amazon Is Preparing to Accept Cryptocurrency

US stocks could tumble 15% in a rough fall – and the bitcoin bubble could deflate further this year, Guggenheim’s Scott Minerd says

Man busted in 2020 Twitter hack, bitcoin scam of Biden, Obama, Musk, Buffett accounts

JPMorgan gives Jamie Dimon a special stock option bonus to keep him as CEO for several more years

New bill would make some companies report cyberattacks to the government

Jack Dorsey Announces New Square Division To Build DeFi on Bitcoin

Viral video shows Malaysian police destroying 1,069 bitcoin mining rigs with a steamroller

Andreessen Horowitz taps 30-year-old partner Arianna Simpson to help run world’s largest crypto fund

Robinhood warns retail trading is slowing down, especially in cryptocurrencies

U.S., NATO and EU to blame China for cyberattack on Microsoft Exchange servers

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