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Warren Buffett’s highly anticipated annual letter to shareholders is coming out on February 22. The Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO will be turning 90 in August. In 2019 the S&P 500 outpaced Berkshire stock leading critics to say value-investing is dead. Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A) is releasing 2019 annual results
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Joe Biden may have saved his political life on Friday after finally finding some energy in the New Hampshire debate. The former VP’s campaign is in a desperate position after the bungled Iowa Caucus. Sprinkled with some highlights, Biden’s cash-starved run desperately needed a win, and it just got it. On a night
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South Korea’s central bank is organizing a task force to research central bank digital currencies (CDBCs). Announced in a Dec. 26 report titled "Monetary Policy for 2020,” the Bank of Korea will hire experts to study the effects of distributed ledgers, cryptocurrencies and CBDCs on financial settlements and security. The group
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South Korea's central bank, the Bank of Korea (BOK), plans to organize a task force dedicated to central bank digital currency (CBDC) research in the new year.In its “Monetary Policy for 2020” brief, published on Dec. 27, BOK said it would continue to build on its existing research into
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Someone has been sending bomb threats across Russia, demanding $870,000 worth of bitcoin supposedly stolen from the defunct cryptocurrency exchange WEX.For almost a month, anonymous blackmailers have been threatening to blow up courts, schools, shopping malls, transportation hubs and a television station unless someone sends “120 bitcoin stolen from the
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The Bottle Pay service, which allowed users to send Bitcoin (BTC) via social media accounts, announced on Dec. 13 that it would be shutting down due to Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulations. Funds will remain available for withdrawal until 13:00 GMT on Dec. 31, 2019.New user data collection would negatively impact
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The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) asked the High Court of England and Wales to force Telegram’s former chief investment advisor John Hyman to testify in the case over the firm’s Grams tokens offering.Industry news outlet Coindesk reported on Dec. 7 that the SEC’s request was revealed
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Men of the Australian Border Force (ABF) has once again proved their undying commitment to keep the Aussie nation clean. The officers, who act as watchdogs overseeing everything that comes in and goes out via the border, scored yet another one for the good guys by apprehending two supposed drug
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Today during a panel at BlockShow Asia 2019, a group of cryptocurrency industry leaders announced the creation of a protocol that aims to maintain privacy while complying with Financial Action Task Force (FATF) regulation. The FATF’s so-called “travel rule” requires virtual asset service providers (VASPs) like cryptocurrency exchanges to collect
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Trying to crack a private key with a brute force attack is a bit like trying to count to infinity: the sooner you begin, the faster you’ll never get there.
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