Coronavirus


Tecnología

Privacy Advocates Are Sounding Alarms Over Coronavirus Surveillance

Crises provide opportunities for surveillance architecture to move forward, say privacy advocates. This time is no different.

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Mercados

Into the Unknown: No Limit on Fed Money Injections

Drastic measures are being taken by the Federal Reserve as Wall Street reels from fresh predictions of a steep drop-off in economic output due to coronavirus-related lockdowns, business disruptions and job losses.

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Regulación

The US Needs a Wartime Effort to Win the Coronavirus Battle

The coronavirus crisis is three crises in one. It requires a co-ordinated cross-boundary effort to avert, says the COO of Bitwise Asset Management.

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Regulación

The US Should Use Stablecoins for Emergency Coronavirus Payments

Paying out the stimulus using stablecoins would be cleaner and cheaper than sending checks in the mail, says the CEO Of Binance.US.

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Mercados

State Power After Coronavirus, Feat. Peter McCormack

An off-the-cuff conversation about state power, nuance in an age of tribalism and where bitcoin meets politics, with Peter McCormack.

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Finanzas

How to Escape Contracts That Are Killing Your Company During Coronavirus

Our “Not Legal Advice” columnist reviews options for changing or terminating business contracts during this crisis.

Medical data company OneMedNet late last month purchased $1.8 million of bitcoin (Fusion Medical Animatin/Unsplash

Regulación

What an Uptick in 'Coinjoins' Says About Bitcoin's Value Proposition

A bitcoin privacy technology is seeing more usage as the global markets tank.

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Mercados

The Coronavirus API Delivers Vital Statistics Unmediated by Government Hands

Coronavirus API aggregates and presents real-time information related to the coronavirus pandemic.

Coronavirus have a "crown-like" structure, image via the Ecohealth Alliance

Tecnología

Thousands of These Computers Were Mining Cryptocurrency. Now They're Working on Coronavirus Research

The largest U.S. Ethereum miner is redirecting the processing power of 6,000 specialized computer chips toward research to find a drug for the coronavirus.

ALL TOGETHER NOW: Like a blockchain network, Folding@home marshals thousands of computers from around the world to form a distributed supercomputer for disease research. (Protein image: Shutterstock)

Mercados

Dollar-Backed Stablecoins Are Holding Their Own Amid Coronavirus Chaos

As the global equities markets continue their free fall, stablecoins seem to be weathering the storm.

Habit de Monnayeur (Coiner) by Nicolas II de Larmessin, 1695 (via Wiki commons). A "coiner" in the old days was a person who coined money, often counterfeit coins.