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The American heartland needs jobs. Could Bitcoin mining become its next savior?

A startup called Core Scientific announced this week that it has raised $23 million to expand its cryptocurrency mining operations. The company, based in Bellevue, Wash., is already running crypto mines in North Carolina, Georgia, and Kentucky, and plans to open more before long. It’s not hard to understand why. Right now, a single Bitcoin—the […]

Crypto tax rules are a-changin’

The crypto world is about to be filing a whole lot more 1099 forms with the federal government. Read More

Map: U.S. states doing the best (and worst) when it comes to administering COVID vaccines

With the U.S. averaging well over 200,000 new coronavirus cases per day, and the conditions for a bleak COVID winter already upon us, the urgency of distributing and administering the nation’s available vaccines increases every day. Through Tuesday, Jan 12, roughly 27.7 million doses had been distributed, according to CDC data, but roughly only one […]