He was sentenced to 12 months in prison, but suspended for 2 years. Wright was convicted after launching a legal claim against Bitcoin developers. A London court convicted Craig Wright, the fake Satoshi Nakamoto, of contempt of court. The sentence is 12 months in prison, although suspended. The conviction It comes after Wright launched a … Read more
US President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday called on Congress to avoid a shutdown and said he had “success” in crafting a new plan to fund the government and lift the debt ceiling. Trump and billionaire ally Elon Musk had publicly rejected a previous bipartisan proposal, which had Republicans in Congress ready for a government shutdown … Read more
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday accused Israel of causing the deaths of thousands of Palestinians by systematically restricting and targeting Gaza’s water supply in a campaign that amounts to “acts of genocide”. Source link
Guilty verdicts for all. A court in southern France sentencing Dominique Pelicot along with the fifty co-defendants he invited over the Internet into the family home to rape his drugged wife. The seventy two-year old pensioner got the maximum twenty years. Source link
With just days to go before Christmas, thousands of Amazon workers across the US walked off the job. European stocks fell on the Fed’s inflation outlook, while US stocks rebounded after being rattled on Wednesday. Meanwhile the US is once again facing the prospect of a government shutdown. Plus, you can now call ChatGPT on … Read more
Dozens of defendants in the Pelicot trial — the men who visited the Pelicot family home to rape Gisele Pelicot who was unconscious after being drugged by her husband — were handed terms of between three and fifteen years. Women’s rights groups and the three Pelicot children, expressed disappointment, arguing the sentences were too lenient. … Read more
Conventional data centers currently have power and cooling limitations. AI may offer more stable income streams, but would limit the hashing power of miners. Thanks to their infrastructure, Bitcoin (BTC) mining companies would be in a favorable position to take advantage of the demand for data centers from sectors such as artificial intelligence (AI) and … Read more
France’s new Prime Minister François Bayrou said on Thursday he hopes to have a budget ready by mid-February, and would consider using special constitutional powers to get the budget through parliament, if opposition parties tried to block it. Source link
The Financial Freedom Policy Coalition, an organization founded by Venezuelan activist Jorge Jraissati, has received a grant in bitcoin (BTC) as part of the latest round of funding from the Bitcoin Development Fund, an initiative of the Human Rights Foundation ( HRF). In the last few hours, the information was released on social networks. The … Read more
