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Bitcoin challenges the powers that be
While the chattering classes are blathering about the racism of Dr. Seuss, the sexual harassment of Pepé Le Pew and the wokeness of Mr. Potato Head, a subterranean herculean battle is brewing over a new financial asset that could give the masses unprecedented power to prevent profligate governments from impoverishing them by printing money ad infinitum – Bitcoin.
Joseph Bentivegna MD
Bitcoin is a digital cryptocurrency, meaning that it is protected by complex codes rendering it impossible to counterfeit. Its origins are somewhat mysterious but the consensus is that in 2008 a consortium of geniuses with the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto decided to create the digital equivalent of gold. But unlike digging in the earth or panning for it in stream, bitcoins are mined from Bitcoin software by ambitious computer geeks solving increasingly complex computer problems and then being rewarded a number of bitcoins. The number of bitcoins that would be rel
In July, an 89-year-old Chinese woman was set on fire while walking on the street
after being slapped in the face in Brooklyn, New York. The two assailants, she said, didn’t say a word before attacking her. She scrambled to put out the fire, but it left a large burn mark on the back of her pink blouse a grisly reminder of the attack.
It was not an isolated incident. Between March 19 and December 31, 2020, there were more than 2,808 “firsthand accounts of anti-Asian hate,” according to a report by Stop AAPI Hate, an organization that has been tracking reports on anti-Asian violence
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