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Louisiana Legislature Passes Resolution Praising Bitcoin, Encourages Use Newsweek 2 days ago Scott Reeves © Photo by Rey Del Rio/Getty Images Sean Culkin, who previously played for the Los Angeles Chargers, will have his entire NFL salary converted into bitcoin in 2021. The Louisiana House of Representatives has passed a resolution praising Bitcoin and encouraging state and local governments to explore ways to use the cryptocurrency. The resolution, signed by Speaker Clay Schexnayder, a Republican, lauds Bitcoin "for its success in becoming the first decentralized trillio...

Toward the end of our hour-long interview, Bitcoin.com founder Roger Ver drops a bombshell: He had considered killing himself to escape a jail sentence at the age of 23. Even for the most freedom-loving libertarian, this seems extreme. But Ver had worked out a way to escape his own death by having himself cryonically preserved, to be revived at a later date. At 20 years old, Ver had already signed up with Arizona life extension company Alcor to be frozen after death, long before he was handed a 10-month prison stretch in 2002 for selling firecrackers on eBay. “It’ll freeze your body in ...

  It was a weekend of mixed signals for Bitcoin. There was FUD from Christine Lagarde and persisting rumours surrounding the negative impact of Tether, but there were also a host of financial industry grandees and politicians lining up to declare themselves converts. Even former Chief Economist of the World Bank, Larry Summers seems to have come round. And can the IMF really afford to start ignoring Twitter polls? Especially when they’re so resounding. In the markets, Bitcoin also doesn’t quite seem to know what to do with itself at the moment, continuing to hover around the $36k mark. I...