Topline Elon Musk’s Neuralink, which develops implants that enable a direct interface between the human brain and computers, is being accused by an animal-welfare group of violating hazardous ma...
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Jeff Ubben’s Inclusive Capital takes stake in Salesforce as more activists target the software giant
Signage on a Saleforce office building in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Jeff Ubben’s Inclusive Capital has taken a posi...
Greta Thunberg and other climate activists discuss the energy transition at Davos
[The stream is slated to start at 5:15 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] Alongside IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol, activist Greta Thunberg is taking ...
Activists Sue New York For Approving Bitcoin Mining Operation
Despite the growing appeal of crypto and how it is reshaping the world’s financial markets, some people just don’t want anything to do with it. On January 13, two environmental groups named Clean Air ...
Ignore Soup Throwing Climate Activists
LONDON, ENGLAND – OCTOBER 14: Climate protesters hold a demonstration as they throw cans of tomato … [+] soup at Vincent van Goghâs âSunflowersâ at the National Gallery in London, United ...
Crypto Attracts Bad Activists in Evil Acts: UN Official
Crypto crimes are a huge concern for everyone, including authorities. Svetlana Martynova, UN Coordinator of Countering Terrorism Financing highlited how cryptos are used for financing crimes. UN...
UN Officials Claim Bad Activists Are Using Crypto To Fulfil Bad Deeds
Crypto assets have found use cases across different sectors, increasing their mass adoption globally. From remittance payments to cross-border transactions, digital assets have ensured flexible settl...
German Climate Activists Throw Mashed Potatoes At $110 Million Monet Painting
Topline Two climate activists threw mashed potatoes on a glass-covered painting by famed artist Claude Monet hanging in a German museum Sunday, the latest in a string of prized artwork to be attacked ...
Call for Creation of Common African Digital Currency, Kenyan Activists Turn to Crypto Funding, Ghana on the Brink – Africa Bitcoin News
In Bitcoin.com News’ inaugural newsletter featuring the biggest crypto and economic news stories from Africa, the head of an African regional central bank, Herve Ndoba, implores the bank’s board to in...
Myanmar’s Military Junta Executes Three Pro-Democracy Activists And Former Lawmaker
Topline Myanmar’s government on Monday announced the executions of four pro-democracy activists—including a former lawmaker—claiming they engaged in terrorist activities and carried out killings, a mo...
Kenyan Activists Say Cryptocurrencies Have the ‘Potential to Create New Ways for Young People to Earn’ – Featured Bitcoin News
According to some Kenya-based activists, raising funds through cryptocurrency and non-fungible tokens (NFT) sales is not only faster but less costly as well. The activists added that digital currency ...
Russian Activists Turn to Crypto for Donations to Aid Ukraine Refugees
There is another reason crypto might be preferable for Russians willing to help Ukrainians, said Vlad, a volunteer for Ethos, a fund created by Russian expats that helps refugees rent apartments in Ar...
Web3 activists fight for reproductive rights with NFTs, DAOs and protests
Web3 community members are fighting back against the United States Supreme Court’s ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade. On June 24, the landmark court case, which previously assured the right to have an a...
Activists Glue Themselves To A Van Gogh Painting In Climate Change Protest
Topline Two activists glued themselves to the frame of a Vincent van Gogh painting at the Courtauld Gallery in London Thursday, protesting the art world’s seeming complicity with climate change. Two a...
Human Right Activists: DeFi Tokens Like Spookyswap (BOO) And Gnox Token (GNOX) Are Essential To Financial Freedom
While backers of traditional fiat currencies may see crypto projects as a threat, they’re actually the answer to many issues in the world today. Human rights activists recently told Congress tha...
Human rights activists take aim at privileged crypto critics in letter to Congress
Human rights activists from 20 countries have submitted an open letter to the United States Congress in support of a “responsible crypto policy” and praising Bitcoin (BTC) and stablecoins as essential...
Crypto’s One Unassailable Use Case: Helping Human Rights Activists
Bitcoin developer Jimmy Song’s signature cowboy hat could be spotted here and there at the Oslo Concert Hall, where the forum, organized by the Human Rights Foundation, took place. The erudite investo...
Climate Activists Renew Pressure On ‘Devastating’ East African Oil Pipeline
Star Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate has spoken out against a major crude oil pipeline being … [+] developed in Uganda and Tanzania. dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images A huge crude oi...
Here’s why activists see Bitcoin as the hope and future of upcoming movements
Crypto assets have been seen as a potential medium that could bring the actual change on a ground level due to their nature and a lot of such features The ”biggest Bitcoin event — Bitcoin 2022”, a con...
Ripple Co-Founder Brad Larsen and Climate Change Activists Launch Campaign To Make Bitcoin Eco-Friendly
Independent campaigning group Greenpeace is joining forces with billionaire and Ripple co-founder Brad Larsen to change Bitcoin’s (BTC) code for the sake of the environment. The new “Change the Code, ...
Climate Activists, Billionaire Launch Campaign to Tackle Bitcoin’s Impact on Environment
Bitcoin’s impact on the environment is about to face the limelight as several climate activist organizations such as Greenpeace and crypto billionaire Chris Larsen are launching a campaign to tackle i...
How Activists Are Using New Tools To Outsmart Russian Censors
A demonstrator, holding a Ukrainian flag, participates in a demonstration called by 70 associations in support of Ukraine on the square of Paris’ townhall on March 17. JULIEN DE ROSA/AFP/Getty I...
Bitcoin Mining ‘Is a Perfect Battery’: Why Foundry Insists Green Activists Are Wrong
In brief Bitcoin mining’s migration to North America has raised scrutiny of its environmental impact. Mining giant Foundry claims the industry is accelerating a move to renewables. The issue has...
Opinion: Marc Benioff’s Salesforce fairy tale is crumbling down around him
Salesforce Inc. has been a unique tech company, able to sell itself as a “family” that has higher ideals than just profit to its employees while generating near-universal praise from Wall Street as we...