Gold Coast Mayor Proposes Allowing Bitcoin for Property Tax Payments

The mayor of Australia’s Gold Coast has suggested that citizens should be allowed to pay their property taxes in bitcoin.  Mayor Tom Tate has said that it would send a positive signal to younger ratep...

Fed Up, Congress Considers Giving Coast Guard The Navy’s Small Ship Funding

The U.S. Coast Guard’s smallest cutters are forward deployed and ranging into strategic waters. MediaNews Group via Getty Images As the U.S. Navy continues a long, forty-year trend of moving awa...

U.S. Coast Guard, Desperate For New Polar Icebreakers, Eyes A Used Ship

M/V Aiviq may be turned into a Coast Guard Cutter Safe Marine Management As America’s Polar Security Cutter Program faces increasing delays, the U.S. Coast Guard is seeking to buy a commercially avail...

Zipmex Partnered with Penrith Panthers and Coast Mariners

Zipmex partnered with teams from Australia’s A-League Men soccer league and National Rugby League. The move will enhance Zipmex’s awareness in Australia. In its recent funding Zipmex raised $41 ...

Why this crypto event on the Adriatic coast will be unlike all others

Set to begin on May 11th, BlockDown Croatia will be the world’s first NFT-enabled Web3 festival. The successor of the hugely popular BlockDown events, this year’s conference will take place in the sun...

How The Environmental Movement Is Democratizing And Diversifying

A mosaic of environmental causes across health and justice, climate and energy, clean air and water, … [+] and thriving natural systems. Mosaic Historically, the environmental movement has follo...

Hasbro activist wants toy company to spin-off Wizards of the Coast

An activist investor wants to add new members to Hasbro’s board and is urging the toy company to make changes to its current business strategy, including spinning off its lucrative Wizards of th...

BlockDown returns with an NFT-enabled festival of Web3 culture on the Croatian coast

Following on from the BlockDown: DeData conference last December, BlockDown is returning this May 11-13 for its first in-person festival in the coastal city of Sibenik in Croatia for the world’s first...

A Crypto Paradise off the Coast of Vanuatu

Bitcoin Island could soon be a real place. A British property investor plans to turn a South Pacific idyll into a real-world paradise for bitcoin investors. For the past decade, retired property devel...

Here’s What The Bomb Cyclone Left Behind In New York, Maryland And Other East Coast Cities

Topline The nor’easter storm, officially considered a bomb cyclone, ravaged much of the East Coast over the weekend, putting millions on weather alert and stranding thousands at airports as near-recor...

‘Ugly’ Nor’easter Hits East Coast With Potential Record-Breaking Snowfall

Topline A powerful winter storm swept up the East Coast on Saturday, bringing snow from North Carolina to Maine—with a potentially record-breaking amount forecast for Massachusetts and Rhode Island—an...

The Coast Guard’s MH-65 Helicopter Fleet Is Headed For Trouble

Coast Guard Dolphin Helicopters are heading into trouble. U.S. Coast Guard The Coast Guard’s aging fleet of 98 Airbus MH-65 Dolphin helicopters are an integral part of the U.S. Coast Guard, handling m...

Tsunami Advisory Issued For West Coast, Hawaii And Alaska After Volcano Erupts Off Tonga

Topline A tsunami advisory is in effect for the West Coast of North America—from California through British Columbia to Alaska—and Hawaii, the National Weather Service said Saturday, resulting from th...

Penn Station East Coast Subs Expanding Within Its 14-State Radius

Penn Station East Coast Subs anticipates opening from 18 to 23 new locations in 2022, despite some … [+] heavyweight competitors. Courtesy of Penn Station, Inc.  One might expect a submarine res...