The monetary authority in Moscow has expressed support for the latest legislative attempt to legalize cryptocurrency mining. However, the regulator wants the extracted digital currency to be sold outs...
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China GDP Poised To Outperform World Average In 2023 – PwC
A woman has her routine COVID-19 throat swab at a testing site despite authorities starting to ease … [+] some of the anti-virus controls in Beijing on Dec. 8. China is the last major country st...
Five Brave Ukrainian MiG Pilots Blunted the Russian Attack On Kyiv On Day One Of The War. Not All Of Them Survived.
Lt. Col. Vyacheslav Yerko. Ukrainian defense ministry photo The Kremlin had a bold—some might say reckless—plan for swiftly defeating the Ukrainian armed forces and toppling the government in Kyiv. Th...
After the Reagan National Defense Forum and Survey
U.S. Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, addresses the crowd at the Reagan National Defense Forum in … [+] Simi Valley, CA. Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute A few days after...
Brittney Griner Lands In U.S. After 10 Months In Russian Prison
Topline Basketball star Brittney Griner has returned to U.S. soil after months of captivity in Russia as part of a high-profile prisoner swap for a Russian arms dealer, ending months of diplomatic joc...
What Targeting Of Children Has To Do With Genocidal Atrocities?
December 9 marks the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime. It is a day established by the U.N. General Assembly to...
Russia may become the second-largest crypto miner, expert claims
Didar Bekbauov — the founder of Kazakh Bitcoin (BTC) mining firm Xive — suggested that Russia may soon become a major player in the space of cryptocurrency mining. Bekbauov wrote in a recent Twitter t...
Fake Air-Defenses Are Bolstering Ukraine’s Real Air-Defenses
A Ukrainian S-300 launcher in Kyiv in 2018. Wikimedia Commons The sky over Ukraine is one of the most dangerous places in the world for aircrews. Ukrainian and Russian air-defenses blanket the entire ...
Ukraine Has The Weapons To Attack Moscow, But Ukrainian Leaders Probably Know Better
A Ukrainian Tu-143 launches in 2014. Ukrainian defense ministry capture When Ukrainian drones struck a pair of Russian air force bomber bases more than 300 miles inside the Russian border, they didn’t...
His MiG-29 In Flames, Blood Pouring Down His Face, This Ukrainian Pilot Still Managed To Snap A Selfie
Vadym Voroshylov parachutes to Earth following his October battle with Russian drones. Instagram photo via the Ukrainian defense ministry An accomplished photographer and videographer, Maj. Vadym Voro...
Russia Expects Sizable Increase in Crypto Miners’ Share of Power Usage – Mining Bitcoin News
The crypto mining industry may see a two-fold increase in its share of Russia’s power consumption in 2022, according to a high-ranking official from the Ministry of Energy. The department supports a b...
Bank of Russia wants to ban miners from selling crypto to Russians
The Russian central bank continues to maintain an extremely negative stance on cryptocurrencies, proposing to ban local miners from selling coins to local people. The Bank of Russia has supported the ...
U.S. Trade Booms Except For 3 Countries: Russia, Ukraine, Hong Kong
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to China’s President Xi Jinping when they met in Uzbekistan … [+] in September. SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images U.S. merchandise trade with the world i...
Energy partnership between U.S., Britain aims to ramp up LNG supplies
Rishi Sunak and Joe Biden photographed on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Indonesia on Nov. 16, 2022. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images LONDON — The U.K. and U.S. are forming a new energy partnership ...
Ukrainian Scouts Were In Their Foxholes Near Bakhmut When A Russian Bomber Came Crashing Down
The wreckage of a Russian Su-24 bomber near Bakhmut. Ukrainian army photo A Ukrainian army reconnaissance battalion was directly below when, on the night of Dec. 2, allied forces around Bakhmut in eas...
You Won’t Believe How Low Gasoline is Likely to Go
Gasoline prices fell by $0.50 a gallon since November, giving consumers a reprieve into the holiday season. Prices have declined since early November with Americans saving a cumulative $200 million a ...
Renewables to be main source of electricity generation by 2025: IEA
Wind turbines in the Netherlands. A report from the International Energy Agency “expects renewables to become the primary energy source for electricity generation globally in the next three year...
Ukraine’s Drones Spell Danger For A Vast Swathe Of Russia As New Airbase Strike Reported
The Ukrainian strikes which we reported yesterday on Russian airbases 400 miles inside Russian territory have huge implications for this conflict. Now social media reports describe a fresh drone attac...
Ukraine Pulled Ex-Soviet Recon Drones Out Of Storage, Added Bombs And Sent Them Hurtling Toward Russia
An ex-Soviet Tu-141 variant in storage in Moscow in 2012. Alan Wilson photo The drones that Ukrainian forces used to strike two Russian bomber bases 300 miles inside Russia on Monday weren’t the satel...
A Fierce And Furious Russian Punkster In New York
Max Pokrovskiy of Nogu Svelo! at The Cutting Room, New York. September, 2022 Max Pokrovskiy Facebook Page Veteran rocker Max Pokrovskiy, leader of the popular Russian pop-punk rock band Nogu Svelo!, u...
Russia closes biggest digital asset deal in Chinese Yuan
Russian authorities have approved the country’s first legal digital asset deal using the Chinese Yuan. The transaction, worth about 58m Chinese yuan ($8.3m), became the biggest legal deal of its kind ...
Discounted Crypto Mining ASIC Demand in Russia Skyrockets
Demand for discounted ASIC crypto mining equipment saw a massive boost in Russia in Q4, and the country’s cheap electricity rates played a critical role. Nonetheless, the global outlook for miners is ...
In Eight Years, Russian Agents Blew Up 210,000 Tons Of Ukrainian Ammo—And Nearly Silenced Kyiv’s Artillery
Ukrainian defense ministry photo Russia hasn’t done a lot right in its 10-month-old wider war on Ukraine. But it did at least one thing right before the war. A systematic Russian sabotage campaign tar...
OPEC+ Pauses as Russia Sanctions and China Covid Rules Roil Crude Markets
(Bloomberg) — OPEC+ responded to surging volatility and growing market uncertainty by keeping its oil production unchanged. Most Read from Bloomberg The outcome of the brief online meeting on Su...
Russia Miners Buy More BTC Mining Rigs in Quarter 4, Report
Bitcoin and the entire crypto market bleed due to many challenges that have befallen the industry. From the Terra crash and continuous interest rate hikes to FTX implosion, the market hasn’t enjoyed a...
Demand for Cryptocurrency Miners Rises in Russia Amid Low Prices of Hardware – Mining Bitcoin News
Russia’s market for specialized crypto mining equipment has been seeing high demand over the past couple of months, with buyers attracted by the low price tags. Russian experts also predict an increas...
Anticipating A Russian Attack, The Ukrainian Army Doubled Its Artillery
A Ukrainian army BM-21 rocket-launcher. Ukrainian defense ministry photo In Soviet ground-warfare doctrine, which both the Ukrainian and Russian armies largely still follow, artillery is the decisive ...
Stash of ASIC devices by Crypto Miners in Russia Amid Dip
The Recent Scenario Russia’s cryptocurrency miners are going against the wave of the ongoing crisis of crypto mining as the supply of mining hardware is lagging behind as seen in the fourth quarter...