The billionaire head of asset management company BlackRock says the Ukraine war will accelerate digital currency adoption. In a letter to shareholders, CEO Larry Fink asserted that the war “will promp...
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Russia’s War in Ukraine Could Increase Global Demand for Crypto, Says BlackRock CEO
The BlackRock CEO opines that the Russia-Ukraine crisis could boost crypto use for international transaction settlement. According to Larry Fink, CEO of American investment management giant BlackRock ...
BlackRock’s Larry Fink says Ukraine war could spur digital currencies
Larry Fink, the Chairman and CEO of investment giant BlackRock, said that the war in Ukraine has the potential to accelerate digital currencies. In a letter to investors on Thursday, Fink highlighted ...
Ukraine Declares Bitcoin and Crypto Fully Legal
Volodymyr Zelenskyy – the president of Ukraine – has legalized cryptocurrency use in his native country. The move stems after Ukraine received countless crypto donations from individuals around the wo...
Russia May Be Showing It’s Running Low On Precision-Guided Munitions
Russia’s MiG-31 supersonic interceptor jets carrying hypersonic Kinzhal (Dagger) missiles fly over … [+] Red Square during the Victory Day military parade in Moscow on May 9, 2018. (Photo ...
More Russian Oligarchs, Businesses And Mercenary Assassins Targeted By New U.K. Sanctions
Topline The U.K. government on Thursday announced sanctions on 65 more Russian people and businesses to “cut off vital industries fueling Putin’s war machine,” the latest in a series of escalating san...
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Says Russia-Ukraine War Is Upending World Order And Will End Globalization
Topline The war between Russia and Ukraine has heralded the end of globalization, as the conflict has upended the current world order that has been in place since the Cold War and will have lasting gl...
How One Russian-Speaking Crypto Company Is Navigating the War in Ukraine
“Obviously, a similar crisis might happen in our second-most populous location, Ukraine, so we started making some contingency planning for that,” Kardapoltsev said of the company’s planning earlier t...
Russia Central Banker Wanted Out Over Ukraine, Putin Said No
(Bloomberg) — Russia’s highly regarded central bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina sought to resign after Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion of Ukraine, only to be told by the president to stay, acc...
ADBE Stock Down 9% despite Record Revenue in Q1 2022, Adobe Blames War in Ukraine
For Q1 of the fiscal year 2022, Adobe reported revenue of 4.26 billion. The figure represented a growth of 9% year over year. Adobe Inc (NASDAQ: ADBE) stock slipped over 9% on Wednesday to close the d...
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...
Zelensky Calls For Global Demonstrations As Russian Invasion Enters 2nd Month
Topline Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky late Wednesday night called on people worldwide to stand with Ukraine in demonstrations on March 24, exactly one month after Russia first invaded Ukraine...
Ukraine Pushes Some Russian Troops Away From Kyiv, U.S. Says
Topline Ukrainian forces mounted a counteroffensive east of Kyiv and pushed Russia away from the capital city, an unnamed U.S. official told reporters Wednesday, the latest display of resistance in th...
U.S. Declares Russia Has Committed War Crimes In Ukraine
Topline Russian troops have committed war crimes in Ukraine, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday, issuing a statement that blasted Russia for ‘deliberately targeting civilians, as well as...
Putin’s Aide Chubais Resigns–Said To Flee Russia Over Opposition To Ukraine Invasion
Topline Anatoly Chubais, a high-ranking Russian official who led the country’s post-Soviet economic reforms, has resigned from his post and fled the country in opposition to Russia’s invasion of Ukrai...
Russia Stock Exchange Will Finally Reopen After Ukraine Invasion—But Under These Restrictions
Topline The Moscow Stock Exchange, Russia’s largest exchange group, announced on Wednesday it would reopen trading for certain stocks after a nearly one-month shutdown following the nation’...
Omicron’s subvariant BA.2 could spread ‘wildly’ in Europe: Epidemiologist
Doctor Immanuel Hardtmann holds a syringe with the vaccine Moderna in a temporary vaccination center inside the Excursion boat Alexander von Humboldt on the first day of the #HierWirdGeimpft (Get Vacc...
Will Putin Nuke Ukraine?
Russian President Vladimir Putin watches training launches of ballistic missiles as part of the … [+] Grom-2022 Strategic Deterrence Force exercise, from the Russian Defense Ministry in Moscow o...
War-Fueled Global Hunger Catastrophe On The Way With Solutions Tough To Come By
Dmytro Smolienko/Getty Images Disrupted exports, drought, refugees to feed and record-high fertilizer prices conspire to spread food insecurity worldwide. By Chloe Sorvino Tens of millions of people, ...
Ukraine turns to cryptocurrencies – The Cryptonomist
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday signed a law legalizing the use and possession of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in the country, the first case in Europe and among the first in the ...
Rebel Forces In Belarus Have Partially Severed Railway Route Into Ukraine, Kyiv Says
Topline Rebel forces in Belarus have partially severed a railway connection between the country and Ukraine, the Ukrainian Armed Forces said in its daily operational report on Wednesday, signaling opp...
With The Ukraine War, The Green Chickens Have Come Home To Roost
TOPSHOT – Ukrainian servicemen ride on tanks towards the front line with Russian forces in the … [+] Lugansk region of Ukraine on February 25, 2022. – Ukrainian forces fought off Rus...
Marjorie Taylor Greene Suggests Ukraine Instigated Russian Invasion
Topline Right-wing firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Tuesday suggested Ukraine bears responsibility for provoking a Russian invasion, breaking with the views of Republican leaders in he...
Russian Press Secretary Won’t Rule Out Use Of Nuclear Weapons
Topline Dmitry Peskov, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary, would not rule out the possibility of Russia using nuclear weapons if it is faced with an “existential threat,” and admitted ...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX sent thousands of Starlink satellite dishes to Ukraine, exec says
A shipment of SpaceX’s Starlink satellite antennas, also known as terminals, arriving in Ukraine. Fedorov Mykhailo on Twitter WASHINGTON – SpaceX has sent “thousands” of Starlink sat...
Upbit operator donates 1 billion Won to Ukraine
TL;DR Breakdown South Korean fintech company, Dunamu donated one billion won to Ukraine WFP ramps up food operation to Ukraine Dunamu, the operator of the largest South Korean cryptocurrency exchange ...
Intense Combat Video Shows Ukrainians Take On Russian Tank At Point-Blank Range
Any video put out by one side involved in a conflict deserves to be treated with some caution; like the Russian video which supposedly showed a strike by their Kinzhal hypersonic missile which was act...
Stellar (XLM) is still working with Ukraine to launch a CBDC
The CEO of Stellar, Denelle Dixon, has announced that the company is working with Ukraine to launch a central bank digital currency (CBDC). Ukraine’s CBDC plans are still ongoing despite the ongoing c...
Opinion: Ukraine war is a wake-up call to ditch oil and gas forever
That invasion, and the subsequent U.S. ban on oil imports from Russia, are partly responsible, but they aren’t the only reason. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the impact of t...