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Thousands Without Power As Winter Storm Brings ‘Bitterly Cold’ Temperatures To Large Portions Of U.S.
Topline Thousands of Americans woke up without electricity Saturday following a winter storm that the National Weather Service said will continue to bring “bitterly cold temperatures” from Texas to Ma...
Texans Breathe Sighs Of Relief As ERCOT Power Grid Passes Winter Test
Young sister throwing snow ball at brother in backyard during winter weather. getty It wasn’t last year’s Winter Storm Uri, but residents all over Texas are breathing sighs of relief anyway Saturday m...
At Winter Olympics, China Showcases The World It’s Own Cryptocurrency, Digital Yuan
China is pulling all plugs to make its CBDC digital Yuan popular. The e-CNY is one of the three forms of payment that foreign athletes and dignitaries can use at the Enter Olympics Games. The e-CNY is...
Winter is coming! Here are 5 ways to survive a crypto bear market
The cryptocurrency market has an interesting way of catching even the most seasoned veterans off guard as each bull and bear market initially shows similarities to previous cycles only to veer off in ...
China: CBDC makes a low key debut at Winter Olympics, two banks phase out cash
After eight years of guesses, discourse, and conflicting reports, China’s digital yuan CBDC made a rather low-key debut at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics on 4 February. Time to introduce “yuan” self...
Hundreds Worldwide Protest China’s Human Rights Abuses As Beijing Winter Olympics Kick Off
Topline Hundreds of people in several countries on Friday protested against China’s repression of its Muslim Uyghur minority and Tibetans as the Beijing Winter Olympics kicked off amid diplomatic boyc...
US lawmakers issue warnings about digital yuan as Winter Olympics kicks off
With the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics completed and all competing athletes currently in China, two members of Congress are warning of the potential dangers of using digital yua...
Oil Stocks At Or Near Buy Range As Oil Surges Above $90 On Winter Blast| Investor’s Business Daily
U.S. oil prices surged briefly above $92 per barrel early Friday, holding above the key benchmark as a massive winter storm swept through Texas headed toward the Northeast. X Thousands of flights were...
Texas Crypto Miners To Close Operations On Upcoming Winter Storm
Major Texas crypto miners adopt a proactive approach and close down 99% of their mining operations to fear an expected Arctic blast. A massive winter storm with heavy snow, rains, and flash flooding w...
Record Numbers Of Openly LGBTQ+ Athletes Will Compete At Beijing 2022 — Including First Openly Nonbinary Winter Olympian
Topline Beijing 2022 has the highest number of openly LGBTQ+ competitors at a Winter Olympic Games ever, including its first nonbinary athlete, hot on the heels of a record-setting Games in Tokyo last...
Texas Crypto Miners Shuttering Operations as Winter Storm Approaches
To be sure, Texas, there are programs available for heavy power consumers such as crypto miners, to incentivize them to lower their energy usage during peak demand periods. For example, in exchange fo...
Crypto Winter? Coin Bureau Says Digital Assets Are Completely Different From Last Bear Market – Here’s Why
The host of the popular YouTube channel Coin Bureau thinks digital assets are in a completely different place than they were during the “crypto winter” of 2018/2019. The pseudonymous analyst known as ...
Crypto miner in Texas shuts down 99% of operations as winter storm approaches
With Winter Storm Landon expected to hit parts of Texas this week, major crypto mining firms are powering down in anticipation of high demands on the state’s power grid. Speaking to Cointelegraph on W...
Massive winter storm grounds hundreds of flights across the U.S.
Travelers wait at the check-in counters of Southwest Airlines at Dallas Love Field Airport in Dallas, Texas, the United States, Dec. 17, 2021. Guangming Li | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images Airlines...
Broadway Box Office Drops Again As Brutal Winter Continues
A scene from the newly refurbished Broadway hit, HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD Matthew Murphy Good news for Broadway remains scarce as winter rolls on. Omicron wreaked true havoc over the holidays...
Here’s How China Repurposed 2008 Summer Olympic Venues For The Winter Games (Photos)
Topline Beijing is the first city to host both the Summer and Winter Olympics, and China has revamped many of the venues from the 2008 Games for the 2022 competitions – here’s how organizers did it. T...
COVID restrictions stymie digital yuan rollout at Beijing Winter Olympics: Report
Though athletes and support staff arriving for the Beijing 2022 Olympics still have the option of using digital currency for payments at many venues, the international test run of China’s CBDC is repo...
There Is Only One Winner Of The Winter Olympics 2022
The Winter Olympics 2022 is surrounded by many controversies, and the artificial snow is the least of the concerns. The Chinese government stands accused of perpetrating genocide and crimes against hu...
Could January’s crypto ‘winter’ actually be here to stay
The month of January has spooked the market amid a larger sell-off that has kept the sentiments damp. As per the latest CryptoCompare report, Bitcoin and Ethereum fell by 23.3% and 36.9%, respectively...
Crypto Winter: An Investor’s Big Fear…
It’s been a challenging few months for crypto investors since Bitcoin fell from its all time high of 69k; on top of that, many coins have followed in BTC’s price action footsteps. The entire crypto ma...
Is a Crypto Winter Coming? 3 Things to Consider
There’s a growing belief the crypto market (in more recent years) follows a pattern of rising and falling in price every four years. Whether this is the result of a self-fulfilling prophecy or not is ...
Is a Crypto Winter Coming Our Way? Analysts Weigh In
Bitcoin and several leading digital currencies have experienced heavy price drops in recent days. Many analysts now fear that things are going to get a lot worse, and that a crypto winter may potentia...
6 Reasons for Optimism This Crypto Winter
The current situation is quite different. While excessive enthusiasm for new tokens contributed to unsustainable price rallies, crypto’s ballooning market capitalization was also fueled by unprecedent...
Winter storm set to snarl Northeast air travel
JetBlue Airways Corp. Craig Warga | Bloomberg | Getty Images Airlines have canceled hundreds of flights ahead of a winter storm that forecasters expect will bring high winds and potential for more tha...
Can ‘DeFi Winter’ really wipe out 80% dApps from the market
The recent lull in cryptocurrency market prices has been felt across all sectors in the industry, but decentralized finance might be in for an especially harrowing time, according to experts at DApp R...
Beijing Begins Third Round Of Mass Covid-19 Testing Ahead Of Winter Olympics
Topline China’s capital Beijing began a third round of mass testing of millions of its residents on Wednesday as Covid-19 cases in the city continued to trickle upward a week before the city is set to...
Nouriel Roubini Gloats Over 50% Bitcoin Crash as Investors Fear New Crypto Winter
Yuri Molchan Prominent Bitcoin critic Dr. Doom, who gloats over the 50% Bitcoin crash, stated that many altcoins have fallen by almost 90% Contents Bitcoin down to its lowest since July Fears of new c...
Investment Banking Giant Issues Bitcoin (BTC) and Crypto Warning, Says Correction Could Start Multi-Year Bear Winter: Report
Analysts at investment banking giant Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) are reportedly warning that a confluence of factors could see crypto prices remaining depressed for years. According to Business In...
Crypto winter? Investors fear bitcoin has further to drop
Two commemorative bitcoins pictured in front of a Tesla car during cold weather on Jan. 7, 2022. Artur Widak | NurPhoto via Getty Images As cryptocurrency investors reel from the sharp sell-off in bit...
UBS Warns of a Crypto Winter, Expects Fed Rate Hikes and Regulation
A recent report by UBS, Switzerland’s largest bank, has warned about a crypto winter in which prices drop and may not recover for years. According to the bank’s analysts, several key factors affect cr...