Bitcoin Enthusiast Al Gore to Star in ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ Follow-Up
This coming January the Sundance movie festival will commence with a new film about climate change by former Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton, Al Gore. “The timing, unfortunately, could not be better,” The Washington Post writes. The film, announced Friday, will be produced by Paramount Pictures and Participant Media on Friday. It represents the follow-up to Mr. Gore’s 2006 film, “An Inconvenient Truth”, which won an Oscar. In the first documentary, documentarian Davis Guggenheim chronicled Gore’s talks on global warming. “Now more than ever we must rededicate....
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At the PYMNTS' Innovation Project 2013 conference, former US vice president Al Gore made waves by speaking out in favor of bitcoin and the potential of the distributed ledger technology that drives the cryptocurrency. "I think the fact that within the bitcoin universe an algorithm replaces the functions of [the government] … is actually pretty cool," Gore said. "I know that there are a lot of innovators that are out there that are trying to … come up with new models and I look forward to that." And 2016 saw governments on both the local and national levels come to the same conclusion as....
A new survey has found that consumers believe bitcoin to be more inconvenient than traditional payment methods such as credit cards and checks. Conducted by prepaid and gift card product provider Blackhawk Network in April, the poll canvassed 1,000 US consumers, questioning them about their sentiment toward both traditional and emerging payment methods. In total, 18% of respondents reported using alternative payment methods such as Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and bitcoin within the last year. Sixty-eight percent of these consumers indicated they used the products more than they did in 2014.....
With the 2016 United States presidential election looming just over the horizon, some of us now turn our thoughts to the process by which we will make our voice heard on November 8th, the process by which we will cast our vote. We’ve heard at the close of the final presidential debate that voting is one of the “honours and obligations of living in this great country,” and as citizens, we want to feel that our vote is valuable. The question is, do we feel certain in the knowledge that our votes will matter? Is our government doing everything possible to ensure that this is the case? 2000,....
Star Financial Bank (Star Bank) says it has become the first bank in the U.S. state of Indiana to offer bitcoin services to customers. The services will be offered through the New York Digital Investment Group and Alkami platform. Customers will have the ability to buy and sell bitcoin via the Star Mobile Banking App.
‘First Bank in the State of Indiana to Offer Bitcoin Trading Services’
Star Financial Bank (Star Bank) announced Tuesday:
Star is excited to offer customers the ability to buy and sell bitcoin via the Star Mobile Banking App.
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A noteworthy step in the bitcoin network is almost here: a difficulty level of 20 billion. While only a projected four percent increase, according to mining data service Bitcoin Wisdom, the change shows the every-climbing increase in mining power and reminds us that growth in the mining network shows few signs of slowing down. In this week's roundup, we'll look at a new announcement from BitFury's leadership, a financial audit from ROCKMINER and a one-of-a-kind hobby miner from a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. A look inside the Mine'ellium Falcon. While it might not make the....