Israel put on hold a proposal to tax church-owned property in Jerusalem after top Christian clerics in the city closed the venerated Church of the Holy Sepulchre to protest the planned levies. The office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that a professional team would meet with church
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Craig Wright, the Australian technology entrepreneur who once claimed to have been behind the creation of bitcoin, is being sued by the family of a dead former business partner.
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“All new companies try to do that,” said Levitt, who advises cryptocurrency ventures including BitPay and Mirror and is a director at Bloomberg LP, the parent of Bloomberg News. “There's nothing unique about cryptocurrencies,” he said. Already, they're tapping a wide range of government expertise.
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David Kadavy used to post on Facebook without expecting to get paid. Then blockchain came along. After stumbling onto a new corner of the internet based on the digital-ledger technology, Kadavy said he gets paid to post his blog and podcast on Steemit, a website whose text are saved on a
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China is opening a new front in its battle against cryptocurrencies, targeting platforms that allow the nation's investors to trade digital assets on overseas exchanges, people familiar with the matter said. Regulators are planning to scrutinize the Chinese bank and online-payment accounts of businesses
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