Joe Biden Demands National Vaccine Mandate

Joe Biden, by decree, has issued a national vaccine mandate for Covid-19 related infections in the United States for federal employees. This vaccine mandate has been highly criticized by many for being an overreach of executive power. Biden has also suggested that the Department of Labor enforce stricter policies where some people have questioned the reasoning behind discriminating against the unvaccinated. Some others have praised this attack on American Civil Liberties.

In a bazaar speech by the president, Joe Biden, Thursday afternoon on national television, accosted the public for unvaccinated people still being able to walk the streets of America. "Our patience is wearing thin..." Joe Biden said during this speech, digging deeper against the people who dare exercise some level of medical autonomy. Biden has issued new rules with his vaccine mandates that affect Federal employees. He is expanding the policy where federal employees (except for particular agencies and organizations like USPS) must be vaccinated while firing the unvaccinated.

Joe Biden had also demanded that private organizations with more than 100 employees enforce these Covid-19 vaccine mandates while telling smaller businesses to apply stricter policies for Covid-19. The vaccine mandate from the Department of Labor declares that all employees must be vaccinated or else the organization will face some consequences with no exceptions. The impact will affect over 100 million US workers in businesses with 100 employees or more. There is no telling how many US Citizens will be affected by this for years to come. 

Joe Biden has told organizations and public agencies to become stricter with their covid-19 policies while effectively subverting Congress to push mandates at the federal level. Other agencies like the FAA have also increased fines against those who refuse to wear masks when traveling in airplanes and other vehicles. Republicans have declared that they will sue Joe Biden and Joe Biden stated: "Have at it." Essentially welcoming the challenge to, what some would say, his authoritarian policies.

Some fear a rise in a medical police state is upon us and that Joe Biden is a threat to the American way of life. What do you think? Do you support these federal vaccine mandates and declarations?

How To Earn Cryptocurrency For Free?

If you're just starting off learning about cryptocurrencies and you want to dive into the scene without spending a single dime into the market, then you actually do have quite a few options. Everything from faucets, social networks to watching videos. There are many ways to earn Bitcoin and more without asking for donations or gifts from friends.

I'm sure you have heard of more popular coins like Bitcoin, Ethereum, maybe even Dogecoin. Yet not so popular coins or tokens like MINDS (an Ethereum token) can also help you generate revenue. First, here are some free traditional ways of earning crypto on the web.

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Faucets

Cryptocurrency faucets are very popular for people who have no money and want to enter the cryptocurrency market. A cryptocurrency faucet is a website that gives you free cryptocurrency for viewing advertisements. It's a very slow process but the earnings are consistent so long as you are consistent and don't mind spending about a minute to collect a 'reward'.

There is only one site I truly trust when it comes to Bitcoin faucets and that is FreeBitco.in. FreeBitco.in offers a referral system, a dice game, a lottery system, and a chance to win $200 from your free claims! We also support their Dogecoin Faucet as well who has some similar features! 

Click below to earn free cryptocurrency from our recommended Faucets:

FreeBitco.in

Social Media

Did you know you can earn cryptocurrencies just by being an active member of some social media sites like Minds & Steemit? On Minds, you don't need to have a lot of influence, instead, you just need a lot of activity on your content such as upvotes, comments, and reshares to generate more Minds Tokens. On Steemit, you can earn Steem, Steem Power, and Steem Dollars (Steem and Steem Dollars are two distinct cryptocurrencies) from upvotes. The more influential a particular user is who upvoted you, the more likely you'll earn greater rewards from the Steem pool. Although the Minds token isn't as popular as Steem, you can use a Decentralized Exchange like ForkDelta to sell your cryptocurrency.

We think you should check them out especially if you're an active blogger or an active social media user. It's better to make these accounts with other friends so you can support each other. On Steemit, competition is very strong, and getting the attention of powerful influencers can be quite difficult at times.

Video / Video Archiving

Just like earning on social media sites you can also earn cryptocurrency by hosting videos, or posting videos on the blockchain, or even getting compensated for watching videos. Every video hosting site has their own way of doing things. LBRY is an archiving service where you download other people's videos and support the network by hosting those videos. You can also upload videos on Minds.

There are a lot more reliable and trustworthy options today than there were a few years ago. Plenty of new sites coming out with cryptocurrencies being a main feature in the site and some Dapps are really competitive and directly targeting popular sites like Facebook, Twitter, etc. You should definitely check them out and try em. No harm in doing so.

As always please be wary of fraudulent practices and do not share out addresses and private keys!

(This article has been revised on August 16th, 2020)

Cuban-Owned Restaurant 'Threatened' By Black Lives Matter Protesters

A Latino-owned restaurant of Cuban refugees in Louisville, Kentucky was harassed by Black Lives Matter supporters who made demands that the business must sign a contract to pay primarily black organizations a monthly fee and officially declare that they will increase the number of black employees to reflect the demographics of the city. They have also made numerous other demands in their 'contract'.

La Bodeguita De Mima, the Cuban-owned restaurant, received demands from local Black Lives Matter supporters such as maintaining that roughly 23% of their employees are black and they included to increase the representation of black products by the same proportional amount. The demands from Black Lives Matter have also included that the restaurant pay organizations like Black Lives Matter 1.5% of their monthly profits if they don't meet the targeted representation numbers. The protesters have set their deadline for their demands for August 17, 2020. There are also many other demands made by the protesters which include further 'protests' at the establishments who do not sign the contract.

Fernando Martinez, a partner of the Ol Restaurant Group who owns the La Bodeguita de Mima and Taco Luchador, publicly rejected the demands made by the Black Lives Matter local group. Martinez labeled the demands as "mafia tactics". Many supporters of the Latino-owned business have also voiced their concerns and also have rejected the demands from BLM activists. Fernando Martinez and associates feeling threatened by these demands have replied to protesters that "La Bodeguita is open to everybody." He stated, "How can I be called a bigot and a racist when my family is Black? When my son is gay?" Martinez, who escaped Cuba to come to the United States, could not believe that he would be under this level of scrutiny after all that he has experienced.

Sadiqa Reynolds, the CEO of the Louisville Urban League and one of many voices who have supported the protests against the restaurant, has made multiple public statements on behalf of the local BLM community and dismisses their statements.

This business stood up against the protesters as other local businesses agree to the demands. Talesha Wilson, a local activist who also assisted in writing the list of demands, says she believes that it was a "temper tantrum that could have been solved by a conversation." It is expected that they will be boycotting the organization as protests pick up against the restaurant owner. 

United States Federal Reserve To Cut Interest Rates

The United States Federal Reserve has officially begun talks on cutting or interest rates for the first time in a decade after fears of a global economic slowdown. The interest rate prior to the announcement of a cut was 2.5%.



The Federal Reserve is expected to cut the interest rate from 2.5% to 2.25%, many economists and industry leaders expect this quarter-point drop in interest rates, while others fear a larger drop. JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, UBS, and Citi all predict a quarter-point drop while Morgan Stanley, Nomura, and others expect a half-point drop. Overall, the markets seem to have responded well to these assumptions, the DOW currently has grown and is expected to beat its all-time high record either by the end of this week or next week. Fed Chair Jerome Powell has yet to officially announce the cut but everyone is positive they will make these cuts.

The European Central Bank has also hinted at a cut of their fund's rate as well as the US-China trade war continues on. Industry experts believe that decreasing trade regulations and lowering taxes even further will serve the US economy better than lowering interest rates.

Capital One Data Breach Affects Over 100 Million Users

A massive data leak from Capital One could have affected over 100 million Capital One customers. Sources say a hacker stole sensitive information such as credit card applications which contained valuable information such as someone's social security number among other things.



Virgina-based bank, Capital One, said to have found out about the hack on July 19th and immediately reported the incident to the authorities. So far the perpetrator has been caught by the FBI in Seattle, Washington, while Capital One does not believe that any fraud has yet been committed. The person that was caught by the FBI was a woman by the name of Paige Thompson, a former Amazon cloud service employee. Users affected could have gotten their real names, phone numbers, home address, date of birth's, and income disclosed by the leak. Capital One officially disclosed that 140,000 Social Security numbers could have been accessed.

Paige Thompson faces a maximum of 5 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.

Capital One has offered free credit monitoring and identity protection to all users who were affected by the massive data breach. The breach has reportedly affected 100 million or more United States users and an extra 6 Million Canadian users.

Social Media Is The Savior and Destroyer of Free Speech

OPINION - Social media is engraved in most of our lives here in the west. It serves to share valuable information across the globe and helps inform others of movements, or disasters occurring even in remote places in the world, but now it seems that social media companies have taken a step back and are willing to suppress certain forms of speech to protect their "image".

Social media can be seen as the savior of free speech in places where governments heavily restrict internet access and where residents break the law to circumvent any censorship their government pushes. In the 'west' we have benefited greatly from the ease of transfer of information but it seems now that many social media companies like Twitter and Facebook have their own agenda when they enforce their terms of service. Of course, individual companies are free and should be free to maintain their website as they please and they have every right to restrict any of us from accessing and posting on their site, however, I would like to bring into question the practices that some of these companies commit to.

Social Media Targeting Conservatives

Over the past few years we've had conservative groups complaining that they have been censored on social media; I too have been suspended before (some were justified suspensions and others have me scratching my head) and I'm nothing compared to a typical conservative American. Some on the left have made complaints as well but overwhelmingly it seems that Republicans or right-wing social media influencers have been targeted by Facebook and Twitter. Both of these companies maintain that they are just trying to control the amount of hate speech on the platform but they eagerly are willing to silence conservative voices or voices who don't follow the post-modern 'progressive' idealism. They push for policies that directly confront traditional ideals such as two-genderism and national identity where people can be accused of being bigots or racists just for simply having an opposing opinion. It's a dangerous slippery slope and it has caused an exodus of free-thinking individuals, and right-wingers to flee traditional media sites.

The accusations by the left of Trump-Russian collusion has flooded the mainstream political field when it was a hot topic but still, to this day the treatment and censorship of conservative voices on these sites have yet to be condemned by the left. Some social media influencers like Timcast and Joe Rogan have confronted Twitter officials (Vijaya Gadde and Jack Dorsey) on this very issue, but many within the community were not satisfied with the executive's disconnected comments about how they manage their site. Social media has served a purpose in the election cycle, but this brings into question the possible motives individual corporations have when sharing valuable information. Facebook and Twitter are acting and pretending as if they are the arbiters of truth and that they should be trusted by the community at large, but so far they have defended social media accounts who consistently get things wrong or who actively break their own TOS, like Carlos Maza (who has called for political violence against conservatives). Social media is the savior for most people but now it seems that social media is going to destroy the very thing we cherish the most, our right to free speech.

Today keywords and phrases are triggers for bots created by these corporations who seem to flag users with impunity. Not only this but overzealous social media users also feel as if it is their duty to report content that they are personally offended by which continues creating a headache for major corporations. At the end of the day, we cannot rely solely on one social media website to share information and to communicate with our friends given how sensitive this digital world has gotten. It's better for us to diversify as journalists, and if we are regular users, its better to find and use social media sites that defend free speech, not suppress it.

Look For Alternatives

If people are truly concerned about being suppressed by social media actors then they should disconnect from the web, and if that's out of the question then the next best thing is to find alternative sites. Centralized alternatives are becoming more popular, sites like MeWe are examples of this, but they are still centralized businesses who likely will eventually have their own agendas or be subjected to ridiculous censorship rules. The only real alternative for people who want to protect their free speech is to depend on blockchain technology and promote that technology to their friends in order for them to fully adopt them and incorporate it into their lives.

By 2024 Trump Would Triple Obama's Travel Expenses

Trump was praised for being a pro-capitalist, nationalist candidate and was even hailed as a great leader for refusing a Presidential paycheck, but according to reports, President Donald Trump of the United States took far more than the previous administration, at least when it comes to travel expenses.

There is no question that golfing and politics mix together. Under former U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama, he was flagged constantly for misuse of funds by "golfing all the time", but it seems that the public is pretty hushed about Trump golfing. Obama spent roughly $30 Million in the same time frame where Trump spent roughly $102 Million. By the end of Obama's Presidency, he spent roughly 110$ Million for all 8 years as president. Donald Trump spent an estimated $102 million within the course of 2 1/2 years as president since his inauguration day in 2017, all at the expense of U.S. Taxpayers

Trump took an estimated roughly 175 golf trips so far in his presidency. Taxpayers covered $80 Million in Florida alone, the rest were out of state, and a handful of trips were outside of the United States.  Most of the expenses are from properties that Donald Trump owns such as the well known Mar a Lago resort in Florida. If Donald Trump continues this trend, by the end of two full terms he could reach over $350 million in travel costs alone to and from his properties across the country, and necessary meetings across the planet.

To note, Donald Trump, before he became president, asserted that he and his family would not live in the White House. In the end, his family left to stay at a Trump-owned property with Secret Service agents on the clock, while Trump prioritized leading the country as President in DC. Although Trump did refuse the paycheck, some Americans are upset that he put his golf trips before the American people. What are your thoughts?

Ford Motor Company Cutting 10% Of Global Salaried Workforce

Ford Motor Company announced that they will be cutting 7000 jobs by the end of August this year, roughly 10% of their global salaried workforce, in a move which the company says will save them $600 million. This comes after China and the US expanded a trade war.



In an email sent by CEO Jim Hackett to Ford Employees, Hackett said, "To succeed in our competitive industry, and position Ford to win in a fast-changing future, we must reduce bureaucracy, empower managers, speed decision making, focus on the most valuable work and cut costs". Most of the workers that will be laid off have been reportedly "white collar" employees. Ford has been under a restructuring after some shifts in executives as they have been losing money by selling vehicles abroad. In the US they have had strong truck sales, but respectively, most of Ford Motor Company's revenue has been coming from their credit-related services.

2300 salaried jobs will be cut in the US, and the rest will be of overseas employees, including 20% of top-management positions. The White House prior to this announcement by Ford has expanded the trade war with China and China has retaliated. So far no deal has been made between the US and China, but Ford's push into the Chinese market will be more difficult if these tariffs expand. Donald Trump hasn't made any public announcement about the loss of Jobs from Ford.

At the time of this writing, Ford is valued at $10.25 a - $.04 (-0.39%) loss from its Close.

Foxconn Founder Demands Communist China Recognize The Republic of China (Taiwan)

Foxconn Founder, Terry Gou, has been pushing for a presidential run in Taiwan for the 2020 presidential election to combat a political infiltration by Beijing's leadership (The People's Republic of China) on the island, this comes during an increase of the US-China trade war.

Terry Gou has challenged Beijing's leadership as he said: "[China] must acknowledge the existence of the Republic of China." The Republic of China is Taiwan's official name. The People's Republic of China, what we commonly know as "China",  has been restricting Taiwanese leadership while trying to influence politicians to favor Beijing leadership. Gou is apart of the Kuomintang political party, which is a historical party that has had violent conflicts with the People's Republic of Beijing.

Terry Gou is one of Taiwan's richest person, estimates value him at around $7.8 Billion. He and many other Taiwanese businessmen want more autonomy from Beijing and hope to expand trade with the west. Beijing, and the Communist Party of China, recently have expanded the Trade war against the United States in retaliation to Trump's tariffs. China has retaliated by expanding tariffs of their own affecting over 1000 products, and hundreds of large and medium-sized corporations that rely on shipments from Taiwan. Today, the Dow Industrial Average fell over 600 points after the announcement of China's new tariffs.

The United States currently has a $410 Billion deficit with China. The current president of the Republic of China (Taiwan), Tsai Ing-wen, is the first woman to hold that office. She is currently serving 4 years per term with an election arriving in 2020. She assumed office on May 20th, 2016.

Pinterest Stock Price Booms 75% Since IPO

Pinterest soars over 75% since its IPO in mid-April exceeding many expectations that the price would linger around $25-$28. The IPO was roughly priced between 15-$17 per share valuing the company above $11.25 billion, the stock offer was valued at $19 per share.

For those unaware, Pinterest is a social media website where users bookmark images from web pages across the internet and share them in collections called "Boards". It's a site that is very popular with women and is heavily used on mobile. Today, Pinterest is valued at over $15 Billion dollars and have had nothing but gains for the past week! Since Pinterest's IPO the price boomed around 75% with a strong close today almost 15% (14.5%). After hours at the time of this writing has Pinterest Inc. at $34.40 quite considerable from an open today at $30.80. Today's low for Pinterest was $29.86 with a record high of $34.41!

According to the Omnicore Agency, a digital marketing agency that provides analytics and SEO data, Pinterest has 125 Million users in the US. 40% of new signups are men, with millennials using Pinterest just as much as Instagram, respectively the median age of Pinterest is 40 years old. 50% of Pinterest users are from the US.

Pinterest (PINS) may be an interests stock to look at in 2019.

Alex Jones Blows Up In Texas Restaurant Then Escorted Outside

Well known conspiracy theorist and melodramatic news reporter, Alex Jones, was seen on video harassing patrons at a Texas Restaurant, Lucy's Fried Chicken, on March 23rd, 2019. Prior to the video, the customers allegedly were mocking Alex Jones and expressing progressive liberal comments which were confirmed in a video from the Alex Jones Channel.

In the video you see Alex Jones calling these unknown customers "scum". Another commenter asks sarcastically, "when are you due?" as Jones continues his tirade against the customers who are seated. Jones then challenges one of the seated customers to a fight claiming that the customer was trying to be "tough". A man, presumably an employee of Lucy's Fried Chicken, came to calm the situation and alert Alex Jones that he was making a disturbance. Jones retorted and claimed that the man seated was getting into his face, which is contradictory to what the current video shows. Eventually, the staff does calm down the situation while also escorting Alex Jones off the premises.



There so far has been no footage of the events prior to the current video circulating through social media showing that the agitators were being violent. Local authorities were not called during the incident and everything progressed normally after this event.

Puerto Rico: 100% Renewable Energy by 2050

Puerto Rican officials have recently passed a bill that would fully end coal-based energy production in 2020. Puerto Rican Governor, Ricardo Rosello, approved this bill seeking 100% renewable energy production for the island by 2050.



Eco-activists in Puerto Rico garnered a major win by succeeding in promoting self-sustainable alternatives to the energy crisis that plagues the island. The energy crisis was due to natural causes such as Hurricane Irma and Maria which caused destruction to over 80% of the islands power transmission lines (over 25,000 miles of electrical lines). These storms cause upwards of $80 billion worth of property destruction and numerous lives were tragically lost during and even after the storm. Another major catalyst to the fall of the power grid was thanks to local corrupted employees and government officials.

"... we are committed to transitioning from fossil fuels as early as possible..." - Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosello

Supporters of this bill, SB 1121, have been at some odds with the leadership of the island when it came with handling the corruption of their centralized energy producer, Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA). Some have been reportedly upset that Liquefied Natural Gas is also approved for this "green energy bill" and consider the bill to be a sham. Liquefied Natural Gas imports to the island have already returned to pre-Hurrican Maria levels. LNG imports are very likely to surpass the 2016 rate by the end of 2019, as the island transitions away from oil and coal and favor renewable energy and Natural Gas. Overall, they are supportive of the bill but do not wish LNG to be included.

Notable SB 1121 Requirements and Politicians Pledges:

• Fully end coal-based energy production in 2020.
• Ban all coal plants and expansions in 2028 on the island to meet the 100% requirement set forth in the bill.
• Reach 40% renewable energy for the island by 2025
• Reach 100% renewable energy for the island by 2050
• Liquefied Natural Gas is permitted
• Lead to the privatization of PREPA
• Will decentralize energy production on the island

Opponents of the bill claim that the bill will bolster corruption in the island due to actions that may lead to the privatization of the energy utility company. As LNG grows and it displaces Coal and Oil energy production, that would lead to more privatized grids.

What are your thoughts about privatizing PREPA?

Libertarian Jacob Hornberger Running For President?

Jacob Hornberger, seen on Ron Paul's Liberty Report, and also the president of the Future of Freedom Foundation (FFF) may soon be on a presidential run according to media speculation of his recently made website.



Generally speaking, if you've heard of Ron Paul, or have studied Austrian economics, there's a strong chance that you've come across Hornberger in the libertarian community. Jacob Hornberger is known for being a politically active libertarian advocate and he is present at most Libertarian conventions throughout the United States. He is the founder and current president of the Future of Freedom Foundation, a nonprofit libertarian advocacy group, that was founded in 1989.

The Future of Freedom Foundation's Mission:

The mission of The Future of Freedom Foundation is to advance freedom by providing an uncompromising moral and economic case for individual liberty, free markets, private property, and limited government.

JacobForLiberty.com is a site created by Hornberger's team and it seemingly does indicate that Hornberger may be experimenting with a presidential run for 2020. It cites his positions on various matters like immigration, the drug war, and touching upon the underlying causes of police brutality. The site also shares his upcoming appearances for eager individuals to ask him his thoughts on society and politics. Since making the website, many libertarians are suggesting that he is likely to be running in 2020 with the Libertarian ticket, but there is no official confirmation from Jacob Hornberger.

Background

Jacob Hornberger is from Laredo, Texas. An accomplished author, who studied at the University of Texas School of Law.

You can also follow his website's facebook page!

Would you vote for Hornberger if he did run?

SpaceX Launching First Commercial Falcon Heavy & NASA Admin Talks Moon Mission 2024

SpaceX is targeting a launch of a Saudi-Arabian satellite into orbit on April 10th, after delays, this comes after a successful launch of the Falcon Heavy where Elon Musk launched his own Tesla Roadster into space. This launch will mark the company's first commercial contract mission for the Falcon Heavy, and the Falcon Heavy has received support from NASA Administrator for a next NASA Mission.

The Falcon Heavy is a partially-reusable rocket developed by SpaceX, it was designed to bring humans into space, beyond low-earth orbit. SpaceX has broken many records with many industry firsts and they plan to break more with the Falcon Heavy and the long-awaited Starship and Super Heavy (the BFR, which is designed to bring humans to Mars). The Falcon Heavy will have a launch window sometime between 7pm to 9pm and you will be able to witness the return flight of two of the boosters in Orlando, FL. (Launch window opens specifically at 6:36 PM Orlando EST)

Falcon Heavy will launch from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.

Saudi-Arabian Payload Arabsat- 6a

The Falcon Heavy will carry a Saudi Arabian satellite, the Arabsat-6a. This satellite is one of Lockheed Martin's most advanced communication satellites ever created. Arabsat-6a will be accompanied by other satellites with the Arabsat-6G program that will provide television, internet, telephone and secure communications for those customers within the Middle East, Africa, and Europe.

This will be the second launch of the Falcon Heavy.

NASA Chief: Falcon Heavy To Moon 2024?

Jim Bridenstine, the NASA Administrator, held a town hall to talk about NASA's possible future missions to the moon where he suggested that NASA would use SpaceX's Falcon Heavy to bring humans to the moon by 2024. He stated there will also possibly be an unmanned mission in 2020. This will be possible if NASA gets more public support for these projects.


Last updated @ 3:55 PM, April 8, 2019

Florida Governor Ends Medical Marijuana Smoking Ban

Ron DeSantis, Florida Governor, signed a bill on Monday, March 18, that would remove the medical marijuana smoking ban for medical patients.

Governor DeSantis has acknowledged before that roughly 70% of Floridians support medical marijuana. The medical marijuana smoking ban was enacted in 2017 by Florida's representatives after Florida voters approved a Constitutional Amendment to decriminalize Marijuana for medical use in 2016. The ban was approved and signed into law by former Florida Governor, Rick Scott, which led to a lawsuit that led to the ban to be unconstitutional.

Under the new medical marijuana smoking law, smoking marijuana products would not be available to patients who are minors for purchase under the age of 18 unless they are terminally ill and if two doctors, including a pediatrician, approve it as a form of treatment. Marijuana cannot also be smoked in public, nor can it breach any other smoking ban which shares policies regarding smoking cigarettes on private property. Private property owners retain the right to prohibit smoking on their premises and also no more than 4 ounces of marijuana can be in anyone's possession.

This was hailed as a "hallmark victory" for prison rights activists, and medical marijuana patients. Experts say that medical marijuana sales receipts alone can account for roughly a billion dollars in revenue for the state of Florida.

Florida Looking To Hemp For Revenue

Florida lawmakers have proposed many bills to regulate and tax hemp production, thanks to a federal law change making it legal. Experts say that hemp production and the production of cannabis as a whole will become a very lucrative market as re-regulation persists throughout the states, thus it can be used as an option to generate revenue for the state.



Ben Albritton proposed a hemp bill on Thursday (February 14th, 2019) that would set up a hemp program under the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. In Florida, its also notable that Cannabis is used primarily for medicinal purposes. The bill will also require individuals and organizations to have their goods or products inspected by the local authorities. They also must register with the FDACS. Earlier, Agricultural Commissioner Nikki Fried named Holly Bell as Florida state's first Director of Cannabis. The purpose of the position is to focus specifically on building up and maintaining a hemp industry.

This bill, proposed by Albritton, also shares other similarities to HB 333 and SB 1020, respectively. Also more than half of the United States hemp production comes from Colorado, and currently there are more than 80 Marijuana dispensaries in Florida for patients and nearly 200,000 active registered patients.

Coinmama Hacked, 450k Lost Emails & Passwords!

Israel-based Cryptocurrency Brokerage firm, Coinmama, was recently hacked! Leaving users puzzled, as Coinmama lost 450,000 Emails and passwords. It was officially disclosed on February 15th, 2019 that the site had been breached. Coinmama is one of the largest brokerage firms in the cryptocurrency industry.

Coinmama's official statement concludes that 24 websites have been breached by the hackers. The hackers managed to get away with a 450,000 email addresses and passwords, including 747 million records of information (transactions, notifications, services, etc.). No Bitcoin or Ethereum were stolen from Coinmama.

Current users are all now required to change their password as Coinmama builds up security measures to prevent further attacks from being successful. The Coinmama hack is the second highprofile cryptocurrency related hack in 2019, the first hack affected thousands of wallets!

Cryptopia Hack Continues, Users Lose $180k

In mid-January, the cryptocurrency exchange, Cryptopia, was hacked and the site lost over $1 million worth of Ethereum. Cryptopia's Ethereum hack continues as the hacker makes another transfer from users who are still transferring Ethereum to Cryptopia earlier in the week.

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Cryptopia Hack Loses Over $150k

On January 29th, it seems that the hacker still has control over Cryptopia's Ethereum wallets. It is not confirmed if all tokens are affected, or if other wallets are affected like Bitcoin or Dogecoin wallets. Cryptopia had notified the authorities and they are currently investigating the breach. So far the recent hack had affected thousands of wallets and $180k (1,676 ETH) was withdrawn from Cryptopia wallets. The funds were then deposited to a wallet that is being tagged as directly associated with the Cryptopia hack.

Cryptopia has yet to make a public announcement and has not made a public Tweet since January 27th, 2019. The local authorities in New Zealand have also yet to make a public announcement, but the hack occurred under the watch of cryptocurrency security analysts. It is likely that the transfers are being monitored and the IP address of the hacker is being followed by the police.

Cryptopia Ethereum Hacker Address Information

Most funds from the Cryptopia Ethereum hack currently reside in a single wallet. The address in question currently has $3.3 million est. (30,790 ETH approx.) currently in the wallet. Another address was used and associated with the Cryptopia breach, you can also see the associated wallets regarding this case here.

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If you have any information regarding the Cryptopia hack of 2019 then please contact New Zealand authorities (New Zealand Police).

IMPORTANT NOTICE FROM EDITOR:

If you have any automatic transfers depositing to Cryptopia then please cut them all off. The recent transactions have been noted to be only possible due to people forgetting to keep their mining pools updated with proper addresses! Always remember to not keep a lot of funds on exchanges, or on wallets that you do not have direct access to. Please run wallet or full node to protect yourself and the network! Please stay vigilant!

Cryptocurrency Exchange, Cryptopia, Hacked?

A well known Cryptocurrency exchange, Cryptopia, started off the new year rough within the last few days as it has been under an "unscheduled maintenance" after employees realized that foul play occurred on their platform. Millions of dollars worth of Ethereum were also transferred out of Cryptopia to unknown wallets. Cryptopia was quiet about the situation until recently.

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Days Before Security Breach Announcement

Reports first broke out on social media that Cryptopia was down around 2-3 days ago. Lots of worried customers, and observers were trying to make sense of the situation, and were concerned about the integrity of the site itself. Cryptopia made an announcement that the site was down for unknown reasons, and that also during the Ethereum hard fork they recommended to their customers to withdraw their ethereum.

Did #Cryptopia really just recommend customers withdraw their coins?https://t.co/r8gxDWtoCr

— Nicholas Leduc (@nick_leduc) January 11, 2019

@Cryptopia_NZ please explain what’s going on with your site, all markets are paused. Communication is key guys!!#cryptopia

— Mr Crypto (@cryptonitewhale) January 14, 2019

We are currently experiencing an unscheduled maintenance, we are working to resume services as soon as possible. We will keep you updated.

— Cryptopia Exchange (@Cryptopia_NZ) January 14, 2019

Transfers From Cryptopia & Acknowledgement

After news that Cryptopia had suggested to all their users to withdraw ETH we have seen some movement, identified from @whale_alert on Twitter. Major transactions exceeding $1 million began occurring on January 13th. Cryptopia acknowledged a greater issue and stated that their systems were breached and that they suffered "significant losses". No further information was given to the public.

19,391 #ETH (2,438,152 USD) transferred from #Cryptopia to Unknown wallet

Tx: https://t.co/xTxMKRJSD8

— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) January 13, 2019

48,029,306 #CENNZ (1,176,596 USD) transferred from #Cryptopia to Unknown wallet

Tx: https://t.co/u3RiHh7riT

— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) January 13, 2019

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— Cryptopia Exchange (@Cryptopia_NZ) January 15, 2019

Cryptopia is in direct contact with government authorities regarding this security breach and is receiving assistance in how to proceed further with this matter. Cryptopia has been in full compliance with authorities thus far.
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CEO Of Steemit, @Ned, Withdrew A Massive Amount Of Money

The CEO of Steemit, @Ned, just withdrew over 1.5 Million Steem to Bittrex, as he powered up 1 Steem with the message "moving / hiding all my cryptocurrency". This comes after a rocky hardfork of the Steem blockchain and a massive, over 60%, cut of the Steemit workforce.

Currently, Steem is ranked 51st of the most valuable cryptocurrencies (according to CoinMarketCap).

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Steemit, for those who don't know, is a website that is a decentralized application (Dapp) where you can earn rewards for getting upvotes on content you create (such as blogs, music, videos, photography, etc).

It's not often we see major transfers of money from Ned to exchanges but 1.5 million steem equates to roughly $400k USD which has made a lot of people wonder about the integrity of the Steem ecosystem. A lot of Steem and SBD (Steem Backed Dollars) investors are worried about Ned's recent actions and some members of the community are very upset with how Ned is handling the situation.

The development team on Steemit has actually improved their communication recently by allowing pinned posts to important updates to the Steemit site and API's which is a well received feature for most people.

Steem Block: 29,239,243
Ned Transacted exactly 1,543,650 Steem = $ 398,672.31 USD at the time of this post.

Do you have any Steem? Do you plan on leaving after Ned's recent actions? Comment below!