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What you need to know about Bitcoin’s latest ‘halving’

NEW YORK — The “miners” who chisel bitcoins out of complex mathematics are taking a 50% pay cut – effectively reducing new production of the world’s largest cryptocurrency, again. Bitcoin’s latest “halving” appeared to occur Friday night. Soon after the highly anticipated event, the price of bitcoin held steady at about $63,907. Now, all eyes […]

Russia reports downing five Ukrainian military balloons in Kyiv’s latest apparent war innovation

Russian air defenses downed what authorities described as five Ukrainian balloons overnight, the defense ministry in Moscow said Thursday, as the sides kept up long-range strikes that have featured heavily in what has largely become a war of attrition. Neither Russian nor Ukrainian officials have provided details about the secretive balloons, which Moscow authorities and […]