EL ZONTE, El Salvador — The premise of El Salvador’s “Bitcoin Beach” sounds equal parts audacious and altruistic.Around two years ago, an anonymous donor gifted this sleepy surf town of about 3,000 people over six figures worth of bitcoin, enough to create the world’s first fully-functioning, self-sustaining cryptocurrency economy. With the funds entrusted to an…

McAfee died in a Spanish prison cell at age 75.June 23, 2021 7:27 p.m.PT Listen John McAfee legal troubles in recent years attracted a lot of attention.VCG/Getty Hours after a Spanish court granted a request to have him extradited to the US, John McAfee was found dead in a Spanish prison cell on Wednesday .The…

Andreessen Horowitz launches $2.2 billion crypto fund and is ‘radically optimistic’ despite price fluctuations – The Silicon Valley venture capital firm just announced a new $2.2 billion cryptocurrency-focused fund.- “We believe that the next wave of computing innovation will be driven by crypto,” Andreessen Horowitz partners Katie Haun and Chris Dixon said.- Andreessen’s first crypto-focused…

LAN network cables plugged into a Bitcoin mining computer server are pictured in Bitminer Factory in Florence, Italy, April 6, 2018.Alessandro Bianchi | Reuters With China cracking down on cryptocurrencies, it may soon become much easier — and more profitable — to mine bitcoin . Last month, Beijing called for measures to stamp out bitcoin…

John McAfee, founder of McAfee Associates Inc., speaks during the Shape the Future: Blockchain Global Summit in Hong Kong, China, on Wednesday, Sept.20, 2017.(Anthony Kwan/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Unraveling viral disinformation and explaining where it came from, the harm it’s causing, and what we should do about it.See More → John McAfee was a world-class…

John McAfee’s wife posted a Father’s Day message alleging U.S.authorities wanted him to ‘die in prison’ just three days before his suicide. McAfee, the pioneer creator of popular computer antivirus software, died on Wednesday behind bars in a Spanish prison at the age of 75. He was found dead in his cell in Brians 2…

New York (CNN Business) John McAfee, the controversial antivirus software magnate who’d had multiple recent run-ins with the US law, has died at 75.McAfee was awaiting extradition in a Spanish prison after being charged with tax evasion in the United States last year. McAfee was found dead in his cell in a prison near Barcelona…

Since China additional stepped up its crackdown on crypto final week, the cryptocurrency market has been tanking underneath soured temper with brutal institutional selloff leaving retail merchants to carry the bag. This can’t be referred to as something however a precursor to a different crash – the one which occurred in April. The market-wide plunge…