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Money Pit? Telegram ICO Hits $1.7 Billion After 2nd Funding Round

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Money Pit? Telegram ICO Hits $1.7 Billion After 2nd Funding Round

The Telegram ICO has now raised a total of at least $1.7 billion, public documents show. According to offering documents filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and dated March 29, the second round of Telegram’s much-hyped initial coin offering (ICO) raised $850 million in a sale that began on March 14. The … Continued

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Indeed: bitcoin Price Retreat Weighs Heavily on Demand for Crypto Jobs

There is a correlation between bitcoin price performance and interest in the bitcoin and cryptocurrency job market, a new report by job site Indeed’s Hiring Lab reveals. When times are good in the bitcoin price, it’s reflected in rising demand for cryptocurrency and bitcoin jobs. But as soon as the bitcoin price gets rocked by … Continued

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How Government Meddles in Your Easter Chocolate

mises.org / Ryan McMaken / April 14, 2017

It’s Easter time again, which means it’s time to talk about chocolate. Simaran Sethi at the Los Angeles Times this week highlights the plight of cacao farmers:

What wasn’t factored into the celebration [over falling chocolate prices] is the deep suffering of the subsistence farmers who grow cacao, the seeds of a pod-shaped fruit that, once harvested, become the cocoa traded on the commodities market and destined for the chocolate eggs and bunnies that fill most Easter baskets.

It’s become somewhat obligatory in recent years to mention cacao farmers every Easter as consumers buy chocolate in especially large quantities. In 2015, for example, on Easter 2015, The Guardian noted:

In west Africa, cocoa workers scratch a living on small farms, usually no bigger than five hectares. Years of low incomes, uncertainty over land rights and ageing cocoa trees passing their most productive years have shaped an industry ravaged by poverty and child labour.1

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