Villagers from a tribe in rural Peru were terrorized for weeks by what one news report called “7ft Armoured Aliens [r]esembling Green Goblin from Spider-Man.” But a recent investigation by the local prosecutor’s office revealed that the men were actually illegal miners seeking to sow terror among the tribe while they committed “illicit activities.” The …
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Book Your Flights, Ted Cruz — Crypto Miners Might Be Putting A Strain On Texas’ Already-Strained Power Grid
Getty Image Recently, news broke that Cancun-loving Republican Senator Ted Cruz had gotten into crypto. But unlike other Bitcoin groupies who just want to rave about the limitless possibility of digital currency to uninterested strangers at the bar or on Twitter, Cruz suggested the new frontier of financial tech might be the thing that could …