miners
The US Treasury is Pinched for Cash and Wants Bitcoin Miners and Traders to Pony Up
Joe Biden’s 2024 budget wants higher taxes on Bitcoin mining firms, more IRS surveillance, and wants to ax tax-loss harvesting for crypto traders. At a staggering $31.6 trillion, the United States is the single most indebted entity in the history of Earth. Unless there are still some highly leveraged firms on Jupiter HODLing trillions in…
Serifos Island
In Megalo Livadi, on the Greek island of Serifos, one finds the remnants of the first-ever Greek worker revolt. It took place in the mines of the Société des mines de Seriphos-Spiliazeza, the French-founded mining company later purchased and run by German Emilios Gromman. Angered by poor working conditions and intense labor without end, Egyptian-educated…