Brian Armstrong, the founder of the digital currency exchange Coinbase, retweeted these letters and compared the potential rules to the internet’s early days, when “there were people who called for it to be regulated like the phone companies. There’s a hangover and a correction, but each time won’t be as dramatic as the last one. They can lose control and digital currency could become a threat to the dollar. (Bloomberg)It has been a really, really bad year for short sellers. (CNBC)Best of the restBig U.S. companies, led by Merck and IBM, pledged to hire one million Black workers over the next decade.

Source: New York Times December 11, 2020 12:22 UTC