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Cedar Falls Says No To Digital Currency Mining The Cedar Falls , Iowa , city council voted unanimously this week to reject proposed zoning ordinance changes that would have allowed digital currency mining facilities in the city's industrial districts. The council followed the recommendation of the city's Planning and Zoning Commission, sending the proposal back without approval. The vote was decisive , but the conversation around digital asset mining in Cedar Falls appears to be far from over. The proposal was connected to discussions about a potential facility from a company called Simple Mining . Adam Haynes, founder and CEO of Simple Mining, addressed the council and argued that the proposed facility would bring jobs and additional property tax revenue to the city . That's a familiar pitch in the digital asset mining space — operations of this scale do employ workers in facility management, electrical maintenance, and security, and they generate taxable infr...

There are certain moments in sports highlights where reality bends so hard it feels like somebody slipped something into the India Pale Ale  22-ounce draft. (In a move that sounds less like NFL strategy and more like a late-night FM radio caller ranting over the outro to White Rabbit ...) The Pittsburgh Steelers have apparently re-signed Aaron Rodgers . Re-signed him . Which implies incorrectly that we all remembered he was here in the first place. Hello, older pop radio listeners; you've been through a lot. You survived disco backlash, the transition from vinyl to CDs, and the horrifying realization that classic rock stations now play Nirvana . But asking America to emotionally process Aaron Rodgers in Pittsburgh is an AI bridge too far. Half the city still talks about Terry Bradshaw like he’s warming up in the parking lot. The other half is trying to remember if Rodgers already played a season here, or if that was just a peyote vision during a weather delay. An...

There's a question quietly circulating near digital currency water coolers that deserves more attention than it's getting: is Bitcoin — by design or by drift — positioning itself to slip through the back door of the American banking system, using underutilized national bank charters as the key? It sounds like a conspiracy theory. It might not be. In just 83 days, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency under Trump -appointed Comptroller Jonathan Gould granted conditional national bank charters to eleven digital asset and fintech firms — including Ripple, Crypto.com, Circle, BitGo, Paxos, and Fidelity Digital Assets. That's a stunning pace, and it raises a reasonable question: what exactly does a national bank charter give a digital assets company that it couldn't already get on its own? The short answer is legitimacy. And access. Bitcoin, as a decentralized asset, has long existed in a regulatory gray zone. It doesn't technically require state-by...

Wednesday night at a Sherman Oaks bistro had all the makings of a classic TV misunderstanding — complete with barking, a steak knife, and an ending that was somehow fine. If you've ever seen the It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode where Frank Reynolds and his ex-wife agree to meet their adult children for a civilized dinner in public — knowing full well that the very concept is aspirational at best — you already understand everything that happened Wednesday night at Blue Dog Tavern in Sherman Oaks, California. The setting changes. The energy does not. According to multiple witnesses who spoke to TMZ , Britney Spears arrived at the restaurant with her assistant and bodyguard, settled into a corner booth, and proceeded to have what her representative later described as, "a quiet dinner." Witnesses described something closer to a dinner theater production with no script and no intermission. There was reportedly yelling. According to at least one a...

Back in the Cold War , Americans were told something very specific: if you worked hard, became successful, and accumulated wealth, that was proof the system worked . The villain in the story was the authoritarian state that punished achievement, spied on citizens, and forced people to hide their success out of fear. That was the sales pitch for decades . So when a modern executive connected to digital currency investigations casually suggests wealthy people should conceal their assets for safety reasons, older Americans hear alarm bells. Recently, Danny Nelson of Chainalysis said the quiet part out loud. The message wasn’t subtle: if you have significant wealth tied to digital assets, maybe you should not advertise it . Maybe anonymity is safer. Maybe public visibility is dangerous now. And if you grew up during the Cold War, that sounds less like triumphant free-market confidence and more like advice from a nervous shopkeeper living behind the Iron Curtain . Of course, t...

If you have a YouTube account in 2026, there’s a decent chance you’ve accidentally wandered into a livestream where someone is screaming in a parking lot, reviewing chicken sandwiches like it’s a Senate hearing, or explaining why civilization collapsed because a video game character had purple hair . The algorithm no longer gently guides you. It opens a trapdoor beneath your feet and yells, Good luck . Which brings us to Chud the Builder , the controversial livestreamer now facing attempted murder and other charges after a shooting outside a Tennessee courthouse. Authorities say a physical altercation escalated into gunfire , leaving another man hospitalized and Eatherly himself wounded after apparently accidentally shooting himself during the chaos. Eatherly has claimed self-defense.  And honestly, the whole thing feels like the final boss battle of internet attention culture . For years, online audiences have watched creators escalate themselves into increasingly st...