Megan murphy. The lead in the finance section is on bitcoin. We have been talking about the so much in the last week. Politics, i than think we have talked most about the coin. Over the past year, let alone several years, we have seen volatile moves and price. One of the things we want to show this is a staggering statistic. Less than 1000 people hold 40 of the worlds bitcoin. With the markets being as volatile as it is with the price , going up so much, some of the people we know, when one of these big owners, when they sell, it can cause an extreme drop in the price quickly because of the concentration of ownership in the hands of relatively few. What we are looking at with cryptocurrency, forget the broader debate about bitcoin. This is a real problem for the market transparency. This is a situation where people dont know who the owners of the who the owners of bitcoin are. It is exasperating that that authority there. Julia we are going to see exchanges like the cme introducing fut
Campaign and from my perspective the one thing i learned four years ago, patience is a virtue and getting your campaign momentt the right time is more important than trying to find the moment. Let the moment come to you at the right time, said president ial hopeful, rick santorum. Santorum says he feels very comfortable that folks will end up supporting him, like they did last year. Tonight at 6, ill have more on what policy changes santorum says will set him apart from the crowd of president ial hopefuls. Sheila . Thanks tommie. The finishing touches on House Speaker paul ryans new office are complete. Yesterday the 45year old republican became the youngest House Speaker in nearly 150 years. In his first address as speaker, ryan vowed to give every house member chance to be involved in legislation. He also called for both sides of the political aisle to work together. Ryan received 236 of the 218 votes he needed to win the post. An escalation announced by the Obama Administration toda
Prosecutors say a nebraska man who didnt get the promotion he wanted at Buena Vista University has been convicted of hacking without authorization into several of the schools computers and email accounts. 46yeaeaold david boyer pleaead guilty this week in u. S. District court in sioux city to unauthorized access to a protected computer. In a plea agreement, boyer admitted that in 2009 and 2010, he hacked computers at the storm lake school. Prosecutors say boyer was angry that he hadnt been promoted to become h hd of the Information Technology department. Boyer agreed to pay 100,000 in restitution. His sentencing date has not been set. A manhunt in two states is over after a dramatic shootout overnight. Authorities finally finding a fugitive whos been on the run for nearly a weeee nbcs Gabe Gutierrez is in burkesville, kentucky. Again this time on foot. The fbi and us marshals joined the search. A School District was shut down. For three days. Diane alexander its kinda weird to us to th
Minister of australia about what could be done to help these folks. Good morning, everyone. Im ali velshi. Im stephanie rhule. It is thursday, october 12th. Lets get you started. President trump will sign an executive order to unwind the Affordable Care act paving the way for sweeping changes to regulations. Were going to have Great Health Care across state lines. This is the largest tax cut in the history of our country. We will cut taxes for everyday hard working americans. We are the highest tax nation in the world. We are now going to be down in the lower wrung in terms of taxes. Im so proud of the 5. 2 trillion of increase in the stock market. In one sense were really increasing values and maybe in a sense were reducing debt. Hes taking his hits against the media to a whole new level. The president disputing an exclusive nbc news report that mr. Trump talked about drastically increasing the size of the u. S. Nuclear arsenal. No, i never discussed increasing it. That was just fake