“You have to wonder why Washington even bothered”said Rob Sharkey, 43, a fifth-generation Illinois farmer. Rob hopes his corn trade aid check will be big enough for that margarita machine he and his wife have been eyeing, but they doubt they’ll be any left over for the booze. Federal economists have calculated that the nation’s losses in corn - its largest crop by harvest and export volume - amount to just a penny per bushel, a pittance farmers call absurd.
“Do you have a state ID?” That’s the first question you hear when picking up credentials to enter Consensus: Invest, a cryptocurrency conference where the sector’s libertarian, anti-establishment ethos used to reign. After an 80 percent collapse in the price of bitcoin over the past year, digital currency enthusiasts are rethinking old assumptions and looking for support wherever they can find it, writes Tom Buerkle.
Investors looking for new and exciting opportunities in the cryptocurrency market are scouring websites in search of reviews of sought-after coins. But cryptocurrency issuers may have paid for those five-star reviews.
