around the world the online payment platform is one of the largest mainstream companies to welcome kryptos these are also this week announced its intention to accept them on its payment that quick. now it could be a watershed moment for workers at one of the internet's biggest names and plays at amazon's warehouse in the u.s. state of alabama a vote on whether to unionize but as the ballots are counted up let's find out more about what's at stake. welcome to bessemer if you have never heard of this southwestern suburb of birmingham alabama you were not alone at least until recently bessemer home to roughly 28000 residents has become a daily news headline a beacon of hope for many but for others it's now a symbolizes a vicious attack on good old capitalism. bessemer is now at the center of the biggest and most important labor fight the united states has seen in decades thanks to amazon so here we are at the amazon fulfillment center right behind me here in bessemer alabama. this place or better 5800 workers who work here could make history yes history but only in the united states why is th

convert them to regular currency and spend them is $1.00 of the largest mainstream companies to welcome kryptos these are also this week announced its intention to accept them on its payment network. let's cross to new york and get more on this from our correspondent sabrina kast lesser prieta this is a pretty big moment for cryptocurrency. yeah absolutely it is it can clearly be some kind of a breakthrough for a script through currency as it's the 1st time that's going now you see as and kind of in the same way as you would use a credit card if you buy something online the service is called check out with so if you're holding the currency in your case all the hound you can now use it to buy goods at nearly $30000000.00 online vendors how ever you are not actually going to pay with bitcoin as you mentioned because while it works let's say you buy something online so shoes from nike for instance you select a product you put it in your card and then you have in to check out an 8 ball is then sorry it's a bit windy over here and then going to convert the cryptocurrency into. money so if you're an

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around the world the online payment platform is $1.00 of the largest mainstream companies to welcome kryptos visa has also this week announced its intention to accept them on its payment network. now it could be a watershed moment for workers at one of the internet's biggest names and plays at amazon's warehouse in the u.s. state of alabama a vote on whether to unionize well as the ballots counted up let's find out more about what's at stake. welcome to bessemer if you have never heard of this southwestern suburb of birmingham alabama you were not alone at least until recently bessemer home to roughly 28000 residents has become a daily news headline a beacon of hope for many but for others it's now a symbolizes a vicious attack on good old capitalism. bessemer is now at the center of the biggest and most important labor fight the united states has seen in decades thanks to amazon so here we are at the amazon fulfillment center right behind me here in bessemer alabama. this place year or better 5800 workers who work here could make history yes history but only in the united states why is that

in a battle of the former win wimbledon champions 4th seeded krypto krypto varada east to victory in straight sets this was a repeat of the 2018 final in qatar which could tova also won the czech player has now won 28 career titles. with dog sledding in foozie is from across russia have descended on the siberian tundra for the start of the annual lake bike home race after the start date was moved due to the pandemic both man and hound kicked off the 150 kilometer race on saturday on the ice of the world's deepest freshwater lake 11 tames from across russia taking part in the competition. you're watching the news up next is our series of world stories the week in the point stay tuned for that i'm rebecca richards thanks for watching. most girls who could have 0 knowledge i'm sure that of us as we are also. in support of. what's saving what's a walk over. to the river. fight against the coronavirus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing. measures are being taken. what does the latest research say. information and context. the coronavirus of data the coded special monday to

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and cook the art it's just the same nearly but they only exist in the digital form term krypto are this is the whole explosion around. i don't think many of us had heard of crypto art not long ago and now it is the big thing in the world what's going on when it's new it's fresh it's was and because of these auction at christie's maybe it's now a topic not only for this fringe group of digital ochsner. now it's available for us for everybody. musician growing but here is a few 1000000 absolutely and a lot of people are trying to experiment now with an f t y example. she created the series with new born flying fighters and sold this op collection for $6000000.00 maybe you remember also this iconic cats an internet meme from 11 the artist behind turn it was just creating and t. out of her and sold this as well full of millions so you can create nearly everything which is digital as an f t as an original a very exciting project was another one a very exciting into the it's a group of fans. bought this print from banksy and burned it in a live stream so that the physical out of work now is d

bank came out and said that the big coing could be the new world's preserve currency pay-pal going krypto custody firm billionaire mark larson who used to be the pharmacy f.t.c. chairman he now has taken a stake so you've got more and more and more legitimate institution institutional type investors going in there do i think you can get to 100 i look at 47250000 give it a little bit a room holds their guess to 52000 from a technical standpoint we're certainly going to look at last week's high which we have is about 59 and i think it's very possible because every day you're hearing more and more stuff that's very bullish for bitcoin in blackjack going forward kristie final word i got about 1520 seconds for air on because. while i guess she did not pretty much had it all play you also have the traditions of the dollar at the dollar and that's that the ex-wife is stagnating that's trying to the short term and as we said before those 2 are inversely correlated so as a dive against consolidating the coyness back out to be tested 51600 resistance level bus co's christiane michelle schneider of

are not really a useful store of value and adding that the fed is in no rush to create a competing krypto his comments came during a recent panel discussion on digital banking in which powell called crypto currencies highly volatile saying they're not backed by anything and that kerberos are more of a speculative asset that's essentially a substitute for gold rather than for the dollar so joining me now to discuss our co-host and investigative journalist ben swan and jeffrey tucker editorial director of the american institute for economic research ben let's start with you breakdown for us these comments made by chairman powell. well ok let's start here the chairman palace in chile gets up and says what i think everyone in the world would expect him to say write cryptocurrency these are not that great they're not really going to be valuable they're not a store of value they're more like gold than they are like the dollar well some of those statements are true it probably is more like gold than it is the dollar because gold actually trend since borders and has value long into the future as

cryptocurrency users will tell you all about operation hidden treasure and what it could mean for your krypto earnings this year. the u.s. is breaking records as millions of americans blind out for covert 19 vaccines and the c.d.c. has a new set of guidelines for those who are fully vaccinated then the american rescue plan is making its way through congress so how are the markets reacting to the hopes of a $1.00 trillion dollars stimulus package we have a lot to get to so let's get started. with tax season in full swing in the interesting cryptocurrency is at an all time high the i.r.s. is looking to get its cut with a new program aimed at targeting taxpayers who haven't reported their crypto related income it's called operation hidden treasure and according to be agencies director of the office of fraud enforcement damon rowe it will train i.r.s. agents to look at block chains to root out tax evasion among cryptocurrency users so. what does this mean for the future of crypto and how will this crackdown take place i mean out of the gases boom bust co-host and investigative journalist ben swan

of chips have skyrocketed is krypto mind mean the profits for big queen mining are determined by the cryptocurrency is price competition has been on the rise as prices have recently surged above the peak of 2017 this has made chips even more desirable to buy despite becoming more scarce for major electronic companies dependent upon semiconductors while the economy is seen some rebounding in the chip shortage could take up to 2 years to replenish and in the meantime manufacturers are looking to take advantage of hiking prices for a 2nd time in under a year where porting a 4 boom bust and sweets are. time now for a quick break but when we come back all eyes are on bitcoin as a record $6000000000.00 in options contracts expire so what does this mean for the world's most popular cryptocurrency all this gas next and as we go to break here are the numbers out the clothes. for people america no representation of god that's the problem there's nobody in government that represents people who are not part of multimillionaire lobbying who work for banks who print money for themselves. to the ca

marketplaces that is happening right now in association with the bit and really in that decent realized krypto space they are there is so much power there even even the idea of computational power coming from because it is a very powerful idea so that may be a bit in the future but i think that is the big threat in silicon valley and they know it because they are to give you a chance to respond and i'd say how do you see it going i mean where do you see it being a threat all around. it's going to be huge but because ben says that it's basically the technology behind that coin it's the fact that the decentralized platforms they're going to be the biggest competitors to players like ben mellon like pay pal like square who want to hold all the power because that's what it is declining at all they're all point their peer to peer currency yes but they're the centralized if you're currency which means that there's no centralized and if you like a paper that tells you who you can or cannot send your money to how much you can or cannot withdraw because at the end of the day paper out where then most a

start using this stuff if you strip away all the things that the that and the cypherpunks love about krypto. which is essentially this false sense of anonymity and and the ability to move this money without too many bells going off at the i.r.s. or any other taxation office then you've got something fairly interesting and it's also kind of dangerous to the average person but again the average person is going to be taking part in the current crypto market the vast majority of people in the world don't actually understand or even care what's going on in the crypto markets it's great for folks who bought a 1000 of them i don't know and 2020 can but it's not so great for somebody who is still using a non smartphone to get i don't know crop prices somewhere in and central africa so help them ok and the only people are going to think to help them are probably going to the government ok goodman coming back to you in london there we're now living in a time of kind of printing press economics around the world because as gavin brown in liverpool has correctly said we've got to pay for covert somehow

and cook to artists it's just the same nearly but they only exist in the ditches to full term krypto are this is the whole explosion around it. i don't think many of us had heard of crypto art not long ago and now it is the big thing in the world what's going on when it's new it's fresh it's was and because of these auction at christie's it's now a topic not only for this fringe group of digital ochsner. now it's available for us for everybody. musician growing but here is a few 1000000 absolutely and a lot of people are trying to experiment now with n f t sambal. she created the series with new bone flying fighters and sold this odd collection for $6000000.00 maybe you'll remember also this iconic cat's an internet name from 11 the artist behind 10 it was just creating and if t. out of her and sold this as well full 1000000 so you can create nearly everything which is digital as an f t as an original a very exciting project was another one a very exciting into the it's a group of fans. bought this print from bang c. and burned it in a live stream so that the physical out of work now

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now spend them with merchants across the globe. krypto is really going to mainstream, also coming up. a massive new factory in germany means biotech now expects to distribute 2500000000 doses of its covered 9000 jobs. by the end of this here will find out more. we take you to south africa where the government has an ambitious multibillion dollar plan to modernize the rail network polluters. this is due to be business in berlin. welcome to the program. or it could be a major step towards crypto currencies gauging, gaining wider acceptance pay pal is now allowing its customers in the u.s. to use them millions of merchants around the world. the online payment platform will allow those with the likes of coin a theory of a new light coin in their digital wallets to convert them to regular currency and spend the is $1.00 of the largest mainstream companies to welcome these or has also this week announced its intention to accept them on its payment network. let's cross to new york and gets more on this from our correspondent sabrina kast. this supreme is a pretty big moment for cryptocurrenc