By Lisa Autry Originally published December 2014 The application window is now open for Kentucky farmers and processors who want to grow hemp for research in 2015. Several Kentucky universities, including WKU, grew hemp this year for the first time in decades. The application deadline for the next round is January 1.
“Last spring the DEA wasted precious taxpayer resources when it confiscated a shipment of hemp seeds intended for a pilot project in Kentucky,” Massie said in a Vote Hemp release. “By defunding further DEA interference, this amendment saves taxpayer dollars and gives states and research institutions the freedom to pursue hemp pilot programs.”
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PayPal has announced support for bitcoin, allowing merchants to accept the cryptocurrecy as payment for online goods.
by Barclay Ballard
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By Jose Pagliery@Jose_Pagliery September 26, 2014: 6:15 PM ET
This week, the payment processing company PayPal took its first venture into the world of all-digital money.
In the last year, eBay’s two top executives — CEO John Donahoe and former president David Marcus — have expressed interest in Bitcoin’s technology.
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PayPal’s senior director of corporate strategy, Scott Ellison, told CNNMoney the company is most intrigued by the potential to harness the technology that lies at the heart of the Bitcoin system, a public ledger called a blockchain. It’s a totally new way of thinking about transactions. It keeps records that are decentralized and keeps users semi-anonymous while making their transactions public.
“We think Bitcoin has tremendous opportunities going forward,” Ellison said. “If you really want to understand how a technology works, you need to actually be in that technological space yourself.”Ellison said the move integrating Bitcoin into PayPal is a continuation of the company’s view of itself as “the original payment disruptors.”Jose Pagliery is the author of Bitcoin – And the Future of Money (Triumph Books, Chicago).
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BitCoin has made it to the digital race on a global platform boundless.