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Chipotle’s $6 Burritos Are Coming Back This October

One of Chipotle’s most popular promotions is coming back this October and it means one seriously cheap burrito, salad or bowl for you.  The fast-casual favorite is bringing back $6 Booritos for Halloween 2022. That’s right, just walk into any Chipotle on Oct. 31 and walk out with a burrito, bowl, salad or any other entrée …

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Mullvad Review: Solid Security and Privacy, But Swedish Jurisdiction is Concerning

Mullvad is a Swedish-based, independently owned, open-source VPN provider that puts security and privacy above all else. Every other VPN provider says it does as well, but Mullvad goes to great lengths to convey that it genuinely does put security and privacy first.  Mullvad $5 at Mullvad Get Price Alerts You’re receiving price alerts for Mullvad Like Average speed loss …

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9 great reads from CNET this week: Samsung phones, breaking bitcoin, Instagram beauty and more

This week we met the latest top-of-the-line phones from Samsung, the $1,200 Galaxy S22 Ultra, the $1,000 S22 Plus and the $800 just plain S22. (Here’s a cheat sheet to help you parse the particulars.) And not a moment too soon: Apple’s been making steady progress in locking up the market for premium smartphones, at Samsung’s expense. The arrival of …

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Bitcoin price falls below $42,000 as Fed hints at interest hike

Bitcoin’s voyage to the moon has once again encountered turbulence. The cryptocurrency on Friday morning fell below $42,000 for the first time since late September. It has dropped over 12% in the past seven days, one of many cryptocurrencies to have tumbled in recent days. Ether, which held at around $4,000 for much of December, briefly dipped below $3,200 on …

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Coinbase embraces NFTs with new peer

Coinbase, a popular platform for buying and selling cryptocurrency like Bitcoin, unveiled on Tuesday plans to launch Coinbase NFT, a new peer-to-peer marketplace for nonfungible tokens, or NFTs. You’ll be able to request early access and updates on the Coinbase website. “Today, we’re announcing Coinbase NFT, a peer-to-peer marketplace that will make minting, purchasing, showcasing, and discovering NFTs easier than ever,” …

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Twitter will let users tip with bitcoin, explores way to showcase NFTs

Twitter said Thursday that users worldwide will be able to tip others with bitcoin, the popular digital currency. The company is also exploring a way for users to track and showcase nonfungible tokens, a new form of crypto assets, on the platform. NFTs can be used to represent the ownership of unique digital or physical items such as art, music …

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Freedom Phone: The ‘ultimate political tool’ and why you should avoid it

The 22 year-old self-proclaimed “Bitcoin millionaire” Erik Finman in an interview with The New York Times described smartphones as “the ultimate political tools. Everyone has one in their pocket.” His brand new Freedom Phone promises to prioritize “free speech and privacy”above anything else. You might assume that the Freedom Phone follows the trend of phone-makers like Apple that use software updates to …

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Square to build new Bitcoin business for developers of financial services

Digital payments company Square will create a new business focused on the Bitcoin cryptocurrency to help developers design decentralized financial products, CEO Jack Dorsey said in a series of tweets on Thursday. The business will build “an open developer platform with the sole goal of making it easy to create non-custodial, permissionless, and decentralized financial services,” Dorsey said. The new …

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Jack Dorsey says Square may build a hardware Bitcoin wallet

Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter and Square, on Friday said his digital payments company is considering building a hardware wallet for Bitcoin. If the company goes forward with the project, Dorsey said it will be built “entirely in the open, from software to hardware design, and in collaboration with the community.” Dorsey shared guiding principles for the possible Bitcoin …

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PayPal lets users shop with cryptocurrency

PayPal introduced cryptocurrency to its platform last October, allowing users to buy, sell and hold Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin. Starting Tuesday, those who own some crypto can use it to shop.   Checkout with Crypto is the new payment option available for PayPal customers when shopping online. Users can select their cryptocurrency when checking out and they’ll see …

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