Tennessean reporters were inside Music City Center for the Bitcoin2024 conference Thursday to Saturday, July 27, 2024, and provided live updates here all day on Saturday as the conference was headlined by former President Donald Trump. Trump ends 51-minute Nashville speech with Bitcoin promise At about 4 p.m. Saturday, Nashville’s Bitcoin2024 conference ended on a
The former CEO of Heartland Tri-State Bank in Elkhart pleaded guilty to embezzling $47 million in bank funds to funnel into a cryptocurrency scam. Shan Hanes, the former bank executive, could be sentenced to a maximum of 30 years, fined up to $1 million and be forced to pay up to $60.5 million in restitution.
Following uproar in the state’s far west over noise and other disruptions brought by cryptocurrency mining, Buncombe County has extended by a year its temporary ban on such operations. County officials say they are struggling with how to write rules protecting residents from problems that those who have experienced them say include constant noise as