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Advocacy: Election Returns

Independent Banker

With congressional candidates and incumbents across the nation in full campaign mode this summer, this is an excellent opportunity to share how ICBA is affecting what is already a dramatic election season. Familiar Friends—Georgia community bankers meet with Sen. FDIC Assessment Rules. By Courtney Schoenborn. De novo formations.

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Fizzle Of The Week: Bitcoin — The Bad Neighbor

PYMNTS

For those not used to thinking about electricity by the gigawatt, the estimates mean this: Even at the low end, bitcoin mining uses as much power as a nation state. The debate is whether that nation state is small (Lithuania-sized), medium (Morocco-sized) or medium-large (Israel-sized). Use of power is not very evenly distributed.

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