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Primary source

Original material such as a filing, a transcript, a dataset or a first-hand account, as opposed to another…

Antitrust

Competition law: the rules preventing firms from abusing market dominance or merging their way out of competition. Called…

Ransomware

Malicious software that encrypts an organisation's files and demands payment to release them. Paying does not reliably restore…

Embargo

An agreement not to publish information before a stated time, so outlets can prepare coverage of a report…

Halving

A scheduled event in Bitcoin, roughly every four years, that cuts the reward paid to miners in half.…

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