Bloomberg Biggest Bitcoin Fund Sinks to Record Discount as Mania Cools (Bloomberg) — The world’s largest Bitcoin fund is selling off faster than the cryptocurrency itself as investors rush to the exits.The $31.6 billion Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (ticker GBTC) plunged 22% this week, outpacing a 17% decline in the world’s largest cryptocurrency. That’s evaporated GBTC’s

The Irish government has published its “White Paper to End Direct Provision and to Establish a New International Protection Support Service.” The entire White Paper, which can be viewed here, outlines how the Irish government will move end Direct Provision which, as TD Roderic O’Gorman writes, “has proven expensive, inefficient, and ill-equipped to respond to

Covid-19: Ministers urged to ban ‘reckless’ evictions over rent arrears By Sinead WilsonBBC News Published1 hour agoSharecloseShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsCoronavirus pandemic image copyrightGetty Images Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick is being urged to ban “reckless” evictions of people in long term rent arrears in England as a result of the pandemic. A group of MPs

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A new not-for-profit system to replace direct provision will be in place by December 2024, according to a White Paper to be launched on Friday. As the Irish Examiner reports, the long-awaited paper builds on the expert report by Dr Catherine Day which recommended ending direct provision “no later” than 2023. However, under the Government’s

The end is in sight for direct provision centres with the publication of a plan to cease the practice of paying firms to house asylum seekers in former hotels and other communal buildings on a long term basis. Instead, new arrival centres are planned during what is termed a four-month ‘orientation’ phase. At the end

Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Roderic O’Gorman, T.D., today published a White Paper to End Direct Provision and to establish a new International Protection Support Service. This White Paper sets out a new Government policy to replace Direct Provision, which will be phased out over the next four years. “A new system

Image: RollingNews.ie Image: RollingNews.ie Updated 20 hours ago INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION APPLICANTS will spend no more than four months in six State-owned, not-for-profit centres before moving into their own accommodation under a new model aimed at ending the institutionalised Direct Provision system by 2024.  The Government’s White Paper published today lays out measures to overhaul the