Month: December 2017

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After rocketing to a high above $19,500 last Sunday, bitcoin's price has been steadily dropping this week. Those losses accelerated overnight, with the cryptocurrency falling below $13,000.

Bitcoin's losses come amid a broad cryptocurrency selloff. As of Friday morning, every major cryptocurrency was posting double-digit 24-hour losses. Ethereum is down 28 percent over the last 24 hours, Bitcoin Cash is down 37 percent, and Litecoin is down 32 percent.

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To be fair, all of these currencies—like bitcoin—have seen massive gains in recent weeks. They're all well above their value at the start of December, to say nothing of values earlier in the year.

Enlarge / This is the “Patio Suite” at the Abbey Inn. (credit: Abbey Inn)

The Indiana attorney general has sued a small hotel in Nashville, south of Indianapolis, over claims that it illegally charged its own customers a $350 fee for leaving negative reviews online. The hotel's Yelp page is currently listed as being "under dispute."

According to the lawsuit, State of Indiana v. Abbey Management, Inc., which was filed in state court in Brown County on December 15, the case originated when a woman named Katrina Arthur stayed at the Abbey Inn. According to her official April 2016 complaint with the AG's office, she stayed just one night in March 2016 and paid $230. Arthur wrote that the hotel "smelt like sewer" in an online review.

Then, on April 2, 2016, Arthur received a letter from Andrew Szakaly, who purported to be an attorney representing the hotel.

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When Chad Pierce and his family bought a new house this year, they made sure of one thing: that getting Internet service wouldn't be a problem.

"The first thing we did was go on [Charter] Spectrum's website and punch the address in," Pierce told Ars, recalling the day this past summer when he and his family saw the house in Newaygo, Michigan, that they'd ultimately buy.

The Charter website indicated that Internet service was available at the address. But Pierce wanted to make extra sure. "I had read articles saying the [Internet providers'] websites aren't always accurate," he noted. So he called Charter's customer service line and was told the same thing—that Internet was available.