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Online payments company Stripe has announced that its platform will no longer accept bitcoin, citing long processing times and increased transaction fees, according to Recode.
Why it matters: Four years ago, Stripe was the first major online payments company to start using bitcoin for transactions. The price of bitcoin dropped 30% last week following a report that China and South Korea are escalating crackdowns on cryptocurrencies.
Voters who disapprove of President Trump most strongly are by far the most likely to vote by mail in the presidential election, according to an Axios analysis of exclusive data from SurveyMonkey and Tableau.
Why it matters: The new data shows just how strongly the mail-in vote is likely to favor Joe Biden — with potentially enormous implications in the swing states due to the greater risk of rejection with mail ballots.
The sudden uncertainty surrounding the future of the Affordable Care Act could be an enormous political liability for Republicans in key states come November.
Between the lines: Millions of people in crucial presidential and Senate battlegrounds would lose their health care coverage if the Supreme Court strikes down the law, as the Trump administration is urging it to.
The coronavirus is surging once again across the U.S., with cases rising in 22 states over the past week.
The big picture: There isn't one big event or sudden occurrence that explains this increase. We simply have never done a very good job containing the virus, despite losing 200,000 lives in just the past six months, and this is what that persistent failure looks like.
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