Employees at Farmers Group are staging a revolt after the insurance company’s new CEO has reversed remote work policies they say were promised to them last year. The Wall Street Journal reports workers have logged more than 2,000 comments complaining about the about-face decision from Raul Vargas on the company’s internal social media platform. Some have threatened to quit. Others have started talking about unionization. “I was hired as a remote worker and was promised that was the company...

Bitcoin is expensive — whether you buy it from a broker or mine it yourself. But it’s a lot more expensive to mine in some countries than others. Elite Fixtures has compiled a list of mining costs throughout the world, using averaged data from three mining rigs and average electricity rates in 115 countries as of January 2018. And, based on those results, you absolutely do not want to launch a mining operation in South Korea, It costs $26,170 to mine a single Bitcoin in that country — more...

The highest roller in Las Vegas has nothing on Bitcoin’s latest investor. An anonymous trader has sunk $400 million—enough to buy New York State’s most expensive home twice with change left over—into the cryptocurrency, raising his or her stake from 55,000 coins to more than 96,000 between Feb. 9 and Feb. 12. And that buy-in is already paying substantial returns. The bulk of the purchases took place on Feb. 9, with another 9,000 or so on Feb 12. And even if the buyer bought at the day’s peak,...