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Q: Suddenly, Bitcoin seems a bit boring. 
  
 It might be hard to believe. But after the 1,400 percent rally of 2017, with wild swings along the way, the great crypto craze has cooled, at least for now. For the past month, Bitcoin’s price has stalled between $8,000 and $11,300 -- a minuscule range by its standards. And internet searches for “Bitcoin” have plunged, suggesting public interest has, too. 
  
 “The general public is now realizing that this is not a risk-free, get-rich-quick, investment opportunity and general interest has since diminished,” said Lucas Nuzzi, a senior analyst at Digital Asset Research. 
  
 Google Search Interest in Word 'Bitcoin' Over Time A value of 100 is the peak popularity for the term Source: Google Trends 
  
 The 2018 lull shows just how quickly investment fads can come and go. Gone for now are the days when Bitcoin dominated talk at holiday tables. Stories lately look a lot like the ones in the back sections of financial papers -- dry accounts of regulatory scrutiny, market structure and legal wrangling. 
  
 Online searches for “bitcoin” fell 82 percent from December highs, according to Google Trends. Tweets that mention the coin peaked Dec. 7, at 155,600, and are now down to about 63,000, BitInfoCharts says. And the number of bitcoin transactions is off 60 percent from its record on Dec. 13, according to Blockchain.info. 
  
 December brought “Bitcoin Craze Propels Coinbase App to No. 1 in Apple’s Store.” Now there’s “Bitcoin’s Wildest Days Are Over as Regulators Circle.” Indeed, Bitcoin’s been in the news for all the wrong reasons lately. 
  
 Its price slumped Wednesday after Google said it would prohibit cryptocurrency ads, following Facebook’s move from January. Major banks including JPMorgan and Bank of America banned crypto purchases on their credit cards, the Securities and Exchange Commission has stepped up cryptocurrency oversight and Congress is holding hearings on how to treat the digital coins. Earlier this month, Allianz Global Investors argued the the coin’s “intrinsic value must be zero.” 
  
 “The story with Bitcoin is pretty straightforward,” said Roger Kay, president of research firm Endpoint Technologies Associates Inc. “It went up fast, and then came down even faster. Consumers who flocked to it late got burned. They are in the shadows now, licking their wounds. And others contemplating how to get rich quick are acutely aware that what goes up can come down, and maybe Bitcoin isn’t the way to go about it.” 
  
 Of course, Bitcoin’s obituary has been written countless times in its nine-year existence. In fact, 111 such stories appeared last year when it was on a tear, according to 99bitcoins.com. Almost forty have been written so far in 2018, on track to top that level. 
  
 Still, just Wednesday, people familiar with the matter said hedge fund billionaire Alan Howard made sizable personal investments in cryptocurrencies last year. And even Allianz doesn’t think Bitcoin is done for, not as long as the number of speculators and crypto true believers remains high. Coinbase says it still has more than 20 million customers, though it’s not clear how many have been active recently. 
  
 And this isn’t Bitcoin’s first slump. It’s had at least three declines of 70 percent or more since 2010 only to come back with a vengeance and reach higher highs. 
  
 For now, though, boring might be the new normal as the decline in public interest could leave Bitcoin in what for it could be considered a tight range. Remember, after a rally boosted its price 84-fold in 2013, it tumbled back down in the next week and held there until lifting off again in 2017. 
  
 Yes, the slump lasted more than three years. ||||| FILE- In this Dec. 21, 2017, file photo, a Bitcoin logo is shown is displayed on an ATM in Hong Kong. Google says it is going to ban advertisements for cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, as well as related content like trading advice and cryptocurrency wallets. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File) (Associated Press) 
  
 FILE- In this Dec. 21, 2017, file photo, a Bitcoin logo is shown is displayed on an ATM in Hong Kong. Google says it is going to ban advertisements for cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, as well as related... (Associated Press) |||||

A: Google says it is going to ban advertisements for cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, as well as related content like trading advice and cryptocurrency wallets. The new policies, which also ban other complex financial products, were announced Wednesday and will go into effect in June. The move follows a similar step by Facebook earlier this year. The social networking giant updated its ad policy in January to ban financial products often associated with deceptive practices, including those involving cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, the AP reports. Bitcoin, which fell from above $11,000 to below $9,000 last week after the SEC made it clear that it would be applying securities laws to entities like cryptocurrency exchanges, fell below $8,000 on news of the Google ad ban, CNBC reports. Analysts say that while regulators are taking greater interest in bitcoin, Internet searches have dropped, suggesting public interest is fading after last year's dizzying surge in value and subsequent drop. "The general public is now realizing that this is not a risk-free, get-rich-quick, investment opportunity and general interest has since diminished," Digital Asset Research analyst Lucas Nuzzi tells Bloomberg.
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Q: What happens when a python eats a porcupine? Hint: It's not pretty. A hungry snake in South Africa just found this out the hard way when it ate a porcupine for supper and died less than a week later. (All images courtesy of Lake Eland Game Reserve) [Read the full python versus porcupine story] 
  
 Stuffed snake 
  
 On June 14, a cyclist riding along one of the mountain bike trails at the Lake Eland Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, spotted this engorged snake. 
  
 Snack attack 
  
 No one knew at first what the snake had eaten; just that it must have been something fairly large. Park rangers suspected the python feasted on a small warthog or a baby impala. 
  
 Porcupine's revenge 
  
 Less than a week later, on Saturday, June 20, park rangers found the python dead near the bike trail. When they cut it open, they found a 30-pound (13.8 kilograms) porcupine. 
  
 Bad decisions 
  
 Believe it or not, pythons and other snakes do sometimes eat porcupines. However, many snakes end up regretting their choice of snack. A study published in 2003 in the Phyllomedusa Journal of Herpetology found that a porcupine's quills can pierce all the way through a hungry snake's body. 
  
 More than he could chew 
  
 Pythons in the Lake Eland Game Reserve have been spotted consuming even larger prey than a porcupine. The owner of the reserve, Eric Dunstone, once saw a python swallow an adult oribi antelope whole, according to Jennifer Fuller, the reserve's general manager. Oribi bucks can weigh nearly 50 pounds (22.7 kg). In this case, though, it likely wasn't the size of the porcupine that damaged the snake. 
  
 Snake autopsy 
  
 It still isn't clear if this python's spiky meal was actually responsible for its death, Fuller told Live Science. Rangers found the snake underneath a rocky ledge, where it had apparently fallen. On impact, the quills inside its engorged belly may have pierced the python's digestive tract, which could have killed it. 
  
 Empty shell 
  
 Rangers at the reserve stripped off the python's skin after removing the porcupine from its digestive track. 
  
 Long way down 
  
 Rangers also took measurements of the snake's massive body, which measured 12.8 feet (3.9 meters) long. The snake's head features a dual set of lower jaws that move independently of one another, allowing the animal to open wide to swallow large prey. 
  
 Follow Elizabeth Palermo @techEpalermo. Follow Live Science @livescience, Facebook & Google+. ||||| We all eat the wrong thing sometimes, but this 12-foot-long South African python made a major error. It swallowed a porcupine whole. Spoilers: No, it did not survive. 
  
 LiveScience reports that a bicyclist captured these photos of the snake right after it had gulped down its meal. At the time, park rangers speculated that it had eaten something like a small warthog. 
  
 But then the snake appears to have suffered a setback. A week after these photos were taken, park rangers found it dead. Apparently, it had fallen off a ledge. But why would that kill a snake? When the rangers opened the snake up, they discovered the answer. 
  
 It had eaten a 30 pound porcupine, whose quills probably pierced its digestive tract in the fall, and killed it. In this image, you can see the mostly-undigested porcupine, whose quills lodged in the snake’s stomach, at right. 
  
 Now we know who wins when a snake fights a porcupine. Nobody. 
  
 [via LiveScience and Lake Elund Game Reserve] 
  
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 An unusual clash between a 6-foot (1.8m) alligator and a 13-foot (3.9m) python has left two of the deadliest predators dead in Florida's swamps. The Burmese python tried to swallow its fearsome rival whole but then exploded. The remains of the two giant reptiles were found by astonished rangers in the Everglades National Park. The rangers say the find suggests that non-native Burmese pythons might even challenge alligators' leading position in the food chain in the swamps. Clearly, if they can kill an alligator they can kill other species 
  
 Prof Frank Mazzotti The python's remains were found with the victim's tail protruding from its burst midsection. The head of the python was missing. "Encounters like that are almost never seen in the wild... And here we are," Frank Mazzotti, a University of Florida wildlife professor, was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency. "They were probably evenly matched in size. If the python got a good grip on the alligator before the alligator got a good grip on him, he could win," Professor Mazzotti said. He said the alligator may have clawed at the python's stomach, leading it to burst. "Clearly, if they can kill an alligator they can kill other species," Prof Mazzotti said. He said that there had been four known encounters between the two species in the past. In the other cases, the alligator won or the battle was an apparent draw. Burmese pythons - many of whom have been dumped by their owners - have thrived in the wet and hot climate of Florida's swamps over the past 20 years. 
  
  
  
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A: Anyone traumatized by the 2005 report of the exploding python might have imagined this wasn't the best idea ever conceived by a predator: A cyclist in South Africa's Lake Eland Game Preserve earlier this month came upon a nearly 13-foot python who looked about as stuffed as your Uncle Elmer shoving back from Thanksgiving dinner. The cyclist took a couple of pictures, uploaded them to social media, gawkers came and gawked, and lots of speculation ensued about what the critter might've eaten, reports LiveScience, ranging from small warthog to the presumably tongue-in-cheek "errant child." A week later, however, the snake was found dead and park officials decided to have their answer. Upon cutting the python open, they found a 30-pound porcupine, mostly undigested. The python's cause of death, however, is something of a chicken-and-egg game: While eating a massive, prickly porcupine probably wasn't its best career move, pythons have been know to eat both porcupines and larger prey and that alone probably wasn't enough to kill it. But the snake apparently fell down onto a ledge, notes LiveScience, and the porcupine's quills likely pierced something critical in the fall, like the snake's digestive tract. As Gizmodo puts it: "Now we know who wins when a snake fights a porcupine. Nobody." The Lake Eland Game Preserve posted all the grisly photos on Facebook.
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Q: Tim Childers, a volunteer at the Jonesboro Salvation Army, stirs soup at the shelter before dinner Monday afternoon. ||||| HOXIE, Ark. (AP) — A first-time political candidate in northeast Arkansas has learned a valuable civics lesson: vote early. 
  
 Cliff Farmer didn't make it to the polls in time to vote Tuesday, and his race for a Hoxie City Council seat ended up as a tie. 
  
 The Jonesboro Sun reports Farmer and his wife were returning from a Florida vacation on Tuesday when their plane landed only an hour before polls closed. The plane landed in Memphis, Tennessee, which is 80 miles (130 kilometers) from Hoxie. 
  
 His wife voted early, but Farmer said he'd intended to vote after they returned. That resulted in Farmer and incumbent Alderwoman Becky Linebaugh each receiving 223 votes. Linebaugh says she voted. 
  
 A winner will be declared next week by a coin toss or another game of chance. |||||

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A first-time political candidate in northeast Arkansas has learned a valuable civics lesson: vote early. Cliff Farmer didn't make it to the polls in time to vote Tuesday, and his race for a Hoxie City Council seat ended up as a tie, the AP reports. The Jonesboro Sun reports Farmer and his wife were returning from a Florida vacation on Tuesday when their plane landed only an hour before polls closed. The plane landed in Memphis, Tennessee, which is 80 miles from Hoxie. His wife voted early, but Farmer said he'd intended to vote after they returned. That resulted in Farmer and incumbent Alderwoman Becky Linebaugh each receiving 223 votes. Linebaugh says she voted. A winner will be declared next week by a coin toss or another game of chance. (In another race, a mystery ballot may break the tie.)
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