Web3 is another technological revolution, which is undergoing this familiar boom and bust cycle. Until now, Web3 has succeeded in installing a cluster of technologies with enormous potential for economic growth and transformation. DeFi, or decentralized finance, has installed the infrastructure to enable a new financial system which replaces intermediaries …
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Biden will use Covid to rig election – Trump
The former US president has urged his supporters not to comply with lockdowns or mask and vaccine mandates Former US president Donald Trump has claimed that President Joe Biden’s administration will take advantage of the reemergence of Covid-19 to rewrite election rules in order to prevent him from winning the …
Read More »Member state blocks EU military aid to Ukraine – Borrell
The EU has been unable to release €500 million in ‘European Peace Facility’ funding for Ukraine, due to opposition from one of the members, the bloc’s foreign policy commissioner Josep Borrell told reporters on Thursday. The country was later identified as Hungary. “I have to regret that the 8th tranche …
Read More »After Grayscale Victory, SEC Kicks the Can on Latest Bitcoin ETF Applications
Judge Neomi Rao, writing for the unanimous court, said the SEC’s denial of the application was inconsistent with the approval of a pair of bitcoin futures ETFs, and did not explain why it viewed these types of products differently given the underlying bitcoin market had a «99.9% correlation» between spot …
Read More »Former Cardinal avoids sex-abuse trial due to dementia
Theodore McCarrick was accused of molesting a 16-year-old boy, one of allegedly dozens of victims A Massachusetts judge on Wednesday dismissed charges against former Roman Catholic cardinal Theodore McCarrick, ruling that the 93-year-old was not mentally competent to stand trial for the alleged sexual abuse of a teenage boy. McCarrick is …
Read More »Bitcoin ETF Applications Are Bitcoin’s Best Marketing Strategy
Nowadays, with finance heavyweights such as Larry Fink talking up Bitcoin on the world stage, the masses are finally tuning in. Shortly after BlackRock filed its Bitcoin ETF application, the CEO had this to say: “Instead of investing in gold as a hedge against inflation, a hedge against the onerous …
Read More »Scientists explain radioactive boar phenomenon
The Chernobyl disaster is not the only cause of high radiation levels found in Bavarian wild pigs, a new study says Nuclear weapons testing during the 1960s significantly contributed to high levels of radioactivity in Europe, which is still detected in the region’s wild boar population, a new study has found. The …
Read More »Fukushima has not made fish radioactive – Russian data
More than 440 samples of seafood products from the area of the dump have been studied, Rosselkhoznadzor says The fish caught in Russia’s Far East after Japan began releasing wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean last week didn’t show excessive levels of radiation, Russia’s veterinary and …
Read More »Crypto for Advisors: Bitcoin and the Bull
Such a construct – an open network of unrelated nodes following code-based rules to agree on and locally record valid transactions without a central leader – results in Bitcoin’s key properties: Bitcoin is decentralized with no central point of control; trustless as nodes implement open-source software; censorship resistant with transaction …
Read More »British officials warned about ‘glamorous women’ in China – media
‘Honey traps’ were one of several alleged security threats on which the UK foreign secretary was reportedly briefed Ahead of a visit to Beijing by UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, British spies specifically warned his team to be on the lookout for attractive women who could seduce and blackmail them, …
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