One area of blockchain innovation that traditional investors may find harder to grasp is the world of NFTs, or Non-Fungible Tokens. What purposes and uses do they have? Fungible tokens such as Ethereum and Bitcoin are the rewards for participants in those blockchain networks. People who fire up their computers and run software to provide...
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WILL BIDEN INFRASTRUCTURE BILL CRASH CRYPTOS?
[Press Time Update: In this fast changing story, TJ can report that the U.S. Senate turned down a crypto-tax amendment to a $1 trillion infrastructure package. The proposed amendment had been offered at the last minute by legislators arguing over which crypto brokers should be subject to new tax reporting requirements. Late Monday, the compromise...
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DEX OR CEX? INVESTORS HAVE EXCHANGE OPTIONS
Centralized Exchanges like Coinbase are seeing more competition from so-called decentralized exchanges like Uniswap. Each option carries certain advantages and disadvantages. But with U.S. politicians and regulators making moves to require more reporting from centralized exchanges, there has been a discernable growth in decentralized alternatives for crypto investing. The main benefit of decentralized exchanges is...
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DISSOLVING DISCARDED ELECTRONICS IN WATER
The electronics in every outdated smartphone, discarded computer, or broken-down toaster oven are a hodgepodge of pollution and toxins: cadmium, lead, mercury, polyvinyl chloride, and others. Recycling electronics can be a laborious process of breaking open the cases, often by hand, and then melting components or using harsh chemicals to reclaim the valuable minerals and...
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TURNING HEAT INTO ELECTRICITY FOR CHEAP
Thermoelectric devices can turn heat wafting off of engines, industrial boilers, and similar sources into electricity. However, they’re too expensive to install under the hood of your car or next to your kitchen oven. At least, they have been. Now scientists at Northwestern University have figured out how to make a thermoelectric compound from abundant...
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POSSIBLE CURE FOR PARKINSON’S DISEASE
Parkinson’s Disease, a brain condition affecting 10 million people worldwide that degrades mental function and causes tremors and rigid muscles, normally affects people aged 60 or older, according to the Parkinson’s Foundation. However, over the last five years, the rate of increase among people aged 30 to 64 has risen by 50 percent, a spike...
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FAUCI FUNDING OF WUHAN LAB BEING EXPOSED BY JUDICIAL WATCH
Judicial Watch has been exposing significant collaborations and funding dating back to 2014 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to the Wuhan Institute of Virology of China. The info came as part of the watchdog group’s request for FOIA documents. The documents revealed in July show that the National Institute of...
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SCAMMING NY TAXPAYERS? THERE’S AN APP FOR THAT
As New York City deals with new business killing vaccine mandate requirements, reports of a poorly conceived vaccine passport app have surfaced. A simple non-tech experiment by a cybersecurity expert rendered the app virtually worthless, and now he’s raising concerns about NY’s whole program. Albert Fox Cahn of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project detailed how...
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AMAZON PUSHES BACK RETURN FOR ITS CORPORATE WORKERS, BUT THOSE AT FULFILLMENT CENTERS MUST REPORT TO WORK
Amazon announced Thursday that it would delay a return to the office for its corporate employees to at least 2022 while still demanding that its workers in factories report to work. “We will continue to follow local government guidance and work closely with leading medical health care professionals, gathering their advice and recommendations as we...
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AMERICANS: RATHER WORK AT HOME AND EARN LESS
A new survey revealed that U.S. office workers would be willing to give up a portion of their salaries in order to keep working from home. Bloomberg, citing a survey by Pollfish and commissioned by Breeze, an insurance company, reported that 65 percent of American workers would be willing to see their pay cut by...