Fidelity Digital Asset Services, a division of Fidelity Investments, is out to hire 110 engineers and developers knowledgeable in blockchain technology to create a digital infrastructure to support investment services in ether and other digital assets beyond Bitcoin, the Wall Street Journal reported. The division also will add 100 customer service representatives. In April, Fidelity...
Tag: jun 7 2022
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TECH EXPERTS LOBBY FOR CRYPTO CRACKDOWN
Twenty-six prominent technologists have signed a letter to the U.S. Congress urging a crackdown on the cryptocurrency industry, which Securities and Exchange Commission chair Gary Gensler has called “the Wild West,” as we noted in “Gensler: Crypto Not Viable Long-Term” (28 Sep 2021). The signers include Kelsey Hightower, Google’s chief cloud engineer; Miguel de Icaza,...
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AT DAVOS, FINANCIERS TOUT CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCIES
Leaders in the financial industry made their case for central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, last month. “Bitcoin may be called a coin, but it’s not money,” Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, said, “It’s not a stable store of value.” “Cryptocurrencies are not a...
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BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
MORATORIUM ON BITCOIN MINING IN NEW YORK. Despite cheap hydroelectric power, and the highest net outflow of people fleeing the state because of a poor economic environment and other facts, NY is on the edge of cutting off new mining of the sector’s most historically successful asset, bitcoin. This past Friday, the State Senate voted...
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ACLU CALLS FOR A RETAIL DIGITAL CASH THAT FUNCTIONS LIKE PHYSICAL CASH
Given the surveillance and control capabilities that can easily be designed into government CBDCs (Central Bank Digital Currencies), it seems highly unlikely that the U.S. will ever issue “digital cash” content to mimic the features of physical money. But that hasn’t stopped advocacy groups like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) from dreaming. A recent...
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CHINESE BOTANICAL MEDICINE AND WIKIPEDIA: FACT OR PREJUDICE
By Gary Null, PhD, Progressive Radio Network Modern conventional medicine has increasingly become a culture of scientific and historical denialism. Although pretending to be an objective discipline of consistent progress, the conventional medical establishment more often than not discredits the insights, discoveries, medical systems and methodologies of the distant past and non-Western cultures. The consequence...
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THE TIME FACTOR IN PHYSICAL TRAINING
By Bradley J. Steiner Since the 1960s I have been urging weight-training as the premier physical training for hand-to-hand and close combat. Today, the idea has caught on and many take it for granted that “it’s a good idea to lift weights if you want to get stronger,” but few who have jumped on the...
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WILL ELECTROFUELS GET TRACTION?
Battery technologies grab the headlines, but hydrogen has been touted as a clean, abundant alternative fuel that literally is all around us: hydrogen is the most common element in the universe. Unfortunately, carbon waste gases are becoming increasingly common as well. Electrofuels combine the two. Hydrogen for fuel usually is distilled from natural gas. In...
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AUTOMATING THE TRAFFIC COP
Pittsburgh has retired the white gloves and the whistle and turned traffic management over to something it calls Scalable Urban Traffic Control, or Surtrac. Surtrac is an artificial intelligence that instantly analyzes data taken from cameras, stoplight controls, and sensors at individual intersections so the stop-and-go lights there can decide how long to stay red...
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WHAT MICROPLASTICS DO INSIDE YOUR BODY
The world is covered in microplastic, from 27,690 feet up Mount Everest to seven miles deep in the ocean at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. You’re covered, too, inside and out. A synthetic jacket weighing two pounds sheds 400 microplastic fibers every 20 minutes that you’re wearing it, according to a 2020 study. Also,...