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12. 6. 2022 No Responses

Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey’s TBD Presents Bitcoin-Based Decentralized Web5

Jack Dorsey’s Bitcoin-focused TBD business unit, a subsidiary of Block Inc., announced Friday that it is building a new decentralized web: Web5. Web5 is based on the assumption that Web3, the idea of building a decentralized web with blockchain technology...

11. 6. 2022 No Responses

Boeing & Airbus Make Up 91% Of Global Commercial Aircraft Fleets

U.S. based airlines were far and away the largest aircraft carriers, with American Airlines being the world’s largest airline by fleet size since 2019. Interestingly, Delta Airlines was the largest by revenue in 2020, despite a smaller fleet size....

10. 6. 2022 No Responses

Twitter Quietly Removes Warning Added To A CDC Study On Child Vaccines

“Among children and adolescents, estimated VE [vaccine effectiveness] for 2 doses of BNT162b2 against symptomatic infection was modest and decreased rapidly,” Twitter has removed a warning that it had added to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and...

9. 6. 2022 No Responses

BIS Calls For Centralization Of Crypto

While citing multiple problems with the decentralization model for cryptocurrencies (some of them valid and some of them not), the Bank for International Settlements has concluded in a report released this week that crypto ‘can’t fulfill the role o...

5. 6. 2022 No Responses

China Navy: Third Modern Aircraft Carrier to Be Launched Soon

China will soon have another aircraft carrier. Chinese shipbuilders are currently manufacturing the aircraft carrier at the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard in Shanghai. It is also noteworthy that this event is steeped in symbolism because the CPC was founded in 1921 ...

2. 6. 2022 No Responses

General Mills divests from West Bank

Food giant General Mills has sold its bread products division in a move activists hail as a success, but Israel dismisses as a business decision. General Mills has announced the sale of its stake in an Israeli joint venture based...

1. 6. 2022 No Responses

Saudi Arabia reportedly pressured to pump more oil

Saudi Arabia may agree to boost oil production to cool skyrocketing prices if Russia’s output falls significantly under the new EU sanctions, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. The Kingdom, the world’s largest oil producer, has repeatedly rejected d...

31. 5. 2022 No Responses

Ron Paul: Don’t Trade Real Liberty For Phony Security

Authoritarian politicians wasted no time using the recent shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, to justify new infringements on liberty. Just days after the Buffalo shooting, the US House of Representatives passed a law creating new domestic terr...

30. 5. 2022 No Responses

Mastercard CEO: SWIFT Payment System May Be Replaced By CBDCs In 5 Years

There has been a long list of revelations coming out of the recent World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, but one issue that might have gone under the media radar involves comments by Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach during a discussion...

29. 5. 2022 No Responses

Czech Republic will join the gold rush

The newly appointed governor of the Czech National Bank (CNB), Aleš Michl, said that he plans to massively increase the central bank’s gold reserves from the current 11 tonnes to over 100 tonnes or more. It was almost inevitable that...

28. 5. 2022 No Responses

Russia Actively Discussing Allowing Crypto For International Payments

In late March, the chairman of Russia’s Congressional energy committee, Pavel Zavalny, said in a press conference that Russia was open to accepting bitcoin for its natural resources exports. “When it comes to our ‘friendly’ countries, like China or...

Russia Ready To Help Solve Global Food Crisis

27. 5. 2022 No Responses

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