I will not pray because I not a believer but I can share comforting news with you: my daughter 6-month pregnant was diagnosed covid + a week ago , released today , cured by a great team in Colombes (France) including her younger sister who is doctor.
According to @Olymp_Capital , since January 2018, ICOs raised $10bn[1], which is 1.6x the entire amount raised in all of 2017 ($6.3bn). In comparison, on NYSE, IPO raised $32.1bn in 2017[2] and $24.9bn in 2018[3] so far.
The main problem with sharding as a solution to scale blockchains: "the only way to confirm the absence of a transaction is to be aware of all transactions". If you split up the chain in shards, how do you make each aware of the whole? (HT @StopAndDecrypt)
In response to a question by MEP @EeroHeinaluoma on Bitcoin-like #crypto, the ECB's Panetta is very clear:
"There is no reason why, from a social viewpoint, we should tolerate activities that are pure gambling and are wasting enormous amounts of energy🔥
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If you have invested in #Bitcoin 100 € each month for the past ten years, you now hold 1 012 BTC.
They are worth today over 27 Million € for a 12 000 € investment.
Yet your bank is probably still advising you to stay away from crypto 🤡
I was hoping we could put this issue to rest long ago. However, a smear campaign continues against Bitcoin protocol developers in an attempt to scam new users, so I will repost an email I wrote to Roger on March 31, 2016 calling for peace...please RT.
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Today, there are three kinds of money.
#Bitcoin is past energy proven by issuing miners. Verification of proof does not require trust.
Fiat money is future energy pledged by borrowers to issuing banks. Requires a lot of trust in borrowers, banks and intermediaries, backed by
