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Polygon Hardfork Tackling Gas Fees but Enough to Compete?
Polygon has announced it will be performing a hard fork, upgrading its proof-of-stake chain to boost performance. Since Polygon launched its PoS chain, it has been making incremental improvements to t...
Powell stresses need for Fed political independence on tackling inflation
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Tuesday emphasized the need for the central bank to be free of political influence while it tackles persistently high inflation. In a speech delivered to Swed...
Bitcoin miners see mixed successes in tackling debt-fueled overexpansion crisis
According to a recent report by Hash Rate Index, publicly-listed Bitcoin (BTC) miners took on more than $4 billion worth of debt during the run-up to the crypto bull market. Mesmerized by rising price...
Chris Riccobono Disrupted Menswear With Untuckit. Now He’s Tackling Athletic Apparel
Chris Riccobono, and Derek Jeter looking at designs for Greatness Wins athletic apparel. Greatness Wins Chris Riccobono built the clothing brand Untuckit on the belief that there was unmet demand for ...
Algorand’s Formula E NFTs Are Tackling Climate Change Head-On
Blockchain platform Algorand has teamed up with Envision Racing for a series of NFTs to tie in with the ABB FIA Formula E electric race series. Each of the 1,000 limited-edition NFTs, designed by 3D a...
How GM, Ford, Tesla are tackling the national EV charging challenge
More people than ever are buying electric vehicles. There are about 2 million EVs on the road in the U.S., up six-fold since 2016, but the number of EVs is still a very small slice of the more than 28...
U.S. Treasury confirms progress on tackling crypto wallets anonymity
The United States Treasury is working on measures to contain risks associated with unhosted crypto wallets due to their anonymous nature. Speaking during the 2022 Consensus conference on June 10, Th...
Here’s how the crypto market is tackling the climate question
Over the past few years, we have seen a drastic increase of the cryptocurrency market. From being relatively unknown, the phenomenon rose to a buzzword almost overnight. The market keeps expanding by ...
How Headspace Health is tackling the global mental health crisis
In this weekly series, CNBC takes a look at companies that made the inaugural Disruptor 50 list, 10 years later. In 2013, the idea of an app for mental health-care may have seemed novel, if not monume...
A16z Leads $4M Seed Funding Round For Loop, A Setup Tackling Recurring Payments Raises
Loop, a new crypto startup, is working on making Web 3’s payment rails easier for its crypto-paying customers. Recently, the firm has raised $4 million in Andresseen Horowitz-led seed funding, claims ...
Why is a Guatemalan Mayor mining Bitcoin? Tackling FUD with biogas and BTC
The Bitcoin (BTC) community is at it again, dismantling FUD and orange-pilling officials in far-flung destinations. At the foot of Lake Atitlán, a bucolic yet impoverished region of Guatemala, a Bitc...
Hollywood’s Nice Guy Steve Guttenberg Talks Turning Nasty And Tackling Horror In ‘Heckle’
Steve Guttenberg attending the 2018 Sarasota Film Festival in Sarasota, Florida. Getty Images for Sarasota Film F Steve Guttenberg is a legend. The actor’s body of work spans movies and TV with a resu...
Tackling Ethereum Problems at ETHDenver
Running an Ethereum validator is not a household activity for most. The upfront cost of 32 ETH is now about $85,000, and it peaked at over $150,000 at the top of last year’s cycle. Furthermore, valida...
USDA to spend $1 billion on agriculture projects tackling climate change
A wind farm shares space with corn fields in Latimer, Iowa, U.S. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters The U.S. Department of Agriculture will spend $1 billion on projects for farmers, ranchers, and forest landown...
Nestle’s CEO says tackling child labor in cocoa needs new approach
Farmer Oluranti Adeboye, 62, harvests cocoa at Sofolu village in Ogun State, southwestern Nigeria, on June 5, 2018. Pius Utomi Ekpei | AFP | Getty Images The cocoa industry faces urgent challenges. It...
India’s PM Calls For A Common Global Approach For Tackling Crypto
At the WEF’s 2022 Davos agenda, Narendra Modi, Indian Prime Minister, called for a united global stand to tackle the issues emerging from the cryptocurrencies’ increasing adoption. The key takeaway of...
How Former NFL Star Vernon Davis Is Tackling Hollywood
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – FEBRUARY 12: Vernon Davis attends the premiere of “Downhill” at SVA Theater on … [+] February 12, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Dominik Bindl/WireImage)...
Tackling the Issues of Fraud on the Blockchain
The cryptocurrency space is no longer the wild wild west of finance. Less than a couple of years ago, institutions were wary of entering, mainly because many of the projects were in a proof-of-concept...