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The new cryptocurrency gold rush: digital tokens that raise millions in minutes

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Since the gold rush, nothing has been shaking the world lately like cryptocurrencies and the fact that you can get rich if you own them. Oh, when we say you can get rich, we mean overnight. The world has literally gone mad for token offerings and everything about cryptocurrencies. Everybody that is somebody in this world turns their eyes to a phenomenon called cryptocurrency token offering. It has become the latest method for fundraising and it allows raising millions in just minutes.s

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Not to mention that everyone is completely crazy about it. This new disruptive mechanism commonly known as initial coin offering has already proved itself to be more than just useful. It has become so useful that it poses a serious threat to displace traditional venture capitalists from the entire process of fundraising. It is a way how the whole Internet business model could be remade but this time with cryptocurrencies and completely, and for the first time, decentralized applications.

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The moment cryptocurrencies exploded, so did intial coin offering. The entire business model known as freemium on the Internet could be reinvented by something as simple as token offerings. That means that centralized services like Google and Facebook could become upended. So instead of providing users with some services through their own platforms and social networks, it is now possible to go to those centralized services and find a direct channel between the technologist and the user that will enable the flow of capital.

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The only condition would be that the user pays upfront for the tokens. The more it gets popular, the more the demand will rise and the number of users will increase which means that the value of the token will increase as well. Following a simple set of rules, everyone can reap the benefits of the newly established financial system. So, it works very simply. Who gets there first gets the most of it. The truth is, people lost their minds about this because they see it as the opportunity to get rich.

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The Creation Of Bitcoin

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Cryptocurrencies don’t exist in reality but rather they are a digital currency, usable only online and people are those who generate the value of it by accepting these cryptocurrencies as online trading tools. Still, there have to be some regulations, rules and standards in order for this entire cryptocurrency system to function properly. Every important company or a person in this world has become aware of the impact that cryptocurrencies and the blockchain technology has on the financial industry and entire world economy.

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It could revolutionize the way we sell and buy goods. Bitcoin as a digital currency requires online space to exist and it has numerous uses. The user can choose how to use it, as a currency to buy goods or as an investment tool. Its convertibility into cash makes it acceptable all over the world and it could make the entire process of online shopping much easier. Digital tokens are gaining more and more power as they are being accepted all over the world and online businesses are enabling the option to pay for goods in digital tokens.

This is still far away from being officially accepted but that moment is getting nearer with each passing day. There is one really good and big benefit from introducing Bitcoin to the financial industry and that would be the stabilization of a flawed financial system where those with most money control the entire world. It is time to reset the clock and it seems that cryptocurrencies and their appearance is that moment.

Take back control over your money

The banks use your money to do what they do and by using it. They are getting richer and more powerful. The entire banking system is based on loans but they don’t have their own money so they borrow it from the debtors. They act as creditors and they rely on the debtors to pay back what they owe. For such services, they earn their interest which keeps them in business.

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If debtors don’t have the money to pay their loans back the bank has the right by the new laws. To take that money from the accounts of uninsured depositors and stakeholders to cover those debts. With cryptocurrencies, something like an economic collapse could become the past because, with such currencies, there is no inflation.

The very nature of blockchain on which cryptocurrencies were built upon, is to eliminate any fraud and put the control back in the hands of the general public. No longer will the banks put people into debt slavery, holding sway over their lives. By creating a currency that would be decentralized. We are taking the banks out of the equation and avoiding their excessive bank fees.

The banks are completely unnecessary to this world and finally. People are realizing that the entire banking system is nothing more. Than a scam how to take the power from the people and rob them of all their possessions. Well, nothing lasts forever and something new is coming.

 

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Climate Change Affects Us Severely

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Have you ever wondered how climate changes could affect your life?

Such questions are becoming more frequent recently and it seems that the world has finally started to notice that something is going on with our climate for quite some time now. We haven’t done anything significant about it yet because we mostly don’t understand what is happening actually. Here is a fact of reckoning. Climate changes can affect human health, wildlife, water availability and food production.

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That alone is already enough but the list goes on. Extreme weather conditions such as storms can make terrible damage to buildings, rail networks and roads and the entire infrastructure systems all over the world. So, climate changes are not something to neglect. The risks of extreme climate events are increasing every day because of the rising greenhouse gas emissions. Heavy rainfall, heat waves, extreme cold all of these extreme events pose great risks to our future.

To make it even worse, the predictions tell that these risks are about to get even higher in the future. The problem is that these events make the biggest impact on our planet and it will not leave us unaffected for sure. The more we work on predicting and understanding such significant events, we will be able to better understand the effects, consequences and repercussions. It might provide us with a way how we could fight these changes and maybe even stop them or turn them to our advantage.

The world is beginning to realize the importance

The scientists all over the world are coming together because they all are becoming aware of how this could affect our species. If the planet becomes a place where we can’t have the basic living conditions, we are doomed. That is why the scientists and other experts are gathering to work together on studying the impacts of climate changes. They are also working together on a research that will provide them with a model of how climate affects food crops, among many other things.

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These improved predictions are a great way how the meteorologists could look ahead to the next season and see what is coming. The world is warming slowly but surely and this warming is causing serious climate changes. The warmer the planet gets the more our polar caps melt and all that fresh water is going to the oceans and seas. This causes further changes, more rains and the chain of events continues to grow.

Before it’s too late, we must come with a solution how to slow down this heating process otherwise, we will lose our planet which is our home. Even if we come up with a way to control and limit greenhouse emissions, the climate will still be affected by natural variations. In order to make accurate predictions and prognosis, we must take all these variations, both human and natural into our consideration before we make a decision.

 

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Blockchain Could Stop Climate Change

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Climate change is real and we have to do everything within our power to find the adequate way how to fight it and eventually with a bit of good luck, put an end to it. The consequences of climate change can be more than just devastating when it comes to us and the world we live in.

We could lose our polar caps which are the only sources of fresh water on the planet or we could lose our forests which are the lungs of the world. Not to mention hundreds and thousands of lives due to natural disasters.

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So, it’s true, climate change is real and it poses a great threat to us all. Still, we have the advantages of the modern technology to count on and one particular technology could help us to win this battle. Blockchain could be our winning card in this game of  fighting climate change. It could show us the way that we were unable to see so far. It’s the leverage we have been looking for all this time.

The potential that blockchain has to offer can easily revolutionize every industry that adopts it and so with this in mind, it could possibly be of good use to us in the combat against the climate change that was caused by us and our behavior. Since blockchain doesn’t need any centralized institution to run it. It is exactly that decentralized nature that could help us to prevail.

Technology that will help to overcome any difficulties between the nations

Such a key property will allow our race to unite in this fight without having to respond to the centralized institutions like governments which will allow them to see a bigger picture and find the way how to efficiently fight this international problem. Since it is a fundamentally international problem. The difficulties occur from different regulations and languages between countries and this is making any cooperation slow and hard.

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Blockchain will make that cooperation a lot easier by cutting out bureaucracy. And middlemen in order to provide a way for experts and specialists. Scientists and scholars to create a relationship that will eventually come up with a solution. This sounds much better than what we have been up to so far.

The situation is only getting worse while politicians argue around offering nothing but inefficient political communication. That is why it has become completely clear that we need a decentralized solution. That will cut out all politicians that are trying to interfere and gain some political points on this.

The blockchain is our only hope and a way to do this. The biggest benefit of applying this technology to fight climate change is getting a much better. And clearer information on diagnosis which will allow more targeted prognosis. That could lead to isolating the main problem and dealing with it in an efficient way. We have to change the way we are doing things now in order to improve our world.

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Is Climate Research Important?

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Scenes of storms and flooding all over the world are alarming enough to see that something is going on. Something that is far out of our control. That is quite enough to remind us that we are not all-powerful on this Earth and that climate and weather affect us so. Predicting and understanding what the weather might bring in the near future or even better, predict how climate will change in the next period of time that is coming could be of vital importance for our society and economy.

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We and the world around us make one functioning ecosystem and the only thing that could endanger that system could be a sudden climate change that could wipe us away in a single stroke. Most of the people are not aware how climate changes are important in their everyday lives. To them, the climate is nothing more than typical weather conditions they see every day when they go to work and live their lives. The experts, specialists, scientists and experienced meteorologists know better than this.

They are well aware of the influence we have on the climate as well as that it’s our fault that we have sudden climate changes nowadays. They also know how climate varies and is affected by the emissions of greenhouse gases. Now, this is something that ordinary people simply don’t know or aren’t aware of. There are two types of factors that are affecting our climate, human and natural factors.

Understanding the climate system might give us a solution

The fundamentals of how the climate system functions might be the thing we are looking for. Understanding how this system works will provide a vital foundation upon which we could base all of the future research that will give us the valuable insight into the natural climate variability. That variability is what affects us and it’s a way how we can comprehend the effect we have on improving future climate predictions.

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Since we can’t change the fact that climate varies naturally which further affects the weather conditions all over our planet. Heavy rainfall and storms pose a huge threat to us and that is why it’s important to predict and understand these natural variations and base the climate research on that understanding. The scientists are becoming aware more and more that our race affects the climate.

Fossil fuels are causing a lot of damage as well as all that cutting down of the forests. People are not aware of their impact on the planet and if we continue to do so, things will not look good in the nearest future. We are running low on time with this. The risks from extreme weather are changing and the odds are not in our favor.

Only by working on improving climate predictions we can do something about this and this could become the most significant thing that would unite the entire human race. We have the knowledge and technology and we need to act.

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Blockchain – The Future Of Data Security

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Many people using the Internet don’t even give a thought to their data security. Keeping it under your control and most importantly safe, should be your number one priority. After all, your online data is who you are in the digital world.

Every single day, millions of users use the net to share their private data such as random loads of information, videos and photos and all this information might seem insignificant. However, in case that it falls into wrong hands, there could be grave consequences.

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For example, many businesses share data that is sensitive and if this data gets compromised in any way, it might put them all at risk or even worse, it could put the privacy of their customers in peril. No one wants their personal information exposed to the Internet especially data like driver licenses, addresses and names. The biggest problem with data transfer are the platforms that tend to create copies.

The moment you used any cloud service in order to share any of your data was the moment when you actually created copies without you even being aware of them. But hold on, it gets even worse because every time you decide to share those photos is when you create even more copies. This is a perfect example of data sharing without your control or knowledge what so ever about it. Not to mention that this sort of data sharing is not safe to say at least.

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Not everyone is a programmer and not everyone is into cryptography to know how to successfully and efficiently protect themselves online. Also, not everyone can afford such cryptography expertise. Top-level security systems cost a fortune but there is a solution. If you base your security on data mirroring, you could avoid creating all those copies against your will.

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Data mirroring makes sure that your data stays yours. Using a blockchain technology and the power of cryptology, it is possible to create a crypto key that will further manage your data and keep it so secure that even the owner of the platform you share your data on will not be able to access it. So, everything revolves around a very simple idea, keep your data in your hands. That is where the blockchain technology comes into play.

By giving the ability to developers to integrate blockchain into their systems, they are protecting the users. Let us face it, we deserve to be secure at least online if we are not in the real world. When you pay your internet provider for the internet services, at least you can count on that safety as your right. The more blockchain technology advances, the more it gets implemented into everything around us. Soon, this will not be only an idea but it will become reality. The net users will be safe and protected and their data will not fall into wrong hands for sure. A secured online user experience we deserve.

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Dynamics Of Climate

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Earth’s climate system is constantly changing. These changes influence the entire world and we greatly depend on those changes. In order to develop an understanding of how this system is going through changes, we must go through all its activities in time and utilize every dataset we have at our disposal in order to fully comprehend how these changes will affect us and the world we live in. In order to do this, we will need a team assembled of professional educators, scientists and teachers who are all trained to use the latest technology, toolkits and all their knowledge and expertise they have about climate science and pedagogy.

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Now, Dynamic of Climate is related to a conference that deals with the bond between climate changes and numerical integration techniques. It is supposed to cover the proceedings of such conference in dealing with the Problem of the General Circulation. This problem relates to the numerical integration of mathematical models in order to study the general circulation of the earth’s atmosphere. There are five aspects when dealing with such a subject. The first one deals with the problem of climatic fluctuations and how to forecast them.

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The second aspect attends to the discussion how the general circulation and heating and numerical prediction affect the topography and atmosphere. The third one deals with the main effect of unequal heating, the atmosphere. Climatic change and general circulation as well as including other studies and available researches about it to gather as much information as possible. The fourth one deals with the radiation and radiative heat transfer as well as the long-wave radiative effects.

The fifth and the last aspect deals with the energy transformation and everything related to it. By integrating math into these climate changes, we are able to create patterns. That could become extremely useful when forecasting such changes. This is where we introduce blockchain technology as it is nothing more than a complex mathematical process. It is possible to harness its mathematical power in order to use it to our adventage and forsee the full dynamix of climate.
Dynamics of Climate

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Earth’s climate system is constantly changing. These changes influence the entire world and we greatly depend on those changes. In order to develop an understanding of how this system is going through changes. We must go through all its activities in time and utilize every dataset we have at our disposal. In order to fully comprehend how these changes will affect us and the world we live in. In order to do this, we will need a team assembled of professional educators. Scientists and teachers who are all trained to use the latest technology. Toolkits and all their knowledge and expertise they have about climate science and pedagogy.

Now, Dynamic of Climate is related to a conference that deals with the bond between climate changes and numerical integration techniques. It is supposed to cover the proceedings of such conference in dealing with the Problem of the General Circulation. This problem relates to the numerical integration of mathematical models. In order to study the general circulation of the earth’s atmosphere. There are five aspects when dealing with such a subject. The first one deals with the problem of climatic fluctuations and how to forecast them.

The second aspect attends to the discussion how the general circulation and heating and numerical prediction affect the topography and atmosphere. The third one deals with the main effect of unequal heating, the atmosphere, climatic change and general circulation. As well as including other studies and available researches about it to gather as much information as possible. The fourth one deals with the radiation and radiative heat transfer as well as the long-wave radiative effects.

The fifth and the last aspect deals with the energy transformation and everything related to it. By integrating math into these climate changes. We are able to create patterns that could become extremely useful when forecasting such changes. This is where we introduce blockchain technology as it is nothing more than a complex mathematical process. It is possible to harness its mathematical power in order to use it to our adventage and forsee the full dynamix of climate.

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How Cryptocurrencies Can Influence The World

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It’s no secret that the most popular words in last few years are blockchain and cryptocurrencies. These have become buzzwords that everyone has been on about and this technology took the world by the storm. One of the cryptocurrencies, bitcoin, went sky high and made people who knew how to make the right moves at the right time, rich overnight.

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All of a sudden, everyone is into cryptocurrencies. Wanting their piece of the cake and a chance to get their hands on tons of cash. For some, it worked for others not so much. But the truth is, wherever you go, it seems that you just can’t run away from cryptocurrencies. Just a couple of years ago, only those who were into programming and similar stuff knew about such terms as cryptocurrency or blockchain but nowadays, more and more people are constantly talking about it.

Well, in case you didn’t know, crypto and blockchain are shaping the world as we speak. They’re changing the order of things and we’re still to see the consequences of these changes. The first thing that’s clearly visible is that you can’t seem to move anywhere without seeing something or someone referring to the blockchain technology or cryptocurrencies.

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The clear evidence that something very important is going on in the world right now is the fact that the world’s leading experts are currently divided on the subject of the future cryptocurrencies are bringing and how it will impact our world. One thing is certain at this point so far, the financial world is feeling all the shockwaves cryptocurrencies are sending its way and there is no doubt that it will change the world. How and to what degree, it remains to be yet to be seen.

A global phenomenon

The truth is that most people have heard about cryptocurrencies but they are not well aware of what they are, how they work and what they actually do. Authorities, companies, governments, banks and the public are still breaking their heads about it. Simply put, CC is nothing more than a type of digital currency. It has two main properties, it’s anonymous and secure. It’s only usable online. What makes it so secure is the cryptography used to encrypt it.

Cryptography is a programming process of breaking codes. It’s a way how to convert information into a code that is unhackable. And unchangeable in order to track and facilitate online transfers and purchases. That means that these transactions can’t be reversed or faked. The best thing about this is that it is completely decentralized. So there is no third party or any kind of intermediaries at all.

That’s why it’s so efficient and better than any global currency we know. More reliable too, and these cryptocurrencies are available to anyone. Such technology will allow more cost-efficient and faster bank transfers, increase global remittances and the power of e-commerce while providing stability and giving power to the people for the first time.

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Introduction to Ethereum

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With the invention of the blockchain technology came the invention of cryptocurrencies and the first and the most popular one is Bitcoin. Such a creation soon saw the coming of the other cryptocurrencies and similar platforms that were supposed to be better, more convenient, secure and available to the users. Like with everything else, it took some time to make it usable and perfect and the more the developers perfected it, the more features and options it gave to the users.

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One of such perfected cryptocurrencies is Ethereum but there’s a catch here. People often tend to misunderstand it for being just another cryptocurrency and they are not far from the truth only it’s a bit different. While it does borrow a bit from Bitcoin it isn’t only focused on digital currency but rather on computing power. To be more precise, Ethereum is supposed to be the world’s largest computer and it’s a decentralized platform where smart contracts are run and executed.

The easiest way to understand what it is would be by understanding how the Internet works. The Internet is all about cloud services today as every time. It gets enhanced it offers a few more conveniences to the users. All our data today is being stored in servers and clouds and submit our data to them. The only problem is all that data is easily accessible by the third party who can use it against the users who have submitted it.

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That means government services but also hackers. All your data becomes vulnerable to cyber attacks, theft and leaks. That is why the Internet became more centralized. To protect its users from those vulnerabilities but that gave an opportunity. To the most powerful companies to overtake the Internet.

The idea is to make the Internet more like the previous idea

People realized that it’s time to take the power back. And they have come up with new tools that will help them to decentralize the net. Thus, Ehtereum was born. Just like Bitcoin is taking the financial industry by storm. The same goes for the Internet and Ethereum by replacing internet third parties. To get a bit deeper into understanding what Ethereum is, it’s important to mention that it was built on the blockchain technology just like Bitcoin but with a single difference.

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While Bitcoin allows the money transfer between two persons. Ethereum is that money and that digital money has a property of being highly programmable. That gives it more conveniences the users can experience while making their transfers. That brings us to smart contracts. Being the essential Ethereum network units, smart contracts serve as instructions written in a programming language where each step of the contract depends upon the execution of the previous one.

The chain continues until it reaches the end. Any misuse, fraud or cyber attack is completely useless because every set of instruction is absolutely protected. Since the entire process is completely automatic, it’s the best way of doing transactions online.

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How Human Factor Affects Our Climate

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Up until now, many people on this planet were completely unaware of how they affect it. Not the planet itself but the climate around it. Affecting the climate affects our weather and the weather affects us. It is not rocket science to see that if we continue to do what we do, things could become very difficult for us. Climate change is real and it was not caused by something alien or even natural, no, it was caused by us.

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Rainfall became more extreme, the ice sheets are melting, the sea levels rise and the ozone layer is getting thinner with each passing day. The research conducted so far has shown that the globe is warming rapidly because of the greenhouse gas emissions. This warming will have serious consequences for future biodiversity of any kind, health, water resources and food security.

Without these necessary elements, we will not be able to survive. The way we use the land at our disposal and with all the ongoing air pollution, we only make the entire warming process quicker. The time has come for us to evolve and improve ourselves as a species and find a better way to create a natural equilibrium with our living environment.

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Our ecosystem as we know it is in danger and the effect of this endangerment is most obvious through extreme climate changes that we are experiencing for the last decade. It has become more than perfectly clear that human activities are part of the problem.

The challenge for entire human race

The ultimate challenge has been put before us. It is up to us to try to find a way to comprehend and understand these climate changes, the way they happen as well as what regions of our planet are the most affected. If we are able to predict how the change happens as well as when it will happen or where, we might have a chance of doing something about it. That means that we are not talking only about temperature changes but all other climate aspects as well such as storms and rainfall.

It is an absolute imperative to do this because the entire society depends upon it. If we know what is ahead of us, we have some chance to adapt to it. Current climate predictions are hard to characterize and there is a very high level of overall uncertainty. There is still so much that we don’t know and it is difficult to understand it all. We have created various climate models but the problem is that we don’t understand them fully and completely in order to be able to use them in a proper way.

There are unpredictable weaknesses in these models that we were not aware of before. There are natural factors that are very hard to predict as well as other influential processes that are causing the climate to respond to these influences. It is up to us to determine these global responses.

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