MiamiCoin has made the city of Miami $7.1 million since it was introduced in August of this year. The coin is the byproduct of the city’s cooperation with CityCoins, a non-profit and open-source protocol that allows people to mine, hold, and trade cryptocurrencies tied to a municipality. Powered...
San Francisco-based Orbit Fab, a startup aiming to build a network of orbital gas stations, announced its plans to launch the first propellant tanker to geostationary orbit on a SpaceX Falcon 9 lunar lander mission scheduled between late 2022 and early 2023. The tanker will be able to store more...
In a remarkable achievement, Alphabet’s Project Taara transmitted nearly 700TB of data across the Congo River in 20 days. Developed at X, Alphabet’s moonshot factory, Project Taara uses light beams to deliver a high-speed internet connection. Taara’s latest test transmitted data across the Congo River between Brazzaville...
> “Few have come before, and many are about to follow. The door’s open now and it’s pretty incredible,” - Inspiration4 commander Jared Isaacman on the SpaceX livestream, close to 10 minutes after liftoff. SpaceX launched its Inspiration4 mission on Wednesday evening, successfully bringing an all-civilian crew into orbit...
Protests intensified in El Salvador following the passing of the Bitcoin Law. Discontent has been brewing in the nation since President Bukele first introduced the bill, but the number of protestors outside of the capital grew following the 10% drop in Bitcoin’s price immediately following the law’s enactment....
In the latest of the NFT craze, an NFT of a free clipart rock dubbed EtherRock #42 was sold for over 400 ETH (about $1.3 million). The cartoon rock is a piece in a four-year-old NFT project called EtherRock, comprised of 100 images of the same cartoon rock, each...
