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This study concluded that to supply 10% of the global energy demand by 2040, roughly 200 tons of Helium-3 would be required annually. To do this would require a regolith mining rate of about 630 tons per second. This number is based on an optimistic concentration of 20 ppb helium-3 in the lunar regolith. All this translates to a requirement of between 1,700 to 2,000 helium-3 mining vehicles.
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Blockchain as a technology and discursive formation represents the zenith of tech-empowerment rhetoric and the geopolitical imperatives of computational capitalism.
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In order to guard against the loss of bank notes that were sent by Royal Mail, the Post Office issued an advertisement on the February 9. 1782 recommending that all persons who send banknotes in the post to cut them in half, and send them by different posts.
From Stockton banknote is example of how Royal Mail defeated highway robbery | The Northern Echo:
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Generally speaking, if you are going to con someone, it’s best not to write a book about it.
In March this year, the man who wrote the book on scamming bookmakers, literally, was sentenced to 21 weeks in prison for following his own advice.
Jason Haddigan, author of How and Why I Conned the Bookies, was described in court as a “notorious conman.”
Haddigan pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud and two counts of fraud by false representation at Swansea Crown Court.
From Ladrokes Coral Bilked Out of £600K by Gang Using Laminated Banknotes:
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The court heard the scam involved the gang covering £20 and £50 notes in plastic before entering them into self-service kiosks to register bets. Then they used a plastic cord attached to the banknote to yank it out of the machine.
From Ladrokes Coral Bilked Out of £600K by Gang Using Laminated Banknotes:
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Some banks have already become a part of the super-app ecosystem by providing unbranded “banking as a service” to the apps, making all of this seamless integration possible. The regulatory framework around financial services is so onerous that many super-apps simply don’t want to navigate it themselves, especially across multiple markets and regulatory regimes.
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Nothing is real
And nothing to get hung about
From the beginning, deepfakes, or AI-generated synthetic media, have primarily been used to create pornographic representations of women, who often find this psychologically devastating. The original Reddit creator who popularized the technology face-swapped female celebrities’ faces into porn videos. To this day, the research company Sensity AI estimates, between 90% and 95% of all online deepfake videos are nonconsensual porn, and around 90% of those feature women.
From A horrifying new AI app swaps women into porn videos with a click | MIT Technology Review.
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Thousands of Brits were unable to access their money as Monzo Bank has gone down, leaving customers shut out of their accounts and unable to make or receive any payments.
From Tens of thousands of Monzo customers unable to access their funds as bank goes down.
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As Ryan Selkis writes in the Messari report “Crypto Theses for 2022”, “If you still doubt that regulated stablecoins are our future, then you have a homework assignment: send one wire and one stablecoin transaction this week.”
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Centrifuge is a project that lets businesses “tokenize” their receivables (e.g., invoices) and sell those to DeFi investors.
AAVE recently announced a partnership with Centrifuge to price the lending of USD stablecoin DAI to borrowers.
AAVE does this using KYC’d or “permissioned” liquidity pools, making the lending compatible with institutions.
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