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As we enter the first day of October we feel the cool breeze of Autumn flowing in coupled with anticipation for the fiery sunset colored leaves spread across forests of the temperate climate zones. Our imaginations also turn to pumpkin pies and Halloween costumes. Old

In most endeavors in life the bar for success is set pretty low and even if you don’t meet the low bar the consequences are negligible. For example, you can make it through high school answering correctly as little as 70% of the questions right

Last night Hedera Hashgraph accomplished a significant milestone. Following 18 months of intensive development and preparation, Hedera completed the beta launch of its “Mainnet” open access network. Hedera Hashgraph is the public permissionless distributed network operating on the revolutionary Hashgraph distributed ledger technology, created by Swirlds.

The Hashgraph distributed consensus algorithm was invented by Dr. Leemon Baird.  Dr. Baird received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.  Together with his longtime friend and colleague Mance Harmon, Swirlds Inc. was organized in 2016.  Baird and Harmon were both former faculty

It's probably fair to say that when you think of the mining industry you probably don’t think of it as being good for the environment. You’d be right to feel that way. Look at the headlines. In February of this year mining giant Rio Tinto

Last week, amid political fear and economic turmoil across Argentina, Russia and Hong Kong, the price of gold in dollars reached fresh six-year highs.  Continued political protests in Hong Kong and Russia, as well as the results of Argentina’s primary elections,  are fueling global sentiment

In 1895 and 1896 Argentina was the wealthiest country in the world. Since that time it has lurched from one financial crisis to the next defaulting on their government bonds eight times. What happened to make Argentina go from one extreme to the next? Many

Sunday night China allowed its currency to weaken against the U.S. dollar bypassing the psychologically important level of 7 yuan to the dollar. In India, the rupee also weakened against the dollar as Jammu and Kashmir went into forced blackout by the government and the rupee moved

There is significant disruption in the financial services industry from the rise of peer-to-peer (P2P) mobile payments.  The acceleration of the P2P payment market is driven by smartphone use growth, fintech startups, and preferences of Millennial and Gen Z consumers. As background, peer-to-peer payments refer to digital money transfer