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A constantly changing narrative is a telltale sign that something is a bad investment. The argument for bitcoin a few years ago was that it would replace fiat currencies like the U.S. dollar. It didn t, and it probably never will. No one s going to use a currency that wildly gyrates in value and isn t backed by anything at all.
Now, bitcoin is apparently digital gold, a store of value that can protect investors from inflation. Like real gold, there s a finite quantity of bitcoin that can ever exist. But unlike real gold, there are an infinite number of potential competitors. Cryptocurrencies are a dime a dozen, and there s really nothing special about bitcoin other than its name recognition.
Cities Changing Diabetes announces five new programs to fight diabetes and obesity in Philadelphia
Preliminary funding jumpstarts programs designed to address unmet health care needs
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PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Five innovative community-based programs have been selected to receive preliminary funding to help combat diabetes and obesity in Philadelphia through Cities Changing Diabetes. Cities Changing Diabetes is a global program sponsored by Novo Nordisk, a global healthcare company, that brings together the private and public sectors to find new ways to change the trajectory of diabetes, including reducing obesity which is considered the biggest modifiable risk factor of diabetes, in their neighborhoods and communities. The winning programs were selected by a coalition of local public health, healthcare, faith, academic and community leaders.
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IBM Corp. and eProvenance, a company that monitors wine shipment conditions, announced Thursday the launch of VinAssure, a new distributed ledger blockchain-powered platform that will offer a highly secured way to track wine as it moves from vineyard to wineglass.
IBM and eProvenance hope to change the way that wine producers, distributors, companies and retailers do business because by helping increase tractility, efficiency and profitability in the wine supply chain by using a permissioned, permanent and shared record of data.
VinAssure will run on IBM Cloud and is built on IBM Blockchain Transparent Supply, which is designed to bring together all participants including wine producers, négociants, importers, transporters, distributors, restaurants and retailers.