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Have you ever wondered why the Internet does not crash despite viruses and other programs invented by the NSA, the CIA and other mal intended people, designed to infiltrate other networks?
Today (28/06/17) Companies across the globe are reporting that they have been struck by a major ransomware cyber-attack.
British advertising agency WPP is among those to say its IT systems have been disrupted as a consequence.
The virus, the source of which is not yet known, freezes the user’s computer until a ransom in untraceable Bitcoin is paid.
Ukrainian firms, including the state power company and Kiev’s main airport, were among the first to report issues.
Ethereum Co-founder Makes $1.14 Billion Cryptocurrency Donation In Meme Coin - May 14, 2021
Vitalik Buterin, the Russia-based co-founder of the world’s second largest cryptocurrency Ethereum, has donated 500 coins and over 50 trillion SHIB meme coin worth around $1.14 billion to the India Covid-Crypto Relief Fund, as the country grapples with the lethal second wave of the pandemic.
Sandeep Nailwal, the man behind India Covid-Crypto Relief Fund, said in a tweet late on Wednesday that they will not “do anything which hurts any community specially the retail community involved with $SHIB”.
“Plz don’t worry $SHIB holders,” he said as the meme coin transaction created panic among some investors.
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Peter Thiel appeared at a Zoom event one evening this past April in a familiar pose: his face sat tense and almost twitchy, and yet his voice radiated authority and calm. Even by Thiel’s rarefied standards, his main interviewer that evening, in a conversation hosted by the Nixon Foundation, was impressive: Mike Pompeo, Trump’s former Secretary of State and a potential Presidential contender, who was treating the billionaire with deference while asking him the broadest of questions about the future of the U.S. and China. “You spend a lot of time thinking and writing about the technology fight between the West and the ideas that the Chinese Communist Party puts forward whether that’s disinformation or the capacity to move digits around the world,” Pompeo said to Thiel, before asking the investor how the two powers compared, technologically. For anyone interested in who will hold power in the Republican Party in the near future, the event made for a
Vitalik Buterin, the Russia-based co-founder of the world s second largest cryptocurrency Ethereum, has donated 500 coins and over 50 trillion SHIB meme coin worth around $1.14 billion to the India Covid-Crypto Relief Fund, as the country grapples with the lethal second wave of the pandemic. Sandeep Nailwal, the man behind India Covid-Crypto Relief Fund, said in a tweet late on Wednesday that they will not do anything which hurts any community specially the retail community involved with $SHIB . Plz don t worry $SHIB holders, he said as the meme coin transaction created panic among some investors. The SHIB meme coin fell more than 35 per cent after the donation.
The meme coin has garnered billions of dollars worth of investment in recent days, reports
TechCrunch.
Crypto Relief Fund, which maintains a log of all the donations, the report mentioned.
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Buterin is a Russian-Canadian programmer and writer who is best known as one of the co-founders of Ethereum.
One Ethereum is currently priced for ₹2.88 lakh. Buterin became involved with cryptocurrency early in its inception, co-founding Bitcoin Magazine in 2011.
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In 2013, he visited developers in other countries who shared his enthusiasm for code. He returned to Toronto later and published a white paper proposing Ethereum. He dropped out of university in 2014 when he was awarded with a grant of $100,000 from the Thiel Fellowship, a scholarship created by venture capitalist Peter Thiel and went to work on Ethereum full-time.