Crypto start-ups call for âsafe harbourâ protections from ASIC actions
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Start-ups building on blockchain technology are seeking a âsafe-harbourâ to ensure the corporate regulator down the track doesnât smack entrepreneurs for breaching what are now very uncertain legal requirements.
In a submission to the Senate inquiry on Australia as a finance and technology centre, Blockchain Australia said creating a short-term protection while a specific licensing regime for crypto businesses is created over the longer-term would show support for the nascent sector and stop entrepreneurs decamping to countries where laws are clearer.
Blockchain Australiaâs submission to a Senate inquiry calls for clear regulatory guidance to provide confidence to build without fear of ASIC retaliation. Â
In its 24th year as host city, Hattiesburg is welcoming 36 young woman from across the state this week as they compete for the title of Mississippi’s Miss Hospitality and more than $100,000 in scholarships and prizes. The Mississippi Miss Hospitality program was created in 1949, and the winner of this annual competition serves as goodwill ambassador for economic development and tourism, Marlo Dorsey, executive director of VisitHATTIESBURG, said at a Monday press conference.
The 72nd annual Mississippi Miss Hospitality competition, open to women ages 18-24, will take place at the historic Hattiesburg Saenger Theater, 201 Forrest St. Preliminary competitions are scheduled for 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday. The final competition is 8 p.m. Saturday.
iTWire Tuesday, 11 May 2021 11:48 The biggest names in innovation to convene at T50 Melbourne
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The World’s Top 50 Innovators 2021 (T50 Melbourne) conference will bring the cream of the crop names in innovation, business, science, technology, politics, media, and academia.
World leading organisations including Pfizer and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are set to take centre stage at the World’s Top 50 Innovators 2021 (T50 Melbourne) to be held in Melbourne on October 14-22, co-hosted by Swinburne University of Technology and Codex.
For the first time, the event will take place outside London since it launched in 2005. The T50 Melbourne presented by Swinburne and Codex will gather some of the biggest names in innovation, business, science, technology, politics, media, and academia to Victoria in a unique and accessible conference.
“There were flames licking out from under the rear wheel arch. I gave my son my phone and said ‘dial 111’, in less than two minutes it was engulfed in flames”. Genet said the complete destruction of the vehicle, an 18-month-old BMW i3, was thanks in part to its modern construction, made mostly out of plastic and carbon-fibre. He said his estimate of the temperatures of the blaze, based on the melting temperature of aluminium, were in the range of 780 to 800 degrees Celsius or higher. “I haven’t had a chance to Google it and see if it’s a common fault.”
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