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When you’re passionate about something, it makes sense to dedicate time and energy to share it with others. Even better, monetizing your projects allows you to earn a side income from something you enjoy. Today, Sparrow Height shows you how. Get Creative with Project Financing Home improvement can be expensive up-front, even if the projects improve your home’s value. One way to finance do-it-yourself renovations is by taking out a home equity loan. Paying down the mortgage or increasing the property value builds equity in your home. Then, you can borrow the difference between the market value and the amount…
On the 28th of October, leading decentralized finance, DeFi tokens, such as Uniswap, Maker, and Compound, posted significant losses over the past 24 hours due to a broader market downturn. According to data from CoinGecko, the UNI token, which powers the leading decentralized exchange Uniswap, is down 4.4% over the past 24 hours. This week, UNI increased 28.17% in daily trading volumes and is still up 8.6% despite today’s price drop. As of this writing, UNI is trading at around $6.60. According to data from CoinGecko, UNI has a market capitalization of approximately $6.6 billion, making it the 18th-largest cryptocurrency.…
More than 3 million users of Reddit have turned to crypto and created crypto wallets to lift Reddit’s Collectible Avatars NFTs. In July, Reddit’s Collectible Avatars NFTs series launched, and these NFTs are based on Reddit’s snoo character. According to Pali Bhat, the chief product officer of Reddit, since the series launched, Reddit users have created more than 3 million Reddit Vault wallets to buy and trade NFT avatars. On Tuesday, 11th of October, in San Francisco, on a panel at TechCrunch Disrupt with executives from Angel List and Calendly, Bhatt spoke about this growth. Since Reddit launched in 2005,…
According to documents released by Tesla, an electric car manufacturer, Elon Musk’s Tesla still holds $218M in Bitcoin and remains unchanged from the second quarter of 2022. Tesla released these documents ahead of its third-quarter investor relations call. On the 19th of October, Tesla released a report to the public in which it said that the company still holds $218 million in Bitcoin. However, in July, Tesla announced that it sold 75% of its Bitcoin holdings, whose worth was around $936 million at the time. But at the end of June, Tesla released a report in which it said that…
The FDIC, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, is taking a closer look at cryptocurrency, especially stablecoins. FDIC chairman believes that stablecoins are very important and they could revolutionize banking. Chairman thinks that stablecoin issuers should be subject to regulatory oversight to get the full potential of this currency. Martin Gruenberg, the FDIC chairman, said that the FDIC, with other Federal banking agencies, is expected to issue industry-wide guidelines for financial institutions dealing in crypto, which could affect stablecoins positively. FDIC is a consumer protection agency, and its work is to ensure users’ deposits and oversees financial institutions for safety. They…
On the 18th of October, Celestia Foundation announced that it had raised $55 million in funding for modular blockchain architecture. The companies who led their hand in this funding to Celestia are Polychain Capital, Bain Capital Crypto, Jutta Steiner, Galaxy, Eric Wall, Delphi Digital, Placeholder, FTX Ventures, Jump Crypto, and Balaji Srinivasan. Celestica indicated that it would use this fund to build a modular blockchain architecture that would solve the challenges inherent when scaling and deploying blockchains. The company intends to build an infrastructure that will make it easy for anyone with the technical knowledge to deploy their blockchain at…
Teachers say they are powerless to deal with damaging elements of social media and are calling for more parental vigilance Victoria Tully, co-headteacher at Fulham Cross girls’ school, a state secondary in west London, had no idea that her new first years had invited people from outside the school to join their WhatsApp group. She only found out when a “strange man” shared “horrible pictures” with the 11-year-olds and someone alerted a teacher. Tully explains that many first years have been given a phone for the first time and they see social media as “benign” and exciting. She has learned that all too often…
Vodafone and the owner of Three UK have confirmed they are in talks about a potential merger that would create Britain’s biggest mobile operator. Amid the wave of consolidation in the British and European telecoms sectors in recent years, Vodafone and CK Hutchison, the parent company of Three UK, have long been considered potential candidates for a tie-up. A merger of Vodafone and Three – the UK’s third- and fourth-biggest mobile operators respectively – would catapult the newly combined company above rivals EE and O2, with more than 27 million subscribers. “Vodafone confirms that it is in discussions with CK…
A Google engineer has been suspended after going public with his claims that the company’s flagship text generation AI, LaMDA, is “sentient”. Blake Lemoine, an AI researcher at the company, published a long transcript of a conversation with the chatbot on Saturday, which, he says, demonstrates the intelligence of a seven- or eight-year-old child. Since publishing the conversation, and speaking to the Washington Post about his beliefs, Lemoine has been suspended on full pay. The company says he broke confidentiality rules. But his publication has restarted a long-running debate about the nature of artificial intelligence, and whether existing technology may be more advanced than we believe.…
Elon Musk has offered to complete his proposed $44bn (£38bn) acquisition of Twitter in a dramatic U-turn on his decision to walk away from the deal. Lawyers for Musk confirmed in a court filing on Tuesday that the world’s richest man is prepared to push ahead with the transaction on the agreed terms following months of legal drama. The filing followed a report from Bloomberg on Tuesday that the Tesla chief executive had written to Twitter offering to close the deal at the original price of $54.20 a share, which resulted in a temporary suspension of trading in the company’s stock as the…