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The payments giant is teaming up with Aptos Labs, Ava Labs, Polygon and the Solana Foundation to reach application developers
Mastercard is looking to create infrastructure necessary to better attest blockchain transactions as regulation around the sector remains a work in progress, the company said Friday.
Called Mastercard Crypto Credential, the effort would define verification standards and offer technology needed for various use cases across the segment.
Central banks and financial institutions have sought to address security and compliance vulnerabilities as the scope of blockchain technology has evolved, Raj Dhamodharan, Mastercard’s head of crypto and blockchain, wrote in a blog on the company’s website.
“But to fully implement these rules and build scalable use cases, we need a way for trusted, compliant and verifiable interactions to take place on public blockchain networks,” he added in the post.
Shanghai Cooperation Organization to Abandon Dollar in Favor of National Currencies
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is preparing to move away from the U.S. dollar and switch to settlements in the national currencies of its member states. In an interview with the Belarus 1 state TV channel, the bloc’s Deputy Secretary General Grigory Logvinov stated:
A roadmap for the transition to settlements in national currencies is being developed.
Also quoted by the Interfax news agency, the Russian diplomat emphasized that efforts in that direction are “serious and substantive.”
“The process is far from simple because, unfortunately, the dollar as a world reserve currency is too deeply embedded, including in national currency systems,” Logvinov remarked. To completely abandon the dollar, “there is still a lot to be done and quite a long way to go,” he elaborated.
The SCO, which was established in Shanghai in 2001 as a political, economic, and defense alliance, is the world’s largest regional organization, covering approximately 60% of the territory of Eurasia as well as 40% of the planet’s population.
originally posted by: nerbot
Just a thought.
Has anyone else considered that what seems to be a rediculous and impossible transition of U.S. military vehicles to be electic powered is just a ruse to actually begin the transition to hydrogen power without offering it to the rest of the people or revealing what will actually be used for their fuel?
Maybe they CAN alredy run a tank on a fuel that isn't petroleum based.
originally posted by: TheBadCabbie
originally posted by: nerbot
Just a thought.
Has anyone else considered that what seems to be a rediculous and impossible transition of U.S. military vehicles to be electic powered is just a ruse to actually begin the transition to hydrogen power without offering it to the rest of the people or revealing what will actually be used for their fuel?
Maybe they CAN alredy run a tank on a fuel that isn't petroleum based.
They undoubtedly can run a tank on a fuel that isn't petroleum based. It's more a question of what materials you can render into hydrocarbons. Most organic materials can be converted to a form of hydrocarbon, if you're willing to do the chemistry to make it happen.
The US Navy has been there for at least a few years. I remember seeing the "Navy Makes Fuel From Anything!" thread on this board in the tech forums, and it's been at least two years since I saw that. They were just doing chemistry, as I recall.
Lots of materials can be converted. Septic sludge, algae, seaweed, anything with waste sugar. Spent mash is convertible as well. There are a number of approaches that would work, but it's all just elementary chemistry really.
If you mean not hydrocarbon or hydrogen based, well then we've just left my wheelhouse, so if you know of other possibilities, please, do tell.
A flight track map released by the Taiwanese defence ministry showed that a long-endurance strike-and-reconnaissance drone – which can carry heavy weapons – circled the island and another long-range reconnaissance drone made a half-loop while 17 other fighter jets hovered southwest of Taiwan.
A Chinese combat drone that state media says can carry a heavy weapons payload has flown around Taiwan, according to the island’s defence ministry.
The ministry said a TB-001 drone was one of 19 military aircraft that had entered the island’s air defence identification zone in 24 hours.
China’s military flew 38 fighter jets and other warplanes near Taiwan, the Taiwanese defense ministry said Friday, in the biggest such flight display since the large military exercise in which it simulated sealing off the island earlier in April.
Later Friday, China’s People’s Liberation Army issued a protest over the flight of a United States Navy P-8A Poseidon anti-submarine patrol aircraft through the Taiwan Strait, which separates mainland China from the self-governing island democracy claimed by Beijing
China’s People’s Liberation Army scrambled fighter jets to monitor a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon that flew over the Taiwan Strait Friday, according to U.S. and Chinese statements.
The P-8A flew over the Taiwan Strait in international airspace early Friday local time, according to a U.S. Navy news release.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. and PNC Financial Services Group are bidding to buy First Republic Bank after it's expected to be taken over by the government.
The major banks are expected to place bids on First Republic Bank after it is taken over by the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and sold, sources told the Wall Street Journal.
The United States is wiring Ukraine with sensors that hold the capability to detect radiation bursts - whether that be from a dirty bomb or from a nuclear weapon, according to a Friday report from the New York Times
Ukraine is collaborating with the Nuclear Emergency Support Team (NEST), a unit of atomic experts run by the National Nuclear Security Administration, in order to deploy the radiation sensors. NEST will also be assisting in training personnel and monitoring data.
You started showing us what really happened to Seal Team 6 early on and showed us the truth about Benghazi as well. I think it's safe to say that these victims and their families are near and dear to your heart...As well as seeing the real stories exposed and justice served.
Before and after placing a chip in her arm
TO YOUR HEALTH
Remdesivir wrongful death case survives immunity challenge
www.wnd.com...
originally posted by: daskakik
a reply to: Justoneman
I used the info you provided and linked an article straight from the horses mouth.
There is no need to spin anything.
originally posted by: Thoughtful2
a reply to: Justoneman
We have another problem with the EPA.
Just prior to the plandemic the EPA approved human biosludge to be used on farmland.
Biosolids and Farmland
'Previously treatment facilities burned sludge or dumped it in the ocean, but the federal government barred the practices because doing so violated clean air rules and created marine dead zones.
The EPA now insists spreading the same toxic substance on farmland is safe."
What regulation, what testing? Meanwhile other countries ban this practice but we are special.
You can imagine where this is going. All those people who have taken the mRNA jab, exactly what are they excreting and is this contamination the crops that are grown?
Then there is this.Liquifying the Dead- Soylent Green
Scroll down a bit. Can you imagine the implications of spraying the liquified remains of mRNA jabbed victims onto the crops?
originally posted by: crankyoldman
Me Yesterday
Muskinator
Time difference...
My follow up Detante?
Unrelated, related...
The irony here is excellent. Juggalos figured out how to beat facial recognition to bad she cannot read how funny this is.
Not related.
DJT might be the best fake fighter there is.
Researchers at the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation Second Institute have achieved a breakthrough in next-generation 6G communication by conducting the first real-time wireless transmission, the South China Morning Post reported.
What makes China's achievement special?
6G cellular networks are expected to power applications like high-definition virtual reality (VR), holographic communication, and similar data-intensive applications. The researchers used a special antenna to generate four different beam patterns at 110 GHz frequency. Doing so enabled them to transmit data at 100 gigabits per second on a 10 GHz bandwidth, a significant upgrade from current level