Weekly News
Added 2019-12-18 13:00:03 +0000 UTCHello dear Patreons! We hope you are all well and can enjoy this special upcoming festive season. Today is our weekly news day and we have put together some articles that are hopefully inspiring, informative and related to our work. Thank you to each of you for your continuous support.
With best wishes
Rose
POLITICS
Politics can look like this:
- Finland’s New Government Is Young And Led By Women—Here’s What The Country Does To Promote Diversity
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carmenniethammer/2019/12/12/finlands-new-government-is-young-and-led-by-women-heres-what-the-country-does-to-promote-diversity/#5254d73c35aa
CRYPTOS
- Nobel Winner-Backed Saga Launches Libra-Like Global Coin
https://bitcoinist.com/nobel-winner-backed-saga-launches-libra-like-global-coin/ - Israeli Crypto Company Saga Launches Digital Coin
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3775580,00.html
- Parity steps back from Ethereum, moving client codebase to DAO
https://decrypt.co/14857/parity-steps-back-from-ethereum-moving-client-codebase-to-dao - Developer Flags Big-Money Loophole for Stealing All the ETH in MakerDAO
https://www.coindesk.com/developer-flags-big-money-loophole-for-stealing-all-the-eth-in-makerdao
- US health-insurance giant piloting blockchain to secure medical data
https://cointelegraph.com/news/us-health-insurance-giant-piloting-blockchain-to-secure-medical-data/amp?__twitter_impression=true
Thank you Michael O'Connor for this and the following two links. - Sweden Joins China and Others in Central Bank Crypto Race
https://bitcoinist.com/sweden-prepares-to-pilot-crypto-krona/ - Fidelity Digital Assets intends to support Ethereum in 2020
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/50576/fidelity-digital-assets-intends-to-support-ethereum-in-2020
ARCHAEOLOGY / AMERICAN HISTORY
- The Society for American Archaeology (SAA) has devoted 27 pages of the November issue of its journal, The SAA Archaeological Record (freely available as an online mag or as a PDF), to multiple critiques of Graham Hancock’s most recent book America Before: The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization
Graham Hancock vs the Archaeological Orthodoxy
https://www.dailygrail.com/2019/12/graham-hancock-vs-the-archaeological-orthodoxy/
