The United States Army is looking for candidates to directly commision into their organization at the rank of Colonel under their new 'Cyber Direct Commisioning' program aimed at addressing their cybersecurity disability (). Under the US Army rank structure, Colonel is the most senior field officer rank. Following the legal minimum time in grade requirements, it would take a an officer entering the US Army normally 13 years to rise from the entry level officer rank to Colonel, but 22 years is the typical time to rank with half of candidates in the predecessor rank of Lieutenant Colonel failing to be selected for promotion to Colonel.
The US Army has already issued direct commisions to fill positions for lower ranks than Colonel under this cybersecurity recruitment program. Once they do find a Colonel in the wild to commision, it will surely be great for morale.
1 bitcoin = $6,304
Market Cap = $109 billion
goTenna & Samourai Wallet’s Mobile App Works Without Internet Access
Powered by goTenna Mesh, TxTenna is an Android app that enables off-grid broadcasts of signed bitcoin transactions from .
Without relying on cell service or an internet connection, goTenna Mesh generates a signal that connects with other units within range, effectively creating a people-powered, decentralized mesh network.
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The reality is that local carriers or ISPs can associate subscribers with their transactions or censor bitcoin transactions altogether.
TxTenna provides an answer to these problems by decentralizing the critical transport layer to enable truly decentralized bitcoin transactions,” –
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goTenna is a startup that designs and develops technologies for off-grid and decentralized communications.
goTenna devices pair with smartphones and, through intelligent , enable users to send texts and share locations on a peer-to-peer basis, foregoing the need for centralized communications infrastructure of any kind.
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goTenna has a million units scattered around the world. Ppl are using it. It’s a mesh network which is peer to peer and decentralized. The product works.
The users of the project have an incentive to use the devices. And now they have a network effect they are integrating bitcoin. Why are they doing that? To get Bitcoiners to buy a gotenna unit. –
You can order your goTenna here
Our goal is to eventually have our consumer tech (goTenna Mesh) integrated directly into mass consumer devices. –
Three Years in the Making, bitcoin Sidechain “Liquid” is Now Live
Initial users included 23 bitcoin companies, including exchanges, brokers and other institutions, who will help to manage the sidechain, as well as use Liquid to send transactions.
In addition to moving money faster, partners will also be able to on the platform, representing financial instruments, fiat currencies or crypto assets.
Liquid is not exactly a “real” sidechain, or at least not the type Blockstream was founded to research and build. Instead of building a sidechain that allows users to swap bitcoins for sidechain coins without a trusted third party, Blockstream built what’s called a “federated sidechain.”
Federated sidechains rely on a group of companies – in this case, Blockstream’s launch partners – to collectively manage the sidechain. (A released last year explains in more detail the technicals of the specific type of federated sidechain Liquid uses.)
For this reason, critics like pseudonymous bitcoin subreddit moderator ThePiachu have called the tech “” – even as far back as three years ago. “Liquid looks like a very interesting project, but it’s not the sidechains we are looking for,” the moderator wrote. –
A List of What’s Getting Built on bitcoin
LN
Drivechains
Gotenna integration
Satellite integration
Radio integration
Bakkt
Cashapp
All things building into LN
All things being built into RSK
Maybe Fidelity to compete with Bakkt
New mining manufacturers for more efficient miners
New bitcoin only wallets
BTCpay
CME and CBOE
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BashCo: That’s not even counting goodies coming to protocol itself, like Schnorr, MAST and privacy improvements.
CRYPTO ASSETS
Market Cap = $203 billion
Bisq Decentralized Exchange
Interesting! It seems like China has discovered . CNY/BTC seeing some activity…
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Decentralized Exchange Protocol 0x Added to Coinbase, Surges 17%
The 0x listing marks the first ERC20 token to be traded on Coinbase.
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Binance Invests in Bringing Retail Point-of-Sale (POS) Terminals to Airports
Binance Coin, will also be supported by retail merchants using TravelbyBit’s machines.
Binance is investing USD$2.5 million in startup TravelbyBit to further expand the latter’s network of cryptocurrency payment terminals following a successful implementation in Brisbane earlier this year.
The two companies will jointly collaborate in introducing a point-of-sale (POS) system – already developed by TravelbyBit – into “major airports around the world,”.
The objective is to propel cryptocurrency adoption among travelers who commonly see friction in currency conversion and other markup fees.
Binance chief executive Changpeng Zhao said:
“Let’s start with airports and go from there…Real, on-the-ground, just-when-you-need-it use case is the key to further crypto adoption. In this light, there is no better fit than being able to use your crypto when travelling, just after you land in a foreign country, where you may not have the local currency.”
Earlier this year, Brisbane international airport, Australia’s third-busiest airport, became one of the at retail stores in both its terminals.
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COMPANIES / PROJECTS / PRODUCTS
Corporate Entities
In the 1600’s, the Dutch East India Co. was the first company to publicly issue bonds + stock. This created markets we never knew existed.
The same will be true for a Security Token representing a cash-flow secured by a blockchain-like protocol. Entities will never be the same. –
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
The Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) is a new organizational form potentially as important as the creation of the corporate form in the 1600s.
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THE ASCENT OF MAN
Boston Dynamic’s Atlas Robot Does Parkour
The control software uses the whole body including legs, arms and torso, to marshal the energy and strength for jumping over the log and leaping up the steps without breaking its pace.
Atlas uses computer vision to locate itself with respect to visible markers on the approach to hit the terrain accurately.
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Fisetin Shown to be a Surprisingly Effective Senolytic
Administration of fisetin to wild-type mice late in life restored tissue homeostasis, reduced age-related pathology, and extended median and maximum lifespan.
It is exciting to see animal data arrive for some of the potentially senolytic compounds that may turn out to destroy enough senescent cells in mammals to be worth using as first generation .
As a reminder, the is one of the causes of aging. If these errant cells can be removed, then inflammatory diseases and numerous aspects of aging can be turned back to some degree. The results in mice stand head and shoulders above all of the other approaches to aging in terms of reliability and breadth of benefits.
Results from the recent animal study of fisetin noted here greatly exceed expectations, surprisingly so. appears about as effective in mice as any of the current top senolytics, such as the chemotherapeutics and . Per the data in the open access paper below, dosing with fisetin destroys 25-50% of senescent cells depending on organ and method of measurement.
Given the wealth of new results emerging these days, it seems to me that people focused on , , and investigative mouse studies in this field should be moving to focus on combination therapies.
Consider a combination of fisetin, dasatinib, , , and – multiple different mechanisms to provoke that are all hitting senescent cells at the same time. The goal would be to see if it is possible to engineer a significantly higher level of clearance of senescent cells than any of these senolytics can achieve on their own.
This seems like a plausible goal, and may turn out to present meaningful competition to efforts such as those of and other groups developing more sophisticated senolytic therapies that should have high rates of clearance.
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Hong Kong-based OKEx became the latest leading crypto exchange to list USD//Coin (USDC).
Just one month after USDC was launched, it is now listed on exchanges around the world and available to millions of customers. The unparalleled ecosystem supporting USDC demonstrates there is growing, global demand for the most open standard for fiat on the internet, which is what USDC represents.
USDC trading volume on exchange platforms, including Circle activity, has grown 2,000% week over week, with market capitalization now surpassing $30M, bolstered by interest for a more transparent and compliant USD token from market participants.
More than 40 exchanges, protocols, platforms, applications and wallets support USDC. You can see more USDC supporters .
Investors and traders need seamless on and off-ramps for fiat currency into the exchange ecosystem, need to be able to hedge in and out of volatile crypto assets, and need to be able to move stable value across exchange venues to seek arbitrage and liquidity opportunities. USDC helps make all of that possible.
Because price-stable tokens are foundational requirements for enabling powerful new global financial contracts, products, and services on the internet, we expect to see widespread adoption for USDC in the months and years ahead. USDC is the first of several fiat tokens CENTRE expects to deliver, and Circle is the first of a number of forthcoming CENTRE members to launch USDC issuance.
Learn more about USDC and sign up or sign in to tokenize and redeem USD .