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‘Youngest Bitcoin Millionaire’ Willing to Stake it All on Metal Pay

Metallicus, the startup behind the peer-to-peer payments platform Metal Pay, received an undisclosed angel investment from the youngest bitcoin millionaire, Erik Finman.

In partnership with Metal Pay CEO Marshall Hayner, the two look to develop the first “all-in-one” cryptocurrency banking platform, which includes a 17 digital asset exchange, a digital bank and a payments application with social features similar to Venmo.

Founded in September, Metal Pay has processed approximately $11 million in total payments from nearly 130,000 registered users across 38 states. On a monthly basis, the company processes $1 million in crypto or fiat for around 30,000 active users, according to Hayner.

Blockchain Startup Bitfury Launches Artificial Intelligence Unit

Blockchain startup BitFury launched an artificial intelligence (AI) unit, Reuters reports on Aug. 13.

“Data is the new oil”

Bitfury chief executive officer and co-founder Valery Vavilov reportedly said that the company’s dive into AI is motivated by the need to analyze and extract information from great quantities of data. He reportedly noted that data is becoming the new oil and stated:

Bitcoin’s Computing Power Sets New Record as Over 100K Miners Go Online

The total computing power now dedicated to securing the bitcoin blockchain has set yet another record.

According to data from mining services operator BTC.com, the average bitcoin mining hash rate over the last two weeks has reached71.43 quintillion hashes per second (EH/s), up from 64.49EH/s on July 23. The threshold was breached as bitcoin adjusted its mining difficultyat block height 586,672 on Monday 2:52 UTC – that is a 6.94EH/s, or10.78 percent jump since mid July.

Bitcoin mining difficulty is a measure of how hard it is to compete for mining rewards on bitcoin. Just how difficult the bitcoin software makes it to generate new blocks adjusts every 2,016 blocks – approximately every 14 days – to ensure the block production time remains about 10 minutes at the next cycle.

Spending Bitcoin in person is easy (What happens in background is elegant)

Today, I was co-host of an online cryptocurrency symposium—taking questions from hundreds of visitors. A common question goes something like this:

Can Bitcoin be used in person—or
is it just for internet commerce?

Our panel had a moderator, and also an off-screen video director. As I cleared my throat in preparation to offer a response, a voice in my ear reminded me that it was not my turn. The director explained that another panelist would reply. It was a highly regarded analyst and educator in Australia. Realizing that that she was calling the shots, I deferred.

I was shocked as I listened to a far off colleague suggest that Bitcoin is not useful for in-person payments. I wonder how he explains this to the grocers, tailors, lawyers, theme parks and thousands of retailers who save millions of dollars each year by accepting bitcoin—all without risk of volatility and even if they demand to instantly convert sales revenue into Fiat currency.*

“Of course it can be used in person, Numb-nut!” (I kept the thought to myself. I know better than to criticize another speaker).

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The Futurist New Deal For America

An introduction to by Johannon Ben Zion candidate for President of the US Transhumanist Party.

US Transhumanist Party candidate for President, Johannon Ben Zion has a futurist new deal for America. This concept stoked my interest when I was listening to the debate between all of the US Transhumanist Party candidates. I wanted more information on this concept and Johannon Ben Zion was kind enough to forward this information to me.

What I am going to do is quote some content from his plan below. It will be short and condensed, to read more into the exact details of the plan you can download the PDF file at the end of the article. I am also going to list an interview that was done between Johannon Ben Zion and Debt Nation and the US Transhumanist Party Presidential Debate.

The primary Futurist New Deal mandate for blockchain technology is evoting. By casting votes as transactions, we can create a blockchain which keeps track of the tally of the votes. This way, everyone can agree on the final count because they can count the votes themselves, and because of the blockchain audit trail, they can verify that no votes were changed or removed, and no illegitimate votes were added.

We won’t control Libra, promises Facebook’s blockchain boss

David Marcus has written a post intended to give “clarity” to the critics of Libra, the blockchain network Facebook is trying to seed.

First, to those who say the system is not really decentralized: “We totally get the point,” Marcus wrote in the July 3 post. “But it was important to start with trusted entities that could operate in a regulated environment and with the operational expertise required to ensure the integrity of the network in its foundational stage.”

He reiterated that “we’re committed to gradually transitioning to a permissionless state in the years to come,” and added that in the meantime, “I’d argue that one hundred geographically distributed, industry-diverse organizations is quite decentralized.” ( There are only 28 so far, however.)

Brent Nally interviews Dr. Aubrey de Grey @ SENS on July 17, 2019

My mission is to drastically improve your life by helping you break bad habits, build and keep new healthy habits to make you the best version of yourself. I read the books and do all the research and share my findings with you!

This video is an interview of Dr. Aubrey de Grey @ SENS on July 17, 2019. My wife, Lauren Nally, was our camerawoman.

- Please consider a donation so I can continue to keep my YouTube ads off: My Bitcoin Cash (BCH) address: qr9gcfv92pzwfwa5hj9sqk3ptcnr5jss2g78n7w6f2 or https://www.paypal.me/BrentNally
- Please consider a donation to SENS: https://www.sens.org/

SHOW NOTES:

- Aubrey’s wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_de_Grey
- SENS wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SENS_Research_Foundation
- like & follow SENS on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sensf/?ref=br_rs
- subscribe to Undoing Aging’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAwxbQhlE6qcTXmKcxkaCGA/videos
- follow Aubrey on Twitter: https://twitter.com/aubreydegrey
- follow SENS on Twitter: https://twitter.com/senstweet
- follow Aubrey on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aubrey-de-grey-24260b/
- follow SENS on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sensresearchfoundation/
0:55 Type “Aubrey de Grey” into YouTube for lots of his lectures & interviews.
1:50 Update on the state of the anti-aging industry & explosion of private sector interest.
5:05 Intro for Aubrey
5:35 My May 30, 2019 interview with Sierra Sciences CEO Dr. Bill Andrews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx9yG6iTROQ
6:25 diversity of messaging in anti-aging is increasing.
7:10 My July 10, 2019 interview with BioViva CEO Liz Parrish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBFTwGPaPr4
8:28 Aubrey shares his updated thoughts on the role of telomerase in cancer in humans.
12:00 Liz had here telomeres tested by SpectraCell Laboratories: https://www.spectracell.com/clinicians/products/telomere-testing/ & LifeLength: https://lifelength.com/
14:10 there has recently been more testing on humans in the field of the biology of aging.
15:44 It’s obvious to Aubrey & I that aging is a big problem but most people still don’t understand this.
18:40 profound difference between how scientists & technologists think.
22:11 Watch the documentary “The Immortalists” about Dr. Aubrey de Grey & Dr. Bill Andrews: https://www.theimmortalists.com/watch/?
22:58 updates on anti-aging investments & research projects.
30:01 stem cell therapy is intended to repair cell loss.
30:50: we have a massive funding problem to reverse human aging.
32:53 we must educate the public that aging is causing 100,000 deaths per day and funding biological age reversal research can change this.
36:52 Is human aging a disease?
44:10 FDA progress to treat age-related diseases/conditions.
47:38 World Health Organization ICD code progress to treat age-related diseases/conditions.
50:02 Trans-NIH Geroscience Interest Group (GSIG)
54:40 “triangular log jam” of funding with governments, scientists and public opinion.
56:30 Aubrey shares why SENS still exists.
1:00:38 Ethereum cryptocurrency founder Vitalik Buterin & other SENS donors.
1:01:55 Undoing Aging is a conference held every spring in Berlin, Germany.
1:04:53 July 2019 is Aubrey’s 2-year anniversary at AgeX as the VP of New Technology Discovery.
1:08:44 Jeff Bezos donated $100 million to Unity Biotechnology, Inc. (not Human Longevity Inc.) in 2018.
1:11:02 (Larry) Ellison Medical Foundation failure in reversing human aging.
1:14:15 Google co-founders creating Calico rather than investing in or donating to SENS
1:21: Aubrey shares details about his lifestyle as well as his recommendations for a healthy lifestyle.
1:24:25 Aubrey looks up to the longevity “foot soldiers“
1:28:42 do what you love as much as you can to avoid excess mental, physical and emotional stress.
1:30:40 Aubrey is following all longevity therapies to determine their safety & effectiveness.
1:32:20 my stem cells story & Aubrey’s feedback.
1:34:58 EmCell in Kyiv, Ukraine is the only company doing fetal stem cells therapy.
1:39:20 exosomes
1:41:00 I’ve had no reply from Ambrosia founder Jesse Karmazin since October 2018.
1:42:51 My March 26, 2019 interview with Dr. Ed Park at Recharge Biomedical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHgfYKsH0uw&list=UUCwpkla04t…qA&index=6
1:44:31 NAD+
1:47:39 gene therapy
1:53:37 please network on the internet & in person with other longevity enthusiasts to help grow this movement faster.
1:58:48 mitochondria
2:00:48 long lived animals
2:01:49 consider a donation to SENS

- Forever Labs 1 year free cryogenic storage discount code ($250 value): BN801

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