With all of the misinformation and paranoia spread over the last six months about Bitcoin and now witnessing its recent increase in price, let’s look at one of the most severe accusations levied against BTC. It’s something of a classic, and the protest heard most from legacy institutions and regulatory agency politicians and those who might not understand Bitcoin and how it works. What you don’t understand can be scary. Until you realize its value, right, Jamie Dimon?

Elon Musk tweeted on May 12th, “We are concerned about rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for BTC mining and transactions, especially coal, which has the worst emissions of any fuel.”

Due to his environmental concerns at the time, Musk decided to renege on his highly publicized announcement on March 24th that Tesla would be accepting BTC for payment of vehicles. The founder of Tesla tweeted that Tesla would be adding BTC as a payment method back again as soon as miners transition to using “more sustainable energy.”

An aficionado of blockchain technologies and Bitcoin investor since 2010, David Orban was an early adopter of Ethereum at its launch in 2014. He serves on the Faculty of and acts as Advisor to the Singularity University, at the NASA Research Park.

“Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”

~ Edward Snowden

The unprecedented ascent of NFTs, today in the art world may be an incredible innovation for artists to create and monetize their work. It could also be an efficient and novel way for collectors to purchase and store value -- and even artfully display their treasures to the world through virtual galleries. Or this could simply be an impressive trend, expressing a whim of the nouveau riche, the freshly minted millionaires of the crypto bull market having some fun with their swiftly acquired, substantial gains.

The question becomes how recipients of COVID-19 vaccines can ensure that the vaccines they receive have not been compromised.

Blockchain can ensure much-needed transparency that is not contingent on one party alone.

Blockchain can be a solution to answer some of the most difficult challenges related to the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.

The development of autonomous aircraft vehicles has come a long way, from being the mere imaginings of The Jetsons, ChittiChitti BangBang, Blade Runner, and The Fifth Element, to becoming actual flying vehicles with a nearly billion-dollar investment in 2020 alone. And the market for flying cars worldwide is projected to pass $1.2 trillion by 2040. Suppose you’re curious about how those cartoon/cinematic suggestions are coming along. In that case, the most promising are not precisely what we’ve seen in the movies, but in many ways will be even better by what they can do for us as a society.