MILLERSBURG — Like many events in 2020, the year of COVID-19, the annual holiday production of “The Nutcracker” was postponed last year. With Maggie Anderson dancing the part of the Sugarplum Fairy and Mimi Shaw as Clara, the cast is sure to dazzle during its three-day run, Friday-Sunday, Dec. All of them have the potential […]
A few weeks ago I wrote about how the technology behind bitcoin, blockchain, could be used in ways other than for currency. You could exchange it for goods and services but no central bank would be able to influence. You can prove you own a particular bitcoin because all the other bitcoins in the system […]
El Salvador recognizes bitcoin as legal currency, and everyone’s favorite – it is up/down 50%. If they all agree on the history of the transactions, then one can prove they are the current owner. This is why bitcoin is said to operate on a “distributed ledger.” The power is rather than needing a centralized ledger […]