Elon Musk destroys cryptocurrency, phenomenon of Russian programmers and hackers victory over the oil workers

The three -month novel by Ilona Mask with Bitcoin ended in the collapse of the market and universal disappointment

The rupture of the fleeting novel Ilona Mask with Bitcoin sent cryptocurrency and all the assets related to it as a deep fall - just like the February announcement of the beginning of this novel made Bitcoin for the first time in history rise in price to $ 50,000. You can’t surprise with sharp surges in the course of crypto -investors. But Musk hit a sore point-unrestrained growth in energy consumption due to mining: in conditions when investments in assets with a high carbon travele become indecent, the future of bitcoin looks foggy.

• On Thursday night in Moscow, Musk published an announcement that his Tesla refuses to sell electric carriers for bitcoins. He motivated the decision by concern by the fact that mining cryptocurrencies causes an increase in the consumption of fossil energy sources, and above all the most harmful of them - coal. “Cryptocurrencies are in many ways a good idea, and we believe that they have a great future. But it should not cost the environment so expensive, ”Musk wrote.
• Musk accompanied his post with a schedule based on the cryptocurrency energy consumption index , which is conducted by scientists of the University of Cambridge. It follows from it that over the past two years, the consumption of energy by miners has grown four times. “The energy consumption trend in recent months is madness,” Musk wrote.

• It is difficult to argue with the founder of Tesla - since 2015, the energy consumption attributable to mining has grown 66 times, Citigroup said in the April report. On a global scale, this does not look so menacing - about 0.5% of the world's consumption of electricity. But, if you put bitcoin in a number of countries - the largest energy consumers, it has long been entering thirty.
• But for those who have lost the living money of crypto -investors, this is a weak consolation. Bitcoin after statements the mask fell by 15% and now costs $ 48.9 thousand. His example was followed by the rest of the cryptocurrencies and the assets related to them-from Coinbase (-10.2%) to Tesla (-3%), which has recently placed on the crypto accounting station, which owns bitcoins by $ 1.5 billion.
• Mask statements caused a storm of emotions among retail crypto -investors. “Selfishly and soulless, at least suspiciously, at a maximum - hypocritical,” Bloomberg quotes one of them. The largest famous owners of Bitcoin, billionaires Brothers Vinclvoss and Mark Kyuban, did not act so emotionally by writing tweets that they continue to believe in cryptocurrency and advise everyone to buy it. The control of cryptocurrency funds are rightly interested in - really such a sub -seduced person as Musk did not know about the effect of mining for the environment when he opened the sale of Tesla for bitcoins in February?
• The mask will be difficult to answer the last claim - it is his February statement that Tesla bought bitcoins for $ 1.5 billion and begins to sell cars for cryptocurrency, gave the last bitcoin rally. A week after the statement, the mask of cryptocurrency for the first time in history overcame $ 50,000.

What am I to me?

Sharp jumps in the course of cryptocurrencies are a common phenomenon for them. “The cost of bitcoin is a derivative of the value of the Internet. Social media and the cult of celebrities have and will continue to have a significant effect on it, ”the ITI Capital analyst, Stephen Kelso, philosophically remarked in a conversation with Bloomberg. The story of Bitcoin taught crypto -investors that the path to the general adoption of cryptocurrencies is filled with obstacles - but the obstacle set by the magician today may turn out to be the most serious in their memory, suggested the managing partner of the London cryptocredit company Anthony Trenchev.

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The phenomenon of Russian programmers

Since 2012, Russian student programming teams have no chance of representatives of other countries. IT companies with Russian roots are increasingly becoming leaders in technology, and their founders-billionaires. In the special issue of the project "Russian norms!" We decided to investigate what the phenomenon of Russian programmers is, having talked with professors, coaches of the Olympiad teams and successful IT entrepreneurs of different generations.

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• Why is our education better than West?
• What are the strengths of our programmers?
• Why not all winners of the Olympiads are successful?
• Why are hackathons needed?
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Stories of real business

A sharp increase in competition, closing of factories, price increases and total deficiency. The founders of three different businesses-the production of mattresses, bicycles and an Internet service of sweets, told the Bell about how the digitalization managed to survive these and other problems of pandemia and this.

MONEY

$ 5 million for hackers

Despite the statements that the company is not going to follow the extortionists, the operator of the largest Colonial Pipeline pipeline in the United States, which supplies the east coast of the United States, paid hackers about $ 5 million a few hours after the attack, which occurred on May 7, Bloomberg found out . Sources of the publication claim that the payment was made in cryptocurrency and the US administration was aware. Having received the money, the hackers provided the operator with the decryption keys to restore his disconnected computer network. However, after that the system worked so slowly that the company had to continue to use its own backups. While the pipeline is about half -cooked, the agency claims .

Foreigners return to OFZ

The latest US sanctions had a minimal impact on the Russian public debt, the Central Bank reported in a fresh review of the risks of financial markets. The share of foreigners in investments in the Russian public debt continued to contract (up to 20% according to the results of March and 18.8% in April), but for the first time since the fall, foreigners returned to the purchase of rubles. From April 15 to the end of the month, foreign participants sold currency in the domestic market for 63 billion rubles. Typically, foreigners sell currency and buy rubles to invest in local papers, mark T RBC.

PRACTICE

A gift for abusers

The presented Apple in April the tiny Air Tag mark to track the location of objects through the application seems to be an ideal solution to the problem of lost things - wallets, keys or baggage. But such a gadget - the find for attackers and abusers, warns Wared. ARTAG keychain is easy to hide in the victim’s bag or car, allowing you to easily track its whereabouts. And if the owner of the iPhone has a way to check whether the Airtag is next to it, then the owners of Android smartphones will not have such an opportunity. Apple's reluctance to be seriously security of people who exist outside its ecosystem is a serious problem, the publication believes.

The problem of newcomers from the remote

We have been living with pandemia for so long that in most companies new employees managed to appear in the remote control mode. Now, the leaders of firms who are still returning to offices have to integrate into the corporate life of those who have never seen either their colleagues or bosses, writes Fast Company. The process of embedding them in work, acquaintance with colleagues and establishing working ties may be difficult, and it should be prepared for this, the publication warns. You will have to build work in the team again. “Acclimatization” will take time, you will have to come up with hybrid formats combining the remotes with work in the office, work on the safety of entering the office and be sure to come up with new “rituals” uniting team.

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