ICOs? He held the first one. Stablecoins? He dreamed of them by accident. Vitalik Buterin tried to get him on board to help launch Ethereum, but he was too busy. He is J. R. Willett, one of the most fascinating men in the industry.
Back in 2012, Willett, now 41, felt he could improve Bitcoin by making it possible for anyone to create interoperable tokens backed by the protocol. He released a white paper that described the new model and invented a way to fund the project with a token sale. He procrastinated for the next 18 months, hoping someone else would take the bait. Eventually, he gave in and announced the Mastercoin initial coin offering, which went on to inspire Ethereum and every subsequent ICO.
Through violence prevention, community vigilance and new laws, Colorado tries to reshape a legacy molded by modern mass shootings.
A memorial around the King Soopers supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, where 10 were killed in a mass shooting on March 22, 2021. (Courthouse News photo / Amanda Pampuro)
BOULDER, Colo. (CN) The day after a suspected gunman killed 10 people shopping at a Colorado grocery store, a woman 260 miles away told the Alamosa County Sheriff’s Department she was worried her 36-year-old son Marcos Martinez would become an active shooter.
“She advised that her son’s behavior has become very strange and believed that he is on drugs,” the 20-page request for an extreme risk protection order filed in April said. The so-called “red flag” law removes firearms from individuals deemed to be a danger to themselves or others.
Washington s universities consider requiring COVID-19 vaccines for students
Here s where Washington state s biggest schools stand on the issue of whether or not to require COVID-19 vaccinations for students. Author: Ted Land Updated: 12:46 AM EDT April 29, 2021
SEATTLE Washington’s universities and colleges are weighing whether to require students to be vaccinated for COVID-19 before they can return to their classrooms in the fall.
University of Washington
UW said its leaders are consulting with state and county health agencies, as well as other schools, and will likely make a decision by June 1. The University expects everyone in the UW community who can get vaccinated against COVID-19 to do so, the university said on its website.
Old, new, major, minorâhereâs our city, and sometimes our state, on the screen.
Photo collage: Shutterstock by Everett Collection and Featureflash Photo Agency, Seattle Met composite.
A pan across lake union. Then we plunge into a tugboat s engine room, where we meet the married, middle-aged couple who own it. They ll spend the next hour and a half engaged in bouts of slapstick bickering. Thatâs how Seattle first hit cinema screens, in 1933, in
Tugboat Annie. It s not exactly a must-see, but since then, the city and the state around it have been portrayed in hundreds of movies (many shot in Vancouver, BC). Below are brief reviews of films that are significantly set here, divided alphabetically into three categories: Definitely Watch, Worth a Watch, and Skip. Weâll keep adding as we keep watching.
Christian school caught up in debate over biblical sexuality
Monday, April 26, 2021 |
Steve Jordahl (OneNewsNow.com)
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A radio talk-show host is applauding a Christian university and its trustees for affirming biblical sexuality as it goes through a faculty uprising.
Jéaux Rinedahl filed a lawsuit in January against Seattle Pacific University because it would not hire him to be a full-time faculty member after he came out as homosexual. The school said that violates its long-time ethical code of conduct that is based on biblical sexuality: … [W]e affirm the institutions of marriage and family as central to the purposes of God. We believe it is in the context of the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman that the full expression of sexuality is to be experienced and celebrated and that such a commitment is part of God s plan for human flourishing. Within the teaching of our religious tradition, we affirm that sexual experience is intended between a