Plans to build LDS temples with gigantic steeples often meet resistance from local communities, like what’s happening now in Cody, Wyoming, but once they’re built, all signs say neighboring property values get a significant boost.
It seems these days you can t mention
anything to do with cryptocurrency without someone jumping in and insisting that cryptocurrency is a disaster for the environment. There are differing opinions on all of this, but a few years ago, BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen set out to build a more eco friendly cryptocurrency called Chia. The basic idea was that, rather than using a proof-of-work system which involves using up a ridiculous amount of computing power, it would use a proof-of-space system, looking at how much hard drive space you re allocating. After many years of development, Chiacoin finally launched a few weeks ago. And, to pretty much prove the old axiom that there s no such thing as a free lunch, while it may not be directly wasting CPU cycles, it s impacted the world differently: by destroying the global hard disc supply chain, driving prices for hard disks through the roof leading people to point out that even if it s not wasting electricity like Bitcoin, it may be
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The message of the just-released, supposedly hip videos produced for FairMormon is best spelled out by, well, Satan.
âIâve done a lot of bad. I inspired Genghis Khan. Iâm behind the Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations, terrorism, corruption, systemic inequality, the entire state of Alabama â Iâm behind it all,â the red-caped Prince of Darkness, complete with horns and a pitchfork, says in one of the videos. â.Iâm honestly offended when people say I inspired the âCES Letter,â Iâm way smarter than that.â