The collapse of El Salvador's bitcoin dream, Harriet Marsden, The Week UK, 2025
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An Entire Country Switched Over to Bitcoin and It’s Turned Into a Disaster, Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 2025
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Economic freedom or crypto-colonialism? Materialities of Bitcoin adoption in El Salvador, Ruchi Patel, GeoForum, 2024
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The lesson of El Salvador’s failed Bitcoin experiment, Kadan Stadelmann, Cointelegraph, 2025
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An Entire Country Switched Over to Bitcoin and It's Turned Into a Disaster
Four years into a frenzied experiment in Bitcoin, El Salvador is still waiting for the promised crypto dream to come true.Joe Wilkins (Futurism)
New #ResearchInfrastructures calls for proposals will open soon!
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Get insights on the 2025 Work Programme, the topics of the upcoming calls for proposals, and tips for crafting a successful proposal.
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Horizon Europe: Research infrastructures
Supporting access to research infrastructures to researchers in Europe and beyond.European Research Executive Agency
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England’s serious water pollution incidents at 10-year high
Esme StallardClimate and science reporter, BBC NewsGetty ImagesThe number of pollution incidents recorded by water companies in England is at a ten-year high, according to data obtained by campaigners.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Queen–worker differences are linked to gene duplication and differential gene expression, in particular in reproductive tissues. Study by Xu & Colgan sheds light on how social insects resolve genomic conflict to produce distinct castes.
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Stocks tumble into the red as trade war fears offset slowing UK inflation
Stocks in Asia were mostly lower overnight after tech giant Nvidia (NVDA) announced it had been dragged into Donald Trump’s trade war.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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🐧 Zenned | A fresh Linux OS @ sunny glacier park!
POV's are changing, tech is changing, approach changing.
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Falling petrol prices drive drop in UK inflation rate to 2.6% – live updates
Inflation expected to dip slightly before heading back uppublished at 06:41 British Summer Time06:41 BSTMarc AshdownBusiness correspondentInflation may have cooled from its red hot 11.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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Ecosia uses 100% of its profits for the planet and produces enough renewable energy to power all searches twice over.www.ecosia.org
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GOOD — Die Suchmaschine für eine bessere Welt
Ohne Werbung, nachhaltig und frei von Big Tech. Stärkt Vielfalt, schützt deine Daten und fördert Lösungen für eine bessere Welt – ohne Tracking und kommerzielle Interessen.GOOD — Die Suchmaschine für eine bessere Welt
Notes - Apps - App Store - Nextcloud
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TuxCon 2025 The Open Source Hardware and Software conference in Plovdiv is on May 10-11th
Do not miss this event, it’s one per year and ran by volunteers, so participation if free! This year we will have guest lector from SeedStudio – Violet Su. In Saturday there will be two…olimex
France And Algeria Diplomatic Tensions Escalate Again
On Tuesday, April 15, 2025, tensions between France and Algeria escalated significantly as President Emmanuel Macron announced the recall of the French ambassador to Algiers, Stéphane Romatet, along with the expulsion of twelve Algerian agents from F…BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
A labor board worker received a threatening note after he became a whistleblower on the all-out raid of the agency by Elon Musk’s DOGE, during which Musk’s minions apparently stole a huge amount of sensitive information about workers and union organizers, a new NPR report finds.
He has raised alarm internally and externally, including to Congress, about DOGE’s infiltration into and extraction of huge amounts of sensitive information from the NLRB’s systems.
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Whistleblower Who Exposed DOGE Raid of NLRB Data Finds Threats Taped to His Door
The worker said he received a note with photos of him that seemed to be taken by drone after he spoke out against DOGE.Sharon Zhang (Truthout)
NOS.nl - NOS Teletekst 114 - Coalitie akkoord over voorjaarsnota
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bekendgemaakt,op sociale media zegt
BBB-leider Van der Plas dat ze blij is.
Wilders twittert een duimpje."
Da's vast een belabberd akkoord dan.
Merz and Berlin politicians will force ordinary Germans to “break piggy banks” — EADaily, April 15th, 2025 — Economics, Europe
The future German government hopes to revive domestic consumption, but it can choose quite peculiar ways to do this. According to Reuters, this will allow the resumption of growth, which has recently slowed down in the German economy.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
From retail to the military, ‘intelligent connectivity’ raises ethical dilemmas
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From retail to the military, ‘intelligent connectivity’ raises ethical dilemmas
Artificial intelligence, 5G networks, and the Internet of Things are used increasingly often in spaces from retail to the military, raising privacy and ethical considerations.Kristina Lindborg (The Christian Science Monitor)
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