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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

Cars That Think

asked David Marcus, the head of the project at Facebook, whether the company would wait for Congress to consider appropriate regulation. This would be an advantage for international consumers who wanted to avoid exchange-rate risk. To see how this works, let’s start with Filecoin , which raised $257 million in 2017 in its ICO.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Asked when there might be one million electric vehicles on the road that could also feed their battery capacity back into the grid in a two-way exchange, the panelists generally said between 2017 and 2020. — CGC 22. Average ICE efficiency might be around 20%. The furthest might be fossil fuels (a long ago byproduct of the sun).

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