What's Next for CryptoCurrency, Why and How
MEETING FOR THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 24, 2022
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Program: What's Next for CryptoCurrency, Why and How
Speaker: Francine Hardaway
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Class Reunion
I recently went to my 30th class reunion from nursery school.
I didn't want to go because I've put on maybe 90 or 100 pounds since then.
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Why Can Parrots Talk?
Whether they’re belting Beyoncé, head-banging to classic rock, or rattling off curse words at zoo-goers, parrots are constantly astounding us. They are among the only animals that produce human speech, and some parrots do it almost uncannily well. How is this possible? Grace Smith-Vidaurre and Tim Wright dig into the anatomy that allows parrots to talk, scream, curse, and recite facts.
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Here are the happy dollars contributions from last week!
This section is usually updated in the early hours of Saturday, so contributions made over the weekend may not be listed here.
Rory Olsen made a $20 donation.
Great week! It actually cooled off for several days before going back to eighty degrees. The weather made the cats sleepy. On another topic, Gus, my red and white cat expanded his horizons this week by bombing a Zoom meeting that I was in for a committee of the National Judicial College. If interested I can try to send you a pic, if you'd like one.
PROGRAM: What's Next for CryptoCurrency, Why and How
SPEAKER: Francine Hardaway
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Francine Hardaway is a long- time entrepreneur, early adopter, and advisor to other entrepreneurs, especially women. For the past three years she has been deep down the rabbit hole(s) of Web3 and crypto, and has launched her own social token on the Rally.io platform. It's called the $KARMA coin, and she runs a club on Clubhouse called the KARMA Club.
Bitcoin and other digital currencies have captured the imagination of many investors and developers, for a multiplicity of reasons including anonymity, tax avoidance, and personal sovereignty. Crypto has spawned its own vocabulary, and only "degens" speak it fluently. What's a degen? It's a person who trades crypto without due diligence and research, aping into signals and jumping into pump and dump schemes out of FOMO. Degens saw their "bags" grow in 2021, only to vanish in 2022 by hundreds of "rug pulls."
If this vocabulary doesn't make you want to roll your eyes, you are a degen yourself. Time to find out what all this means? You're not alone. I am a recovering degen and I will tell you.
Members and guests, please welcome Dr Francine Hardaway!
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