Tim Draper. “I think I would be right on this one,” Draper told CNBC Make It. Draper first made his bold price prediction in 2018, when Bitcoin was trading around $8,000, according to Coinbase. “I will be really right or really wrong [nhưng] I’m pretty sure it’s going in that direction,” Draper said. That’s because Draper believes that virtual currency will be “more used by then”. Draper predicts: “Wait about a year and a half and retailers will use Opennode [một bộ xử lý thanh toán Bitcoin], so people will accept Bitcoin.” Currently only a few major companies accept Bitcoin directly or indirectly through a third-party digital wallet app, including Microsoft, PayPal, Overstock, Whole Foods, Starbucks, and Home Depot. And many experts see Bitcoin as a store of value, like gold, rather than currency. Draper said: “I think [Bitcoin] will continue to increase because there are only 21 million in all. Thanks to its code, only 21 million Bitcoins can be “mined”. To date, over 18 million bitcoins have been in circulation. Draper, 63, who built his fortune by making early investments in Twitter, Skype, Tesla and SpaceX, did not share how many Bitcoins he currently holds or whether he invests in other cryptocurrencies. or not. Draper says most engineers are working on improving Bitcoin right now. Last week, Bitcoin had its first upgrade in four years, called Taproot. Going into effect in November, the reported change will mean greater security and transaction efficiency. It is also meant to unlock the potential for smart contracts on the Bitcoin blockchain, CNBC reported. Bitcoin “Like Microsoft” [trong] software world or Amazon in the world of e-commerce,” said Draper. He believes that Bitcoin will be at the center of all financial activity in the next two to three decades. However, the value of Bitcoin is highly volatile and there are concerns about its massive energy use. For this and other reasons, experts recommend only investing as much money in Bitcoin as you can afford. Hundreds of billions of dollars were wiped out after Elon Musk tweeted in May that he would be suspending Bitcoin purchases at Tesla due to environmental concerns. In 2014, Draper purchased nearly 30,000 Bitcoins seized by US Marshals Services from the Silk Road Online Black Market.

The tweet that the Tesla CEO released Sunday was part of an exchange with twitter users that omitted to refer to a CoinTelegraph article accusing him of “bitcoin manipulation.” Musk said that the company kept $1.5 billion of its initial investment in bitcoin, but sold about 10% to “confirm it’s easy to pay off.” [bằng bitcoin] without distorting the market”. Elon Musk has become a prominent and influential figure in the crypto world. He tweeted in May that Tesla would no longer accept bitcoin as a means of payment for its vehicles, citing the large amount of carbon emissions in bitcoin mining. esla will continue to allow transactions in bitcoin at the car manufacturer’s stores, once it is confirmed that the “mining” energy source is clean energy. Photo: Getty. This action is believed to be the cause of the sell-off of the world’s No. 1 cryptocurrency. Musk’s comments on the sustainability of bitcoin “mining” continue to resonate in the crypto community. A commonly cited metric from the University of Cambridge pegged the annual electricity consumption of bitcoin mining at around 99 terawatt-hours. This consumption is more than that of the Philippines or Pakistan. Some of Musk’s recent tweets have also sparked a mix of excitement, confusion, apprehension, and sometimes even fear in the crypto community. Earlier this month, investors attempted to analyze a mysterious tweet from SpaceX that included a bitcoin symbol and a broken heart emoji. The information that Elon Musk transmits has had a great influence on the price of dogecoin and bitcoin. Musk is also partly blamed for the current drop in bitcoin and the broader cryptocurrency complex. The Wall Street Journal has described him as the biggest influence on bitcoin. By the end of June 13, the bitcoin price was up nearly 8%, changing hands at $38,808.09 on CoinDesk. As of now, Bitcoin is up over 28% for the year but is down about 40% from its mid-April peak at $64,829.14. The world’s No. 2 cryptocurrency, Ethereum, gained nearly 5%, changing hands at $2,521.81. Back in February, Tesla revealed that it had acquired about $1.5 billion in bitcoin in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. At the time, Tesla paid about $38,000/bitcoin for each bitcoin. This is the average price at the time of Tesla’s Q4 conference on January 27. This conference did not mention any bitcoin holdings and the date of filing with the SEC. Overall, the prices of digital assets like bitcoin are outperforming traditional markets.

Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos inspects the New Shepard launch facility in West Texas. A spot on his upcoming flight is up for auction. Photo: EPA This will be the first manned flight conducted by Bezos’ space company, Blue Origin. The flight is scheduled to take place on July 20, the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon. Bezos and his brother Mark, a former advertising executive and volunteer firefighter, will join the flight with the winner of the ship’s airfare auction, with the lowest bid of $2.8 million. USD. In an Instagram post, billionaire Bezos said he had dreamed of traveling into space since he was 5 years old. “I will go on that journey with my brother. The best adventure, with my best friend,” declared the Amazon founder. With an estimated personal fortune of $186.2 billion, Jeff Bezos is one of several billionaire entrepreneurs driving a “new space race,” each pumping billions of dollars into private startups. Their aim is to develop low-cost, commercialized space travel. But while Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson is expected to make a suborbital flight later this year, and SpaceX’s Elon Musk has vowed to “die on Mars,” it’s Bezos who’s the one. Win the race to be the first of this hit trio of billionaires to reach the edge of space. Watch Blue Origin successfully launch and land a reusable New Shepard space rocket (Source: CNBC) Mr Musk has yet to comment on Bezos’ latest statement, while Branson congratulated his rival, saying their two companies are “opening up to space”. “Congratulations to Jeff Bezos and his brother Mark for announcing their plans to go into space. Jeff started Blue Origin in 2000, we started Virgin Galactic in 2004 and now both are opening up access to space – incredible!” Branson tweeted. personal. Musk and Bezos are said to have been head-to-head on several projects over the past decade. Elon Musk sees his tech giant as an “imitation” in some of Amazon’s business ventures, while Bezos mocks the SpaceX CEO’s plans to send people to Mars. Bezos’ company Blue Origin was founded in 2000, touting itself as a means of providing cheaper access to space through the use of reusable rockets – namely the New Shepard that flew 15 times. Jeff Bezos’ space tourism project with Blue Origin is competing with a similar program being developed by Space X, the rocket company founded and run by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and the company. Virgin Galactic is backed by Richard Branson. In April 2017, Bezos revealed that he invests about $1 billion in Amazon stock in Blue Origin every year. Blue Origin’s spaceship system consists of a pressurized crew capsule mounted on top of a reusable New Shepard booster. During the first manned flight into space, the crew aboard the New Shepard will spend at least 10 minutes hovering in zero gravity inside the capsule. Bezos founded Blue Origin in 2000. The upcoming space flight is the culmination of more than two decades of forays into space for Jeff Bezos, who announced plans to step down as Amazon’s CEO just now. 15 days before flight date. Instead, he will become Executive Chairman of the company he founded in his garage in 1994 – allowing him “time and energy” to focus on other business ventures. Blue Origin named its space rocket program New Shepard after astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American to fly into space exactly 60 years ago. The upcoming flight will mark a major milestone in the mission to take paying customers beyond space. However, for now, Elon Musk’s SpaceX seems to be leading in the space billionaire race with multiple launches of NASA equipment to the ISS and a partnership to send tourists to space by 2021. On February 6, 2018, SpaceX launched a rocket to orbit Mars, more than 220 million km from Earth, and NASA selected two astronauts to join the first manned Dragon mission performed by SpaceX. . Watch the video of SpaceX’s Starship rocket being launched and successfully landed for the first time on May 5, 2021 (Source: SpaceX): SpaceX has also begun sending a series of 60 satellites into space to help form its Starlink network. Mr. Musk hopes the program will build a network of interconnected satellites around the Earth, thereby providing free Internet to everyone around the world. Meanwhile, billionaire Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic are taking a different approach to conquering space. Virgin Galactic has repeatedly performed successful test flights of the Unity spacecraft. The first time took place in December 2018 and the last time took place on February 22 this year. More than 600 wealthy clients to date, including celebrities like Brad Pitt and Katy Perry, have booked $250,000 for one of Virgin’s spacewalks. Richard Branson introduces SpaceShipTwo, a spaceship with room for six passengers and two pilots. Photo: Reuters Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo can carry six passengers and two pilots. Each passenger has a seat with two large windows – one on the side and one above. Passengers will become “astronauts” when they reach the Karman line, the boundary of Earth’s atmosphere. The spacecraft will then make a sub-orbital journey with about six minutes of weightlessness. The whole flight took about 1.5 hours.

Billionaire Elon Musk speaks at an event. Photo: AFP/VNA Tesla Inc CEO, billionaire Elon Musk, on June 13 posted on his personal Twitter page that the electric vehicle maker will accept bitcoin transactions when miners use a lot of energy. more renewable in the operation of “mining” this digital currency. The post of the head of Tesla states: “Once there is confirmation of a reasonable (about 50%) use of clean energy by miners with an upward trend in the future, Tesla will continue to allow bitcoin transactions”. Bitcoin jumped 5.1% to 37,360.63 USD/bitcoin on June 13 following the post of billionaire Elon Musk. The above post comes after the scientific journal Nature recently published a study that found China’s bitcoin “mines” pose a threat to the country’s climate goals. These mines account for nearly 80% of the world’s cryptocurrency transactions and partly use the energy of coal-fired power plants. Billionaire Tesla expressed his belief that digital currency has a promising future, but it cannot come at a hefty price for the environment. In addition, Mr. Musk also reacted to the article raising the possibility that billionaire Elon Musk regularly affects the value of bitcoin in one direction or another for his business benefit. The Tesla chief said that the company sold about 10% of its bitcoin holdings to confirm that the digital currency has easy liquidity without volatility to the market. Earlier in February 2021, Tesla revealed that it had purchased $1.5 billion in bitcoin and would accept it as a form of payment for cars. But in May, billionaire Musk reversed the decision, citing long-standing environmental concerns around mining this coin. Bitcoin dropped more than 10% in value shortly thereafter.

(Source: Reuters) The leading electric car manufacturer Tesla (USA) will again accept vehicles pay in bitcoin when the process of “mining” this cryptocurrency is certified to use clean energy. Tesla CEO, Billionaire Elon Musk announced the above information on June 13 and immediately caused bitcoin to increase 5.1% in value, to $ 37,360.60 at 1:10 am on June 14 (Vietnam time). Billionaire Musk said Tesla will restore use bitcoin coin in payment transactions when “miners” certify that 50% of the electricity used to “mine” cryptocurrencies is clean energy and identify this as a positive trend in the future. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are the “rewards” obtained after the process of “mining” with specialized miners that solve computational problems that allow linking blocks of transactions (blockchains). This process consumes a large amount of energy. In May, billionaire Musk announced Tesla will no longer accept bitcoin as a means of payment in its purchases. The announcement reverses Tesla’s decision in late March to accept payments in bitcoin and invest $1.5 billion in the digital currency. According to the graph of Bitcoin Mining Power Consumption Index produced by the University of Cambridge (CBECI), the energy use for “mining” cryptocurrency has increased continuously since 2016, even skyrocketing in 2020 and up The current level is 149 terawatt-hours (TWh), an all-time high.

On June 13, Tesla CEO tweeted that he will accept Bitcoin electric vehicle payments again. However, this only happens when Bitcoin miners can prove that about 50% of the energy they use is clean energy. According to Reuters, Bitcoin price increased 5% to 37,360.63 USD at 1:10 am on June 14 (Vietnam time) after Mr. Musk’s tweet. Musk also said that Tesla will sell about 10% of its Bitcoin holdings to show that Bitcoin can be easily liquidated. During the first quarter of the year, Tesla sold about $272 million in “virtual assets,” which reduced its operating loss by $101 million. Tesla CEO comments about cryptocurrencies often cause price fluctuations. As a result, he was criticized by CEO Magda Wierzycka of asset management company Sygnia as a “market manipulator” and that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) should investigate. In February, Tesla revealed in an SEC filing that it had purchased $1.5 billion in Bitcoin and would accept Bitcoin as payment for its products. However, then the electric car company paused due to concerns about the method of mining virtual currency, which requires huge electricity consumption, affecting climate change. “We are concerned about the rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels to mine and trade Bitcoin, especially coal, which is the worst emitter,” Musk tweeted in May. Du Lam (According to Reuters)

Photo: The Verge SpaceX’s satellite internet network team Starlink is in talks with “several” airlines to implement allowing users to access the internet on their flights. The project’s vice president said during a conference on Wednesday (June 9) that the company is continuously developing, expanding bandwidth to serve commercial projects later this year. “We’re in talks with a number of airlines,” said Jonathan Hofeller, vice president of SpaceX. “We are developing our own airline service… we have done a number of tests so far and are looking to perfect those products to put on flights in the very near future.” SpaceX began piloting the Starlink satellite in 2018 to address the global scarcity of broadband internet connections, especially in rural areas where fiber optic connections are often unavailable. Under the trial plan, Starlink customers will pay a one-time fee of $499 for a package that includes a Wi-Fi router, self-regulating Starlink pan, and $99 per month for monthly internet services thereafter. Since its first launch, the company has launched nearly 1,800 Starlink satellites out of the 4,400 it estimates it will need for global coverage. Last year, SpaceX submitted plans to test Starlink on five Gulfstream jets. In March, SpaceX also negotiated with the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) to apply Starlink technology on all popular vehicles from trucks, marine ships to airplanes. Elon Musk made it clear on Twitter at the time: “We do not connect Tesla cars to Starlink, because our terminal is too big, This controller is only for airplanes, ships, big trucks “. Starlink’s satellites are in low Earth orbit, lower than the geostationary orbit of the larger satellites that currently provide Internet services to commercial aircraft. It is the technology that makes airlines choose to cooperate with Starlink over other competitors. However, the same technology is now being used by a range of competitors. Amazon recently announced plans for 3,000 of its own low-orbit satellites, and the UK’s OneWeb has also launched 182 of the roughly 640 planned satellites. Competitors to Starlink with plans to commercialize the aircraft are Intelsat and ViaSa, which operate satellite networks in geostationary orbit. ViaSat recently announced plans to use its next-generation satellite network on Delta’s main fleet. The California-based company is planning a low-orbit network of 300 satellites that will begin launching early next year. According to experts, Viasat will be a stiff competitor to SpaceX in the future.

According to the CryptoNews From mid-March until now, Elon Musk has directly mentioned Bitcoin 9 times on his personal page. Two of them, he made the market red, Bitcoin depreciated by 10%. Elon Musk has a big impact on the Bitcoin market? The last time Elon Musk posted an article about Bitcoin was an image of an angry couple, with the words “BTC” and a broken heart symbol. Many people think this is a signal that Elon Musk no longer believes in the most valuable cryptocurrency. Soon after, he posted a meme photo of a trader who had difficulty trading because of the price correction. Is Elon Musk Talking Too Much About Bitcoin? Photo: Nikkei. According to the CryptoNews Bitcoin price dropped 2% just an hour after Musk posted the above article. In the following 24 hours, the Bitcoin price dropped 6%. That’s not the biggest drop Musk has made with the crypto market. On May 12, when Elon Musk announced that Tesla stopped accepting Bitcoin, in just an hour, the price of Bitcoin dropped 10%. This number remains for the next 24 hours. Not every article by Elon Musk has had such a large market impact. Out of Elon Musk’s last 9 Bitcoin-related posts, as of March 12, the majority have generated less than 1% volatility in the Bitcoin price. Even many articles have a positive influence, like when Elon Musk posted the Bitcoin symbol and diamond hand, alluding to the term Diamond hands, which are people who hold coins for a long time to wait for the price to rise. Following the aforementioned post, Bitcoin price increased by 3.6%. Over the next 24 hours, the increase is 10%, but it is difficult to confirm that it is entirely due to Musk’s post. Musk’s latest post is understood by many in the sense that he wants to “break up” with Bitcoin. Screenshots. CryptoNews commented that except for the news that Tesla stopped accepting Bitcoin payments and broke his heart, Elon Musk’s articles did not have too much impact on the cryptocurrency market in general and Bitcoin in particular. The fluctuations after his post were mainly due to previous market movements, hard to say because of Musk. Reasons for the volatility of the crypto market can include traders’ excessive use of leverage, China’s crypto ban, signals of crypto restrictions in the US, or concerns about cryptocurrency markets. environment. Elon Musk is getting hate for talking too much It cannot be said that Elon Musk can single-handedly influence the cryptocurrency market. However, the fact that he shares too much about this field still has the opposite effect on the reputation of the CEO of TEsla. Recently, every time Musk writes a Bitcoin-related article, he often receives negative feedback. According to data from the company Awario, which measures the emotions of social network users, the rate of positive responses to Elon Musk’s tweets fell to the lowest level in May. Negative feedback peaked on May 12, when he announced Tesla would stop accepting Bitcoin electric vehicle payments. Talking too much about cryptocurrencies, especially negative articles about Bitcoin, is damaging Elon Musk’s reputation. Photo: Twitter. In January, the number of tweets for and against Elon Musk was about equal. However, by May, the number of tweets against the Tesla CEO was 25% higher. This is the highest negative rate since Awario started measuring it in October 2020. According to this company, the number of tweets with neutral views still accounts for the highest proportion, up to 66%. “Clearly he is teasing the community,” said Bobby Ong, co-founder of crypto data analytics firm CoinGecko. “When Musk speaks out about crypto, the market will wait for a reaction,” Nick Spanos, co-founder of the ZAP Protocol crypto project told Reuters. While data from Musk’s most recent statements shows that the market reaction is less dependent on his words, Musk could still have a negative impact on his reputation. More than just damage to the crypto market, this could directly affect his other companies like Tesla. “Elon is slowly entering an area where it’s best not to say much, because Bitcoin is the currency of the future. I think that’s the danger zone for Elon, because when he makes his dips. price makes a lot of people lose money, they will stop supporting him and then Tesla,” Ross Gerber, CEO of investment firm Gerber Kawasaki and Tesla investor shared with Yahoo Finance .

Bitcoin suddenly surged in the past 24 hours. According to Coinmarketcap, the amount of Bitcoin traded in the last 24 hours is about 35.9 billion USD, the market capitalization recorded at 697.4 billion USD. Many large-cap cryptocurrencies skyrocketed with Bitcoin. Specifically, Ethereum is up 3.6% to $2,608, Binance Coin is up 6.8%, Cardano is up 3%, Ripple is up 2.6%, Uniswap is up 7.3%, Bitcoin Cash is up 6.1%, Litecoin is up 2.6% 6.8%, Chainlink up 5.6%… The strong momentum of Bitcoin and leading cryptocurrencies caused the total capitalization to increase by 6.5% to more than $1,630 billion. According to many professional traders, the driving force behind the growth of Bitcoin comes from the fact that El Salvador – the first country to consider Bitcoin digital currency as legal. Channel France24 quoted El Salvador President Nayib Bukele’s statement on Twitter, saying that the Bitcoin Law has just been approved with a majority vote. The bill proposed by Mr Bukele to parliament last weekend was approved by 62 out of 84 MPs. “It’s a historical mark,” Nayib Bukele shared on Twitter. Before the vote, Mr. Bukele affirmed that the adoption of digital currency will bring finance, investment, tourism, innovation and comprehensive economic development to this Central American country. According to him, Bitcoin is the fastest way to transfer billions of dollars of remittances to El Salvador without losing millions of dollars to intermediaries. Remittances from El Salvadorans working abroad make up a major part of the country’s economy, equivalent to about 22% of gross domestic product. According to official reports, in 2020, the amount of remittances to this country will reach 5.9 billion USD. “This is the law that will make El Salvador a place of international interest. We will be more attractive to foreign investment.” Romeo Auerbach, Vice President of the National Union of Solidarity Party in El Salvador, said. Bitcoin is a highly volatile virtual currency. After reaching an all-time high at 64,800 USD on April 14, this virtual currency has plummeted without brakes. The reason comes from Elon Musk’s announcement that Tesla will stop accepting Bitcoin because of controversial carbon emissions issues and China’s tightening ban on cryptocurrency trading and banning Bitcoin mining rigs. Many countries have also recently introduced new regulations to control activities related to cryptocurrencies.

Accordingly, the image shared by Elon Musk shows a couple having problems in love. (Photo: Reuters) The girl said that the love affair between the two would end if the boy continued to post the lyrics of the group Linkin Park. And the guy replied, “So in the end it didn’t even matter?” – are the lyrics to the band’s famous “In The End”. With the hashtag #Bitcoin and a broken heart, along with a photo of an angry couple and the song “In the End,” it seems like Elon Musk is hinting that his love of Bitcoin is over. (Screenshots) Bitcoin immediately dropped 2.8%, to $37,800. Prior to that, Bitcoin was on a rebound from multi-month lows, to climb to nearly $40,000. The cryptocurrency market was also affected and dropped heavily after Bitcoin unexpectedly plunged. Before that, Elon Musk has repeatedly made Bitcoin and other digital currencies go up and down like a “roller coaster” with his tweets. (Image: POOL/AFP via Getty Images) Most notably, last month, he took a 180-degree turn when he decided to stop allowing customers to buy Tesla cars with Bitcoin, citing concerns that Bitcoin mining would harm the environment. “Tesla has stopped accepting car purchases with Bitcoin. We are concerned about the rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and trading, especially coal. Cryptocurrency is a good idea on many levels and we believe it has a promising future, but that cannot come at a cost to the environment. (Photo: AFP) Tesla will not sell any Bitcoin and we plan to use it for transactions as soon as we transition mining to more sustainable energy,” Elon Musk said in an announcement posted on Twitter on the 13th. /5. Even so, Bitcoin supporters still argue that this drop will be a stepping stone for the currency to continue setting new records in the near future.

Billionaire Elon Musk – Photo: Bloomberg Recently, Elon Musk’s tweet about the popular children’s song on YouTube “Baby Shark” helped the stock price of a related company increase sharply, according to Bloomberg. Specifically, on the morning of June 2 (Asia time), Musk tweeted: “Baby Shark crushes them all! Views are more than the population of the earth.” Immediately, the share price of Samsung Publishing Co., a shareholder of the “Baby Shark” manufacturer, increased by 10% to the highest level since May 7. Since 2018, when the song became popular, the stock price has quadrupled. The song “Baby Shark” (Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo) started to hit the headlines in 2018, charting on the Billboard Hot 100 for weeks and now has nearly 8.7 billion views on YouTube. Even last month, a virtual currency named Baby Shark. The influence that turned the financial markets around from Elon Musk’s tweets made many investors concerned and called for authorities to step in. Many losers angrily urged him to stop using Twitter. Earlier this year, the move to change the personal description on Twitter to #bitcoin led many investors to speculate that the world’s richest billionaire bought into Bitcoin, pushing the price of this virtual currency up 20% to $ 38,566 – a record level. record that time. Less than 24 hours later, Elon Musk sent the stock price of CD Projekt, the company behind Cyberpunk 2077, up more than 12% after announcing on Twitter that Tesla’s new Model S Plaid electric car version would allow the guests play this game in the car. Not long after, the Tesla boss sparked a wild rally in GameStop stock after tweeting: “Gamestonk!!” with a link to WallStreetBets – a subpage of the Reddit information aggregator website. “Gamestonk” is a combination of GameStop and “stonks” – a slang word for stocks. “He knows he has great influence and has shown he enjoys playing with it, even if it hurts his followers,” said Heidi Chakos of Portugal, a Bitcoin investor. since 2014, told the Wall Street Journal. Meanwhile, Freetrade analyst Dan Lane said: “It’s ironic that Elon Musk has the ability to shake the market. Maybe it’s time to discuss the legality of this.” While waiting for the authorities to step in (if any), many investors still look to Musk’s tweets for investment direction, even considering him as a “hero”. Although later, when they lost, they turned to criticize him. However, it should be clear that, while the Tesla boss makes a point on everything from cryptocurrency Dogecoin to GameStop stock, he is actually an entrepreneur, not a portfolio manager. fourth. Musk isn’t the only one influencing the market through social media. Over the past year or so, many celebrities, from hedge fund managers to CEOs and entertainment stars, have taken advantage of platforms like Twitter, Reddit, Clubhouse, and more to express their views on everything from cryptocurrencies to stocks.

Tesla ditches radar sensors on self-driving systems. Photo: Getty Images No company in the auto industry can attract as much attention as Tesla, on the one hand because of CEO Elon Musk’s controversial statements, on the other hand, because Tesla regularly makes “unusual” decisions. “. At the end of May, Tesla once again became the focus of public opinion, and this time not because of a “brake failure”, but a configuration change. Recently, Tesla announced that starting in May, Model 3 and Model Y in North America will no longer be equipped with sensor radar, cancel the millimeter wave radar in front of the vehicle and only use the camera as a receiver. data collection of automatic driving systems. This means that Tesla is poised to be the first car company to deploy a “pure vision” autonomous driving solution. Meanwhile, other self-driving car manufacturers are integrating radar, LiDAR and cameras in autonomous driving systems. In fact, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has always been adamant against LiDAR, even repeatedly criticizing LiDAR in public. He thinks this is an expensive, unnecessary technology. Even Elon Musk has called those who believe in LiDAR technology “stupid” and car manufacturers using LiDAR technology will never achieve success. So, why is Musk so adamantly “disliked” LiDAR and even all radars, and only favors a camera technology solution? To clear this up, we may need a basic understanding of autopilot schematics. Camera and LiDAR To build a set of automated driving system solutions, the automatic driving algorithm is of course inseparable. In order to achieve calculations, sufficient information is required first. During driving, the vehicle’s information collection source is the large and small sensors on the body of the vehicle. Among them, to realize autonomous driving, the most important sensors are the camera and LiDAR (must add millimeter wave radar and ultrasonic sensor, of course). Therefore, the autonomous driving system is divided into camera-based vision array and LiDAR array. “Camera-based vision” uses a high-definition camera incorporating an image recognition algorithm, while LiDAR to ensure system stability. The camera array, or pure visual diagram, is essentially a complete simulation of the state of a person driving a car, first seeing the image with the “eye (camera)”, then transmitting it to the “brain (processor)” for processing and judgment, and then give the action “Legs (steering mechanism)”. In addition to Tesla, Chinese companies including Jikrypton and Baidu have also adopted pure vision solutions. LiDAR technology uses a laser to measure distances and build a 3D map of an object, by emitting and receiving the laser’s feedback and then analyzing that data to produce the desired results. Many Chinese car companies including Xiaopeng, Weilai, BAIC ARCFOX, and many other new products also announced this solution. Which solution is better? The advantage of the “pure vision” solution is that the video data captured by the camera is the closest to the real world perceived by the human eye, and also the closest to the form of human driving. At the same time, with LiDAR prices currently very high, a pure vision solution using only the camera should be easier to control costs. Tesla’s pure vision algorithm analysis is already very strong. In addition, the image obtained by the camera is well suited for object identification and classification, in case the algorithms are excellent, it can remove confounding items and enable automatic learning during driving. car. However, as a visual algorithm similar to the human eye, the camera is easily affected by light, in harsh weather or poor lighting conditions, it is easy to cause misjudgment. Previously, when AutoPilot was turned on, Tesla models accidentally braked automatically when going over an overpass or under a normal bridge, due to the algorithm using a sudden ball in the camera as an obstacle. Rendering a 3D environment map drawn by LiDAR Compared with pure vision solution, the advantages of LiDAR solution are longer monitoring distance, higher accuracy, more sensitive response speed and unaffected by ambient light. LiDAR’s three-dimensional information processing, object size calculation, and movement speed are more efficient. However, LiDAR has problems such as weak object recognition, high cost, and accuracy in extreme weather conditions such as rain and snow. Therefore, LiDAR must be used in conjunction with other sensors to ensure safe driving. In addition, the collection of large amounts of data requires high computing power of the processor, which equates to an increase in the cost of the media processor. Theoretically, the combination of camera-based vision and LiDAR is a relatively complete solution today, but after combining many factors such as existing technology and product cost, it is too difficult to use. use a “third solution” that integrates these two major solutions. Tesla’s trade-off The cost of LiDAR is much higher than high quality cameras. In fact, abandoning LiDAR, and even now abandoning millimeter wave radar, one of the key reasons Tesla made such a choice was to achieve lower costs. After all, the cost of LiDAR is very high, the price of this technology in the early days started at 100,000 USD, but now with the development of the electronics industry, its price has decreased but basically remains the same. maintained at several tens of thousands of dollars. However, compared to high-definition cameras, the price of only a few hundred dollars is still much higher. However, besides cost, Tesla also has technical trade-offs. First of all, LiDAR does not determine the specific nature of the object, so it is easy to cause wrong judgment. For example, if a large plastic bag appears in front of the vehicle, the camera solution may recognize it as a plastic bag and ignore it, but LiDAR will judge it as an obstruction and stop the vehicle. Second, millimeter wave radar also has many limitations. The detection range of millimeter wave radar is directly limited if the band is weak. It cannot identify pedestrians nor accurately model all surrounding obstacles. At the same time, due to the large amount of data obtained, it will also consume precious computing power of the processor. Finally, for Tesla, the best company in imaging solutions, they have invested heavily in imaging algorithms. To give up the large accumulation so far, and turn to another path, in terms of input – output ratio, it can be said that it is not worth it. Tesla is loyal to a completely camera-based vision solution Tesla Vsion camera system. On Tesla’s official North American website, during the introduction of Full Self-Driving FSD, the performance information of the millimeter wave radar was removed and only the image sensor and ultrasound. At the same time, Tesla also released the driver monitoring system on May 28. The Model 3 and Model Y vehicle cameras can monitor the driver’s behavior when the Autopilot system is activated, detecting and reminding the driver to keep his or her attention. Tesla states that “camera data will be stored in the vehicle, and the system will not send the data back to the company unless the user gives permission to share the data”. In addition, Tesla’s FSD V9.0 autopilot system will also be officially launched this year. According to Musk’s earlier statement, the FSD algorithm has been “refactored” to achieve pure vision through 8 cameras around the body, while effectively solving the previous “brake failure” problem. Tesla also warned that Autopilot and FSD systems would be less effective during this technical adjustment period. “During a short period of transition, Tesla Vision vehicles may experience some limitations or inactivity, such as Autosteer being limited to a top speed of 120.7 km/h. , Smart Summon (if equipped) and Emergency Lane Avoidance may be disabled during delivery,” Tesla’s announcement reads. Whether LiDAR will win the market with a secure advantage in the future, or a camera-based vision algorithm dominates the market with a lower cost advantage, the answer is still unclear. However, judging from the information currently available, Tesla will choose to stick with a pure vision solution.

Bitcoin digital currency. (Photo: AFP/VNA) On May 28, British police said they had discovered a case stealing electricity large capacity to mine the digital currency bitcoin. Specifically, in a dismantling of a cannabis plant, the anti-narcotics police force in England suddenly discovered an organization Bitcoin “mining” using a large power source to steal from the national grid. The facility is located in an industrial area in Birmingham – the UK’s second largest city. Through inspection, the police discovered about 100 computers dedicated to “mining” bitcoin. At the time the police arrived, there was no one at the facility. The case is currently under investigation. The digital currency “mining” system consumes a large amount of electricity, so some lines specializing in “mining” cryptocurrency in the world often choose to steal electricity to reduce costs and increase profits. According to Deutsche Bank, “mining” bitcoin alone consumes the same amount of electricity as Switzerland consumes each year. On May 12, the world’s largest electric vehicle maker Tesla (USA) announced that it would stop using bitcoin in its car sales due to concerns about environmental issues. CEO (CEO) of Tesla, American billionaire Elon Musk states: “Tesla stopped using bitcoin car sales. We are concerned about the growing use of fossil fuels for bitcoin mining and trading, especially coal – the worst-emitting fuel.” Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has announced a four-month ban on all crypto-mining activities after many major cities suffered power cuts due to power shortages.

According to the Businesstoday , immediately after appearing on several exchanges, the price of this cryptocurrency increased by 1,000% in just 24 hours. From around 0.17 USD per coin, the price of DubaiCoin increased to 1.13 USD on May 27. The developer claims that DubaiCoin will soon be used in a series of product and service transactions both offline and online, replacing traditional fiat currencies. Currently, the value of DubaiCoin has reached 0 USD after the Dubai government announced that this digital currency has not been approved by any authority. DubaiCoin rapidly increased in price after its launch. Photo: Businesstoday. Not too long ago, an emerging coin that also caught the eye was Polygon from India. The famous “shark” billionaire on the show Shark Tank, Mark Cuban, has publicly supported and invested in this cryptocurrency. Currently, Polygon’s market capitalization is over 10 billion USD and is among the 20 largest cryptocurrencies in the world. On May 28, the cryptocurrency market showed signs of recovery. Bitcoin was trading at above $38,000/BTC at around 9am. This coin has still not been able to surpass the $ 40,000 mark in the context of China’s strict policies on mining and trading in coins. Since mid-April until now, the Bitcoin price has dropped by about 30% due to China’s policy and Elon Musk’s open tweets. The owner of the net shop unplugs the machine, digs coins and waits for the translation to end Due to the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic, Mr. Nguyen Minh Quan (Thu Duc City) had to close the net shop, remove the graphics card to dig coins, earn extra income waiting for the reopening of the shop. Businesstoday

Illustration. Source: CNN “Electric car data security is very important. And Tesla will make efforts to ensure this data security,” billionaire Tesla posted information on Weibo. According to Reuters and Bloomberg, earlier this year, the Chinese military banned Tesla electric vehicles from entering military facilities over concerns that the cameras installed in the vehicles could be used for surveillance. Tesla CEO – Elon Musk voiced China’s concerns about this information. “We always want to keep any customer information confidential. If a customer finds out that Tesla is using an electric car to spy in China or anywhere else, we will shut down,” Billion said US billionaire Elon Musk said at the China Development Forum in March. Tesla has recently faced many challenges in the Chinese electric vehicle market. In February, the company was summoned by regulators to discuss the quality of electric vehicles made in Shanghai. Chinese authorities expressed concern about a number of problems with the vehicles manufactured by the company, such as abnormal acceleration and battery fires. The company has faced direct criticism from consumers. In February, Tesla was forced to apologize after a customer provided a video of an issue with charging. In a public interview last month, billionaire Musk emphasized: “I am very confident about Tesla’s future in China. The Chinese economy will thrive in the next decade and will become a major economy. best of the world”.

The move comes after Chinese Vice Premier Liu He said last week in a statement that it was necessary to “suppress the behavior of Bitcoin mining and trading” to prevent “the transmission of personal risk to social spheres”. Those comments are seen as Beijing’s intention to further block Bitcoin trading and other crypto-related activities. Inner Mongolia’s latest draft proposals are aimed at telecommunications and internet companies involved in cryptocurrency mining. The Inner Mongolia Development and Reform Commission said such companies could have their business licenses revoked if they are found to be involved in Bitcoin mining. In addition, cloud computing or data centers may have their government incentives revoked. In addition, there are severe penalties for individuals involved in money laundering through cryptocurrencies. Inner Mongolia’s tough stance on crypto mining began in March after it announced plans to ban new crypto mining projects and shut down existing operations to cut consumption. energy. China’s Northern Region failed to meet Beijing’s energy use targets in 2019 and subsequently set out a plan to reduce power consumption. In the case of Bitcoin, miners purposefully use computers to solve complex mathematical puzzles that allow a Bitcoin transaction to take place efficiently. These miners are rewarded with Bitcoins. But because the computer has a large capacity, it consumes a lot of energy. According to the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index, Bitcoin mining consumes around 112.57 terrawatt-hours (TWh) per year, more than the consumption of countries like the Philippines and Chile. China accounts for about 65% of the world’s Bitcoin mining. Of that, Inner Mongolia accounts for about 8% globally due to cheap energy prices, a larger share of Bitcoin mining in the United States. China’s tough stance towards cryptocurrencies is not new. China previously shut down local cryptocurrency exchanges in 2017 and that same year also banned initial coin offerings (ICOs). But Bitcoin trading continues to operate in China even though exchanges have moved overseas. Inner Mongolia’s scrutiny of Bitcoin mining activity in particular comes as China tries to continue the move. Chinese President Xi Jinping said last year that China has set a goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2060. But according to a study published in Nature Communications in April 2021, Bitcoin mining could “undermine emissions reduction efforts” going on in the country. The energy consumption of Bitcoin mining operations came back into focus in early May after Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the electric carmaker would stop accepting the digital currency for the reason due to environmental concerns. On Monday (May 24), Musk said in a tweet that he has met Bitcoin miners in North America and that they are “committed to announcing current and planned uses of renewables.”

Many people are curious about the owner of the Dogecoin account worth 12 billion USD – Photo: iStock. The story behind the man who owns the world’s largest Dogecoin virtual currency account is probably not as attractive as the story of investors on social networks like Elon Musk or his fans. However, since the beginning of the year, with the price of Dogecoin increasing by more than 100%, the account value has reached 12 billion USD, making many people curious about its owner. According to Business Insider, this Dogecoin “shark” account has the address DH5yaieqoZN36fDVciNyRueRGvGLR3mr7L, owning a total of 36.7 billion Dogecoins since 2019, equivalent to 28% of the total number of Dogecoins in circulation. Many analysts and investors began to dissect who is behind this “huge” virtual currency account. Some people even send a small amount of Dogecoin to the above “shark” account to try to find out the identity of the owner. “The above account could be linked to a cryptocurrency exchange,” said Patrick Lodder, a core developer of Dogecoin. Working for the Dogecoin project since 2014, Lodder said that anyone can send Dogecoin coins to a public account, but the amount deposited into an account cannot be a “clue” for identification. account holder, unless it is an extremely large amount. Buying Dogecoin since 2019, the above “shark” account is rarely sold. The last sale was 100 million Dogecoin in April 2021 and is also the only sale this year. Based on this information, CoinDesk’s director of research suggested that the account must be owned by an individual, not a transaction. In response to this information, Lodder said it could be a cold wallet of an exchange. “An exchange that manages a lot of Dogecoin might not keep it on a server but store it offline – on a cold wallet, for example. This explains why there are not many sales from this account. With such a high value virtual currency account, it is safer to store it in a cold wallet,” Lodder analyzed. Lodder said the only way to determine for sure who the account owner is is for the person to speak up and present evidence, but this is a risky job if you look at the “terrible” account value. “above. On social networks, countless speculations about the owner of the above account. Following the data on the blockchain, an account on the news site Reddit hypothesized that this “shark” address could be one of the cold wallets of Robinhood – the famous free-to-use stock exchange. in U.S.A. This theory is agreed by more than 4,000 people in the Reddit community. However, many others believe that this account may belong to “Dogecoin father” Elon Musk. Like many other cryptocurrencies, Dogecoin is a decentralized currency, not managed by an authority or entity. This makes it more secure and less vulnerable to change by any entity. However, this also creates rumors of lack of control and endangers the coin. “Rumours of ‘sharks’ selling Dogecoins can scare investors into selling,” Lodder said. Dogecoin was born in 2013 as a satire to the crazy craze of virtual currency and was designed with the design concept from the famous “Doge” trend on the Internet. Dogecoin was not originally created as a means of payment but simply as a joke. However, this virtual currency is still bought and sold on virtual currency exchanges. Dogecoin often increases in price when it is promoted by famous individuals on social networks. In early 2021, Dogecoin was only $0.004, even when Bitcoin – the largest virtual currency on the market – skyrocketed to nearly $30,000. In early May, this virtual currency set a record of $0.718/Dogecoin.

Photo: Forbes In the past, Elon Musk has repeatedly compared bitcoin and fiat money. He also often shares about cryptocurrencies that make the value of coins like bitcoin or dogecoin fluctuate greatly. Photo: INC In February, the value of bitcoin skyrocketed after Tesla revealed it had bought $1.5 billion worth of the coin. Besides, the electric car company also confirmed that it will soon accept bitcoin as a means of payment when buying a car. Photo: Forbes Even so, the bitcoin price plummeted after the billionaire announced in May that Tesla would not accept bitcoin for car purchases due to environmental concerns. Earlier this month, he also called dogecoin “a rush” while appearing on “Saturday Night Live.” The price of the coin bearing this dog symbol then also plummeted. Photo: CBN However, a few days ago, Elon Musk made the market “crazy” when he emphasized that he had never and will not sell dogecoin.

Elon Musk declares allegiance to Dogecoin (Image: WCCFTech) Elon Musk declared his allegiance to Dogecoin causing its value to increase by 15% during this crypto volatility. The billionaire American businessman responded to a Twitter thread speculating about his Dogecoin holdings with the message: “I have not and will not sell any Dogecoins.” This move of Elon Musk immediately caused Dogecoin to increase in value after many days of falling. Earlier, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX posted on Twitter a photo of a laptop with a $1 bill sticker on it with the caption: “How many Doge’s in the window.” If you look closely, you can see that this bill has a picture of a Shiba Inu dog, the symbol of Dogecoin, in place of President George Washington. Elon Musk’s post on Twitter (Image: Twitter) This is the second time this week that Elon Musk has publicly expressed support for cryptocurrencies, after making an announcement on Twitter that Tesla would hold onto its Bitcoins as the market shows signs of a market crash. Earlier, Elon Musk faced criticism from social media users when some suggested that he sold his Bitcoins when its price peaked in the market. Elon Musk responded by tweeting that the electric car company has a “Diamond Hand,” referring to traders who hold stocks when prices fall with the goal of making long-term profits. The drop in cryptocurrency value over the past few days is said to have started after Elon Musk posted an announcement saying that Tesla was temporarily suspending Bitcoin as payment for its car orders, due to concerns about the risk of loss of money. Bitcoin mining will have a bad effect on the environment. Since then, however, he has repeatedly said that the company will keep its Bitcoins and will allow the use of the cryptocurrency to trade again when mining becomes more stable. Elon Musk announced that he will not sell Tesla’s Bitcoin (Image: Twitter) According to the Cambridge Center for Alternative Finance, the Bitcoin industry’s annual energy consumption is on par with that of a country the size of Malaysia. And most of the mining is located in regions of China, where electricity is produced cheaply by coal-fired power plants. Tesla bought $1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin at the end of 2020 when the price of each Bitcoin was below $20,000 and sold 10% in early 2021 when the price of this virtual currency reached $50,000/Bitcoin, earning on a profit of 101 million USD.

The creator of Ethereum claims that the ‘Elon effect’ will gradually lose influence on cryptocurrencies Vitalik Buterin, the “father” of Ethereum recently gave an exclusive interview with CNN about the recent volatility of the cryptocurrency market. The 27-year-old billionaire said that “the crypto market is in a bubble” and “it is very difficult to predict” when this bubble will burst. According to him, the “golden age” of digital currencies has passed and this crisis can last for several months. Earlier, on the morning of May 19, Coinbase recorded that Ethereum, Buterin’s “pet”, fell more than 40%, to below $ 1,900. By the morning of May 20, this coin had recovered to $ 2,700, however, this is still a low number compared to the record milestone of $ 4,384 that Ether achieved on May 11. The ups and downs of the Ether coin have made Buterin “father” pay a significant price when he is holding an asset worth about $ 1.1 billion, now reduced to only about $ 870 million. At the age of 27, Vitalik Buterin, a Russian-Canadian programmer, is already considered a veteran founder in the tech world having seen multiple cryptocurrency boom cycles over the past few years. “We’ve seen at least three crypto bubbles burst. Usually the reason bubbles end is because something happened. This shows that the technology of cryptocurrencies is still there. not ready,” Buterin said. Since late 2013, when preparing for the launch of Ethereum two years later, Buterin has expressed his vision for cryptocurrencies. According to Buterin: “Cryptocurrency has become more than just a toy. It is almost ready to become mainstream.” In the process of developing “pet” Ethereum, Buterin is also not afraid to assert that there is a possibility that Ethereum will eventually catch up and surpass Bitcoin in market value. However, the programmer also said that the cryptocurrency market tends to be “vulnerable” to disruptive events, before they can “build an immune system over time”. Typical is the influence of some billionaires who are treating cryptocurrency as a toy. Mr. Buterin isn’t shy about mentioning Elon Musk’s name: “Mr Musk’s tweets are something the crypto space has only been getting into for the first time in recent months, literally. I think it’s appropriate. It’s reasonable to expect a bit of madness. Because the market will learn a lot from that and will be immune to the Elon Musk effect.” In addition, Mr. Buterin also asserted that governments cannot completely ban but have the ability to block or restrict access. Therefore, the development of cryptocurrencies also needs to listen to regulations from regulatory agencies to avoid getting into legal troubles. Faced with the crisis of digital currency, the “father” of Ethereum thinks that this is a “quiet” for digital currencies to renew themselves. On the Ether side, Mr. Buterin said the coin’s transaction costs will soon be cut. A major technical overhaul is underway that will allow Ether transactions to quickly scale, while cutting the amount of electricity consumed by mining by 1,000 to 10,000 times. “We’re going to go from consuming energy similar to a medium-sized country to just consuming energy like a village,” Buterin said confidently. According to Buterin, if Ether’s competitors don’t reform technically, Ether will soon outstrip them, such as Bitcoin.

Elon Reeve Musk FRS (born June 28, 1971), is a South African-American engineer, industrial designer, inventor, technology entrepreneur and philanthropist. Musk is the founder, CEO, and chief engineer/designer of SpaceX; original investor, CEO and product architect of Tesla, founder of The Boring Company, co-founder of Neuralink, co-founder and original co-chairman of OpenAI. Elon Musk. Photo: Reuters. Among his three biggest projects, SpaceX was founded by Musk in 2022 with the main function of manufacturing aerospace and space transportation service company. Here, he holds the position of CEO and chief designer. Musk joins Tesla Motors, Inc. (now Tesla, Inc.), an electric vehicle maker in 2004, a year after the company was founded and became its CEO and product architect. In 2006, he helped found SolarCity, a solar energy services company (now a subsidiary of Tesla). In 2015, Musk co-founded OpenAI, a nonprofit research company that aims to promote friendly artificial intelligence. In July 2016, he co-founded Neuralink, a technology company focused on developing intellectual computer interfaces. In December 2016, Musk founded The Boring Company, an infrastructure and tunneling company focused on tunnels optimized for electric vehicles.

This coin is developed based on the Binance Smart Chain platform and is tradable similar to Bitcoin or Dogecoin. Currently, STOPELON is priced at about 0.0000537493 USD/VND. However, buying and selling this coin is quite complicated. The issuer only allows users to trade on the PancakeSwapv2 exchange. The symbol of the coin STOPELON. Photo: ManOfMany. Even so, the developers have some policies to make STOPELON attractive to investors such as 6% refund of transaction fees. The destruction rate of this coin is 40% of the total 1 trillion coins to fight inflation. STOPELON shows the anger of investors with billionaire Tesla when this coin once had a strong growth of more than 4,000% in just 1 day. In addition to STOPELON, the market also has available cryptocurrencies created to oppose Elon Musk such as FuckMusk, FElon… According to the InputMag , Elon Musk has made a lot of profit after the crypto craze. However, investors believe that the market volatility created by Musk will soon come to an end.

The price of Dogecoin plummeted right after the show featuring Elon Musk started. Photo: Coindesk. However, when Musk didn’t show up, the price of Dogecoin plummeted. According to the data of Coinmarketcap , from nearly 0.7 USD, Dogecoin dropped to more than 0.5 USD after more than 30 minutes of the program. The market capitalization of this coin dropped from $90 billion to just $68 billion after 1 hour, more than $150 million of leveraged investors was blown away. As expected by many, Elon Musk mentioned Dogecoin in the middle of the show. “Recently, the prices of many cryptocurrencies have increased, such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and especially Dogecoin,” replied Elon Musk when asked “what is cryptocurrency”. Elon Musk’s mention of Dogecoin only made the coin rise slightly from the bottom. By 12 o’clock, the price of Dogecoin was still at $ 0.55, a sharp decrease compared to before Saturday Night Live aired. “People seem to be starting to realize that you shouldn’t invest based on a guest on a comedy show mentioning that asset,” said Wall Street Journal financial writer Paul Vigna. Elon Musk appeared on Saturday Night Live, mentioning Dogecoin. Earlier, the news that Elon Musk led Saturday Night Live caused the price of Dogecoin to increase sharply. According to the data of Coinmarketcap , the value of each Dogecoin has increased from $0.34 on May 1 to $0.69 as of the morning of May 8. Many fans of Musk and Dogecoin even plan to invite friends over to watch and celebrate if the coin’s price skyrockets. On the morning of May 8, Elon Musk posted on his personal Twitter a picture of him and two other guests of Saturday Night Live. Musk also inserted a picture of the dog Shibu, the symbol of Dogecoin, into the frame. Soon after, the Dogecoin price increased rapidly and reached an all-time high of $0.72 before cooling off.

DOGE-1 will send a 40 kg Geometric Energy Corporation satellite to the Moon. This satellite will collect information about the planet Earth. Representatives of the two companies have not announced the contract value paid in Dogecoin. The DOGE-1 program will send a satellite to the Moon on a Falcon 9 rocket. Fees are paid in Dogecoin. Photo: SpaceX. SpaceX vice president Tom Ochinero said the DOGE-1 program “will demonstrate the application of extraterrestrial cryptocurrencies and lay the groundwork for transplanetary commerce.” Earlier, Elon Musk said that SpaceX will “actually put a Dogecoin on the Moon”. However, he made his statement on April 1, so no one is sure if he was joking or telling the truth. SpaceX is not the first company run by Elon Musk to accept cryptocurrency payments. In February, Tesla announced it was buying $1.5 billion in Bitcoin and accepting payments for cars in the currency. The move caused Bitcoin price to surge. In the crypto world, the term “to the moon” is often used to refer to a coin’s value skyrocketing. According to Coinmarketcap, on the morning of May 10 (Vietnam time) Dogecoin is priced at about 0.55 USD, with a market capitalization of 72 billion USD, ranking 4th after Bitcoin, Ethereum and Binance coin. Before that, Dogecoin had 2 strong volatile weekends. On May 8, the news that Elon Musk hosted Saturday Night Live caused the price of Dogecoin to increase sharply. According to Coinmarketcap data, the value of each Dogecoin coin has increased from $0.34 on May 1 to $0.69 as of the morning of May 8. Many fans of Musk and Dogecoin even plan to invite friends over to watch and celebrate if the coin’s price skyrockets. On the morning of May 8, Elon Musk posted on his personal Twitter a picture of him and two other guests of Saturday Night Live. Musk also inserted a picture of the dog Shiba, the symbol of Dogecoin, into the frame. Soon after, the Dogecoin price increased rapidly and reached an all-time high of $0.72 before cooling off. The price of Dogecoin dropped dramatically on the morning of May 9, before Elon Musk hosted Saturday Night Live. Photo: Coindesk. However, before the time of Elon Musk’s broadcast, the price of Dogecoin dropped dramatically. According to the data of Coinmarketcap , from nearly 0.7 USD, Dogecoin dropped to more than 0.5 USD after more than 30 minutes of the program. The market capitalization of this coin dropped from $90 billion to just $68 billion after 1 hour, more than $150 million of leveraged investors was blown away. As expected by many, Elon Musk mentioned Dogecoin in the middle of the show. “Recently, the prices of many cryptocurrencies have increased, such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and especially Dogecoin,” replied Elon Musk when asked “what is cryptocurrency”.

This person livestreamed right at the exhibition, then went to Tesla’s booth and the incident happened. The girl said her Model 3 car’s brakes failed, nearly killing 4 members of her family in an accident. Tesla has denied the relevant information, but it doesn’t stop there. This is not the only difficulty with Tesla at the moment. The world’s top electric car maker may even be facing one of the worst public relations crises in China, a market investors see as a special feature. crucial to Tesla’s growth momentum. Under increasing pressure to become the focus of criticism from Chinese media and regulators, Tesla is said to be strengthening cooperation with regulators in the mainland and strengthening relationships. with the Beijing government. Tesla’s shift in strategy toward fostering behind-the-scenes interactions with policymakers in Beijing marks a shift from the company’s previous stance, which did not seem to take market failures too seriously. its second largest university (after the US). The changes also take place in the context that China is actively “regulating” many large and powerful private companies, especially technology giants, due to concerns about the risk of domination in this market. A woman protesting on the roof of a Tesla Model 3 electric car at the Shanghai Auto Show in April 2019. Tesla “turns the car”? It is customary for Chinese regulators to discuss policy and industry standards with local and multinational companies, as well as associations and consulting organizations. Attending these meetings has become the norm for many tech companies, but unlike rivals including Toyota Motor and General Motors, Tesla executives are largely absent from closed-door meetings. Instead, Tesla officials regularly speak at high-level conferences. Tesla CEO, billionaire Elon Musk also regularly uses Twitter to comment or criticize China’s regulators or strict rules. However, in the past weeks, Tesla executives have attended at least four policy discussions, with topics ranging from automotive data storage, technology to connect information from vehicles to systems. infrastructure, vehicle recycling and carbon emissions. There, according to officials, Tesla — which is headquartered in California and produces the Model 3 sedan and Model Y sport utility vehicle at a separate factory in Shanghai — made no specific commitments. only participate in the discussion. There are other signs that Tesla – once “sweetheart” – is looking to mend its rocky relationship with Chinese authorities. In two job ads posted on its WeChat account in April, Tesla wanted to find management candidates to update its policy database and maintain relationships with governments and industry associations to ” building a harmonious external environment and supporting Tesla’s business development goals in the regional market.” The exact number of candidates Tesla is looking for is unknown. Tesla Model 3 car. Attack wave A flood of negative news about Tesla in China has increased in recent months. Earlier this year, a Tesla Model 3 was reported to have exploded in a garage in Shanghai, while an article in state media said there were at least 10 reported incidents this year. 2020 about Tesla drivers losing the ability to control their vehicles. In February 2021, the State Market Administration summoned a Tesla representative to request feedback on consumer complaints related to issues such as battery fires, unexpected acceleration, and software update errors. software over the internet. It is reported that China has also recommended the use of Tesla cars to state employees because of the belief that the vehicle’s sensors can record images and location data. In March 2021, Tesla made headlines when the military announced it was “banning” access to Tesla equipment and vehicles from military complexes, citing security concerns with vehicle-mounted cameras. . A few days later, Elon Musk then emphasized at a high-level forum that Tesla would shut down if its cars were used for spying purposes. CEO Musk also sought to defuse tensions in a March speech to state broadcaster CCTV that China’s future “will be great” and that the country will be “the biggest market.” of Tesla. However, the incident at the Shanghai Auto Show and the subsequent reaction of Tesla Vice President Grace Tao was seen as the last straw when, instead of admitting shortcomings, the Tesla and Tesla relationship official The government again questioned the real motives of the above extreme guest. According to Grace Tao, the disruptive woman clearly wanted a high level of compensation and the company didn’t have any reason to pay her. In a post on Weibo, Tesla claimed not to compromise with “unreasonable demands”. State media and government agencies were quick to criticize Tesla. State news agencies flooded Tesla with a series of posts pointing out risks and technical errors, while officials issued warnings. An article in state media titled “Three Lessons for Tesla” warned the California-based electric car maker to respect the Chinese consumer market. The Global Times article emphasized: “The arrogant and overbearing stance that Tesla takes in public is reprehensible and unacceptable, which can seriously damage its reputation and source of the company’s customers in the Chinese market”. Xinhua News Agency and People’s Daily both publicly said that Tesla was indifferent to the interests of consumers. Tesla was criticized for canceling their investment pledges (estimated 14 billion yuan) and tax pledges (about 2.23 billion yuan annually), even failing to meet revenue targets. A wave of attacks, demanding to “evice” Tesla from China is repeating like what Google has faced. Many argue that what is more worrying is that the negative comments are not only appearing on a few articles but are increasingly taking the form of an organized “anti-Tesla” campaign. The involvement of state media makes things worse, because the lesson with Dolce&Gabana or H&M recently showed that Beijing has the right to “bring something up and bury it” when needed. Tesla later issued a statement apologizing for its lack of sensitivity in handling customer complaints. A post on Weibo later said that Tesla was willing to cooperate with the authorities, properly implementing “self-inspection and adjustment” procedures to “fix” customer service issues. Inside a Tesla factory. Beijing’s Power Tesla was once seen as a “baby”, one of Beijing’s efforts to demonstrate that China is allowing more foreign businesses to enter its relatively closed market. The company has been increasing its investment and focusing on the Chinese market over the past two years. With government backing, Tesla broke ground on a major Shanghai factory in 2019 and last year began delivering Model 3s built at the factory to customers in China. Tesla’s China sales have more than doubled in 2020, and the Model 3 is the best-selling electric vehicle in the country. Accounting for about 30% of Tesla’s global sales, China is the automaker’s second-biggest market after the United States and helped Tesla hit a record for first-quarter vehicle deliveries. CEO Elon Musk even had a meeting with Premier Li Keqiang in 2019. However, the success has come with closer scrutiny, especially as many local businesses are also looking for a larger market share in this potential electric vehicle sector. China’s favorable policies towards electric cars have spurred the birth of a number of startups hoping to compete with Tesla such as Nio and Xpeng Motors, although their sales are still far behind Tesla. Simply put, to some extent, Beijing welcomes Tesla’s presence and investment in the electric vehicle market, but still wants the dominance of domestic players in this area. The most prominent in the Chinese electric vehicle market is currently Tesla, SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile Co. and BYD. Data in March showed that these three giants accounted for 55% of China’s electric vehicle market, but only 5% of the total market share in the country’s auto market, a fact that the electric vehicle market still very young. Hongguang Mini, the SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile joint venture, has overtaken Tesla this year in terms of sales. Everything will now probably depend on Tesla’s ability to penetrate deeper into China, a market seen as key to Tesla’s global success. The challenge for Tesla now is to make sure it doesn’t take another serious hit in China, where Tesla is poised for more than 40% of its total global deliveries by 2022. China has clearly created favorable conditions for Tesla, the giant in the electric car industry, and now realizes that letting this darling dominate the market may not be in China’s interest. Many companies like Volkswagen and Mercedes have gone through the same thing.

Popular swimwear brand Summersalt has recruited 24 inspirational women to participate in its new swimwear campaign. They include Mrs. Maye, the mother of the world’s second-richest billionaire Elon Musk, the two-legged girl Lauren Wasser, the oversized yoga devotee Jessamyn Stanley or the Paralympic gymnastics champion Chelsea Werner… With the theme “Every Body is a Summersalt Body”, the summer 2021 campaign aims to promote self-love and body positivity. “The women in the campaign represent a diverse group of activists, entrepreneurs and change makers who are pioneering in their communities,” Summersalt said. The swimwear brand also hopes to empower all women to feel confident no matter what shape, size and background they are in. The models range in age from 23 to 73, with Mrs Maye being the oldest. The model, author, and nutritionist looked elegant and glamorous in a black off-the-shoulder swimsuit. Pose with her hands on pink and her silver hair combed back helps Maye show a proud and attractive demeanor. “I’m happy to have confidence at the age of 73,” she said. Mrs. Maye achieved her greatest success as a model when she was in her 60s and 70s. The mother-of-three made history in 2018 when she became the face of CoverGirl at the age of 69. So far, career Her model continues to flourish. Mrs. Maye confidently modeled swimwear at the age of 73 Brand investor Sara Foster (40, right) and her sister Erin (38). The two are the daughters of composer David Foster. They are both successful performers and entrepreneurs. Two American female football players Ashlyn Harris (35 years old, left) and Ali Krieger (36 years old). They are both colleagues and are bound by a legal marriage relationship. Ashlyn Harris holds the position of goalkeeper on the Orlando Pride club and the US women’s national football team. Despite losing her legs, Lauren Wasser is not afraid to show off her body in a two-piece swimsuit. Former MC E! News Catt Sadler (46 years old). Oversized model Denise Bidot. Yogi Jessamyn is an advocate of body positivity and size inclusivity in the fitness industry. Paralympic gymnastics champion Chelsea Werner. Oversized vitiligo model Andrea Thomas. Travel blogger Jessica Nabongo, Seagram heiress (Canada) and entrepreneur Hannah Bronfman and chronic disease activist Nitika Chopra (from left to right). TikTok star Barbara ‘Babs’ Costello (left) and NBC News production associate Lauren Seely. Jari Jones, an actress, writer and LGBTQ rights activist. Stacey London is stylist and CEO of State of Menopause, a wellness brand that provides resources for menopausal women. Actress and YouTuber Anna Akana (left) wore a navy speckled piece, while athlete Meg Boggs posed in an off-the-shoulder swimsuit. Deepika Chopra, dubbed the Optimistic Doctor, is the founder of the wellness brand Things Are Looking Up. Fashion designer and Cushnie founder, Carly Cushnie (left), and best-selling author and stylist Micaela Erlanger.

On May 15, Fox Business reported that Maye Musk – the mother of billionaire Elon Musk – was present in the Summersalt brand’s swimwear advertising campaign. At the age of 73, Mrs. Maye Musk is still chosen as one of the faces of women who lead an active lifestyle and are always attractive at any age. Before that, Elon Musk’s mother was repeatedly invited to be a model. Mrs. Maye Musk was commented to look much younger than her real age. Currently, she is still active as a model for many fashion brands and regularly participates in sharing sessions about beauty experiences. In 2015, Maye Musk appeared at New York Fashion Week. In 2016, she joined the modeling agency IMG. In 2017, Maye Musk became the oldest model of the cosmetics company CoverGirl. In addition to Maye Musk, the swimwear advertising campaign also features many other special faces. Oversized vitiligo model Andrea Thomas is one of the promotional models this time. Oversized yoga star Jessamyn Stanley was among the models participating in the campaign. The women with their stories inspire all women in the world to be more confident and love themselves. The campaign called “Every Body is a Summersalt Body” is meant to encourage women regardless of skin color, age, body size and profession to be more confident and love their body. “The women in the campaign are activists, entrepreneurs and people who want to make change and pioneer in their communities,” a campaign spokesperson said. Model with prosthetic legs Lauren Wasser is one of the special people participating in this campaign. Two female American football players Ashlyn Harris (35 years old, left) and Ali Krieger (36 years old) pose for a photo while participating in the campaign. Jari Jones – actress, writer and LGBTQ rights activist – joined the campaign in the hope of spreading the message that it’s time for women to be shown a confident, dynamic and enthusiastic modern way of life.

Due to the presence of minerals and other resources on the Red Planet, in the future, Mars could be an abundant source. All in all, the initiatives in this direction are impressive, but as always, there are nuances attached to them. Traveling to Mars on 1,000 rockets and creating land for 1 million earthlings as Elon Musk suggests is an extremely expensive and technologically difficult task. It is not necessary to list all the problems that arise when massive scientific works are devoted to this, just to mention the main “knots”. First, There is no technology that allows the creation of spacecraft with the ability to send people into distant space without having to receive a lethal dose of cosmic radiation. This problem could be solved by wrapping lead plates, but would lead to a proportional increase in the mass of the ship and a decrease in its carrying capacity. New engines were needed, but they are now beyond production. Monday, Solar radiation will remain a problem on the Martian surface. The Red Planet, unlike Earth, does not have a magnetic field that protects us from ionizing radiation. Astronauts will not have to walk on red sand dunes like in the movie “Total Recall”, but have to hide in bases hidden deep below the surface. Tuesday, Mars on Mars is cold and has practically no atmosphere, but the radiation background is 2.5 times higher than what astronauts on the ISS can tolerate. It is impossible to live in such conditions without a special space suit. There are also many other problems, but it is clear that expanding living space is an extremely important task for all of humanity, requiring accumulation and huge investments in technology. For this reason, scientists are seriously skeptical of Elon Musk’s initiative, especially when he proposes to carry out thermonuclear bombardments at both poles of the Red Planet. This will lead to higher temperatures, melting glaciers, the formation of liquid water and the release of greenhouse gases, which will create the atmosphere on Mars. After that, the settlers could walk on the surface without the spacesuit. But there is another way of looking at this “terrain” approach. Mathematician Robert Walker calculates that in order to carry out the first part of the plan, which would require at least 1 million nuclear bombs with a capacity of 100 megatons, they would have to be sent to Mars 3,500 a day for seven weeks to achieve. desired results. There are no such large numbers of nuclear weapons on Earth and the lack of means to deliver them to another planet. This is the first thing. Carbon dioxide reserves on Mars would not be enough to create a suitable atmosphere, even if the first problem were solved. Since the Red Planet has no magnetic field, solar radiation will gradually “suck” in the already formed magnetic field. This is the second thing. And finally, for some reason, Elon Musk doesn’t take into account that after so many nuclear explosions, the surface of the planet will be radioactive for a long time, you can’t walk there with a mask oxygen and plant trees. “Nuke Mars” is just a cover for the US to send nuclear weapons into space? In general, Elon Musk’s initiative is a nonsense and he himself cannot help but understand this. But why is this smart man promoting it? The head of Roscosmos – Mr. Dmitry Rogozin tried to answer the question: Anyone who calls for the “terrain” of Mars or other planets is well aware that this is just an excuse for launching nuclear weapons into space, which, if useful, is just to “terrain”. our “Earth. But it’s true, you can’t just send nuclear warheads to Mars. First, they will need to be put into orbit and accumulate somewhere along with the means to send them in large batches. Where is that? Suppose that a circular orbit station, which the United States and its allies are building, will be adapted for this case, with China and Russia as targets. But will the nuclear bomb then make its way to the Red Planet? It’s long been no secret that Elon Musk is working closely with the Pentagon on the space program and satellites. So why not try with the best cause, Mars exploration, to advocate for the idea of ​​​​putting a US nuclear arsenal in space, Mr. Rogozin concluded.

The idea of ​​​​conquering Mars has been a dream of mankind for many years, this could be the first step towards realizing the dream of many science fiction scientists that is to explore outer space. Sending humans to another planet, even within the solar system, has the effect of reducing the risk of a global catastrophe that could destroy life, such as a large asteroid impact or nuclear war. Even in the future, the Red Planet could be an abundant source of resources. Obviously the ambition to travel to Mars is impressive, but there are many doubts and obstacles attached. Tech billionaire Elon Musk put forward the idea of ​​humans traveling to Mars on 1,000 rockets and creating land for 1 million inhabitants, this is clearly an extremely expensive and technologically difficult task. major barriers have been listed. First, Earth science has not yet been able to create spacecraft with the ability to send humans into distant space that is “immune” to deadly cosmic radiation. The solution to this problem could be to wrap lead plates, but that would increase the weight of the ship and reduce its carrying capacity. Engines for spaceships are now well beyond construction. Second, solar radiation is a big problem, the Red Planet is different from Earth in that it doesn’t have a magnetic field protecting it from ionizing radiation. Astronauts will have to hide in bases hidden deep below the surface, not be able to walk freely on the surface. Third, Mars is cold and has no atmosphere, but the radiation background is 2.5 times higher than that of astronauts on the International Space Station ISS. It is impossible to live in such conditions without a special space suit. There are many other problems as well, but it is clear that expanding space into outer space requires accumulation and huge investments in technology. Before this fact, scientists expressed doubts about Elon Musk’s initiative, when he proposed to carry out bombardments with thermonuclear warheads at both poles of the Red Planet. A “fusion attack” would cause glaciers to melt, forming liquid water and releasing greenhouse gases, which help create the atmosphere on Mars. Then the “reclaimers” could walk around without a spacesuit. But mathematician Robert Walker calculates that to carry out the first part of the plan requires at least 1 million nuclear bombs with an explosive yield of 100 Megatons, must be assembled on Mars 3,500 a day for 7 weeks to achieve desired results. There are no such large numbers of nuclear weapons on Earth, and the lack of means to deliver them to another planet, is the first hurdle. CO2 reserves on Mars would not be enough to create a suitable atmosphere, even if the first problem were solved. Since the Red Planet does not have a magnetic field, solar radiation will gradually “suck” the gas that has already formed, which is the second barrier. Finally, Elon Musk does not take into account that after many nuclear explosions, the surface of the planet will be radioactive for a long time, people cannot walk with oxygen masks and plant trees. Elon Musk’s initiative is clearly impractical and perhaps the billionaire himself understands this, but what is his meaning. The head of Russia’s state space corporation Roscosmos – Mr. Dmitry Rogozin made a remarkable remark. “Anyone calling for the reclamation of Mars or other planets is well aware that this is just an excuse for launching nuclear weapons into space for military purposes on Earth.” “It’s true, you can’t just put nuclear warheads on Mars. They need to first be put into orbit and assembled somewhere with the means to send them in large batches.” “Assuming an orbital station being built by the US and its allies will be tailored to target China and Russia. Will nuclear warheads reach the Red Planet then? “It is no secret that Elon Musk is working closely with the Pentagon on the space and satellite program. So why not experiment with the best cause of Mars exploration, to advocate for the idea of ​​​​putting US nuclear weapons in space,” concluded Mr. Rogozin.

Illustration – Photo: Reuters. In a status line (tweet) on the social network Twitter on May 12, Tesla CEO (CEO) Elon Musk suddenly announced that this electric car company stopped accepting Bitcoin as a means of payment when customers buy a car. . This statement by Mr. Musk – who has expressed a pro-crypto stance – shocked investors and caused a sell-off. The reason the world’s second-richest billionaire gave for the reversal is the risks that virtual currencies pose to the global environment. Bitcoin price immediately dropped after Mr. Musk’s tweet was posted. At more than 7:00 am on May 13, Vietnam time, Bitcoin price according to data on Coinmarketcap.com page slipped below $ 50,000, down more than 13% compared to the time 24 hours ago. Many other “hot” virtual currencies also dropped sharply, such as Ethereum down more than 6%, Dogecoin sliding 14%… In February, Musk revealed that Tesla had poured $1.5 billion into Bitcoin and said the company would soon accept Bitcoin as a means of payment when customers buy a car. That information immediately pushed the Bitcoin price up 20%. By March, he said Tesla customers were able to pay with Bitcoin. In a tweet on May 12, Musk said Tesla will not sell a single Bitcoin, but instead intends to use Bitcoin for transactions as soon as Bitcoin mining moves to using other energy sources. more sustainable quantity. “We are also looking at other cryptocurrencies that use less than 1% of electricity like Bitcoin,” Musk wrote. Bitcoins are “mined” by competing high-performance computers solving complex math problems, and the process consumes enormous amounts of power. The source of electricity for Bitcoin mining is usually thermal power, especially coal-fired power plants, posing a great concern about environmental pollution. At current rates, Bitcoin mining pools used as much energy as the entire Netherlands in 2019, according to data from the University of Cambridge and the International Energy Agency (IEA). Musk himself is a supporter of virtual currencies, and his statements often cause cryptocurrency prices to fluctuate wildly. However, he is also an advocate of clean technology. “Cryptocurrency is a good idea in many ways, and we believe it has a promising future. But that can’t come with a huge loss to the environment,” Musk said. Bitcoin price movement in the last 7 days – Source: Trading View. According to blockchain analysis companies, Bitcoin could in theory be traceable, raising the possibility of “green” Bitcoins having a higher price tag. Stronger climate change policies by countries around the world can also help in this. However, some Bitcoin advocates say that the current financial system – with millions of employees and computers in air-conditioned offices – also uses an overwhelming amount of electricity.

The announcement of the Tesla boss immediately pulled the price of Bitcoin down to $ 46,000 / dong. Minutes later, billionaire investor Mark Cuban – owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks – tweeted: “We know that it helps the environment (Bitcoin) replace gold as a store of value. school”. According to the data of Coin Desk , as of May 14 (Vietnam time), Bitcoin has not been able to regain the $50,000 mark per dong. However, the Winklevoss twin billionaire brothers remain optimistic. Mr. Cameron Winklevoss said Musk will return to Bitcoin after realizing that cryptocurrency mining is “really driving the renewable energy industry.” His brother Tyler also encouraged investors to buy the bottom. On May 12, Elon Musk announced that electric car company Tesla will stop accepting payments in Bitcoin. “Selfish and Cruel” “It’s true that Bitcoin has an impact on the environment and that’s one of the controversial things. For environmentalists and scientists, there’s no doubt that Bitcoin uses a lot of energy,” the teacher said. Professor Layne Hartsell at the Asia Institute commented in an interview with Zing . “However, mining for Bitcoin – the asset considered ‘digital gold’ – is actually less impactful than mining for gold, one of the worst environmental disasters,” he added. In fact, just last month, Musk voiced his support for an article called “The Bitcoin Clean Energy Initiative” by Square Crypto. The article refutes the argument that the Bitcoin network causes serious environmental damage and destroys the planet. According to the article, Bitcoin mining will encourage increased use of renewable energy, replacing carbon-emitting fossil energy. Musk quickly shared the post on Twitter and commented: “Yes.” If Bitcoin is bad for the environment, we should ask Musk about the carbon emissions of SpaceX rockets – Oluwafisayo Williams According to the Bloomberg , Musk’s turn shocked many crypto fans. Nic Carter, an expert at Castle Investment Management, described his move as “very strange and confusing”. Mr. Oluwafisayo Williams, 32, a doctor in Sheffield (England), was even more harsh. Mr. Williams used the words “selfish and ruthless” to describe Musk’s heart. He started pouring money into cryptocurrencies at the beginning of the year. “If Bitcoin is bad for the environment, we should ask Musk about the carbon footprint of SpaceX rockets. I don’t think he has taken the time to research Bitcoin. Musk is using his power to gain control. market,” Mr. Williams criticized. On April 26, Tesla reported a record profit of $ 438 million in the first quarter. As usual, the profit was made by selling emissions limits. However, the company’s Bitcoin sale also contributed $101 million to the profit. According to the report, Tesla recorded $1.5 billion in “digital asset” purchases and $272 million in digital asset sales in the first quarter. The firm said Bitcoin sales contributed up to 101 million USD. As such, the company promptly sold some Bitcoin and made a profit of 101 million USD when the Bitcoin price skyrocketed. “Playing with investors’ pockets” Musk is not completely turning away from cryptocurrencies. In his announcement to stop accepting Bitcoin payments, he admitted that cryptocurrency is still a good idea. Musk is also looking at other coins that use less energy. Dr. Williams in the UK does not care about Musk’s views and insists he is still optimistic. Some people working in the crypto space also think the issue is overblown. According to them, the drop is the right time to buy. “The sell-off could help Bitcoin price reach new record highs,” said David Grider of Fundstrat Global Advisors LLC. Meanwhile, crypto billionaire Mike Novogratz still encourages investors to buy Bitcoin. He thinks Musk is just trying to use his influence to make cryptocurrency mining “greener”. Bitcoin price plummeted after the announcement of billionaire Elon Musk on May 12. Meanwhile, Mr. Dave Portnoy – founder of Brash Barstool Sports – is not satisfied with Musk’s move. According to Mr. Portnoy, when a billionaire changes his stance too quickly, he is playing with people’s futures and pockets. Aaron Smith, 29, a trader based in Essex (UK), has moved most of his portfolio to cryptocurrencies. He thinks that the Tesla boss needs to learn more about cryptocurrencies. Mr. Smith remains bullish on cryptocurrencies and considers Musk’s backing as shocking news. “Billionaires influence all markets, not just the crypto market,” he commented. “But people feel the influence in the crypto market more clearly because of the smaller cap,” he added.

Billionaire Elon Musk. (Photo: Bloomberg) “We are concerned about the increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and transactions, especially coal, the largest emitter of all fuels,” Musk wrote on Twitter. 12/5. As the world’s largest digital currency by market capitalization, Bitcoin lost nearly 8% in value after Musk posted the above tweet, according to data from digital currency exchange Coinbase. “Digital currency is a good idea from many perspectives and we believe it has a promising future, but this should not come at a great cost to the environment,” Musk wrote. Tesla and SpaceX boss and ardent supporter of digital currencies and has created great excitement for this market this year, especially with Bitcoin and Dogecoin. Back in January, the price of Bitcoin skyrocketed when Musk named the coin in his tweet. The price continued to rise sharply after Tesla revealed that it bought $1.5 billion in Bitcoin and that people can use the coin to buy Tesla cars. As the price of Bitcoin continues to rise to new levels, environmental activists warn about the significant amount of fuel used to mine Bitcoin. The reason is that this operation requires the use of very powerful computers to verify Bitcoin transactions. Every year, Bitcoin mining uses as much electricity as the whole country of Argentina, according to estimates by Cambridge University. China accounts for 65% of global Bitcoin mining. That carbon footprint goes against Musk’s advocacy of clean energy. But he did not give up Bitcoin. In a tweet posted on May 12, he said that Tesla will not sell any Bitcoin and that Tesla intends to keep this currency to use for transactions “when Bitcoin mining becomes more environmentally friendly”. Musk also said that Tesla is looking for low-energy digital currencies.

Tesla stops trading in bitcoin. (Source: Forbes) On May 12, the world’s largest electric vehicle maker Tesla (USA) announced that it would stop using bitcoin in its car sales due to concerns about environmental issues. On his personal Twitter page, Tesla’s CEO, US billionaire Elon Musk wrote: “Tesla stopped using bitcoin to buy and sell cars. We are concerned about the use of bitcoins. fossil fuel for bitcoin mining and trading is increasing, especially coal – the worst emission fuel.” Tesla suggested that cryptocurrencies are a “good idea” with a “promising future” but “that cannot be achieved at a huge cost to the environment. Tesla emphasized that it will not sell “any bitcoin” but intends to use it for trading as soon as “bitcoin mining” transitions to more sustainable energies. This can be considered as a move to reverse the view of Elon Musk and Tesla, after facing criticism from environmentalists and investors. In the first quarter of this year, Tesla spent $1.5 billion buying bitcoin, then selling about 10% to bring in more than $100 million in profit. Immediately after the above announcement, the world’s largest digital currency lost more than 7% of its value and is trading at $52,669. In the Asian market, at one point bitcoin fell 17% to $45,700, its lowest level since March 1. Currently, this virtual currency has partially recovered to over $50,000. Bitcoin has a high level of security, appears and is distributed completely automatically based on algorithms and anyone can own it through deciphering mathematical equations and giving answers. dig.” To be able to earn bitcoins, “miners” will have to solve complex computational problems through a “miner” that consumes a lot of electricity. Researchers from the University of Cambridge (UK) believe that the total energy consumption of bitcoin mining in 2021 could reach 128 billion kWhm, accounting for 0.6% of the world’s total electricity production and high than electricity usage in Norway.

Explaining his decision, Elon Musk expressed concern that “the use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining is rapidly increasing.” Elon Musk has just announced, Tesla will “pause buying cars with Bitcoin”, because of concerns that the use of fossil fuels to mine Bitcoin is increasing rapidly. (Photo: Canva) “Tesla has stopped accepting car purchases with Bitcoin. We are concerned about the rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and trading, especially coal. Cryptocurrency is a good idea on many levels and we believe it has a promising future, but that cannot come at a cost to the environment. Tesla will not sell any Bitcoin and we plan to use it for transactions as soon as we transition mining to more sustainable energy,” Elon Musk wrote on Twitter. The recent announcement of billionaire Elon Musk on Twitter. (Screenshots) After Elon Musk’s announcement, the cryptocurrency market quickly “red” when the price of Bitcoin plunged below the $50,000 mark, losing more than 12% in the last 24 hours. Bitcoin price this morning, this coin previously dropped below $47,000 after Elon Musk’s announcement. (Photo: CoinMarketCap) Elon Musk’s decision is completely opposite to what this billionaire has previously stated. In early February, Tesla announced that it had spent $1.5 billion to buy Bitcoin, as well as saying that it could invest in a number of other digital currencies in the future. (Photo: Daniel Oberhaus (2018) / Protocol) In addition, Tesla also announced that it will soon let users use Bitcoin to buy its cars. By the end of March, Elon Musk announced that users in the US could buy Tesla cars with Bitcoin.

“There’s been a lot of discussion around whether investing in Bitcoin is ultimately good or bad, what is the real value of Bitcoin, or is it actually just a bubble. Honestly, I don’t know,” Mr. Son said. said at SoftBank’s earnings press conference. Even so, the Japanese investment billionaire said that adding the popularity of cryptocurrencies has made Bitcoin an “unforgettable” platform, like diamonds or bonds. “It’s not necessarily anti-crypto. We’ve had such internal discussions,” he added. Billionaire Masayoshi Son – founder of SoftBank. Photo: Bloomberg. Over time, more and more big companies like Tesla, Square and Nexon are turning to buying Bitcoin. Many firms started accepting cryptocurrencies as a form of payment to promote the development of cryptocurrencies. However, recently, billionaire Elon Musk’s electric car company Tesla suddenly “turned away” from Bitcoin when it announced that it would stop accepting Bitcoin payments when buying cars. Immediately, the price of the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization plunged 5% just minutes after Musk’s announcement. According to the Coindesk , Bitcoin price currently fluctuates at 49,976 USD/dong, down 12.61% compared to 24 hours ago. The market capitalization of Bitcoin also dropped to $937 billion. Also in the press conference, SoftBank CEO revealed that he is holding many stocks with high liquidity such as Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook. He said such an investment decision will help the company hold the edge, ready for future investment opportunities.

According to CNN, billionaire Elon Musk said that Tesla will suspend plans to accept Bitcoin as a means of payment when customers buy its cars. The reason Musk gave is that using Bitcoin costs the environment. This is a completely opposite move after a few months Musk launched Bitcoin “to the cloud”. According to the billionaire: “We are concerned about using more and more fossil fuels to mine and trade Bitcoin, especially coal. Cryptocurrency is a good idea on many levels and we believe in it.” “That is a promising future, but accepting and using digital money cannot come with a hefty price tag on the environment.” Immediately after that, the Bitcoin price fell 5% just minutes after Elon Musk’s announcement. A few hours later, Bitcoin price even bottomed to just over $ 46,000 / 1 Bitcoin and then recovered slightly. The fact that Elon Musk publicly supports Bitcoin while claiming Tesla is a “green” company when it comes to making electric, eco-friendly cars has always been controversial. Photo: TL. Everyone knows that mining Bitcoin takes a lot of energy and pollutes the environment. Bitcoin miners consume a lot of power to solve mathematical equations, validate transaction codes to receive back a certain amount of money worked. Some calculations show that the total electricity consumption of Bitcoin miners in the world is equivalent to the total electricity consumption of Finland. The fact that billionaire Elon Musk publicly supports Bitcoin while claiming Tesla is a “green” company when making electric cars, environmentally friendly has always been controversial. However, the CEO also left open plans that Tesla will still use Bitcoin when it finds a cleaner source of energy. “Tesla won’t sell any Bitcoin and we intend to accept Bitcoin for transactions as soon as mining converts to more sustainable energy. We are also looking at other cryptocurrencies that use less. 1% of energy / transactions that Bitcoin uses “. This new statement by Elon Musk surprised many people because earlier in a statement on the social audio application Clubhouse, the billionaire said “Bitcoin is a good thing”, adding that he is “late” and perhaps out bought cryptocurrency 8 years ago. The richest billionaire in the world added that he should have bought Bitcoin eight years ago. “I have been quite slow. But at this point, I think Bitcoin is a good thing,” billionaire Elon Musk said. Is the “pump blow”? Bitcoin is not the only cryptocurrency Musk has pumped in in recent weeks. He has repeatedly praised Dogecoin through his Twitter account with 54 million followers. Dogecoin even dropped when Musk joined Saturday Night Live and said: “Recently, the prices of many cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum and especially Dogecoin have increased”. Musk’s last tweet before the Bitcoin-related surprise announcement was also a question to poll his followers to see if they wanted “Tesla to accept Doge as a means of payment”. Photo: TL. Earlier in February, Tesla publicly stated that it had spent $ 1.5 billion on Bitcoin investments. Later in April, records showed they sold 10% of their Bitcoin holdings, making a profit of $ 101 million. The move caused a few rumors to emerge, suspecting that there was some kind of fraud when Tesla bought Bitcoin, Elon Musk said like it and then Tesla sold it. Twitter user Dave Portnoy had a post that would have tagged Elon Musk on this. Dave used the word “pump” to describe Tesla’s actions on Twitter. He wrote: “As I understand it: Elon Musk bought Bitcoin then he blew up, praised Bitcoin. Bitcoin price increased. Then Elon Musk sold out and pocketed a lot of money.” Elon Musk then responded under this post, “Oh no, I don’t. Tesla selling 10% of its Bitcoin holdings is necessary to demonstrate Bitcoin’s liquidity as an alternative channel to hold money. face”.

Bitcoin plunged sharply on the morning of May 13 At 7 a.m. this morning, Bitcoin’s price on Coindesk was just over $ 47,000 / BTC, down $ 10,000 / BTC compared to last night. Meanwhile, on Coinmarketcap, Bitcoin also fell at a similar rate, to close to $ 49,000 / BTC. Thus, after peaking at $ 64,000 in mid-April 2021, Bitcoin never stopped going down and repeatedly broke the $ 50,000 / BTC mark. Along with Bitcoin, a series of other virtual currencies also turned red, the market capitalization decreased by more than 10%. Ethereum decreased by nearly 5%, BNB decreased 8.2%, XRP decreased 10%, BCH decreased 16%, LTC decreased nearly 15% … Some other virtual currencies even decreased 15-40%. Notably, Shiba Inu, a virtual currency “junk” is crazy about investors because the hot rise recently fell by nearly 35% in just half a day. The virtual money market fell vertically because yesterday, billionaire Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla announced “suspending the purchase of cars with Bitcoin” due to environmental concerns. Earlier in March, Elon Musk revealed that US customers can use bitcoin to pay for Tesla cars. “Tesla has suspended the purchase of cars with Bitcoin. We are concerned about the rapid increase in the use of fossil fuels to mine and trade Bitcoin, especially coal, the most polluting fuel. Cryptocurrency is a good idea on many levels and we believe it has a promising future. However, that cannot come at an environmental cost, “the billionaire explained. This billionaire unlike anyone has repeatedly made headlines in the virtual currency market by sudden decisions. However, he also asserted that Tesla did not sell any Bitcoin and intends to use it for trading as Bitcoin mining uses more sustainable energy. Yesterday, this tricky billionaire also gave a consultation on his personal Twitter page about whether Tesla should accept payments in dogecoin. The survey received millions of responses, of which the majority approved. The event comes just days after the billionaire revealed that SpaceX has accepted Dogecoin to pay for his lunar trips. Dogecoin virtual currency was “born” as a joke in 2013 by computer engineer Billy Markus and Adobe marketing expert Jackson Palmer suddenly got waves when billionaire Elon Musk invested and praised many times. on the personal page. However, the billionaire himself has repeatedly made statements to make this virtual currency “on elephants, down dogs”. Over the past 24 hours, Dogecoin has decreased in price by nearly 14%. From the beginning of the year until now, many banks, investment funds, and financial institutions announced to invest in bitcoin or accept payments in Bitcoin. However, with only a few individuals’ moves, this market still plunged without braking, this shows the great risk of this market. Even billionaire Elon Musk, while initiating and pioneering large corporations to invest in virtual money, said that people should not invest life savings in digital money because it is “not wise. good “. According to billionaire Musk, there is a possibility that digital money will become the main currency on earth, but no one knows what kind of currency it will be. Therefore, the investment in that time should be considered.

The constant influx of money into cryptocurrencies has a huge impact on billionaires who run SpaceX and Tesla, who identify themselves as Dogefather (roughly translated: The Godfather of Dogecoin). And if the market crashes, Elon Musk said people could call themselves Elongate, a reference to the Watergate scandal that led to the resignation of 37th US President Richard Nixon. Both Dogefather and Elongate have become virtual currency projects attracting thousands of investors with tens of millions of dollars frantically pouring into projects still on this paper. That’s not to mention the effect that Elon Musk created earlier that made another satirical virtual currency, Shiba Inu, also skyrocket in value. Mark Zuckerberg named his goats Max and Bitcoin, immediately fueling the zoonotic crypto craze. But Elon Musk is not alone, the 50-year-old billionaire will soon feel his shark position being violently shaken by characters who are not less popular. Mark Zuckerberg in a recent post with a very simple caption “My goats: Max and Bitcoin” has fueled the fever of fauna virtual money. In just a few hours, anonymous and worthless virtual currencies such as Pig Finance, AquaGoat, Akita Inu or Pitbull suddenly increased in both value and trading volume. The up and down momentum a few times like this is a true reflection of what’s going on in the world of cryptocurrencies, where small investors (called fryers) are buying and selling massively based on celebrities (yes probably the shark) mentioned. It all stems from the fear of missing an opportunity, a term that is extremely popular in the world of cryptocurrency players called FOMO status. By FOMO, a worthless satirical virtual currency Dogecoin has gone from zero to the fourth largest cryptocurrency in the market with a peak cap of $ 90 billion. Dogecoin, after a series of pump & dump fluctuations and sharks is currently trading around the $ 0.50 mark corresponding to a market cap of around $ 66 billion. Very soon, however, another emerging candidate appeared to threaten the Dogecoin dog’s position, which is the Shiba Inu. Just being listed on the world’s largest exchange, Binance, Shiba Inu has dramatically increased in value with a cash flow of nearly $ 20 billion after 24 hours. Ngoc Trinh also joined the virtual money game with a series of bold PR status statuses. Following this craze is not only the technology world, but also art activists like Cao Thai Son. In recent days, the voice of Rain Road not only constantly mentioned virtual money but also livestreamed to show fans how to wisely invest in the virtual money market. But when Cao Thai Son has not revealed how much money to invest in this market, another Vietnamese “shark” has revealed, that is Ngoc Trinh. In just one red afternoon, “the queen of underwear” immediately posted four lines of status referring to virtual money, in which a status showed off a (fake) account with more than $ 10 million, including nearly $ 900,000 invested in virtual currency Shiba Inu. Removed the latest status because of being exploited to borrow someone else’s account, Ngoc Trinh’s four consecutive status lines still attracted tens of thousands of likes, thousands of comments and shares. Although it was confusing and was judged as a PR trick, Ngoc Trinh still showed the height of the hand of a person controlling the game, leading the fry by writing simple, easy to understand correct style “no money. land to eat ”. At the same time as Ngoc Trinh, on the other side of the hemisphere, billionaire Elon Musk, as usual, continues to have a turbulent tweet when he makes a poll to ask people if they want Tesla to accept payment by Dogecoin coin or not. Currently, 76% of respondents said yes. But again, investors need to be wary of their own pockets, not chasing celebrity calls if they don’t want to be victims of this zero-sum game.

AquaGoat’s transaction value and volume suddenly increased sharply after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a picture of two goats raised on his own farm with the content “My goats: Max and Bitcoin”. Internet users claim that Max and Bitcoin are Zuckerberg’s two goats, implying that the Facebook co-founder is also interested in Bitcoin and the crypto market. AquaGoat’s value soared after Mark Zuckerberg’s two goats. Photo: CoinMarketCap. AquaGoat was launched by an Australian programmer on April 7 and appeared on CoinMarketCap from April 21. This is a decentralized token on the Binance exchange that emphasizes transparency and community contribution. According to AquaGoat’s website, transactions will be partly deducted and donated to organizations that conserve marine life and clean the ocean. AquaGoat’s Twitter page also repeatedly mentioned Mark Zuckerberg, referring to the image of his two goats contributing to the price increase of more than 500%. This is not the first time cryptocurrencies “animals” have increased in value thanks to technology billionaires. Recently, the crypto value Dogecoin with the image of Shiba dog has continuously fluctuated after the posts of billionaire Elon Musk. On April 17, a post with the content “Doge barking at the moon” of the billionaire made the Dogecoin price more than doubled. Earlier in February, the coin also appreciated more than 50% after Musk’s survey of the future currency in the world. Zuckerberg’s post shared the names of two goats, Max and Bitcoin. Screenshots. On May 8, Musk uploaded a photo of Musk’s personal announcement to join the program on Twitter Saturday Night Live , insert the Shiba dog image, the Dogecoin symbol in the frame. Soon after, the Dogecoin price surged and reached a historic high of $ 0.72. However, before the time Elon Musk aired the program, the price of Dogecoin fell sharply. On May 10, Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX announced a mission called “DOGE-1 Mission to the Moon”. This is a delivery program to the Moon in which SpaceX accepts payments in Dogecoin. While attracting attention, crypto experts recommend that Dogecoin, or “animal” currencies, have many drawbacks compared to other decentralized assets like Bitcoin. Therefore, investors should be cautious before deciding to enter the market. The high cost of Bitcoin mining Since the advent of cryptocurrencies, the amount of electricity needed for mining has increased significantly. This leads experts to believe that mining cryptocurrency is not environmentally friendly.

In their paper in the journal IEEE Trans Transaction on Biomedical Engineering, the team presented the results of trials on two men with spinal cord injury aged 35 and 63. The system works by connecting a signal generator on the user’s head to an electrode relay in the cortex, through the connection port like wired systems. From there, the tester can move, click and type on the computer keyboard with his or her brain. Transmitter connects to a relay located in the brain cortex, helping people to use wireless computers. Photo: BrainGate. In the test, both candidates were able to achieve typing speed and click accuracy on par with a wired system. At the same time, they can use the system continuously for up to 24 hours at home. “The signals are recorded and transmitted with the same fidelity as a wired system, meaning we can use the same decoding algorithms that we have,” said John Simeral, who leads the team. used with conventional wired equipment ”. “The only difference is that we are no longer physically tied to the devices, which opens up new possibilities for future research,” Simeral added. “With this system, we are able to look at brain activity at home, over the long term, in a way that was previously almost impossible,” said Leigh Hochberg, another team member. This gives us more opportunities to create algorithms that allow people with paralysis to move and work. ” According to the Mashable, The aforementioned study is a significant step forward in the field of neural communication, in which the human brain is directly connected to the computer. Recently, big names in the tech world like Facebook and Elon Musk have also expressed interest in this area. Simple device is placed on top of research candidate. Photo: Radiofiji. In 2020, Elon Musk’s startup Neuralink introduced a pig named Gertrude, with a computer chip implanted in the brain. Or, as before, in 2021, the company also succeeds in implanting a chip into the monkey brain so that the animal can play video games. However, Brown University’s first human study demonstrates that the technology can be used wirelessly, and it wouldn’t be surprising if we find wearable devices that allow people with disabilities to communicate with them. continue and work better in the future.

Unlike Elon Musk, the co-founder of Facebook doesn’t usually share his investments on his personal page. According to the Livecoins This is the first time Facebook CEO has posted content publicly, specifically referring to the name Bitcoin, the most expensive cryptocurrency in the world today. The latest post implies that Zuckerberg is interested in Bitcoin. Some have suggested that Mark wants to reverse the price of Bitcoin like Elon Musk is doing with Dogecoin and some cryptocurrencies, even though the billionaire has never confirmed an investment or bought Bitcoin. Zuckerberg’s post shared the names of two goats, Max and Bitcoin. Screenshots. In addition, combining the two words Max and Bitcoin in the name of Zuckerberg’s 2 goats to create Max Bitcoin. This is a term for a person who buys Bitcoins to increase their distribution in a portfolio (maximize Bitcoin). Zuckerberg seemed intentional by naming the goats Max and Bitcoin, but it could also be a coincidence. Another interesting thing is that the word GOAT (goat) in English stands for Greatest of All Time (greatest of all time). Originally Zuckerberg’s post was “My goats: Max and Bitcoin”, which could mean Max and Bitcoin are the names of two goats, or Max and Bitcoin are the two “greatest of all time” for Zuckerberg. Member kylelock8788 on the Reddit forum also pointed out Max in the name of journalist Max Keiser, who always made a statement in favor of Bitcoin. More and more companies are investing in Bitcoin. At the end of April, Korean gaming company Nexon said it bought 1,717 BTC with an average price of $ 58,226 / VND. Previously, Meitu, a popular photo-editing app developer in China, revealed that it spent $ 100 million on Bitcoin and Ethereum. In February, billionaire Elon Musk’s Tesla electric car bought $ 1.5 billion in Bitcoin. The company then sells 10% of the Bitcoin to prove the cryptocurrency’s liquidity. In 2020, the price of Bitcoin increases by nearly 300%. From the beginning of 2021 until now, the price of the largest cryptocurrency in the world has continued to increase by 95%. In early April, Bitcoin peaked at $ 63,000 but then dropped below $ 60,000. According to the Coindesk Bitcoin price as of May 11 is over $ 56,000. The high cost of Bitcoin mining Since the advent of cryptocurrencies, the amount of electricity needed for mining has increased significantly. This leads experts to believe that mining cryptocurrency is not environmentally friendly.

Photo: CNBC Specifically, at one point, Dogecoin has decreased in price by 29.5% to 49 cents. Elon Musk mentioned Dogecoin and called it a “rush”. By the end of the program, Dogecoin price increased slightly back to 57 cents. Overall, however, the digital currency is still down 17% in value since the beginning of the show. Photo: Hollywood Reporter During the news release that Elon Musk’s TV talk “sparked”, some users of the investment app Robinhood said that they could not trade cryptocurrencies via the app. Robinhood confirmed the problem was still on Twitter and the service was back to normal in less than half the next. Photo: NYTimes In mid-April, Dogecoin reached the top 10 of the largest digital currencies in the market. This coin is developed based on the meme “Doge”. This meme has been popular since late 2013 and features a Shiba Inu dog image. Photo: The Verge Created by two software engineers named Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer, Dogecoin was intended to be a faster and happier alternative to bitcoin. Since its inception, Dogecoin has a growing community of users.

The Starship SN15 space missile left its launch pad on May 4. Photo: Space According to Space page, on May 5, SpaceX successfully landed the Starship spacecraft during the fifth test at their base in Texas, USA. This successful experiment marks a big win for billionaire Elon Musk’s space company after four of the previous tests ended in explosions. The SN15 rocket took off from Starbase in Boca Chica, south Texas at about 17:25 local time, reached around 10km and performed a series of flight exercises before making a critical landing. Billionaire Musk happily posted on Twitter: “Starship is landing normally”. Watch the video of the Starship rocket launched and successfully landed for the first time (Source: SpaceX): The test, however, was not entirely perfect. A small fire engulfed the base of the 50-meter spaceship shortly after landing, but was quickly extinguished with a tornado. SpaceX expert John Insprucker explains this “it’s no stranger to the metal fuel we’re using,” adding that engineers are still solving design problems. SpaceX faces growing pressure to succeed with its May 4 test flight after NASA announced a version of the Starship would be used as a lander in its return to the Moon program. America. The $ 2.9 billion contract is currently on hold after two rival companies, Blue Origin and Dynetics, filed an objection. SpaceX Starship Ship Illustration on the Moon. Photo: SpaceX Along with SpaceX, the space company Blue Origin of billionaire Jeff Bezos is also expected to launch the first space travel flight in July. Previously, the four predecessor devices of the Starship SN15 ship ended in failure, broken to pieces in tests over the past five months. The most recent time in early March, the SN10, appeared to have landed safely but a fire suddenly erupted as soon as the ship touched the launch pad, causing it to explode into a fireball. A small flame also erupted at the base of the SN15 in the latest launch but was quickly extinguished. Video of Starship SN10 ship exploded after landing (source: videospace): SpaceX has learned a few lessons from other tough landings. And the SN15 has been revised with a slightly different look from the previous prototypes. “The SN15 has improvements in structures, avionics and software, and the engine will allow for increased speed and efficiency throughout production and flight: in particular, avionics. No new improvements, updated launch architecture and new Raptor engine design ”, a SpaceX representative wrote in the flight description on May 4. SpaceX is developing Starship to send people and goods to the Moon, Mars and other distant destinations. The system consists of two components, both of which are designed for fast and complete reuse. The two components are a spaceship called the Starship and a giant early stage booster booster called the Super Heavy. Both vehicles will be powered by SpaceX’s next-generation Raptor engine. SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said the Starship will have six Raptor engines. Although the SN15 was just a full-scale Starship prototype in height and width, it was powered by only three Raptor engines. Future test variants will be stronger, Musk said, and we will soon see these more powerful means of carrying out space missions. Musk aims to launch the Starship into orbit before the end of the year. Three Raptor engines of the SN15 missile in successful test. Photo: Space Starship SN15 ship when about to land. Photo: Space NASA’s Artemis moon exploration program recently selected Starship as a manned lunar lander Artemis aims to establish a lasting, enduring human presence on and around the Moon by the end of the 2020s. NASA officials say the knowledge and skills gained during SpaceX’s testing efforts. will help humanity reach Mars in the 2030s. Over the past few years, NASA has worked to achieve its goal of making a human landfall on the moon by the end of 2024, at the direction of former President Donald Trump. However, this timeline is expected to be relaxed under President Joe Biden.

According to Chronicles of Sima Qian, in 219 BC, Qin Shihuang, fearing death, assigned the body to seek the secret of immortality. Regrettably, the dream of the first Emperor to unify China did not come true. Later, oil king John Davison Rockefeller – considered the richest American of all time – became the first person to successfully extend life with six heart changes in 38 years. These are two of the many examples of human desire to become immortal. That desire is becoming more and more burning, and based on the reality and the achievements of current science and technology, one day, man’s immortal dream will come true … Technology that prolongs life For scientists, human immortality is also an area of ​​research that receives a lot of attention. Although negating the immortality hypothesis from some religious point of view, atheists maintain Albert Einstein’s theory of relative immortality. In addition, modern scientific achievements are gradually proving the concept of relative immortality of the individual through physical immortality and biological immortality, instead of the subconscious “having death becomes immortal”. Since the beginning of the 21st century, the development of life-prolonging intervention technology has made great progress. Sinclair, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, thinks we are witnessing new developments in technology and that one day all humans can live to be 150 years old .. In medicine, gene therapies have long been used to help people regenerate themselves and fight all diseases. The current achievements of gene implantation, reversing the aging process by enzyme and NAD, effects on chromosomes or stem cells … are still quite limited. While it is possible to maintain a person’s lifespan for up to 15%, or even longer, the distance to immortality is a long way to go. In contrast, studies such as Syncardia and Carmat artificial hearts that have just been approved for commercial use will make the human immortality process more and more realistic. This artificial heart possesses a structure similar to that of a human heart and can automatically adjust the rate of blood flow throughout the body. They can also be replaced in the face of depletion and self-adapting to the changing mechanisms of life. An artificial heart works similarly to a human heart Currently, 81 patients have received artificial heart transplants worldwide. Not only the artificial heart, the famous academic journal Nature recently selected the “Seven Major Aging Intervention Technologies,” including a β-nicotinamide derivative from the Harvard laboratory, which was put into experiment. Sinclair, who discovered how the substance works, revealed that there is an important coenzyme called NAD +, which is equivalent to the body’s energy production plant, but its content is not static and will decrease with age. This is the cause of problems like aging and depression. Scientists have discovered the β-nicotinamide derivative adds enzyme levels to longevity. However, the price barrier of β-nicotinamide is a major hurdle to address. The famous investment bank Bank of America Merrill Lynch forecasts that the global anti-aging industry has a huge potential market of up to $ 600 billion. Realize the immortal dream with technology Biological immortality from life-prolonging technology only helps people have a few decades of life expectancy, which is not the final destination of the human future. Now, the new achievements of artificial intelligence (AI) will open up a promising direction. The move from Elon Musk’s computer-brain research recently went beyond the experimental basis, showing that the line between humans and AI is almost broken. From the idea that was once thought to be crazy, the research achievements of Elon Musk and scientists were able to initially modify human limitations. The first trials have been effective in patients with polio, the next challenge that this project aims to be to break human limits … Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface opens the door to breaking human boundaries After brain-computer interfaces, gene editing, nano-robots or the advent of an artificial heart, the new achievements add new magical weapons to the realm of life-prolonging technology. The company’s most recent achievement Promobot has released a new robot model developed by artificial intelligence covered entirely with artificial leather. This robot can express more than 600 expressions by making eye, eyebrow, lip and body movements similar to a real person. If it is possible to combine with medical nanotechnology or cloning based on cloning techniques, create living individuals with genetically identical multicellular structure using metamaterial metamaterials, at the same time In terms of human intelligence, consciousness, and memory, such as the Avatar Project (or Project of Life) by tycoon Dmitry Itskov, that’s when people can literally become immortal and dream “wisdom. “artificial intelligence” will become a reality. Some futurists say that before our bodies can achieve immortality, we can fully connect our thoughts with the mechanical world, and we will live well in the cloud. Even a Swedish funeral company has been looking for volunteers to allow deceased loved ones to be tested in hopes of creating robotic copies of their loved ones. In the near future, humans will be able to store their consciousness on hardware, meaning the portal to digital immortality has opened up.

The big reason for this sharp increase is believed to be the appearance of Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Saturday Night Live, which will take place at dawn 9/5 Vietnam time. Will Musk take Dogecoin soaring? Many people waiting for Musk, which has been publicly supporting Dogecoin for a long time, will mention the cryptocurrency right in the show with millions of viewers across the United States. “Everything will depend on what Elon Musk does, what he says. Everyone will look at the phone while watching the program to keep up with the latest developments,” said Alma Cortez, an investor in Dogecoin. Bloomberg. She said she would invite friends over to watch the show featuring Elon Musk. Elon Musk regularly mentions Dogecoin on his personal page. Photo: Reddit. On the morning of May 8, Elon Musk personally posted a photo of him and two other Saturday Night Live guests on Twitter. Musk also inserted a photo of the dog Shibu, the symbol of the Dogecoin, in the frame. Soon after, the Dogecoin price surged and hit a historic high of $ 0.72 before cooling off. Just a day ago, Musk posted a video on Twitter saying “Cryptocurrency has great potential, but invest with caution”. There is no shortage of stories about Dogecoin investors profiting from this coin. Due to its very small value, only around $ 0.001 to $ 0.003 throughout 2020, investors can own hundreds of thousands of Dogecoins with just under $ 1,000. Elon Musk posted a photo with the guests of Saturday Night Live, and added a picture of Shiba, the Dogecoin symbol. Photo: Elon Musk. Dogecoin’s hot growth is in large part thanks to Elon Musk’s cheers. He repeatedly posted on Twitter cheering for the coin, arguing it would “go to the moon,” a term for the crypto’s skyrocket. Many investors have been waiting for Musk’s television appearance to keep Dogecoin going. With Dogecoin, many experts believe that emotions will contribute the largest to the value of money, not fundamental analysis or technical analysis. “I will trade on the expectation of the arrival of Elon Musk. Whatever he says, people will surely be disappointed by the words that will not be compared with current expectations for Dogecoin,” Yosef Adelman, marketing specialist and Dogecoin investor since 2019, said. Criticized, Dogecoin still surged In the world of cryptocurrencies, Dogecoin is considered a joke since there is no app attached, nor an unlimited number of it can be created. Programmers Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer created this coin by copying the Bitcoin source code, searching for “Bitcoin” and replacing it with “Dogecoin”. It took him just one afternoon to create Dogecoin, Billy Markus said. However, the value of this currency has increased sharply in the past 6 months. According to the CNBC Dogecoin has risen 2,500 times in just half a year, reaching a market cap of $ 86 billion, ranking 4th in the market. This cryptocurrency has increased in price thousands of times in the past half year. Photo: Coinmarketcap. During the same period, the S&P stock index rose 19%, and Tesla shares rose $ 56. Cryptocurrencies Bitcoin and Etherum rose 3 and 7 times, much lower than Dogecoin. “This time, Wall Street is falling. We are seeing young people on TikTok investing much higher returns than the smartest financial investors,” said Mati Greenspan, manager of Quantum Economics. review. “The best part of Dogecoin is honesty. Unlike many other crypto projects, it doesn’t have a grand vision or world-changing claim,” said Galaxy researchers Alex Thorn and Karim Helmy. prefer. Dogecoin’s growth leads to many strange situations. Shares of Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the US, fell to a May 6 low because the company does not support trading of less guaranteed coins like Dogecoin. Meanwhile, trading app Robinhood that supports Dogecoin has climbed to the top of the App Store rankings in the US. In addition to having no background value, many crypto experts warn that the Dogecoin source code has long been out of date. “There are a lot of question marks around Dogecoin’s software problem. Then there will come a time when the software must be updated. If Dogecoin is really valuable and people can monetize the applications on it, someone else will. Get in right now, “commented Konstantin Richter, CEO of blockchain platform Blockdaemon.

The importance of Chinese mining farms is evident in the accident at a coal mine in Xinjiang. This incident caused nearly a third of the world’s crypto mining network to be interrupted over the weekend. Bitcoin price has also plummeted since April 18 and there is no sign of recovery. The incident caused Bitcoin’s mining capacity to decline According to the Fortune A coal mine in Ho Do Bich district, Xinjiang was overflowed, trapping 21 workers inside on April 11. The workers were then rescued. A week later, the coal mine is still shut down to check the safety of workers, so it is not able to supply enough fuel for power plants in the region. The coal mine incident in Xinjiang left more than 20 workers trapped. Photo: AP. This causes Bitcoin mining farms, which consume huge amounts of electricity, to stop working. At the end of the following week, April 17-18, the capacity of the global Bitcoin network dramatically plummeted. Bitcoin’s difficulty to “mine”, calculated as the total algorithmic capacity (also known as hashrate) of the computers on the network, has dropped sharply from over 160 EH / s to around 130 EH / s. By the morning of April 23, this number was still around 133 EH / s. Before the incident, experts all considered China to play an important role in the Bitcoin mining network. However, the flood showed that almost all the miners in Xinjiang are located in Ho Do Bich district and surrounding areas, depending on the fuel source of the same coal mine. “This accident confirmed the predictions, possibly even confirming that the mining capital in Xinjiang is much smaller than previously thought. It shows China’s dominance in Bitcoin mining. , and concerns about security, “said Alex de Vries, an economist specializing in tracking the use of Bitcoin mining energy. Inner Mongolia, China, has banned Bitcoin mining since May to minimize the environmental impact. Photo: Getty. The incident also showed that the energy source for Bitcoin mining still mainly comes from coal. Not only in China, in many regions in the US such as New York state or Kentucky, mining farm owners also take advantage of old factories to get cheap electricity. This is Bitcoin’s danger to the environment. The bad side of Bitcoin “Carbon footprint”, the term for the amount of CO2 emitted when mining Bitcoin is about to exceed the emissions of the whole country of Australia and greater than the technology giants like Facebook, Google or Microsoft combined. The negative impact on the environment is the ugly face of Bitcoin. In addition to Xinjiang, Bitcoin is also banned from mining in Inner Mongolia, China from May to here because of environmental impact. It is also the region that contributes about 4% of the world’s Bitcoin mining capacity. Of course, there are Bitcoin farms that use renewable energy as well. However, this power source is considered to be unstable, difficult to ensure that it runs 24/7. “Miners often do not like renewable energy because they are difficult to guarantee to run 24 hours a day. Green energy is not suitable for Bitcoin,” said de Vries. Much of Bitcoin is mined on farms in China. Photo: Bloomberg. In the Bitcoin mining game, miners need to take full advantage, because only those who complete the first series of computations will be rewarded with Bitcoin. The number of miners joining the network more and more, so the reward received Bitcoin is less and less. Miners therefore need the machine to run continuously. Mr. de Vries said that about 70% of Bitcoin created using fossil energy, of which the majority is coal. Bitcoin’s price increase almost 6 times in the past 7 months has caused more and more miners to enter the game. The total amount of electricity that the Bitcoin mining network uses is about 2% of the US, and 10% of Russia’s electricity. The numbers all point to Bitcoin’s environmental impact. However, this ugly truth seems to have been ignored by celebrities like Elon Musk in praising Bitcoin.

The Boring Company tunnel is said to be the solution to solving the problem of traffic congestion in the future. The first tunnel about to open is nearly 1.3 km long with 3 stops, can carry 4,400 passengers per hour. Because the length of the tunnel is quite short, the speed of the Tesla operation will be limited to about 56-64 km / h and still have to have a driver behind the wheel, not activated in autonomous mode. It is expected that until the end of this year, Tesla electric cars will be allowed to use Autopilot mode when operating underneath the tunnel. The commissioning of the first underground tunnel system is clearly the important step forward for The Boring Company, to realize their ambition to revolutionize the way people move in the future. hybrid. When there are many active tunnels, a network of underground traffic will form. On the ground there will be stations to bring Tesla cars underground. Then, just turn on autonomous mode and the Tesla car can drive itself to the desired location below the tunnel and be brought back to the ground by the elevator.

With headquarters in London, UK, the OneWeb company intends to deploy a total of more than 650 satellites in the lower orbit of the Earth, in order to provide users on the ground with high-speed Internet 24 hours a day. day through contact satellites. The company is also competing with billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos in the race to cover high-speed internet via satellite to anywhere in the world, especially in remote areas. This is the third time the Russian side has launched the OneWeb satellite beam into Earth orbit after the previous two missions took place in December 2020 and March respectively at Vostochny space airport with 36 satellites per launch. The first six satellites of OneWeb were launched from the Guiana launch site in France in February 2019, and last year, the company launched 68 more satellites from Baikonur launch site, Kazakhstan.

On April 19, a woman who claimed to be a Tesla customer climbed onto the roof of a Tesla car at a Shanghai auto show. She wears a T-shirt with the words “brake not working”. Tesla car owners in China have been complaining about brakes on social media for months. The Shanghai police identified the woman named Zhang and said she was sentenced to 5 days in prison for disturbing public order. Tesla is constantly in trouble in the Chinese market. Photo: Reuters. The three lessons of Tesla Tesla accused the woman of being involved in a “speed violation” collision in February. During two months of negotiations, she refused to have a third party inspect it but demanded a refund for the car. Reply to the magazine Caijing Tesla China Vice President Tao Lin revealed that the woman was demanding high compensation and the company had no reason to pay. In a post on Weibo, Tesla claims not to compromise with “unreasonable requests”. After that, state media and government agencies quickly reprimanded Tesla. State news agencies publish a series of editorials. The Chinese government’s Central Disciplinary Committee also issued a warning statement. An article titled “Three Lessons Tesla must learn” advised the American electric car maker to respect the Chinese consumer market. “The arrogant and bossy attitude that the company shows in public is deplorable and unacceptable. This could seriously damage the company’s reputation and customer base in the Chinese market, “said the report. The Hoan Cau Times criticize. Tesla apologized for failing to promptly address the vehicle owner’s problems. The billion-dollar country is an important market for Tesla. Photo: Reuters. In posts on Weibo, Tesla said it was “ready to cooperate with the authorities”. The company claims to “self-check and fix to fix” problems in the customer service process. Tesla expanded its market share to 1.4 billion people over the past two years. With the support of the Beijing government, Tesla built a large factory in Shanghai in 2019. Last year, Model 3 cars produced at this factory began to be delivered to customers. Tesla’s sales in China have more than doubled by 2020. The Model 3 is the best-selling electric vehicle in the billion-population market. Tighten control CEO Elon Musk even met Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in 2019. But success always comes with attention, especially as Chinese homegrown companies are looking for a foothold in the market. This country’s electric car school. China’s favorable policies for the electric car industry spurred the birth of startups like Nio and Xpeng Motors. These businesses did not hide their ambition to compete with Tesla, although sales were still far behind. “The leading company brings a lot of benefits to China. But when that company dominates the market, it no longer benefits Beijing,” said Bill Russo, founder and CEO of private companies. Investment, Automobility Limited, commented. Companies like Daimler’s Volkswagen and Mercedes have been under similar scrutiny in the past, he said. The leading company brings many benefits to China. But when that company dominates the market, it no longer benefits Beijing Bill Russo, CEO of Automobility Limited Negative news about Tesla has increased in China over the past months. In early 2021, a Tesla Model 3 is believed to have exploded in a Shanghai garage. According to a post in state media, there are at least 10 reports in 2020 of Tesla drivers being unable to control the vehicle. On April 13, on Dongjiang Avenue (Guangzhou), a Tesla caught fire after colliding with a roadblock and another vehicle, leading to the death of a passenger. After the incident, some Tesla owners said they were prevented from driving on highways. Chinese police appear to be blocking all Tesla vehicles from running on the highway because of safety concerns. On March 19, the news agency Bloomberg citing some sources about the Chinese military’s claim that omnidirectional cameras and ultrasonic sensors on Tesla vehicles could reveal the location. A Twitter account posted a picture with the caption: “In Guangzhou, #Tesla trams are not allowed to travel on highways”. Photo: Twitter. Therefore, the ban on the company’s vehicles to ensure the security of military information. All Tesla car users were required to park outside military complexes. In February, the China Market Administration (SAMR) met with Tesla’s subsidiaries to discuss vehicle quality. The agency’s statement on April 21 showed that they were very concerned about the incident at the Shanghai auto show. SAMR also directs local regulators to strengthen the protection of consumers’ interests. Billionaire Musk is looking for a way. In March, in an interview with state television CCTV China’s future “is going to be great,” he said, and that the country is “the biggest market” for Tesla.

SpaceX denied claims that the Starlink and OneWeb satellites almost collided In a filing submitted to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) after a meeting between representatives of SpaceX, OneWeb and FCC, SpaceX said that, in fact, the probability of a collision never exceeds the allowed threshold and the satellite will not be able to collide even if it is active. They have also corrected records regarding recent press releases regarding the physical coordination between SpaceX and OneWeb. Meeting between the parties took place the day after the flyer The Wall Street Journal published an article titled “Elon Musk’s satellite Internet project is too risky,” in which OneWeb made allegations that the Starlink satellites had approached other satellites alarmingly two. times in the past two years, including the last which took place on April 2, when a satellite Starlink Send a request to a OneWeb satellite to take collision avoidance measures. Sheet The Wall Street Journal quoted Chris McLaughlin, OneWeb’s director of legal and government relations, saying, “While working with OneWeb, SpaceX disabled the automated collision avoidance system supported by artificial intelligence (AI) to allow OneWeb to steer its satellite away from other satellites. It is unclear exactly why SpaceX disables the collision avoidance system when the Starlink satellite is within 57 meters from the opponent’s satellite. SpaceX has not yet commented on this issue. In a filing filed with the FCC on April 21, SpaceX said: “OneWeb recently made clear and inaccurate statements to the media about recent coordination. Specifically, Mr. McLaughlin of OneWeb told the newspaper Wall Street Journal that SpaceX has powered off the automatic satellite collision avoidance system. In reality, however, SpaceX and OneWeb have worked well together on a technical level. And OneWeb itself has asked SpaceX to temporarily turn off the AI ​​system to allow them to control the satellite as agreed by the parties. SpaceX’s automatic collision avoidance system has been and still works well at all times. According to SpaceX, OneWeb admitted wrongly and offered to withdraw its false statements during the meeting with SpaceX and FCC. SpaceX expressed its disappointment to the FCC that OneWeb officials chose to make public false information about the coordination’s plight. Successful coordination depends on trust and transparency among satellite operators. Also in the filing to the FCC, SpaceX confirmed that the possibility of collisions between satellites is very small. Other data also showed that “probability of collisions between satellites is below the permitted threshold and continues to decrease”. OneWeb launched satellite launch operations on April 3, and the satellites are eventually more than 1,000 meters apart. The probability of a collision happening is extremely small. Phan Van Hoa (According to Arstechnica)