Members of East Africa Community Explore Potential Use of CBDC for Alternative Regional Payment System
Six East African states are reportedly set to explore the possibility of using central bank digital currencies (CBDC) as an alternative to their shared payment system. The six countries, which are all members of the East Africa Community (EAC) trading bloc, are hoping this alternative will create a pathway that leads to the attainment of “a single currency for the region by 2024.” The Moribund EAPS The revelations of the EAC’s digital...
Elon Musk Agrees With Vitalik Buterin on Dogecoin and Ethereum Collaboration
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he “pretty much” agrees with Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin about a collaboration between Dogecoin and Ethereum. Buterin said: “if we can have a secure Doge-to-Ethereum bridge. That would be amazing.” Vitalik Buterin Talks About Dogecoin and Ethereum Bridge, Elon Musk Agrees Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin talked about a potential collaboration between Ethereum and Dogecoin in an interview with AI...
Why is Verizon Blocking Pirate Sites Such as NYAA and Mangadex?
A week ago, complaints started pouring in that Verizon is actively blocking pirate sites. The issue was widely discussed on social media as well, where some suggested that pirate site blocking has officially arrived in the US. At first sight, it indeed seems this way. Popular sites such as NYAA and Mangadex are unreachable. The same applies to Kemono.party and many others. Users who try to access the sites get an error message in...
What happens when you terminate Kubernetes containers on purpose?
In this series celebrating Kubernetes’ 11th birthday, I’ve introduced some great tools for chaos engineering. In the first article, I explained what chaos engineering is, and in the second, I demonstrated how to get your system’s steady state so that you can compare it against a chaos state. read more Powered by...
Making portable functions across serverless platforms
The rising popularity of serverless development alongside the increased adoption of multi- and hybrid-cloud architectures has created a lot of competition among platforms. This gives developers many choices about where they can run functions on serverless platforms—from public managed services to on-premises Kubernetes. read more Powered by...
