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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 6, 2024?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Apple announced a surprising partnership with Microsoft in 1977, NASA's Curiosity landed on Mars in 2012, Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Bitcoin: How The King Kong of Currency Is Shifting Power To The People to We Need to Go Beyond Tokens to Unlock Blockchain’s Financial Revolution, Says Cosmos’ Ethan Buchman, let’s dive right in.


The Market Today

#01 Instagram (Meta)
$475.73 +5.12%
#02 Microsoft
$395.15 +1.51%
#04 ThoughtWorks
$4.31 +0.93%
#18 Amazon
$161.02 +4.23%
#01 Bitcoin
$56257.41 +4.14%

web3

We Need to Go Beyond Tokens to Unlock Blockchain’s Financial Revolution, Says Cosmos’ Ethan Buchman

TL;DR During EthCC, Ethan Buchman of Cosmos discusses blockchains potential to create sustainable, inclusive financial systems with his project Cycles at EthCC.

By @terezabizkova [ 6 Min read ]

I've spent a lot of time thinking about this and trying not to be naive. I still believe in the importance of local currencies, local economies, empowering local businesses, and getting money flowing in communities. The challenge is scaling that.

Simply put, we need to respect the graph...

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machine-learning

Join the #AI-Chatbot Writing Contest and Compete for Over $7000 in Prizes

TL;DR Join the #AI-chatbot writing contest on HackerNoon! Explore Cozes no-code AI-agent building platform, share your experiences, and win up to $6500 in prizes.

By @hackernooncontests [ 3 Min read ]

‘Tis the season of AI, and it looks like it’s going to be that way for a while as the industry grows and new use cases for the vanguard technology pop up.

No programming experience? No problem!

Coze is a no-code platform, so anyone can participate and win big...

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business

Clear and Honest: The Benefits of Transparent Pricing in SaaS

TL;DR A whopping 55% of SaaS vendors hide their pricing. This lack of transparency frustrates customers and ultimately hurts businesses.

By @deborahoyewole [ 10 Min read ]

Have you experienced this before?

You need a particular software.

You checked out the website, and right on the pricing page…

Only to see… contact the sales team for a quote.

Another scenario…

Imagine trying to buy a car without knowing the price.

Source

Source: Twitter..

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startups

Galvanize 100k+ Startups with HackerNoon Startups of the Year Awards

TL;DR HackerNoon’s Startups of the Year 2024 is just around the corner, and this year, we are going nuclear! 100k+ startups, 5k+ cities, 100+ industries.

By @hackmarketing [ 2 Min read ]

The AD slots are now available with multiple options — you can target a specific tech niche, a demographic region, or both. Need more details? Book a Meeting with Us!

Sponsors in the previous iterations were Radix, Brex, Udacity, Udemy, Vercel, LaunchDarkly, FreeCodeCamp, and others...

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web3

Bitcoin: How The King Kong of Currency Is Shifting Power To The People

TL;DR Bitcoin offers a decentralized and secure financial system that can help individuals and communities protect wealth from government control, inflation, etc.

By @hacker3798415 [ 9 Min read ]

Fun Fact:

Only 1.1% of the total cryptocurrency volume is deemed to be illicit.

Money laundering costs the global economy between $800 billion and $2 trillion per year, according to the UN.

Annual total transaction volume on the Bitcoin blockchain in 2023 was approximately $16 billion.

[Musical Interlude]…..

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On This Day

Apple announced a surprising partnership with Microsoft

The partnership announcement, met by cheers and boos was made at MacWorld Expo in Boston. It involved Microsoft investing $150 million in Apple in exchange for non-voting shares, Microsoft developing its Office software for Mac for the next five years, and Apple agreeing to make Internet Explorer the default web...

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