About Efforce Efforce is a marketplace for decentralized and democratized funding for energy efficiency efforts including trading energy-saving credits. The platform, co-founded in 2018 by Jacopo Visetti, Jacopo Vanetti, and Ken Hardesty, among others, and is currently based in Malta, EU. It uses blockchain to bring together three distinct but important players in the energy efficiency marketplace: Beneficiaries – these are the economic entities that directly benefit from projects financed through Efforce....

The easiest way to address this issue is to place a .REG file on the user’s desktop, start menu, or taskbar. To create a .REG file, start the Notepad application, and just add a few lines of code. Here is an example of what that file may look like. The value of 00000000 disables this setting while the value of 00000001 enables the setting. The first line of this file will depend on the operating system your user is using....

The presence of ETC bulls has been felt in the last seven days, during which Ethereum Classic’s price has delivered strong upward momentum marking an end to weeks of trading in a consolidation phase. Consequently, Ethereum Classic, the inheritor of the original Ethereum blockchain, has gained 51.34% in the last seven days, trading at $22.51 by press time, according to CoinMarketCap data. Whatsmore, ETC ranks third among best-performing cryptocurrencies in the last seven days behind Lido DAO (151....

Indeed, the inventor of Ethereum has stressed the importance of the Merge upgrade, which marks the network’s transition from the Proof-of-Work (PoW) to the Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus mechanism, in a tweet published on September 15. As Buterin explained: In his tweet, he was directly quoting Justin Drake, a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, who made the claim at a live stream of the event. Decreasing electricity consumption on the network and worldwide Moreover, the non-profit organization dedicated to supporting Ethereum and related technologies also stated on the Merge webpage, last updated on September 15: After the Merge, the total energy consumed by Ethereum to secure the network now amounts to nearly 0....

However, following the collapse of the Terraform Labs ecosystem in May, DeFi blockchains were severely affected by the ensuing crypto bear market, which followed as the downtrend escalated owing to the direct impact of cryptocurrency prices. In particular, Ethereum’s (ETH) total value locked in DeFi shrank by 35% in May to $73 billion amid the bearish market sentiment around Terra’s crash, according to data from a DappRadar report shared with Finbold on June 8....

The addition of the two assets was confirmed by eToro’s Vice President of Business Solutions, Doron Rosenblum. This brings eToro’s crypto offering to 18 cryptocurrencies. By press time, Chainlink was the 12 highest digital asset with a market capitalization of $15 billion, while Uniswap ranks 11th with a market cap of $15.8 billion. Increasing institutional investors interest in crypto According to Rosenblum, the addition of more assets is inspired by the increasing value of the cryptocurrency sector....

The criminal group had maintained a parallel banking system for criminals, laundering hundreds of millions of dollars in drug money, according to a statement released by Europol on May 5: Indeed, the suspects are thought to have operated a shadow banking system that conducted illicit transactions worth several hundred million euros while remaining completely separated from any control systems overseeing the legitimate financial system. How many were involved with the money laundering In particular, three German citizens were arrested by Spanish police in Malaga on suspicion of creating a shadow banking system that processed unlawful transactions outside of the oversight of the normal financial system....

The commission is probing alleged violation of competition laws when the company linked Facebook Marketplace to its social network. The EU contends that the decision disadvantages smaller competitors. The Facebook Marketplace is facing competition from other companies that advertise with the social media platform. The probe will determine if Facebook uses insights from such advertisers to gain an edge on the Facebook Marketplace platform, which violates EU laws. She noted that the focus would be on Facebook’s use of collected data to target potential customers....

Speaking to TD Ameritrade Network, Sears indicated that measures like the low-interest rate environment pushed investors to explore the risk curve, but fortunes could change with the Fed set to increase rates in 2022. According to Sear, investors might approach the market with caution once the Fed completely withdraws support. He noted amid the expected tapering; the stock market appears to be reacting well with the futures rising; however, he called for caution....

Through his Twitter account, Timmer stated that the focus should be on Bitcoin’s network and not the price, while stressing that the recent criticism was ‘mostly noise.’ Specifically, the Director singled out Bitcoin’s demand curve that has continued to rise after previous comparisons to mobile phone subscriptions and internet adoption under the S-curve. Bitcoin and AAPL dictated by their networks However, according to Timmer, Bitcoin’s price targets now lie in a similar regression curve to Apple’s growth from around 1990....

Following in the footsteps of its fast-food chain competitor McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD) decision to explore the Metaverse ​​Yum! Brands, the owner of Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), has submitted multiple trademark applications for non-fungible tokens (NFT) and metaverse products and services. According to metaverse trademark attorney Michael Kondoudis who tweeted on March 20, the applications were filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office on March 25, 2022, signaling plans to expand these brands into NFTs and virtual products and services, including virtual food and beverage products, retail services, and online virtual restaurants....

Factors like the resurgence of the greenback, along with aggressive posturing and moves by the Federal Reserve (Fed) in raising interest rates, have weighed heavily on the price of non-yield-bearing assets such as gold and silver. Thus, gold and silver miners have not had a great year, as Boris Schlossberg, Managing Editor at 60secondinvestor, pointed out on Twitter on August 21, showing that there has not been a worse investment than the gold miners, often represented by the VanEck Vectors Gold Miners ETF (NYSEARCA: GDX) and silver miners, represented by Global X Silver Miners ETF (NYSEARCA: SIL) as compared to the S&P 500 over the past two years....

The report says all 25 applications send Stolen Facebook credentials to a central server and seem to be from a single developer. Some of them have hundreds of thousands of downloads and several users have complained about them in user reviews. How Facebook credentials get stolen The malware responsible for stealing Facebook credentials launches a browser that opens Facebook whenever a user tries to launch a Facebook application. The browser appears on top which makes the user believe it is the application they launched....

This move seems to be timely as Ford did not show great numbers in their latest earnings report. Namely, the company’s truck sales fell 34% year-on-year (YoY), car sales were down 67% YoY, however, EV sales were up 16.9% YoY. Shipments also decreased for Ford while revenues per car increased by 7.2% which is a positive takeaway from the report. Stock performance and analysts’ predictions The stock is not performing all that well, since the earnings announcement shares have been trading lower....

Indeed, Hong Kong’s regulators are mulling permitting retail investors to directly participate in investing in digital assets as they assume a separate stance from that of the government of mainland China, South China Morning Post reported on October 17. According to the report, the possible shift in attitude is taking place amid an exodus of financial technology talent from Hong Kong that is eroding the territory’s status as a crypto industry hub, much to the advantage of Singapore as its main competitor....

How do you ask someone to follow you on Instagram? This is a common question that can have many answers because there is no one answer. Before you work hard on asking multiple people to start following, you must have an excellent account that people will find helpful to follow. If you are new to Instagram, getting more followers without engaging with people can be challenging. Therefore, you may need to ask someone to follow you directly....

You’re in the right place if you want to learn how to use different Reddit themes. The article will address the steps to switching from one color display to another. Reddit Themes Captivating stories and comments on Reddit keep us up past midnight. Although it’s interesting to mindlessly scroll through these stories and get a laugh or two, the whiteness emanating from our screens makes the scrolling unbearable. Reddit did not design Reddit’s default display for nighttime scrolling....

Cropping is a great way to change a photo’s composition and focus on a particular element. It can also be used to create fun and unique shapes. So, how can you crop an image on Instagram? With the steps above, you’re good to go. However, there’s more you need to know about cropping photos on Instagram. In this blog post, we’ll show you how to crop on Instagram using the crop tool in the app....

If creating a video, you have the option of recording the video. The good news is that Instagram introduced the hands-free feature where you no longer have to hold the record button when recording your videos. If you don’t know what the hands-free feature means on Instagram or don’t know how to use it, this guide got your back. We will discuss what hands-free means on Instagram and how you can use it for your Instagram Story....

However, if the person’s phone number is not on your contact list, it’s impossible to get the person’s number unless stated on their bio or given to you in private. You can visit websites to extract a person’s number, but those are illegal and could be considered a crime in some states. This article will go over these methods on how you can get a person’s number from Instagram....