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Liverpool City Council in England plans to implement blockchain technology by the end of 2020 to reduce carbon footprint by about 40%.

Vitalik Buterin, the inventor of the world’s second-largest digital currency Ethereum, started the discussion of the Rothschild family on his Twitter page. He was curious whether the super-rich family has actually been influencing the history of the world and manipulating the financial market.

iGaming is becoming more popular than ever as the size of the gambling market doubles from $25 billion in 2011 to $50 billion by 2018, they are expected to grow up to $60 billion by 2020. Betting from the comfort of your own home has many advantages as people can avoid the high costs of casinos and enjoy a comfortable experience from their couch or in their bed.

Government and non-government banking institutions around the world have started to look into blockchain technology. Chinese representatives of the financial market can’t stay aside, with retail giant Suning developing a blockchain-based program for recording clients with bad credit history.

Also in the 19th century, police visited prisons and inspected prisoners to remember their faces and appearance. This was, perhaps, the first time of legal surveillance of something or anyone in the history.

When businesses look for new employees they will often get a slew of candidates vying for whatever job opportunity it is they have made available. Ideally, the firm wants to pick the most qualified of these candidates, i.e., the ones that they deem to be the most suited for the job.

Today, the crypto market is full of stories where simple investment in the right token has made people richer beyond what they ever would be if dealing in fiat. Profits from cryptocurrencies are the highest of any trading item in history. Return on investment for early backing of a good coin results in thousands of percent. This has led to more and more people taking interest in crypto money.

Buying & selling art is a big business worth billions of dollars. One can easily read in the news how a billionaire bought paintings from iconic artists like Goya or Michelangelo or even Da Vinci for hundreds of millions of dollars. Apart from these big spends, there is plenty of interest for smaller, more recent painters as well who display their incredible talent using brush and paints. Art for many is not just a status symbol but a piece of history that is priceless on its own.

According to World Bank and World Health Organization, half of the world lacks access to essential health services and 100 million people are pushed into extreme poverty because of health expenses. It is often difficult to get access to healthcare while traveling abroad. It is always a difficult and tedious process to get an accurate patient history. Medical research takes a painfully long time to make it through the approval process and into actual practice in hospitals.