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Gossip about Gossip: How Platforms Provide Content Creators with Cryptocurrency Payment
In the rapidly growing world of cryptocurrency, getting paid for certain types of content via the digital medium is a lot more layered than meets the eye. According to Cointelegraph, the COVID-19 pandemic has heightened crypto payments as there was an increase of these payments. As content creators use various web platforms to promote and […]
Gossip About Gossip: How Aberdeen Plans to Tokenize Investment Funds on Hedera
Private equity investments are often regarded as higher risk profiles than any other asset classes. Because of liquidity concerns and higher barriers of entry, everyday individual investors are steered away from alternative asset classes like private equity. That’s where fractionalization of large-scale investments through blockchain and DLT technology provides accessibility and privacy among individual investors. […]
Using HIP to Improve Hedera Hashgraph
The Hedera Improvement Proposal (HIP) is a process established to help developers formulate new ideas and improvements within Hedera Hashgraph. According to InfoQ, workplace feedback helps boost efficiency. The method allows the development team’s members to submit their suggestions and receive constructive criticism and opinions from fellow developers. HIP allows Hedera to have an orderly […]
Wavelengths: Has Federal Funding Solved Rural Broadband Connectivity Issues?
The availability of broadband in rural areas remains a big area of concern. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has seemingly addressed the issue by providing funding through RDOF, or the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund, but the initiative isn’t exactly foolproof. In this new episode of Wavelengths, an Amphenol Broadband podcast, host Daniel Litwin chatted with […]
Wavelengths: Beyond RDOF—A Look at Government-Funded Broadband Programs
The Biden administration’s ten-year plan to deliver high-speed internet access across rural America is already off to a head start with the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund(RDOF).Wavelengths’Daniel J. Litwin and Diana Goovaerts, Senior Editor of Fierce Wireless/Fierce Telecom, spoke about other government-funded programs that are available to make broadband a reality for all. With phase one […]
Marking Minute: How Do Our Products Fit in the RDOF and Utility Infrastructure Bill
Trident family hassolutions to assist theRDOF and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Actinitiatives. KEY POINTS: Remote work & education needs accelerate rural broadband access advocacy. Trident Solutions’ products play a critical role in protecting and identifying utility assets. The Clean Water and Drinking Fund appropriated $15B into lead service lines and replacements. The Rural Digital Opportunity Fund, or RDOF, enacted in 2019, provides $20.4 […]
Better Broadband with Clearfield: The Current State of Rural Broadband
We know broadband is expanding, even in rural areas. It can be difficult, however, to know exactly how much it’s expanding and how customers are getting access. The NRTC commissioned a Broadband Benchmarking Report to learn just that. Among other things, they found that consumers certainly are eager to buy broadband services, especially in rural […]
Better Broadband: How Telecommunications and Electric Companies Are Teaming Up To Get Broadband to Rural America
Delivering broadband to rural areas may not be an easy task, but it’s an important one – and one that broadband companies are increasingly eager to tackle. Those companies may be accustomed to planning on their own, but, working hand-in-hand with electric companies, especially those like co-ops that thrive in rural markets, can lead to […]
How Might Drones Be Used to Expand Highspeed Internet?
Both pilots and companies are navigating a thin line between security and innovation. Host Grant Guillot talks with leaders, influencers, and experts across the drone industry to guide us through the complex web of technology and policy in the United States. Drones in America host Grant Guillot has discussed the promises drone technology brings us in the quest […]
Fiberside Chat by 3-GIS: What Will the Telecommunications Industry Look Like Post-Pandemic?
3-GIS had a pandemic policy ready, but it did not expect to have to use it. After the SARS-CoV-1 coronavirus crisis in the early 2000s, 3-GIS CEO Tom Counts thought it was important to draw up some regulations. Even as prepared as 3-GIS was, however, there still were plenty of things they had to […]