Nothing’s Cheaper Than Proof-Of-Work Consensus – Bitcoin Magazine

This is a transcribed excerpt of the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, hosted by P and Q. In this episode, they are joined by Paul Sztorc to break down why all roads lead to proof-of-work and how proof-of-stake protocols are fooling themselves by thinking that proof-of-stake technology can stay decentralized and secure.

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P: Start by defining at a high level what we mean when we say proof-of-work versus proof-of-stake. How would you define proof-of-work and how would you define proof-of-stake?

Paul Sztorc: It's fine because its the point of my article. Proof-of-work is you do this one type of computation over and over again. So your computer is working very hard. There's no other way to do it, it's just based on quantity. How many times can you do this SHA256 hash? You're doing it really fast, and every two weeks the bottom performers are fired. So basically, since you are just doing a computation a lot, it comes down to the electricity you spend, the money you spend on hardware, physical chips, the money you pump in to cool the chips, and it's basically like you're running your computer, you're making your computer work really hard.

This doesn't happen so much anymore, but in the olden days, you would be using your computer and it would just make little sounds, but then if you fired up a game something that was intensive the fan would go crazy and it would start to make more noise because the computers working really hard. So that's the work; that poor computer is working really hard instead of doing nothing or only working when you ask it to. It's going 100% trying to just churn out as much as possible.

In proof-of-stake, the idea is in the reality of the cryptosystem, in the reality of the blockchain or in the reality of the coin, in that reality of the full node software, it knows somehow which is part of the problem, this somehow but it knows who has which coins and it also knows who stakes which coins. These people put the coins into a sort of hazardous state, a hazardous box. They stake the coins. They say, I buy in with a certain amount, and then they join this what would be class of miners in their world.

They have a certain amount of coins staked and then there's a complicated lottery system. There are many variants, but in general, it's like the more money you stake, the more likely you are to be chosen. When you're chosen, you have the ability to create the next block and then create the reward because you get a shot of that $10 billion.

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Popular Crypto Analyst Pinpoints Window for Bitcoin (BTC) Bottom, Claims Ethereum (ETH) Is Meeting Resistance – The Daily Hodl

A widely followed crypto trader is looking at historical Bitcoin (BTC) bull markets to carve out a window for the bear market bottom.

Pseudonymous digital assets analyst Rekt Capitaltellstheir 329,000 Twitter followers that it has been over 300 days since the BTCs November 2021 peak.

When BTC peaked in the 2013 Bull Market, it took BTC 413 days to bottom.

When BTC peaked in 2017, it took BTC 364 days to bottom.

Its been 333 days since the November 2021 peak.

These figures suggest a BTC bottom should take place in the next 1-3 months.

Digging into the charts, Rekt Capitalclaimsthe king crypto is currently at a sustained resistance level.

BTC is right back at this multi-month resistance.

Bitcoin is trading for $20,000 on the dot at time of writing. The largest crypto by market cap is down 71% from its November 2021 all-time high of $69,000.

Rekt Capital also looks at the leading smart contract platform and second-largest crypto by market cap, Ethereum (ETH). Just like BTC, RektseesEthereum as currently at a crossroads of resistance.

Blue circle shows that ETH is at the orange resistance, which once before figured as strong support

If ETH is able to reclaim the top of the orange box as support, then a move to the black Lower High could be on the cards

Until then, ETH is at resistance.

ETH is trading for $1,360 at time of writing, down 72% from its November 2021 all-time high of $4,878.

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Sphere 3D Corp. Provides Bitcoin Production and Mining Updates for September 2022 – Yahoo Finance

The Company's production capacity is set to grow by 400% with the installation and activation of 2,946 miners released from U.S. Customs

Production for the month totaled 11.06 Bitcoin

Total Bitcoin holdings were 78.06

Operations achieved 122 BTC/EH efficiency

Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - October 6, 2022) - Sphere 3D Corp. (Nasdaq: ANY) ("Sphere 3D" or the "Company"), dedicated to becoming the leading carbon-neutral Bitcoin mining company operating at an industrial scale, provides results of its Bitcoin mining operation as of September 30, 2022.

CEO Comments

"Sphere 3D made great progress in September. As previously mentioned, we successfully secured the release of all our S19j Pros from U.S. Customs. Of the 4,026 additional miners now landed, 540 are installed and awaiting energization. We expect the remaining miners to be installed beginning in early October 2022 and will be energized at Compute North's site in Texas. No time frame has been provided by Compute North, but we anticipate an energization status update in the coming weeks."

Miner Deliveries and Petahash Capacity

Activating the 4,026 miners shipped over the past three months should increase the Company's production capacity by more than 400 percent compared to Sphere 3D's August production levels announced on September 8, 2022. Their installation and activation will bring the Company's production capacity to approximately 500 PH/s and grow Sphere 3D's mining fleet to more than 5,000 S19j miners.

Our discussions with FuFu Technologies to renegotiate our September 21, 2021, contract have been productive. We have agreed in principle on most commercial terms with Bitfufu and should have an update in the coming weeks on our final agreement.

Bitcoin Production and Holdings Update

In September 2022, Sphere 3D produced 11.06 Bitcoin or 0.3686 Bitcoin per day. Sphere 3D's mining fleet operated at 122 BTC/EH efficiency in September and averaged approximately 92 percent uptime. Daily production volume decreased compared to August 2022 due to an increase in difficulty of about 11.5 percent and one less day in the month, a 3.3 percent reduction all else equal compared to August, according to HC Wainwright's BTC Mining Weekly. The equivalent approximate value of the Company's production during September, based on a Bitcoin price of $19,415 on September 30, 2022, totaled $215,000.

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Since the Company began its mining operations during the first quarter of 2022, it has produced 91.87 Bitcoin and held 78.06 Bitcoin on September 30, 2022. Bitcoin held by the Company represents a fair market value of about $1.52 million based on the Bitcoin price of $19,415 on September 30, 2022. As of September 30, 2022, the Company was operating approximately 1,000 S19j Pros miners delivering a production capacity of approximately 100 PH/s.

The Company continues to employ a HODL strategy for the majority of its holdings. The difference between Bitcoin mined and Sphere 3D's holdings is the amount Sphere 3D used to fund working capital.

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Statement on Compute North's Chapter 11 Filing

Sphere 3D executives are in communication with Compute North regarding its Chapter 11 filing. Compute North has provided assurances that the filing will have no impact on Sphere 3D's mining fleet as they intend to continue operations as normal. Sphere 3D continues to monitor the situation.

CEO Closing Remarks

"We are working with our partners to expedite the installation and energization of our recovered miners and getting Sphere 3D's fleet of about 5,000 miners hashing. Once energized, our production should jump significantly. In addition, we expect to expand the fleet once the Bitfufu contract restructuring is complete. In the meantime, Bitcoin continues to show stability compared to other cryptocurrencies despite recently announced actions by the Federal Reserve and global market volatility.

"I have a positive outlook for the coming months with miners scheduled to be delivered, installed, and energized in the coming quarter. With many of our industry colleagues still beleaguered by U.S. Customs delays, we feel fortunate to have secured the release of our miners, with the caveat that due to the delay, we had to get "back in line" for installation and energization. I believe the fourth quarter will be transformative for Sphere 3D and we are well positioned for success." said Patricia Trompeter, CEO of Sphere 3D.

About Sphere 3D

Sphere 3D Corp. (Nasdaq: ANY) is a net carbon-neutral cryptocurrency miner with decades of proven enterprise data-services expertise. The Company is rapidly growing its industrial-scale mining operation through the capital-efficient procurement of next-generation mining equipment and partnering with best-in-class data center operators. Sphere 3D is dedicated to growing shareholder value while honoring its commitment to strict environmental, social, and governance standards. For more information about the Company, please visit Sphere3D.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This communication contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements generally relate to future events, including the timing of the proposed transaction and other information related to the proposed transaction. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements because they contain words such as "may," "will," "should," "expects," "plans," "anticipates," "could," "intends," "target," "projects," "contemplates," "believes," "estimates," "predicts," "potential" or "continue" or the negative of these words or other similar terms or expressions. Expectations and beliefs regarding matters discussed herein may not materialize, and actual results in future periods are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. The forward-looking statements contained in this communication are also subject to other risks and uncertainties, including those more fully described in filings with the SEC, including Sphere 3D's reports filed on Form 20-F and Form 6-K and in other filings made by Sphere 3D with the SEC from time to time and available at http://www.sec.gov. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, which are subject to change.

Sphere 3D Contacts

NMN AdvisorsSphere3d@nmnadvisors.com

Kurt Kalbfleisch, CFO, Sphere 3DInvestor.relations@sphere3d.com

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How to use Bitcoin to diversify your wealth during Diwali – Economic Times

Diwali is a time of celebration for the entire country. What also makes IT unique is that it is quite interestingly a time when the countrys material aspirations are most visible.

This can be seen in two ways: one, Diwali season has slowly become the de facto shopping fiesta for the country with incredible deals across online and offline platforms leading to crazy levels of shopping and two, we can see a fascinating array of religious activities that are geared towards building wealth creation.

One among them is Lakshmi Puja, a special ceremony to invite Goddess Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and prosperity into their homes. This is done in the hopes that they will be blessed with prosperity.

This fascinating connection between Diwali and wealth has also seemed to be an auspicious time to acquire new assets and make new investments. And, what better asset for wealth creation during this auspicious time than the best-performing one over the last decade - Bitcoin?

After all, for a generation of Indians that are growing up as natives in a digital-first world, Bitcoin is an obvious choice. Several see Bitcoin as digital gold, a superior store of value and investment than gold and thus, an ideal investment choice to fund the future during the auspicious time of Diwali.

With the price of Bitcoin now a long way from its all-time highs, this also represents a wonderful time to be investing in the asset - whether it is for the first time or to start a systematic investment plan where every week or month, a certain amount is invested into it. A lot of Indian crypto exchanges come up with interesting offers during the Diwali period to entice first-time investors.

Choosing the perfect Diwali gift can be a daunting task for many. Gifting Bitcoin is not only efficient and super convenient, but it is probably among the few gifts that have the potential to go up in value.

For newcomers into the space, this is an ideal time to buy or probably receive Bitcoin as a gift from their friends or relatives. They could then use this opportunity to learn about Bitcoin and its potential, before making large investments in the sector.

However, while investing in Bitcoin, especially for the first time, it is important not to be swept away by price speculation and greed. In fact, just like Indian households view gold as a long-term asset, Bitcoin too presents wonderful opportunities for wealth creation, but only if the investor is willing to adopt a long-term mindset and stay invested for the long term.

If you are looking to invite Goddess Lakshmi into your home this Diwali, think no further than adding Bitcoin to your portfolio and benefiting from diversification.

(Mohammed Roshan, CEO & Co-founder of GoSats)

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Crypto Trader Updates Outlook on Bitcoin, Dogecoin and One Altcoin Thats Exploded in the Last 24 Hours – The Daily Hodl

A popular crypto analyst is updating his outlook on Bitcoin (BTC), Dogecoin (DOGE), and an altcoin that has skyrocketed over the last day.

Pseudonymous analyst Altcoin Sherpa tells his 184,000 Twitter followers that he doesnt think the king crypto is currently at a level where its a good investment.

BTC: Levels Im eyeing if we break this current area. Things are looking interesting but I still dont think you should buy this current area.

Bitcoin is changing hands for $20,029 at time of writing.

Next up on the traders list is popular meme token Dogecoin. Altcoin Sherpa says that DOGE may be entering into a double-top pattern, but doing so would largely depend on BTCs performance.

DOGE: Im still in my short; its pretty close to my initial entry. I have stops pretty much at [break even] and I already took half off at the TP1 area. To be determined if this is a double top area or not, its going to really depend on BTC in my opinion. At the worst, its a hedge.

A double-top pattern is a bearish reversal pattern that forms after an asset reaches a high price point twice. Dogecoin is trading for $0.064 at time of writing, a 1.43% gain on the day.

Altcoin Sherpa concludes his analysis by saying that the native asset of decentralized finance (DeFi) exchange platform SushiSwap (SUSHI) is worth shorting despite having risen over 16% during the last 24 hours.

SUSHI: Had a new chef announced, bullish impulse. Were seeing some interesting moves in the DeFi sector. I still think that this is a good short to be honest; its entering a supply zone and had a big recent move. Would obviously flip bias if it smashes through here.

SUSHI is moving for $1.32 at time of writing, a 28% increase from its week-low of $1.03 set on October 3rd.

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There’s a New Quantum Computing Record: Control of a 6-Qubit Processor in Silicon – ScienceAlert

Another record has been broken on the way to fully operational and capable quantum computers: the complete control of a 6-qubit quantum processor in silicon.

Researchers are calling it "a major stepping stone" for the technology.

Qubits (or quantum bits) are the quantum equivalents of classical computing bits, only they can potentially process much more information. Thanks to quantum physics, they can be in two states at once, rather than just a single 1 or 0.

The difficulty is in getting a lot of qubits to behave as we need them to, which is why this jump to six is important. Being able to operate them in silicon the same material used in today's electronic devices makes the technology potentially more viable.

"The quantum computing challenge today consists of two parts," says quantum computing researcher Stephan Philips from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. "Developing qubits that are of good enough quality, and developing an architecture that allows one to build large systems of qubits."

"Our work fits into both categories. And since the overall goal of building a quantum computer is an enormous effort, I think it is fair to say we have made a contribution in the right direction."

The qubits are made from individual electrons fixed in a row, 90 nanometers apart (a human hair is around 75,000 nanometers in diameter). This line of 'quantum dots' is placed in silicon, using a structure similar to the transistors used in standard processors.

By making careful improvements to the way the electrons were prepared, managed, and monitored, the team was able to successfully control their spin the quantum mechanical property that enables the qubit state.

The researchers were also able to create logic gates and entangle systems of two or three electrons, on demand, with low error rates.

Researchers used microwave radiation, magnetic fields, and electric potentials to control and read electron spin, operating them as qubits, and getting them to interact with each other as required.

"In this research, we push the envelope of the number of qubits in silicon, and achieve high initialization fidelities, high readout fidelities, high single-qubit gate fidelities, and high two-qubit state fidelities," says electrical engineer Lieven Vandersypen, also from the Delft University of Technology.

"What really stands out though is that we demonstrate all these characteristics together in one single experiment on a record number of qubits."

Up until this point, only 3-qubit processors have been successfully built in silicon and controlled up to the necessary level of quality so we're talking about a major step forward in terms of what's possible in this type of qubit.

There are different ways of building qubits including on superconductors, where many more qubits have been operated together and scientists are still figuring out the method that might be the best way forward.

The advantage of silicon is that the manufacturing and supply chains are all already in place, meaning the transition from a scientific laboratory to an actual machine should be more straightforward. Work continues to keep pushing the qubit record even higher.

"With careful engineering, it is possible to increase the silicon spin qubit count while keeping the same precision as for single qubits," says electrical engineer Mateusz Madzik from the Delft University of Technology.

"The key building block developed in this research could be used to add even more qubits in the next iterations of study."

The research has been published in Nature.

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Cleveland Clinic Selected as Founding Partner in Greater Washington, D.C., Quantum Computing Hub – Cleveland Clinic Newsroom

Cleveland Clinic has been selected as a founding partner and the leading healthcare system in a new initiative meant to spur collaboration and innovation in the quantum computing industry.

Based in Greater Washington D.C., Connected DMV and a cross-sector coalition of partners are developing the new Life Sciences and Healthcare Quantum Innovation Hub to prepare the industry for the burgeoning quantum era and align with key national and global efforts in life sciences and quantum technologies.

The U.S. Department of Commerces Economic Development Administration (EDA) has awarded more than $600,000 to Connected DMV for development of the Hub. This will include the formation of a collaboration of at least 25 organizations specializing in quantum end-use and technology build.

Cleveland Clinic was invited to join the Hub because of its work in advancing medical research through quantum computing. As the lead healthcare system in the coalition, Cleveland Clinic will help define quantums role in the future of healthcare and disseminate education to other health systems on its possibilities.

We believe quantum computing holds great promise for accelerating the pace of scientific discovery, said Lara Jehi, M.D., M.H.C.D.S., Cleveland Clinics Chief Research Information Officer. As an academic medical center, research, innovation and education are an integral part of Cleveland Clinics mission. Quantum, AI and other emerging technologies have the potential to revolutionize medicine, and we look forward to working with partners across healthcare and life sciences to solve complex medical problems and change the course of diseases like cancer, heart conditions and neurodegenerative disorders.

Last year, Cleveland Clinic announced a 10-year partnership with IBM to establish the Discovery Accelerator, a joint center focused on easing traditional bottlenecks in medical research through innovative technologies such as quantum computing, hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence. The partnership leverages Cleveland Clinics medical expertise with the technology expertise of IBM including its leadership in quantum technology which recently resulted in the Breakthrough Award in Fundamental Physics for quantum information science. The Discovery Accelerator will allow Cleveland Clinic to contribute to Connected DMVs Hub by advancing the pace of discovery with the first private sector on-premises Quantum System One being installed on Cleveland Clinics main campus.

Innovation is always iterative, and requires sustained collaboration between research, development and technology, and the industries that will benefit from the value generated, said George Thomas, Chief Innovation Officer of Connected DMV and lead of its Potomac Quantum Innovation Center initiative. Quantum has the potential to have a substantive impact on our society in the near future, and the Life Sciences and Healthcare Quantum Innovation Hub will serve as the foundation for sustained focus and investment to accelerate and scale our path into the era of quantum.

The Hub will be part of Connected DMVs Potomac Quantum Innovation Center initiative, which aims to: accelerate quantum investment, and research and development; develop an equitable and scalable talent pipeline; and scale collaboration between the public sector, academia, industry, community, and investors to accelerate the value of quantum. The Quantum Innovation Hubs are a part of this initiative to focus on accelerating quantum investment, research and development in key industry sectors.

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The censor cannot hold: The pressure of controlling China’s internet – The Japan Times

As a teenager in rural China, Zeng Jiajun used his internet know-how to watch a banned documentary on the bloody military crackdown in Tiananmen Square.

A decade later, he was part of the sprawling censorship machine that suffocates Chinas cyberspace, tasked with stopping the spread of anything the Chinese Communist Party does not want its people to know about.

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The Right Response to Mandates, Propaganda and Censorship – The Epoch Times

In this interview, Dr. Meryl Nass shares astonishing figures on the blatant PCR testing and case count frauds that occurred during the pandemic.

The manipulation of data and testing during the COVID-19 pandemic was done intentionally to create fear in the population, driving them to accept the experimental COVID-19 jabs that were now learning are both dangerous and ineffective at stopping transmission.

In the above episode of the Childrens Health Defense Against the Wind program,1Dr. Meryl Nass, a board-certified internal medicine physician with special expertise in vaccine safety and vaccine mandates, shares some astonishing figures on the blatant testing fraud that occurred including the fact that 281 tests for COVID-19 have received emergency use authorization (EUA) by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, but not one has received approval. This means their manufacturers have zero liability if the tests dont work.

The platforms behind COVID-19 shots were already in the works well before the pandemic. They were just waiting for the opportunity to go mainstream. COVID provided that, Nass said:2

The powers that be, and I cant identify who they are, but powers in Washington this is probably some combination of federal, regulatory and research agencies like Tony Fauci and Francis Collins and officials at the FDA and CDC they have been looking for new, what they call, platforms of vaccines.

They dont want to make vaccines with eggs; it takes a long time, its expensive, they want something faster, and messenger RNA or DNA vaccines is another platform

For some reason the mRNA platform was extremely delicious for our regulators and for industry. So there were many startups, Moderna being one of them. Modernas whole reason for being is to develop messenger RNA gene therapy products either for cancer or for genetic diseases or, later, when those didnt work out for them, they turned to vaccines.

And these companies BioNTech is another one have gotten huge grants from governments as well as entities like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. So the Gates Foundation in 2019, the year before the pandemic, invested $50 million in BioNTech. And Tony Fauci has been working with the Moderna company on messenger RNA vaccines for quite a while. So these were platforms waiting for an excuse to make a product.

Moderna, together with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), sent mRNA coronavirus vaccine candidates to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on December 12, 2019, before the pandemic raising significant red flags.3

December 18, 2020 about one year after the material transfer agreement was signed the FDA issued emergency use authorization for Modernas COVID-19 vaccine for use in individuals 18 years of age and older.4

Problems with testing began almost immediately after the pandemic began. In the beginning, only tests from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were allowed, and the tests were virtually meaningless, as asymptomatic people were plagued by false positives. Host Dr. Paul Thomas described it as an epidemic of positive test results that got translated into an epidemic of the infection.5According to Nass:6

For the first two months of the pandemic, the CDC only offered its own test, and it knew very early on that its test didnt work so the SARS-CoV-2 infection spread throughout the U.S. during January, February and early March of 2020, when CDC only allowed a few hundred people, maybe 1,000 people during that period of time, to be tested with their tests. And they all had to have a clinical picture that almost proved they had COVID.

After the whole country was really frustrated with this, FDA did two remarkable things in the beginning of March, Stephen Hahn, the [now former] FDA commissioner, said OK, were going to now allow other entities universities, labs, anybody who has developed or can develop a test for COVID to do so, and send us the paperwork and well work really fast to get it done and allow your tests to get out there.

The paperwork, however, was so complicated that it took companies a week to complete it. By then it was the middle of March 2020 and there were still only a few tests available in the entire U.S.

So then Stephen Hahn did something else. He said, OK, anyone who has a test for COVID, you start using it, you put it out there. You can start testing people, youre allowed you send us the paperwork in a few weeks.7At this point, testing basically turned into a free for all, with tests from China, Germany and other countries overseas coming in.

As of Nass latest count, the FDA has given emergency use authorization to 281 different PCR tests for COVID-19. Not a single one has been approved or licensed.

This means, under emergency use authorization, you cant sue the manufacturer if your test is no good,Nass said.And that means FDA doesnt have to stand by any of those authorizations no ones responsible. So thats a disaster. Theyve also authorized about 50 antibody tests and other rapid tests. So we have a testing mess, and weve always had a testing mess.8

The CDC also created an odd set of case definitions for COVID-19, basically turning a positive test into a positive diagnosis even if you didnt have symptoms. The case definitions, Nass said, were so complicated they required reading through several pages of information and included whether or not the person was in an area were COVID-19 was present, whether the person had had an exposure to a known COVID case and a list of symptoms that helped formulate the definition.

She continued, Despite all that, a positive PCR test was labeled a probable case. Thats all you really needed. And then the CDC relabeled probable cases as cases. So as everybody else has noticed, that meant we had a case-endemic. We didnt exactly have an epidemic.9

The number of people who actually had and/or died from COVID in the beginning of the pandemic is unknown, because everybody who died with COVID was labeled a COVID-caused death. Health officials could count deaths from unrelated causes even gunshots10and motorcycle accidents11 as COVID-19 deaths if the person had the virus within the last 30 days. According to Nass:12

At the beginning, the number of cases, the number of people who died with COVID everybody who died with COVID was called a COVID-caused death, and that was again due to the CDC playing with their definitions and hand coding all of their COVID deaths and requiring doctors, even if you went into the hospital with a heart attack and then they tested you in the hospital, you wound up being labeled a COVID death.

Hospitals had every reason to go along with the questionable labels, as they earned more money if they diagnosed COVID-19 more often. They didnt even need a positive test to do so. The end result is that the actual number of COVID-19 cases was heavily skewed and it may be impossible to sort out the real figures at this point:13

Hospitals were financially incentivized to up the number of COVID cases because they got paid more if their patients had a COVID diagnosis. And they were told by the CDC that they didnt even need a positive test. If it looked like a COVID case, you could call it a COVID case and then up your reimbursement. So we were all stuck with that kind of shenanigans, and its hard to know now who were the COVID cases and who were the COVID deaths.

This means all the numbers of COVID deaths you hear being bandied about by mainstream are major misinformation. They are nothing more than cleverly inflated statistics based on the major incentive to identify virtually every death they could as due to SARS-CoV-2. Best estimates are the number of deaths authentically due to COVID are at least half what they say they are.

The CDC released its provisional life expectancy estimates for 2021,14which reveals life expectancy dropped from 77 years in 2020 to 76.1 years in 2021. It was the first time life expectancy dropped two years in a row in 100 years, NPR noted.15The media is, of course, blaming the drop in life expectancy primarily on COVID-19,16largely ignoring the increasingly clear dangers of the COVID-19 shots that were forced on many in the U.S. and throughout the world.

As mentioned in the last section, the number of COVID deaths are likely half of what the inflated numbers the mainstream claims, which makes their contribution to the decrease in life expectancy essentially irrelevant. What mainstream fails to say in their misinformation coverage is that the average age of those dying of COVID were above the average life expectancy!

According to Nass, mRNA COVID vaccines in the U.S., after you get a shot, for about two or three weeks, your immune system is not as strong as it was, and viruses that are in your body can come out, like the chicken pox virus youre also more susceptible to COVID for the first couple of weeks after a shot.17

After about six months, most of the protection you may have gained from the shot wanes, and then, as time goes on, you get negative immunity, which means youre more susceptible to COVID, she continued. Unfortunately, now were seeing data that youre more susceptible to dying from any cause. Mortality goes up in the vaccinated compared to the unvaccinated.18

When it comes to products issued under emergency use authorization, like COVID-19 shots, theres no liability for the manufacturers or the government officials who recommended them. There hasnt been a single claim that has been adjudicated regarding injuries from the COVID vaccines, Nass said.19This is all part of the scam they have created to protect themselves.

In the U.S., vaccine makers already enjoy full indemnity against injuries occurring from this or any other pandemic vaccine under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act. If youre injured, youd have to file a compensation claim with the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP),20which is funded by U.S. taxpayers via Congressional appropriation to the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

While similar to the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP), which applies to nonpandemic vaccines, the CICP is even less generous when it comes to compensation. The maximum payout you can receive even in cases of permanent disability or death is $250,000 per person.

However, youd have to exhaust your private insurance policy before the CICP gives you a dime.21The CICP also has a one-year statute of limitations, so you have to act quickly, which is also difficult since its unknown if long-term effects could occur more than a year later.

Nass has created a pledge to restore the U.S. and its values,22which will roll out soon and provide a way to speak out against the injustice of vaccine mandates, propaganda and censorship thats run rampant since March 2020. She explained:23

What we have to do is redo the emergency laws in the U.S., and Ive suggested a pledge that we can ask people and candidates to take that will cause legislatures to review emergency rules.

So when an emergency is declared, you only get it for two weeks, if youre a governor or a secretary of health or the president, and then by the end of two weeks the legislature or the Congress has to convene and hold hearings on whether theyre still in an emergency and whether theyve done the right things for that emergency.

The pledge also asks for mandates to be lifted. Its against U.S. law to mandate experimental products and everything under EUA is an investigational, experimental product. Im happy for anyone to be vaccinated or wear masks who wants to, but there should be no mandates for those products.

The pledge also asks to end censorship, the restriction of communication between people, the propagandizing by government and private enterprises and the collusion between government and social media, as well as ban gain-of-function research, which likely contributed to the creation of SARS-CoV-2 in the first place.

The founders paid, in blood, for the freedoms we have, Nass said. And we have a lot of freedoms enshrined in law, but theyve been taken from us under the guise of a pandemic. Now we have to fight with everything weve got to get them back before theyre gone forever.24

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WiFi Money working with conservative businesses to ‘beat censorship’ on social media platforms – Fox Business

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EXCLUSIVE: Entrepreneurs and co-founders of WiFi Money Chris Frederick and Alex Moeller are working with conservative businesses to "beat censorship" on social media platforms, and to ensure they can amplify and monetize their products in an ever-evolving digital world.

Frederick and Moeller co-founded WiFi Money at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, as traditional businesses began to close due to COVID-19 lockdowns.

"The reason we started WiFi Money was because we started to see a shift in what was happeningnot only in the business world, but in the world in general," Moeller, the president of WiFi Money told FOX Business. "All of these people were struggling and out of jobs, and we thought, we need to find a way to really help people make money in the online world."

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Frederick, the CEO of WiFi Money, and a professional soccer player, told FOX Business that they have worked with more than 8,700 businesses since the inception of WiFi Money in 2020.

WiFi Money works with businesses to amplify their footprint on social media platforms. (WiFi Money)

Frederick explained that WiFi Money works with businesses to monetize at a "higher level by amplifying their services online."

"Through collaboration, through influence and public figures, we help them expose what they have offline to the online world," Frederick told FOX Business. "We help small businesses amplify their products and services to reach unlimited peoplethere is no ceiling."

WiFi Money typically works with businesses on social media platforms like Instagram and YouTube. However, Frederick said that some of those businesses have complained about Big Tech censorship.

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"I am definitely against censorship. I do not agree with it. I dont think it should be something that is allowed, and, essentially, what we do specifically with our businesses is two things: we remind the businesses that unless their business is in politics, they need to remember that their social media is 100% business, not personal," Moeller explained. "A lot of people, where they make mistakes, is they treat their business page as a personal page, and forget they are trying to build a business."

Moeller added, though, that these businesses "feel they are being censored."

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Frederick told FOX Business that the majority of businesses they work with are conservative businesses "seeking our help."

"We consider ourselves a conservative company," Frederick said. "I dont agree with Big Tech censorship and I think they have lost their markets. Social media is trying to control the reach of the people who made them who they are."

WiFi Money co-founders Chris Frederick (right) and Alex Moeller (left) started their company at the beginning of the COVID pandemic.

Frederick said that Big Tech companies "have lost the true markthe people and the reach of the people that were able to boost them to begin with."

"And now they are trying to limit them," Frederick said.

As for censorship, Frederick told Fox Business that "when you create interaction, it helps boost the algorithm."

"We have come up with ways to beat censorship and allow conservative businesses to be able to excel at a higher rate than they are now," Frederick said.

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"Over the years, these platforms have made it harder and harder for average individuals to have any reach on the platform, unless you pay them money," Moeller explained. "We teach these businesses and individuals how to organically make money from heir social media.

Moeller added: "Communication is the most powerful tool."

"Our brand continues to explode and grow online," Lavallee said, adding that WiFi Money is "a big part of our recipe for success. (Apple / Fox News)

"I tell people that if you can build a successful relationship, then you can build a very successful business," Frederick said. "Essentially, they are the same thing."

One business that has used WiFi Money to grow online is "The Cake Girl"a custom bakery located in Tampa, Florida.

Kristina Lavallee opened her first brick and mortar location in June 2019, but when the COVID-19 pandemic began, "The Cake Girl" began shipping products nationwide.

"Chris and Alex, with their social media expertise, were able to continue to help our brand shine and elevate our presence all over the USA," Lavallee told Fox Business.

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"The Cake Girl" has more than 100,000 followers on Instagram, and is continuing to grow its online presence.

"Our brand continues to explode and grow online," Lavallee said, adding that WiFi Money is "a big part of our recipe for success."

Meanwhile, Moeller said WiFi Money helps businesses to understand what their goals are, and designs plans to execute those goals in an online space.

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"Weve learned that one person cant talk to 1 million people," Frederick told FOX Business. "But one post can reach 1 million people."

"We are remaining true to what we teach, which is being present in the online space," Moeller said. "We dont know whats going to happen in the next year, or two years, or four years in this country, and we have just realized that the best way to do business is to do it online."

He added: "We have learned that doing business online is really the most effective way of making money right now."

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