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AS CRYPTOCURRENCIES FLOURISH, EMPLOYERS HUNT FOR WORKERS WITH BLOCKCHAIN SKILLS   Getting a blockchain professional is not cheap. The hourly pay rate ranges from $50 to more than $200. Chris Barber, 39, who previously worked at an engineering firm as a project manager but for the past year has been working as a blockchain consultant, charges $225 an hour. Source: CNBC Article

BLOCKCHAIN ENGINEERS ARE IN DEMAND   Since January 2017, the demand for blockchain engineering talent on Toptal has grown 700 percent, and 40 percent of the fully managed software development projects requested in the last month require blockchain skills. By diving into the requests Toptal sees, we can start to paint a better picture of the blockchain development languages and knowledge areas increasing in demand. Source: Techcrunch Article

HERE ARE 10 INDUSTRIES BLOCKCHAIN IS LIKELY TO DISRUPT   You’ve probably heard that blockchain technology is going to revolutionize… fill in the blank. But what actually is it and how is it going to disrupt these industries? Banking Healthcare Politics Real Estate Legal Industry Security Government Rentals and Ride Sharing Charities and Aid Organizations Education   Source: Forbes Article

THE BLOCKCHAIN: WHAT IT IS AND WHY IT MATTERS   The Blockchain is a secure transaction ledger database that is shared by all parties participating in an established, distributed network of computers. It records and stores every transaction that occurs in the network, essentially eliminating the need for “trusted” third parties such as payment processors. Blockchain proponents often describe the innovation as a “transfer of trust in a trustless world,” referring to the fact that the entities participating in a transaction are not necessarily known to each other yet they exchange value with surety and no third-party validation. For this …

THE PROMISE OF BLOCKCHAIN IS A WORLD WITHOUT MIDDLEMEN   In a world without middlemen, things get more efficient in unexpected ways. A 1% transaction fee may not seem like much, but down a 15-step supply chain, it adds up. These kinds of little frictions add just enough drag on the global economy that we’re forced to stick with short supply chains and deals done by the container load, because it’s simply too inefficient to have more links in the supply chain and to work with smaller transactions. The decentralization that blockchain provides would change that, which could have huge …

ASTRONAUT: WHAT CHINA’S MOON LANDING MEANS FOR US   China started out the year by doing something that no nation has done before: It landed a spacecraft and an accompanying rover on the far side of the moon with an ambitious scientific payload package and an exciting mission ahead to study the interior structure of the moon with the help of ground-penetrating radar, among other things. Almost equally impressive from a technical standpoint, China successfully placed a communication relay satellite into a lunar halo orbit to enable the command of, and communication with, both the spacecraft and rover, which do …

ELON MUSK: SPACEX´S “BFR” ROCKET WILL DO MORE THAN TAKE US TO MARS   SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk attended the International Astronautical Congress (IAC), on Friday where he once again spoke about plans for making humans multiplanetary. Musk has been teasing updates for a while about a rocket that would be part of an Interplanetary Transport Systems (ITS). This rocket — or rocket system — doesn’t have an actual name yet, but for now it’s going by its code name: BFR. Source: Futurism Article        

INNOVATIVE HYUNDAI ‘ELEVATE’ WALKING CAR CONCEPT CREATES A NEW VEHICLE CATEGORY, THE UMV, ULTIMATE MOBILITY VEHICLE   This vehicle combines the power of robotics and EV technology to take people where no vehicle has been before. The four-legged Hyundai ‘Elevate’ will redefine our perception of vehicular mobility. This design concept and prototype will be showcased at the Hyundai’s press conference on January 7 at 3 p.m. at the Mandalay Bay South Convention Center, Level 2, Oceanside B. Source: Hyundai.com Article  

NASA PAYS TRIBUTE TO EARLY SPACE PIONEER RICHARD GORDON   Naval officer, aviator, chemist, test pilot, and astronaut were among the many hats of this talented and daring explorer. Dick was pilot of Gemini XI in 1966, on which he performed a spacewalk where he tethered the Gemini and Agena together for the very first attempt at creating artificial gravity by rotating spacecraft. He also was command module pilot of Apollo 12, the second manned mission to land on the Moon. While his crewmates Pete Conrad and Alan Bean landed in the Ocean of Storms, he remained in lunar orbit …