Elon Musk has shifted his pans for The Boring Company: While it will still focus on digging tunnels to provide a network of underground tubes suitable for use by high-speed Hyperloop pods, the plan now is to use that Hyperloop to transport pedest…
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Watch SpaceX launch a record-sized satellite on its 50th Falcon 9 live
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Bill Gates trashes hyperloop and cryptocurrencies in AMA
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Bill Gates isn’t a fan of tech’s popular buzzwords: cryptocurrency and hyperloop. The Microsoft co-founder hosted his sixth Reddit AMA on Tuesday, and didn’t hold back on his answers.
Gates doesn’t like what most people find appealing about cryptocurrencies: anonymity.
“The Governments ability to find money laundering and tax evasion and terrorist funding is a good thing,” he wrote, “I think the speculative wave around ICOs and crypto currencies is super risky for those who go long.”
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Elon Musk gets permission to do a little digging for his Hyperloop
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