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Year 2020 in Photos - January

20 Dec 2020 1 minute read 4 comments Merthin

Almost everybody would agree that the passing year 2020 was a special one. For me it meant switching from travel-intensive work (155 flights last year!) to home office. It also meant more hiking in my home country than travelling abroad. Let me share...

Uluru Activation

17 Dec 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Sienzuf

I live in Australia and interesting enough that there will be an Uluru Activation Ceremony on Monday 21st of December 2020. This will coincide with the Grand/Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn which will occur in Aquarius. There is a black box w...

Charged Aussie Bitconnect promoter faces up to 47 years in prison | TURNER WRIGHT

18 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Googler

Turner Wright,  freelance editor, and writer for various publications for the last decade published an amazing article on CoinTelegraph saying that *the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, or ASIC, has charged the former Australian nati...

Australia's Central Bank To Run CBDC Pilots on Ethereum Tech

2 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

On November 2, Australia’s central bank announced that it had partnered with ConsenSys and several national financial institutions to explore the issuance of a central bank digital currency (CBDC). Australia’s Reserve Bank, the nation’s central bank...

Australia Sees Almost 400 Whale Deaths in Record Stranding

24 Sep 2020 1 minute read 7 comments AverageVancouverite

In the worst whale stranding in recorded Australian history, about 380 long-finned pilot whales are confirmed dead and about 30 others are still stranded on an area called the Macquarie Heads on Tasmania's west coast. This stranding breaks Australia'...

New Zealand Mass Shooter Sentenced to Life Without Parole

28 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite

For the first time in its history, New Zealand has issued a life in jail without parole sentence after the trial of 29 year-old Australian Brenton Harrison Tarrant. In a 4-day hearing, Mr. Tarrant admitted to the murder of 51 people, attempted murder...

Ripple Sued Again, This Time by Australian Payments Company for Copyright Infringement

27 Aug 2020 1 minute read 5 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

Ripple is facing a lawsuit over copyright infringement from Australian payments company New Payments Platform Australia (NPPA), which filed the case on August 21. NPPA is suing Ripple for the use of “Pay ID”, which the NPPA says it is the registered...

Bindi Irwin Is Pregnant. How Are You Coping?

11 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments CryptoSnarf

Bindi Irwin is a goddess, plain and simple. The entire Irwin family is a gift to humanity!  Recently Bindi announced her engagement to her long time boyfriend. And just today they announced that they will be introducing a new baby into the world in 2...

2 Years in Prison for $380K XRP Theft

11 Aug 2020 1 minute read 9 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

Local media outlets reported on August 11 that a 25 year Australian woman had been arrested and sentenced for stealing 100,000 XRP tokens.  Kathryn Nguyen stole 100k XRP tokens from a 56 year old man’s account in January 2018 At the time, the sum to...

Beach SOS Message Leads to Rescue of 3 Micronesian Sailors

6 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite

Australian and United States military aircraft located three Micronesian sailors stranded on the tiny remote Pikelot Island after spotting their SOS message on a beach. The men were attempting to complete a 42 kilometre (26 miles) trip from the Puluw...