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Midair Collision over France Kills 5

11 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite $0.46

At about 16:30 local time, two small aircraft collided mid-air before crashing in the town of Loches southeast of Tours, France, resulting in the deaths of all 5 people involved. According to local emergency and rescue teams, the small aircraft was a...

Paris to Shut All Bars Starting Tuesday as Covid Infections Rise

5 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite $0.64

Effective Tuesday October 6th, 2020, all bars will be temporarily shut down in the French capital city of Paris for at least two weeks as Covid-19 coronavirus infections increase once again and the city's coronavirus alert level is raised to maximum....

France chosen Tezos (XTZ) to power the CBDC Stablecoin

18 Sep 2020 1 minute read 13 comments PVM $1.13

France effort to develop an stable-coin pegged on Euro is moving forward, as Societe Generale announced the partnership with Nomadic Labs. The updated took place on the 15th of September, as the major Tezos development firm shared the news via Twitte...

French Central Bank Will Use Tezos to Power Digital Euro Trials

16 Sep 2020 1 minute read 1 comment author_nan $1.95

According to a report published September 15, the French Central Bank will see Tezos (XTZ) power its Digital Euro trial, after selected candidates Societe Generale and Forge chose Tezos as the blockchain for the experiment.  Multinational investment...

Man Blows up Part of House Trying to Swat a Fly

7 Sep 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite $0.19

A man in his 80s has blown up part of his house in the French village of Parcoul-Chenaud in Dordogne after attempting to swat a fly. According to local media, the man picked up an electric fly swatter when the insect attempted to land on his dinner....

Air France - KLM to Cut Over 7,500 Jobs Amid Covid-19 Pandemic

5 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite $0.30

Air France - KLM announced that amid a large lack of demand for air travel brought by the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, the company plans to cut over 7,500 jobs from its French operations over the next three years. Air France will cut 6,560 staff wh...

Fed up with Google and Facebook? French alternatives do exist !

31 May 2020 3 minute read 0 comments Gordon Parlay $0.12

The search engine Google and the social network Facebook enjoy a virtual monopoly in their field. What do they have in common? They massively collect the personal data of their users for advertising purposes. But some "irreducible Gauls" want to buil...

Buy A Renault, Save An Alpine.

23 May 2020 6 minute read 0 comments ZackNorman97 $0.03

In today's world of hyper-performance automobiles, each carmaker is constantly working in pursuit of breaking the next barrier in speed, and mind-numbing statistics. Every passing model is faster, more powerful, and ever burdensome to one's wallet th...

Tezos Now Available at Your Corner Store in France

20 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments author_nan $0.39

Tezos (XTZ) has been made available as a payment method to over 10,000 shops in France after French crypto startup Digycode has integrated support for the asset in its prepaid vouchers and gift cards, the former announced in a tweet on May 19. The in...

The Impossible Monetary Recognition of Crypto-assets in French Law - The Example of Complementary Local Currencies (CLC) 1/2

15 May 2020 4 minute read 2 comments FrenchLegalAspect $0.20

The existence of private currencies is not in doubt. However, the regalian conception of money in France, in the strict sense, should not be able to tolerate the existence of other forms of money because of the monopoly of the State . Confronted with...