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Finally, somebody opened the door to say, "Mr. Big is ready to see you now."
https://ih.advfn.com/stock-market/NASDAQ/lightbridge-LTBR/stock-news/91520051/lightbridge-announces-u-s-department-of-energy-aw
Hive renames and rebrands. In addition to bitcoin mining, and capitalizing on the Nvidia chip purchase and focusing on the digital needs of the ever expanding use of AI.
https://mailchi.mp/e0b2ddb6ea4d/hive-announces-name-change-to-hive-digital-technologies-ltd-to-reflect-our-hpc-strategy-and-updates-bitcoin-equivalent-for-fiscal-2023?e=6edb7906ab
"... name change to “HIVE Digital Technologies Ltd.” (the “Name Change”) to better reflect the Company's evolving expansion into fast tracking our HPC data centres by utilizing our Nvidia high performance Graphics Processing Unit (“GPU”) chips for the mass adoption trend in Artificial Intelligence (“AI”). HIVE has been a pioneering force in the cryptocurrency mining sector since 2017. The intent of the name change signals a significant strategic expansion to harness the potential of our green energy data centres and of GPU Cloud compute technology, a vital tool in the world of AI, machine learning, and advanced data analysis since the launch of ChatGPT."
Thanks. I've been following Stocktwits, too. It's harder to follow than ihub as the threads are not easily kept together. I, too, haven't found the definitive answer but will continue to monitor. The conversation there does seem to be more comprehensive.
Is there a BTC share price which, if reached, would allow Core Scientific to be able to "step out" of bankruptcy?
Could shareholders get stuck with zip while the company begins to break records?
Thoughts?
Haven't seen it, but saw Oliver Stone interviewed about his new film, Nuclear Now.
https://www.ans.org/news/article-4958/oliver-stones-new-film-inuclear-nowi-opens/
Oliver Stone’s new film Nuclear Now opens
Fri, Apr 28, 2023
Nuclear Cafe
Academy Award–winning director Oliver Stone has long courted controversy with such films as Born on the Fourth of July, JFK, Natural Born Killers, and Nixon. His latest release is sure to continue that trend. In Nuclear Now, which opens today in theaters nationwide, Stone “explores the possibility for the global community to overcome the challenges of climate change and energy poverty to reach a brighter future through the power of nuclear energy,” according to the movie’s website.
The documentary’s perspective on nuclear energy is summarized on the site as follows: “In the mid-20th century as societies began the transition to nuclear power and away from fossil fuels, a long-term PR campaign to scare the public began, funded in part by coal and oil interests. This campaign would sow fear about harmless low-level radiation and create confusion between nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. Looking squarely at the problem, Oliver Stone shows us that knowledge is the antidote to fear, and our human ingenuity will allow us to solve the climate crisis if we use it.”
Discussion at Harvard: In an article published in the Harvard Gazette, staff writer Anna Lamb describes a panel conversation about nuclear energy that Stone recently participated in following a preview of the film at the Harvard University Science Center. Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker introduced the screening by praising Stone as “an icon of Hollywood” who “is taking an active role in changing public consensus about nuclear power.” The film, notes Lamb, addresses public safety fears about nuclear energy by pointing out that new reactors have corrected the accident-related designs of earlier reactors and that “despite [previous] Hollywood portrayals, meltdowns in Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima have led to far fewer casualties than the fatal levels of air pollution produced annually by coal and other fossil fuels.”
The money aspect: Much of the panel discussion at Harvard centered around the issues of cost and economics, with Stone and Nuclear Now co-writer Joshua S. Goldstein arguing that the nuclear industry is working to address high production costs. Goldstein highlighted the case of South Korea, which has successfully reduced the capital costs of plant construction through sustained nuclear development programs and repetition of production processes. “In South Korea, they’re building the same thing over and over, and cost comes down,” he said.
Panelist Richard Lester, an associate provost at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an American Nuclear Society member, added that another way the nuclear industry can reduce production costs is through greater innovation. Unfortunately, “the regulatory game” in the United States, as Lester called it, leads to high costs and long delays for innovative nuclear startups.
The panel moderator, Harvard environmental science and engineering professor Daniel Schrag, emphasized that even with success overseas, cost estimates for construction of new reactors in the United States remain in the tens of billions of dollars. He argued that nuclear “requires somehow a big change in the economics” if it is going to have a significant effect on the climate change problem.
Public opinion: Stone’s expressed goal with Nuclear Now is to create a more positive public perception of nuclear energy. But the public’s view of nuclear power has seemingly been shifting in that direction, anyway. During the Harvard panel discussion, audience member John Marshall, the chief executive of the Potential Energy Coalition on climate change, noted that his organization conducted a public opinion survey in 2021 that suggested that only one in seven people opposed nuclear energy.
Conversation continues: Nuclear Now will no doubt be sparking new conversations about nuclear energy across the country and throughout the world as Stone continues his promotional appearances for the film. Another interesting discussion about Nuclear Now—featuring Stone, Goldstein, NASA physicist Weiping Yu, and radio/podcast host David Gornoski—is now available on Gornoski’s YouTube channel.
News source, The Hill, also wrote about and interviewed Stone. In some ways, I enjoyed this interview better:
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/3998384-oliver-stone-makes-the-case-for-nuclear-power-amid-climate-crisis/
Remarkable article. Thanks for finding and posting.
"The private-sector HALEU supply chain that the draft RFPs are designed to build would help ensure that HALEU is available ..."
As an innovator, if not THE most significant innovator in the HALEU space, will LTBR and their boatload of patents get a fair share of the HALEU business?
Or will the spoils go to the mountain of lobbyists, to be handed out like political candy?
No disrespect intended. I assume this was meant to be a wee bit funny. Quote: "Similar to Dogecoin, Pepecoin’s value is primarily driven by social media hype, rather than serving a specific utility within the blockchain ecosystem."
Funny. So, Pepe and Doge are kind of like stepping on wet toilet paper and then having it trail behind as one walks away. Lot's of things are like this. In fact, most advertising adds no actual value to anything. Mostly, it's all simply ways of manipulating people to do something.
DMG is not anything like these silly, empty, valueless pieces of nothing. DMG has built value within the blockchain ecosystem and has consistently grown toward more value.
DMG has a product one can touch, buy and hold onto.
I blame it on AI. First POAI did 10 to1 and now it's 20 to 1. Humans are supposed to know there's such a thing as too much stupid. AI has no such intelligence.
POAI: new motto.
We destroy shareholders to save ourselves.
This article appeared in a nearby Illinois newspaper about a leak at a nuclear plant in Minnesota. It was the second leak in the same spot. That's a bad way to start and finish a story.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/radioactive-water-leaks-at-minn-nuclear-plant-for-2nd-time/article_1e798622-7167-5f0d-a1bd-46b6b10d5c45.html
This article shows the maddening facts: the old plants with their genuinely scary problems need to be replaced with the new, less scary HALEU fuels. The fact that our incompetent politicians can't figure out the obvious is a fraudulent game of three-card monty, similar to the old shell game. In the end, it's a game they're playing with people's lives. Like the disgraceful no show when Norfolk Railway exploded millions of gallons of chemicals into the air of a small Ohio town, destroying it for a generation or two. And nobody cared.
This F'ers aren't going to give it up even though the safer fuels seem to be available and ready to go. And if a large spill occurs before HALEU takes hold, larger and more dangerous than the one above, the risk is setting back all nuclear work for years if not decades.
It makes me wonder if there are any adults in the room or are they all just blank-eyed suits who really don't care about the new version of this industry.
Congrats on finding Haleu. I bet he was alongside Waldo, both of them fading into background.
I read down a couple of rabbit holes and found the word zirconium, so I thought Lighbridge might be nearby. But nope. Not a trace. Does it seem odd that Lightbridge is so important to this process and yet getd almost zero notice?
Now, I don't care all that much if Lightbridge gets named, but I would like to know that each time a zirconium bar, pellet or algorithm is plugged in a patent payment twinkles somewhere on a Ligbtbridge spreadsheet.
The years of dangling planetary patents before us now need to resemble chimes which go Ka'ching.
If not, has this all just been a fairy tale?
March 2023: PV Nano froze in time and now they're attempting to unthaw again:
https://ir.pvnanocell.com/sec-filings-email/content/0001213900-23-019566/ea175145-6k_pvnanocell.htm
Can they be trusted? Has their proprietary techniques been replicated by another company?
Seems to me, that's the $64k question.
POAI already did a reverse stock split. This management is the worst because they're scientists, not smart about running public companies. To make matters worse, they're doing this at the same time the global currency/financial system is disintegrating/resetting.
Here's the "letter to shareholders" link from March 9 in which they speak of a new "potential reverse split:"
https://investors.predictive-oncology.com/node/14516/pdf
A couple of main points:
So, Vogtle 3 and Nine Mile Point are opening new, or rebuilt, non-HALEU fuled nuclear plants in US.
Do I understand this right?
WTF: the nuclear industry must be in F'ed-up shape to open new plants without using the safest fuel possible.
Somebody should write a take-no-prisoner's report regarding HALEU vs the industry.
If the industry itself is not standing up for and pushing the safety aspects of HALEU, then there is something shaky about what is being said about it.
Can anybody explain opening a non-HALEU plant?
Here's Tom at Talkin' Investin, explaining the latest hatefest against BTC. They're going after the miner's, proposing a 30% tax on energy used. The starting gambit is rarely the ending result. This is just a money grab before the negotiating begins.
Do they tax banks? No, they tax individuals. This is just another big shot of "peak FU."
The powers that hate BTC, still love the blockchain. They want the chain but they want to kill us, meaning the miners. Without solid mining, there is no BTC.
It's one reason I like HIVE. While I own other mining companies, I like owning companies outside the US. There may be some extra wriggle room if all companies are not under the thumb of the all and powerful Oz.
From 10-Q: "... the Company obtained stockholder approval for the of the Common Stock at a ratio of not less than one-for-twenty (1-for-20) and not more than one-for-one-hundred (1-for-100). The Board has approved the reverse split at a ratio of one-for-one-hundred (1 for 100), without a corresponding reduction in the total number of authorized shares of Common Stock, and to be in effect no later than February 22, 2023 to meet the minimum bid price compliance milestone."
1 for 20 is, perhaps, recoverable. 1 for 100 is total shareholder destruction.
The dropping of the final shoe is often full of lead. But perhaps we at least reach the ground.
Taiwan has too many variables. The article goes through many and none of them are simple.
Taiwan has a struggle over nuclear, as does other countries.
Taiwan voted to disband nuclear years ago and leaders are simply following through.
On other hand, it doesn't make much sense to buy and re-open with the old, pre-haleu tech and fuel.
Why not wait? Once the new, safer fuel begins showing research proving safer progress, all conversations become easier.
Fear is unlikely to lessen until the waste and safer fuel issues are tamed.
Taiwan is also too smart to get ahead of the currently mad world. We need Haleu to find it's voice and that is still non-existing.
And perhaps most of all, IMHO, Taiwan isn't returning to nuclear until the Ukraine situation lessens. Then maybe China slows their world plans.
Finally, a professional looking, slick website.
I'm assuming this explains today's pop. Have we made it to the adult's table?
https://fandifi.com/
Assuming this new site can stand up to heavy use while maintaining fast speeds, Fandifi will have a chance to earn its right to be seated with the adult's.
Now what?
How will Fandifi pry the audience from Twitch--and other platforms--over to Fandifi?
Or, at least to get the multiple audiences to use the Fandifi platform on Twitch, and others, to watch Fandifi gamers.
This is all still quite confusing. And it could be Fandifi is waiting for patterns, and new audiences to organically develop.
I've said this before, but I'm not at all clear what's being planned. But I think Fandifi is bringing something new to the table. And I am looking forward to seeing how Fandifi's new creativity can enter into a world of games and sports which have become more popular and more cynical at the same time.
$DMGGF..Woke up!
And ate the world of bitcoin mining.
I think Fandifi is still too early, not too late. Seems they recognized the problem and attempted to create a platform providing the fans something fun to do because the creativity was going into collecting NFTs, and not the game itself. According to this article, the game makers forgot fun was the goal, not NFTs.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/2023-will-see-the-death-of-play-to-earn-gaming
The problem now is the token world collapsed. There is no more air in the room. What is Fandifi to do?
Will the gaming companies build games people love playing? Will fans want to watch and play along? Can audience participation effect the game outcome? The play?
Where is the mechanism of making money?
According to this article, the games became a get-rich-quick scheme and stopped being fun.
Evidence of this?
I agree, wish they would have explained their decision process.
If/when BTC goes back up, CORZ will survive to mine big numbers and they will be able to reduce or eliminate debt. Until then, the debt would squeeze them dry.
As shareholder we have no rights in bankruptcy.
This market has made me a disbeliever in markets. Too much manipulation, or simple plain corruption. Our politicians, including SEC, have surrendered their public duty to keep the playing field level. They used to at least pretend to fight for us little investors. Now they don't even pretend anymore.
Bitcoin miner Core Scientific filing for bankruptcy — but plans to keep mining
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/20/bitcoin-miner-core-scientific-filing-for-bankruptcy-will-keep-mining.html?__source=androidappshare
"The company is still generating positive cashflow, but that cash is not sufficient to repay the financing debt owed on equipment it was leasing, according to a person familiar with the company’s situation. The company will not liquidate, but will continue to operate normally while reaching a deal with senior security noteholders, which hold the bulk of the company’s debt, according to this person, who declined to be named discussing confidential company matters.
Core had previously said in a filing in October that holders of its common stock could suffer “a total loss of their investment,” but that may not be the case if the overall industry recovers. The deal cut with Core’s convertible note holders is structured in such a way that if, in fact, the business environment for bitcoin improves, common equity holders may not get totally wiped out."
A flurry of big sells today as the price dropped another serious percentage. In all the down days of past months, however, this has not happened before. Most days in past months was a single sell order. In my opinion, this shows one of two options:
1. The money is pushing down price prior to good news in order to stock up. The new news will lead to rising price.
2. Company is going out of business.
Considering they just met with esports award industry, my bet is #1. If I'm wrong I lose my bet on this company.
Don't follow my advice. GLTA.
Is the rally in time to save baby Argo? Stop selling miners and hook them back up.
Fusion seems to also have a fuel problem. Not sure LTBR can adapt. In this article it speaks of 2035 when fusion might be ready. Hopefully, during that time, LTBR has a few good years.
https://www.science.org/content/article/fusion-power-may-run-fuel-even-gets-started
DMG: the little train that could.
Presenting to:
DMG Provides November Mining Results; Company to Present at Singular Research’s Best of the Uncovered
https://mailchi.mp/dmgblockchain/dmg-blockchain-solutions-february-2022-newsletter-13769894?e=655934cf10
Good article. Charen is a level-headed interviewer.
Yes, it's getting more clear.
See link below to New York Times article.
Headline: "The Excitement Around E-Sports Is Growing. But Where Are the Profits?"
And: "Traditional sports owners who invested in competitive video gaming say the money isn’t flowing in as quickly as they had expected."
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/26/business/video-game-e-sports-profit.html?utm_campaign=Monthly%20Recap&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=236256118&utm_content=236256118&utm_source=hs_email
This article explains why Fandifi must exist. Maybe Fandifi saves the world of gaming from itself.
Now we get to watch politicians strangle themselves over blockchain tech. Will mining companies earn the right to exist? Or must they win the favor of the politicians who win the fight to hold the purse strings?
This latest press release is a big deal.
Fandifi Teams Up with Esports Awards
https://fandomesports.com/api/preview?type=press&name=fandifi_-_november_28_-_lvl_up.pdf&utm_campaign=Fandom&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=235822074&utm_content=235822074&utm_source=hs_email
Tom at Talkin' Investing explains why 6 miners are the most likely to go out of business.
No news. I can no longer sign on to the beta account. It worked one time and haven't gotten into it since.
Let's hope they learned a lot and are now fine-tuning.
Fandual has an ad which says things like betting on stupid stuff in between sporting events. So it looks like this part of Fandifi's model has already been copied.
Unsurprising because capitalism often amounts to stealing ideas. Not sure if Fandifi has any patents, but it's patent protection where repetitive payments come from.
Hopefully, Fandifi's neural network will allow them to identify and solve the problem of what the audience wants and how to give it to them.
I opened a Fandifi beta account and was able to do so, although, when I logged out it didn't remember me so I could sign back in again. Looks like I'll have to create an account again to get back in
Once I was in, though, it looked interesting. It was a busy screen, but I didn't see any fast action games with fast activity. I opened a few sports and games, but none I saw were frantically busy, which is all fine. This is a learning curve.
I'm not a video gamer, but I can understand the potential draw, allowing fans watching games/sports to interact and bet on while watching. This is truly intriguing, allowing audiences to become actively involved instead of passively watching.
Truly, I hope Fandifi gets such a foothold that they open their own home gym where people can workout together while watching events. Imagine watching sports while on a treadmill while interacting on a stream.
Watching screens are passive. If Fandifi can get us up and moving in our rooms, I'm all in. If we get up and interact, all the better.
Gambling can be for micro or macro amounts. I play on PokerStars using free chips since live poker is still illegal in USA, due to early internet pieces-of-shit companies which stole from their own customers. PokerStars also has games for pennies as well as big dollar amounts.
So, I was pleased Fandifi had links to live poker. If you don't know, live poker has huge audiences on YouTube and sites like Twitch, which streams poker with active chat rooms during live games. Betting on poker players is going be as large as many other sports.
Hopefully, Fandifi can tap into all the audiences. The CA poker room "Live at the Bike" and the Vegas room, "Hustler live poker" are remarkable to watch. And they have active streams, too. If Fandifi taps into them, this horse will run.
If Fandidfi can develop interactive audiences viewing live events simultaneously, it will be quite interesting. Soccer, football, basketball, hockey, etc, all have huge audiences.
Yesterday, I began wondering if Fandifi would be streaming politics and news, letting people interact? That would be amazing. I'd watch that all the time.
What's really great is that Fandifi allows watching live events from the Fandifi platform itself. No need to be on two or more channels. That itself is a game changer.
For anybody, like myself, who cut the cord and who only has an internet connection, I don't have channels. I watch clips, videos, news, lectures, discussions, movies, some but not that much streaming. I can imagine myself changing my behavior if I could watch a film or other show while interacting through a chat source.
That said, the Fandifi window seemed busy: top, bottom and sides. But I havent spent much time getting used to it.
A couple of times the action seemed to freeze, but this was likely my bandwidth provider. Good broadband is clearly essential.
I also hope Fandifi allows a "free" option, which will allow a person to figure out how to do this. The screen is busy with activity and nobody will bet until figuring it all out and that will take time. In one streaming area, I saw this repeated post: "How do I do this?"
I didn't see a help program to walk somebody through the steps to figure it out. It might be there. I just didn't see it.
I also hope they follow PokerStars and provide a "free chips" section.
I'll log in again, or add account again, to see if I can learn more.
It's twisted for sure, but a sense of humor as the money genuinely disappears is a good thing.
I laughed out loud as the f*cked twice as hard comment.
Trash to the 9th
Emerald Health Therapeutics and Skye Bioscience Announce Intended Closing Date of Plan of Arrangement
Skye will continue to pursue Canadian Securities Exchange listing following closing of transaction
VANCOUVER, BC, November 7, 2022– Emerald Health Therapeutics, Inc. ("Emerald" or the "Company") (CSE: EMH; OTCQB: EMHTF) and Skye Bioscience, Inc. (“Skye”) (OTCQB: SKYE) announced today that they intend to close the previously announced Plan of Arrangement (“Arrangement”) on or about November 10, 2022, and that they waived the condition that Skye obtain a conditional approval to list its shares on the Canadian Securities Exchange (“CSE”) prior to closing the Arrangement.
After careful consideration, each of the Company and Skye determined that closing the transaction at this time was in their mutual best interest. The closing of the Arrangement will, among other things, result in the Company’s shareholders receiving their shares of Skye under the Arrangement and will allow the Company to complete the sale of its remaining cannabis assets and create funds to be utilized in Skye’s Phase 1 clinical trial, which is expected to begin before the end of 2022. Although the conditional listing requirement has been waived, Skye has covenanted that it will use its best efforts to obtain the listing of its shares on the CSE as soon as possible. The Skye listing application was submitted to the CSE on August 31, 2022 and is currently under review.
Emerald recommends that shareholders holding their shares in registered accounts seek tax advice prior to the closing of the Arrangement with respect to the tax consequences of the Arrangement closing prior to the listing of Skye’s shares on the CSE.
Please visit www.emeraldhealth.ca for more information or contact:
Jim Heppell, Chairman
1(800) 757 3536 Ext. #5
Emerald Investor Relations
1 (800) 757 3536 Ext. #5
invest@emeraldhealth.ca
Awesome. Caution: long post.
This is about to get serious.
Fandifi BETA has accomplished what it set out to accomplish: locating a benchmark for what is now possible within an online universe, not a metaverse. A better platform is not for cartoon people, but a place where real people interact. Competition is a form of human interaction. It's normal and good and is what real people do.
Both Facebook and Twitter attempted to create interactive platforms but were delusional. Both FB and Twitter thought people would "automatically play nice and fairly."
Instead, people interacted like real people: competitively and sometimes brutally toward others.
Online needs to be a place people remain themselves. They don't need to pretend to being perfect, as FB often requires. Nor do they need to pretend to being angry and superior to all others, as Twitter often requires.
Both FB and Twitter failed because both attempted to manipulate people into being something other than what they are: real people.
But here comes Fandifi and they want people to be themselves while interacting around sports-like activities.
The post-BETA date of Nov 10 has been announced as the date the new platform begins.
I'm truly looking forward to seeing how gaming changes once fans can interact in ways other than just playing the game.
Fandifi seems to want people to just be themselves.
What's going to happen?
As I've written before, if this works it will be a big deal.
Could Fandifi grow to be a next iteration of FB or Twitter? Well, that's an ambitious thought. But it is how competition works.
Tik-Tok came out of nowhere and took over the online world, making it new again. The online world is begging for more ways to help people become real: more real people doing real things.
F the politics. Politics will eventually kill FB, deservedly so. We will see if Twitter survives politics.
Fandifi needs to escape politics and let people breathe again, but online.
Has Fandifi discovered the next new online experience? Something new, exciting, thrilling because it's real, not pretend?
If so, then we--this board--are in for some fun.
Has Fandifi put together a platform/program which can capture a sizable piece of this new, post-covid generation?
This new generation doesn't interact face2face. They specialize in non-F2F but intense online interactivity.
Does Fandifi have its finger on this pulse?
Can Fandifi respond to them in ways which meaningfully engages them?
History is short, exciting and painful. Facebook/Meta had their online interactive moments, their proverbial 15 minutes in the sun.
People interacted meaningfully on both FB and Twitter (and the others: Instagram, whatsapp, etc.). But now these platforms have lost their edge, their cache coolness. They lost because they tried to manipulate people into becoming robotic creatures.
Can Fandifi swoop in and capture imaginations?
Both FB and Twitter attempted to create a friendly interactive environment only to discover their customers seemingly incapable of remaining friendly.
On both platforms, FB and TWTR customers turned combative.
This is critical: has Fandifi created something which allows people to have a "real" experience which genuinely excites people, as happened in the early years of both FB and Twitter?
Has Fandifi discovered a new way for people to interact, allowing both genuine emotion as well as a way to allow their competitive personalities to join the interaction?
Fandifi doesn't need to pretend. Competition, even combative non-F2F interaction, might be interesting. This might be the next wave of online interaction.
Again, if Fandifi has created something new, we might be in for a great ride.
So far, online experiences have been mostly BS, packaged manure being sold as sweet. And sure, some of the experiences were genuinely sweet. Seeing real-time online photos seen thousands of miles away was extraordinary.
But now what? Is that all there is?
Was this all pretend, a way to get our data and nothing more?
No chance of that. The next new thing is out here, waiting to be found. And it is how to allow people to be more human online. The current ways of this are in the process of failing.
Perhaps Fandifi has discovered the next ride, the next platform to get us to be more human.
If Fandifi has found a way, if the Fandifi customer experiences real life, real emotion, and a sense of real satisfaction, even to fight for something real, then this board will have a fun year.
Nov 10: I'll be watching.
Go Fandifi. GLTA