A Brief History Bitcoin will be approaching its 11th year in January 2020. When the idea of a “peer-to-peer electronic cash system” was introduced by the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto on the 3rd of January 2009, there was much speculation (or debate) as to how much a bitcoin would actually be worth. For more than a full year (a year and 9 days to be exact), there were a lot of back-and-forths. It was then that a Bitcointalk forum user named “dwdollar” expressed the idea of opening the first-ever (and much-needed) bitcoin exchange saying: “I am trying to create a market…
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A Brief History On September 23, 2008, a Finnish murderer proved that mass shootings do occur in other “civilized” countries outside the United States, and you do NOT need a military looking or high powered weapon to commit such a heinous act. The perpetrator, only 22 years old, was ironically a “Hospitality Management” student at the Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences in Kauhajoki, Finland. (Note: Finland has much more restrictive gun laws than the US. Click the Finland link for more information.) The shootings took place at a university, meaning the mass shooting was also in fact a “school shooting,”…
A Brief History In the middle and late 1980s, executive information systems (EIS), group decision support systems (GDSS), and organizational decision support systems (ODSS) evolved from the single user and model-oriented DSS. Today, when trying to determine your next steps in business, it is important to use a decision-making tool such as SMART. The “S” stands for gathering specific information, the “M” if for meaningful data, the “A” is agreed-upon intelligence, and achievable standards, the “R” realistic goals, and the “T” in SMART is for the time needed to make the correct decisions to reach your goals. Has your business…
A Brief History In 1987, Andreas Lüning and Kai Figge, who founded G Data Software in 1985, released their first antivirus product for the Atari ST platform. Today, when searching for a good antivirus, one can face the problem of choice as there are too many variants on the market; however, some of the antivirus programs offer users a free version so that anyone can come up with the decision. Below, you will find the top five best free antivirus programs. Find out more about the current leaders and get a high-quality and valid instrument to protect their devices. Digging Deeper Avast Free…
A Brief History August 12, 1915 marks the date of a story – which is not actually just a simple story – which tells of the vanishing of a group of British soldiers during the now infamous Gallipoli campaign, during World War One. Most say that the 5th Norfolk Battalion vanished into thin air. Other versions of this legend say that the soldiers actually walked into thick mist and were then swallowed up, without a single trace. Ever since the men of Sandringham have vanished, theories have been created, as well as a lot of controversies. Naturally, all of those…