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Why Near Protocol, Algorand and Dogetti Are Ideal Long-Term Cryptocurrency Investment Options In Quarter One

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Since the start of the bear market, many prominent crypto investors have switched strategies and prioritized long-term cryptocurrency investing over short-term. This is because the former protects crypto assets from the harsh realities of the bear market and allows them to accumulate profits in the process. The extreme volatility and negative prices currently present within the industry make long-term cryptocurrency investing a more sensible crypto-investing strategy to utilize in the current climate and beyond. We are now witnessing some development in the crypto market thanks to several brief spells of bullish activity. Still, since the bear market is not yet over, crypto investors looking to take advantage of the current situation will be better served by making long-term cryptocurrency investments.

Many of the industry’s largest cryptos have benefitted from the recent crypto pump, and their stock appears to be gradually elevating within the crypto market. However, after extensive research, we have come to the conclusion that these three tokens – Near Protocol (NEAR), Algorand (ALGO) and Dogetti (DETI) are head and shoulders above the rest. Here’s what makes these three tokens ideal long-term cryptocurrency investment options in the year’s first quarter.

Near Protocol (NEAR) Back On Track Within The Crypto Market

Last year, the NEAR token, like many other popular cryptocurrencies within the cryptocurrency industry, recorded extremely poor performances within the crypto market. However, after several spells of bullish activity within the cryptocurrency industry, the token appears to be back up and is experiencing an upward trajectory. NEAR is native to the Near Protocol (NEAR) crypto platform, a notable layer-one blockchain within the cryptocurrency industry that operates in the form of a community-run cloud computing platform. The crypto platform provides feasible solutions to some of the biggest issues blockchain networks battle, such as low transaction speeds, low throughput and poor interoperability.

NEAR is a top twenty cryptocurrency by market cap and is listed on many prominent crypto platforms, including Binance, Coinbase Pro and Huobi Global.

Algorand (ALGO) Stocks At An All-Time High

ALGO, the native cryptocurrency of the Algorand (ALGO) platform, is one of the cryptocurrencies massively benefitting from the recent crypto pump. The token, which recorded all-time lows at the height of the bear market, is back up and rising rapidly, prompting suggestions as to whether it would make an ideal investment option in the current climate. ALGO is a token that is notable within the cryptocurrency industry for fast transaction times and low transaction costs. The token plays an integral role in the Algorand ecosystem by providing utility and facilitating crypto operations, such as network governance, user interaction and payment fees.

ALGO is a highly attractive cryptocurrency within the industry and could be an ideal portfolio addition. The token is listed on top crypto platforms, such as Binance and Coinbase.

Dog-based Meme Coin Dogetti (DETI) Is The Future

Meme coins have established themselves as ideal investment options in the current climate, thanks to their immense utility. The upcoming Ethereum (ETH) based meme coin, Dogetti (DETI), is an ideal meme coin with impressive features, such as a massive supply. The token is attracting a lot of interest within the crypto community and is yet to go on presale.

Dogetti (DETI) goes on presale in the coming weeks and could be an ideal long-term cryptocurrency investment in the current climate. For more information on the token, click any of the following links.

Check out Dogetti below:

Presale: https://dogetti.io/how-to-buy

Website: https://dogetti.io/

Telegram: https://t.me/Dogetti

Twitter: https://twitter.com/_Dogetti_

Nigeria Guber Poll: LP’s Otti Wins Abia State As INEC Declares PDP’s Mbah Winner of Enugu State

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Labour Party’s governorship candidate, Alex Otti, has emerged winner of Abia State governorship election, beating other contestants, including the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Okey Ahiwe, to secure the number one job in the Southeast state.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced the result Wednesday evening, after worrisome prolongation that got voters saying that the electoral body wanted to manipulate the result.

Otti polled 175,467 to defeat Okey Ahiwe, his closest rival, who scored 88,529 votes.

“With deep humility and a profound sense of responsibility, I wholeheartedly accept your mandate to be your chief servant for the next 4 years,” he tweeted after the result was announced, thanking residents of Abia State for voting him.

The state governorship election took a turn on Monday after thugs invaded Obingwa LGA collation center, forcing INEC officials to suspend the collation of results. The thugs, who held INEC officials hostage for sometime before they were released, prompted the electoral commission to call for a review of the process. Otti was reportedly leading, having more than 80,000 votes at the time.

Abia State residents have taken to the streets to celebrate the result. The state has been under the leadership of the PDP since 1999, and is rated among the most poorly-governed states in Nigeria. The LP’s victory, which happens to be the party’s one and only in the governorship election, is thus seen as a liberation of the state from misrule.

Meanwhile in Enugu, another Southeast state, INEC has declared PDP’s Peter Mbah winner of the governorship election through a result being contested.

INEC said Mbah polled 160,895 votes, just 3,343 votes above his closest rivals – LP’s Chijioke Edeoga, who scored 157,552. Other candidates, Frank Nweke Jr of All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), got 16,683 while Uche Nnaji of the All Progressives Congress (APC) got 14,575 votes.

“That Mbah Peter Ndubuisi of Peoples Democratic Party, having satisfied the requirement of the law is hereby declared the winner and returned elected,” the Returning Officer, Prof Maduebibisi Ofo-Iwe, who is the Vice Chancellor of the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike, announced.

Like in Abia State, collation of results was halted in Enugu following notable discrepancies. The INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, said the move is to review the results for Nsukka and Nkanu East Local Government Areas of the state.

The suspension of collation prompted a protest by the LP supporters, who trooped to INEC’s office, alleging that the electoral body was attempting to thwart the result of the election in favor of the PDP.

Mbah was anointed by the outgoing governor of Enugu State, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi.

Lessons from “STAGE”, a Political Ad Against Romney, And AI on Jobs

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The logo for Goldman Sachs is seen on the trading floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, New York, U.S., November 17, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/Files

It was an unmistakable political advertisement. As the Chairman of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Boston Gold, I had just completed a program where we represented the Institute in MIT, in a program organized by the German government. All the leadership decided to have dinner together in Waltham in Cheesecake Factory.

As I sat down, I saw a political ad: a factory man explained how Mitt Romney (competing against Obama for US presidency) had asked them to build a stage, and how Romney later came, and fired all of them while standing on that stage. That was my first time of watching the “Stage”, the ad that destroyed Romney’s any chance of winning the presidency. How do you ask people to build a stage so that you can be visible as you fire them? The message was politically lethal. (The advert below)

That takes me to the news that Goldman Sachs software developers are now using ChatGPT to get their codes going: “Reports reveal that software developers at leading global investment banking, securities, and investment management firm, Goldman Sachs, are internally using generative AI tools to assist in writing and testing codes.”  

Across all domains of business, as AI systems evolve, many will train machines which will prepare stages to displace them. The key is having awareness of what to do to stop being a victim. 

Learn something beyond coding because basic coding will go like Isaac Pitman shorthand in 3 years.

“Developers are already using some of the assisted coding technology to write codes. It is currently in a proof of concept stage and not yet ready for production. It is still very early, you wouldn’t put immediately all your most important workloads there, but the imperative is to really try to understand the potential”.

“In some cases, developers have been able to write as much as 40% of their code automatically using generative AI. They are using the software to both test code and generate new ones. If you actually have a GPT-like technology that tests the code, or you generate the tests for the GPT code, you are creating this dualism where you test the machine and you get the machine to test your work”.

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Comment 1: I read this then put it away. I returned to it and read it again. I reread it thrice and came to the conclusion that sometimes we don’t know if we really wanted something until we actually got it: Once Pandora opened the box what escaped could not be put back in.

As the story of Pandora’s box goes the only thing that remained in the box was hope. While the invention of AI is certainly amazing what will be created by its use will tower above what exists today. With all good things comes evil so maybe we need Pandora to open that box once more to release the trapped hope so that more good will come of AI than bad.

Let’s learn to us it for good and create jobs and opportunities to enrich life for many, instead of the opposite.

My Response: “Let’s learn to us it for good and create jobs and opportunities to enrich life for many, instead of the opposite.” – it will of course. The only challenge is that it will not carry many people along!

Comment 2: Interesting piece! People skills and building managerial competencies will always be needed. So building that will be an added advantage. In the words of Rockefeller “The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee. And I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.”

Comment 3: Industrial revolution = Farms to Factories

Technological revolution = Offices to Farms

We are about to go full circle, then we rinse and repeat again.

The process is basically the same, different terminologies for each dispensation.

Goldman Sachs Developers Use Generative AI Tools to Write Codes

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Reports reveal that software developers at leading global investment banking, securities, and investment management firm, Goldman Sachs, are internally using generative AI tools to assist in writing and testing codes.

Former Amazon Executive and current Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Goldman Sachs Marco Argenti disclosed that the firm’s software engineers have been using the AI technology to automatically generate lines of code.

He said,

“Developers are already using some of the assisted coding technology to write codes. It is currently in a proof of concept stage and not yet ready for production. It is still very early, you wouldn’t put immediately all your most important workloads there, but the imperative is to really try to understand the potential”.

“In some cases, developers have been able to write as much as 40% of their code automatically using generative AI. They are using the software to both test code and generate new ones. If you actually have a GPT-like technology that tests the code, or you generate the tests for the GPT code, you are creating this dualism where you test the machine and you get the machine to test your work”.

Argenti however declined to reveal the generative AI products that developers at the company have been using. He also did not specify which bank division the tech is being used in.

Goldman’s use of generative AI products comes despite a pushback from some banking giants in the use of ChatGPT internally. It is interesting to note that JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and Bank of America all restricted their staff from using AI software.

Reports suggest that the ban wasn’t a result of any particular incident but rather due to concerns about potential regulatory risks surrounding the sharing of sensitive financial information with OpenAI’s chatbot.  

Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs has invested heavily in turning the bank into a more technology-driven company in recent years. The firm launched Marcus, a standalone digital bank focused on consumers in 2016, and rolled it out to the U.K. in 2018. In its drive to use AI to enhance its bank operations, it would be recalled that in 2021, Goldman Sachs set up a fund of $72.5 million exclusively to invest in the field of Artificial Intelligence algorithms and as well as analytics.

The bank is keen on maintaining its brand image by offering unmatched customer experience, enhanced data security as well as service.

It is not far-fetched to say that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is playing a significant role in driving the world toward a tech-enabled future. It is transforming businesses to adapt to a new digital domain that is powered by high-tech machines that can help solve critical problems across diverse industry verticals. The finance and banking sectors, in particular, are keen on embracing AI to safeguard customers against fierce competition in this sector.

Most banks are reportedly focusing their efforts on AI-enabled applications for risk mitigation, particularly fraud detection, and cybersecurity systems. These applications have a proven history of ROI in the financial services industry.

The Internet Never Forgets; this is not a cliche.

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Sometimes we see young people (teenagers and youths) post on their social media pages especially on their Snapchats and TikToks their nudes and other embarrassingly obscene pictures and videos of themselves in order to entertain their followers and also pull traffic to their pages. They do all these in the name of having fun, body goals, body positivity, being proud of their bodies and whatever stylish name they may christen it and thinking once they grow older, get something serious going for them or starts a family or maybe have kids everything will be all gone and forgotten but the unfortunate truth is that the internet never forgets and nothing can really be totally taken off the internet once it has made its way there. 

You lost control of whatever you post on the internet. Even if you posted it and deleted it immediately or you posted it on your WhatsApp status where it is just your family members and close friends that view it, you are no longer in control of it; that post may end up on another site or page as a screenshot.

Before you click that send or post button, re-evaluate what you are about to post and ask yourself “will I be embarrassed or humiliated by this post or this picture if it ends up on a different page”? If yes then do not post or send.

Once you send a file over or make a post on social media or or even a comment, have it in mind that it will forever remain in the public domain. It is almost impossible to delete a file totally from the internet. Although some social media platforms might decide to pull down the post due to their strict policies and regulations against such posts, there will definitely be other platforms and blogs where your post will still be available for the public to access.

While you are posting your nudes to entertain your followers on Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, Tinder, Tiktok, Twitter, Onlyfans etc or attract new people, have it in mind that even if you grow older and become a grandma, that your nudes will always be in the public domain, even if you delete them all or deactivate your page it will always be on the internet space.

People have lost their jobs, lost life golden opportunities, been humiliated and some have been denied visas over some obscene and embarrassing posts of themselves they made years ago without them having the slightest idea that the post will come back to witch-hunt them years after. Some organizations are keen on knowing the kind of life their prospective employee is living or lived on social media spaces and I can promise you that once you were a social media nudist, even if you stopped, turned your life around and obtained a Harvard degree some organizations will find it difficult having you.

So while you have all the fun you are having now and exhibiting youthful exuberance, bear in mind that actions have consequences; the internet never forgets and it is almost impossible to ever delete or totally get rid of any post that has made its way into the internet space. Please teach your daughters, your sisters and your girlfriends that are still in their prime these things so they pay very much attention and be careful of the pictures or videos of themselves they put out there.