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The Rocketize Platform Is Going To Space! Is Now The Time To Add This Cryptocurrency To Your Wallet?

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We have seen various campaigns over the years in the cryptocurrency market, all trying to hook you on one promise or the other. However, not many have had the heart nor the ambition like Rocketize (JATO).

Rocketize is the new meme club on the block. With its space-like theme, this new crypto intends to bring awareness to the general public about the benefits of the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem.

Blockchain technology has brought forth a wave of innovative individuals who are looking to make a change in the way people manage their finances. The developers of Rocketize are no different. Rocketize is an open-source, community-driven cryptocurrency in the De-Fi ecosystem built on the Binance Smart Chain platform, aiming to bring more original features that will improve blockchain crypto technology.

Rocketize Is Not Just Another Meme Coin

Several meme coins within the year have tried their best to stamp mark in the cryptocurrency industry, and Rocketize might seem like just another generic meme coin to add to the test. However, you would be wrong to think it is without its differences.

On face value alone, Rocketize differentiates itself from most of the other meme coins with dogs as their mascots, trying to rekindle the success of Dogecoin (DOGE). The Web 3.0 Rocketize platform utilizes decentralized tools and democratic-style governance, which grants its community the ability to vote and make decisions on the future of the cryptocurrency.

This method brings its users closer, giving them the incentive that they are part of something bigger than themselves – which they are. Their support is key to the success of JATO tokens, and the creators of Rocketize are aware of this. They reward holders of JATO tokens with revenue streams, even replacing 1% of every completed transaction into the holder’s wallet.

Rocketize’s Journey To Space!

The team behind Rocketize Token took the phrase ‘skyrocket’ to a whole new level – literally. As part of the developers’ effort to support the expansion of humanity’s exploration beyond the stars, they have begun the works of a space program with hopes of creating an inclusive platform for the integration of cryptocurrency technologies in orbit.

The team’s determined objective to expand the impact of Rocketize to reach more people and even reach out of our atmosphere will benefit the Rocketize brand and shine a light on the community supporting their endeavors.

Is It Too Late To Purchase JATO Tokens?

The short answer is no. Rocketize has only recently begun its stage two presale, but don’t hold your breath if you are considering adding this cryptocurrency to your wallet. Due to successful non-fungible tokens (NFTs) minting events, this meme coin has started developing a comprehensive e-commerce platform that will support its in-the-works meme trading cards, which will surely bring JOTA more attention from the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry.

Users who sign up for their presale now will receive a 60% bonus after making a purchase within the first 30 minutes of signing up. If you decide to sign up, don’t forget to invite your friends and family. Rocketize rewards players with $40 when their referrals buy up to $100 worth of JATO tokens.

Of course, it goes without saying before making any expenditures make sure to do further research and investigation. Use the links below if you want to find out more.

 

Presale: https://launch.rocketize.io/register

Website: https://rocketize.io/

Telegram: https://t.me/RocketizeTokenOfficial

Your next-door neighbor could be a kidnapper

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The news of the arrest of John Ewa, Aka Lyon, in his Abuja home; the notorious kidnapper that has been terrorizing the whole of Bayelsa state and other neighboring states is good news and as well a shocking one. 

John Ewa appears to be a regular family guy, with a wife and a newborn baby. He does regular things; he goes to church on Sundays and hangs out with friends on weekdays. His friends will certainly have no idea that he is a notorious kidnapper. His neighbors will not have the slightest clue that he is a deadly kidnapper. 

After the Kuje jailbreak in Abuja, the security operative released a memo that there are bandits, Boko haram members, and unknown gunmen scattered around the nooks and crannies of the Abuja city centre. The next guy sitting beside you in a taxi might be a terrorist, the next person seated opposite you in a restaurant while you are eating might be an unknown gunman, and the customer that comes to patronize you in your shop or marketplace might be a kidnapper in disguise. 

There is a call for citizens to be on alert, vigilant, and on the lookout. Do not hesitate to report that neighbor who lives a flashy lifestyle without any known source of income. Report that your acquaintance who makes some suspicious movement or suspicious phone calls, you could be saving your own life. Report that neighbor that is always bringing different strangers home at night. You might be saving yourself from a robbery attack. 

This is the point club owners will have to put the safety and security of the society first before sales and patronage. It will help society a great deal if club owners start reporting patrons who they suspect might be involved in shady deals. The club owner or other legitimate patrons of the club might be the prime target of those criminals so the act of the club owner reporting is somehow saving himself and saving his business. 

Religious leaders too should learn to start asking their members about their source of wealth, especially those that are always sowing heavy seeds and paying big tithes without any known source of income. This is also part of the pastoral job; Watching over the flock. The pastor might as well be saving himself, his family members, and the congregation from kidnap or robbery attacks. These terrorists have no limit as to what extent they could go in executing their missions. 

Parents should as well ask their wards who drive flashy cars and live large the ward’s source of wealth. If what your son or daughter does for a living in every reasonable sense can not afford the kind of life the child lives, then it will be reasonable to presume that the child is into some shady deals and the best thing to do is to report to the authorities. By doing that, you are saving society from ritualists, kidnappers, armed robbers, unknown gunmen, etc. 

Everybody must be on alert and engage in whistleblowing and this is how we keep ourselves safe from wolves disguising as sheep in society. 

Google is Shutting Down its Cloud Gaming Unit Stadia

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Google is shutting down its cloud gaming service Stadia, joining some other companies who have made the decision to shut down their gaming units.

In a blog post on Thursday, Stadia Vice President GM Phil Harrison said the service will remain live for players until January 18th, 2023.

Google will be refunding all Stadia hardware purchased through the Google Store as well as all the games and add-on content purchased from the Stadia store. Google expects those refunds will be completed in mid-January.

“A few years ago, we also launched a consumer gaming service, Stadia,” he said “And while Stadia’s approach to streaming games for consumers was built on a strong technology foundation, it hasn’t gained the traction with users that we expected so we’ve made the difficult decision to begin winding down our Stadia streaming service.”

The decision came more than two years after the gaming unit was launched. Although Google has struggled with Stadia, it had failed to openly admit it. Stadia employees will now join other parts of the company.

Pushing Stadia in the face of stiff competition from first-party Sony, Microsoft offerings and Amazon’s similar platform, Luna, was too hot for Google to handle. Last February, it shut down its own internal development studio, Stadia Games and Entertainment, which was created to bring exclusive first-party titles to the platform.

Harrison said at the time, “Given our focus on building on the proven technology of Stadia as well as deepening our business partnerships, we’ve decided that we will not be investing further in bringing exclusive content from our internal development team SG&E, beyond any near-term planned games.”

Google said for many years, it has invested across multiple aspects of the gaming industry. We help developers build and distribute gaming apps on Google Play and Google Play Games. Gaming creators are reaching audiences around the world on YouTube through videos, live streaming and Shorts. And our cloud streaming technology delivers immersive gameplay at massive scale.

Harrison says Google sees opportunities to apply Stadia’s technology to other parts of Google, like YouTube, Google Play, and its AR efforts, and the company also plans to “make it available to our industry partners, which aligns with where we see the future of gaming headed.

Though Google has made plans for refunds, it shared more details on how it intends to do that in a FAQ. Refunds will automatically be made through the Google and Stadia stores, and you won’t have to return any hardware. Stadia Pro subscriptions will not be eligible for a refund, but you will not be charged during the shutdown period and can access games you might have redeemed as a Pro user until everything is wound down. Google has closed the Stadia store, so you can’t buy games or in-game transactions.

The Verge noted that the writing has been on the wall for Stadia for a while now, most recently when Logitech announced its new cloud gaming handheld last week and Stadia was one of the few cloud gaming services not mentioned. But Stadia has been facing rumors of its demise practically from the start. Google has a habit of killing projects only a few years after they launch, and Stadia, a cloud gaming service from a company with few ties in the gaming industry, seemed like a prime candidate for an early demise.

Last year, rumors abound it would shut down after the number of games released to the platform slowed and the company shuttered its in-house game development studios. When those rumors popped up again this year, Google insisted that Stadia was not shutting down. “Rest assured we’re always working on bringing more great games to the platform and Stadia Pro,” the company said in a tweet. Which was true… until today.

Coolio of “Gangsta’s Paradise” Knocks at Paradise, aged 59 [video]

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He was a rapper and one of the finest in his generation. His music was packaged with a soulful message. And to a large extent, he was a “clean” rapper without the usual verbal bombs. It was in a FUTO hostel the first time I heard “C U When U Get There” which he released in 1997.  That song reminded me of Every Breath You Take” by the Police.

The Police was a favourite of a kinsman (Acho) who was a businessman in Aba. Whenever he made it home on weekends, in the village, he would play it in his stereo non-stop. Occasionally, he connected with Lionel Richie’s “All Night Long”. Coolio passed away yesterday. He rapped “Gangsta’s Paradise”. I am hoping he is there now. He was 59.

Emeka (Industrial Chemistry) – a junior roommate in FUTO who played Coolio all day should be unhappy this week.  Strength to Tupac Jr (his nickname for his love of rap).

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Comment: Ndubuisi Ekekwe sorry for your loss

My Response: Not really a rap fan!!! But when a man writes a song positing a paradise of gangsters, you can preach a Church sermon from his mind.

“As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death

I take a look at my life and realize there’s not much left

‘Cause I’ve been blastin’ and laughin’ so long, that

Even my mama thinks that my mind is gone”

He was just 23 with realization of many things, writing “I’m an educated fool with money on my mind”. He continued…

“They say I gotta learn, but nobody’s here to teach me

If they can’t understand it, how can they reach me

I guess they can’t, I guess they won’t

I guess they front, that’s why I know my life is out of luck, fool”

He was talking of social inequality. Even the typical United Nations declaration will appreciate his mind.

American Tech Billionaires Have Lost $315bn Since 2021 – Forbes

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Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who has lost $77 billion of his personal fortune, is not the only tech billionaire hit by the wave of market slumps that have erased most of the pandemic-induced gains.

Stock markets around the world have been experiencing downturns as the global economy battles with inflation and recession. At the receiving end are tech companies, and by extension – their founders and CEOs.

In a series of stock plunge involving tech companies, Netflix has lost 60% of its stock; Meta has gone down about 58%, while Google and Amazon stocks have both nosedived around 30% year-to-date in 2022, according to Google Finance.

This backdrop means that tech industry leaders are also losing their personal wealth. According to Forbes 400 list that valued 400 richest Americans for the year 2022, American tech billionaires have collectively lost a staggering $315 billion since last year. But this doesn’t mean that they have become poorer when compared to their net worth before the pandemic.

Analysis made by Vox, which compared the pre-pandemic wealth of the tech leaders to the present, found that although there have been huge losses; they are still richer than they were in 2019.

For instance, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos lost $50 billion in 2022, depleting his net worth to around $151 billion, according to Forbes. But compared to his 2019 $115 billion fortune, he’s still 32% richer in 2022 than he was before the pandemic. Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who has lost $28 billion, only went back to his pre-pandemic net worth of $106 billion. Google founder Sergey Brin, another character in the list, saw his fortune moved up by about $35.5 billion compared to 2019.

Vox noted that of the 65 billionaires on the Forbes 400 who are categorized under tech — which includes the likes of Oracle founder Larry Ellison, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, and former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer — 56 are richer than they were in 2019, despite the current downturn.

“On the one hand, $315 billion is a lot,” said Chase Peterson-Withorn, deputy editor of Forbes’s wealth team, which compiles and edits the Forbes 400 list. “But they’re all doing fine. These are people who are extremely wealthy.”

Due to the sheer size of their fortunes, “tech leaders probably swing more than other people in dollar terms,” he added.

With the unprecedented boom in tech wealth in the last three years, the majority of the tech industry leaders amassed massive personal fortunes that appear to have been solidified beyond the 2019 volumes. Though for some, it’s a different story.

For instance, Zuckerberg losing $77 billion has dropped his net worth to $57.7 billion, about 17% short of his 2019 personal fortune valued at $69.6 billion. Vox noted that Dustin Moskovitz, who co-founded Facebook with Zuckerberg, has also seen his fortune shrink, from $11.6 billion in 2019 to $8.1 billion in 2022.

Eric Yuan, the founder of Zoom, whose net worth was buoyed by the pandemic-induced shift to virtual meetings, also has seen his fortune plummet as life returns to normal and offices reopen. Zoom has lost much of its market value – its stock has fallen from a peak price of $588.84 per share in October 2020, to around $75, where it is currently trading. The Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimates that Yuan was worth around $4.78 billion on September 2 2019. Now, his fortune has dropped to $3.9 billion, according to the Forbes 400 list.

However, the unprecedented tech industry growth, which has also birthed a new crop of billionaires, is believed by some analysts to be unsustainable. The reason they say, is because the stocks are overvalued.

“[People] think the past is representative of the future, and confuse past performance with investment quality going forward,” Avanidhar Subrahmanyam, a professor of finance at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, told Recode over email. “It is counterproductive. Something with tearaway past performance is more likely to be overvalued.”

“I agree that some stocks did become unsustainably overvalued precisely because of this bias,” he added.