Divi Coins wants to make their cryptocurrency as convenient and accessible as possible. The Divi Project is a new crypto company that closed their initial coin sale in November. The new crypto is looking to replace exchanges like Paypal or Venmo.
Geoff McCabe is the Co-founder and CEO at The Divi Project Tim Sanders is the CMO at The Divi Project. The pair joined Cheddar to explain why they think their new cryptocurrency will lead the market. Sanders stresses that as a company, Divi is attentive and responsive to their consumers' needs.
McCabe believes that in the future all cryptocurrencies will be interchangeable and exchanged via digital wallets. So for Divi, the key is to be adopted and trusted by as many people as possible. In terms of future steps, The Divi Project is looking to build out their own blockchain and wallet.
This week's episode of Cheddar's Crypto Craze tackles the latest news and trends in this emerging market. Dropbox files to go public. The dow closes the week up more than 300 points. TV personality Kelly Killoren Bensimon is out with a fur slipper line.
Hanneke Weitering, staff writer at Space.com, discusses SpaceX's launch of the Falcon 9 rocket that carried a Spanish imaging satellite and two demo Starlink broadband test satellites. With this technology, SpaceX hopes to provide high speed, low cost energy across the globe.
Weight Watchers is getting slammed after offering a free membership promotion for teenagers. Project Heal's Kristina Saffran joins Cheddar to discuss the effects early dieting can have on young people's health and wellness.
Cody Gough, podcast host at Curiosity.com, discusses new studies that reveal why we may not want to be around people when we're sick. He also describes the physical characteristics that tell people when we're feeling under the weather.
I-han Chou, senior editor at Nature, discusses a new study about adolescence and how that period of your life influences adulthood.
Concerns over electronics' batteries overheating and potentially exploding have been circling for some time, reaching a head with Samsung's massive recall of its Note Seven phones. That is why KULR Technologies has created technology that protects batteries and material for everything from electric cars to NASA spaceships.
Facebook is back under the microscope for failing to stop the spread of fake news. Sara Fischer, media reporter for AXIOS, joins to explain how the big tech companies are, or are not, addressing the problem.
Extreme weather across the nation this week. New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. experiencing record high temperatures. Meanwhile, parts of Washington state and Denver are seeing record lows. Mashable's Andrew Freedman explains how the polar vortex split is causing wild weather coast to coast.
Temperatures in Washington, D.C., hit 82 degrees on Wednesday, while the West Coast braced for record lows. Andrew Freedman, senior science editor at Mashable, says a "polar vortex split" is partly to blame.
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