Week 2, May 21 – Weekly Wrap Up
1.) Live From New York It’s Elon
2.) Bitcoin Energy Crisis
3.) Colonial Crypto Ransom
4.) CDC Unmasks New Regs
1.) Live From New York It’s Elon: America’s favorite TechnoKing & the DogeFather hosted SNL this past Saturday with fans and critics alike tuning in for the Mothers Day themed performance. What a great country right? Pop culture & tech are like this in 2021 🤞
2.) Bitcoin Energy Crisis: Elon couldn’t just have SNL. He also contributed in sending Bitcoin down 20% after tweeting that Tesla would not support the digital currency for car payments because of its environmental unfriendliness. Hellooo? This not new. Anyway, the tweets affected the volatile crypto markets all the same
3.) Colonial Crypto Ransom: this story is wild and honestly hard to understand but basically Colonial Pipeline, an energy company that provides 45% of fuel to the East Coast, had their systems held hostage in a cyber attack from hacker group “Darkside” causing them to shell out $5M in crypto for ransom payment. Seriously, what?
4.) CDC Unmasks New Regs: On Thursday the CDC dropped a surprise announcement saying that if you’ve been vaccinated you can go outside AND indoors without a mask..mostly. State & local guidelines still overrule though. Anyway, we’re getting there!