Blockchain, Our Growing Global Population, and Food Resources

Our population is growing, with data showing over 7 billion people living on Earth. This number is expected to grow further, reaching just under 10 billion in 2050.

Following this expected growth, we must consider what technology, data, and information will need to be handled, making processes more efficient and sustainable to maintain our numbers. 

Feeding the planet 

Concerns over healthy and safe foods along with healthy living has been a growing change in our society, with documentaries, environmentalists, news reports and celebrities all getting involved. Pushing for a better and cleaner world, with healthy options for everyone. Streamlining the current system from farm to the kitchen will be a huge undertaking, as every item supply chain will need to be improved fighting against spoilage, disease, waste, and safety. 

Spoilage alone reduces the global food supply by a staggering third of the total supply, according to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Currently, the USDA aims to cut this food waste in half by 2030, but with a population increase from 7 billion to 10 billion, and 7 billion to 11.2 billion in 2100, this will need to improve further and with the population in mind. 

Blockchain alone is not a superpower, but technology that can track and ensure safety regulations are maintained from point A to B would be a giant step forward in creating timelines and supply chains that run efficiently to help aid spoilage around the world. More and better data can help us create better solutions. 

Sharing information on how food is made, its story and the environment will help share and provide how we view the entire process. Understanding and respecting more about our planet and how farmers and fisheries raise and grow animals and other foods would open up awareness for animal cruelty, disease prevention, and spoilage problems. 

If we can see exactly how the food industry works, where problems happen along the way and help monitor everything better, it can only help us improve the current system. 

On a daily basis, we trust in the food we purchase to be safe and fair, ultimately, we trust in the people and businesses that manage food around the world from farming to transporting to shop window. Blockchain is all about taking away trust, making everything transparent and letting people take charge of their own information. 

Forbes writer Raj Rao stated, “In earlier, simpler times, people generally knew who was producing their food, milling their grain, making their cheese or cobbling their shoes. But globalization and international supply chains introduced anonymity and uncertainty to the process.”

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1 in 9 Indonesians hold Cryptocurrency, Hootsuite Report

Ever since Bitcoin came into existence in 2008, mass adoption of the technology has always seemed like a very distant reality, but a new report reveals that we are getting much closer than ever before.

According to a report shared by Hootsuite citing GlobalWebIndex, 11% of all Indonesians own some kind of cryptocurrency. The total population of Indonesia is just over 270 Million people which makes it the fourth most populous country on the planet.

If we do the math, it indeed turns out that 1 out of 9 citizens of Indonesia owns some sort of cryptocurrency. This indicates the massive level of mass adoption that the cryptocurrency is gaining in this region.

According to the Hootsuite report, Indonesia stands in the 6th position in terms of mass adoption of cryptocurrency following Philippines, Brazil, South Africa, Thailand, and Nigeria. Philipines has the highest percentage of the population owning cryptocurrency amongst any countries with 17% of the country’s population having its hands dipped in the crypto market.

The reason for such figures for Indonesia is being attributed to the devaluation of the national currency of Indonesia, i.e. Indonesia Rupee (IDR). IDR took one of the worst hits against USD since 1998 and since the start of the year 2020, the USD/IDR pair has surged by 18%.

Given the fact that internet penetration in Indonesia is 64%, the 11% figure for owning cryptocurrency is very impressive. However, not everyone seems to agree with this report. 

The authenticity of the numbers coming up in the report is coming under question since it has been released. According to the Hootsuite report, 7% of the world’s population owns some kind of cryptocurrency. This means about 546 Million people around the world own some kind of cryptocurrency.

However, another report from Statista shows that there are only 45 Million blockchain wallet users in the world. Report from BitInfoCharts shows that more than 21 Million Bitcoin wallet holders have at least $1 in their accounts. Also, Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase believes that there are almost 50 million crypto users in the world. 

The numbers reported by Hootsuite and the earlier reports seem to contradict each other to some extent. But this doesn’t change the fact Indonesia is definitely one of the countries that is marching at the front for mass crypto adoption. 

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Bill Gates' COVID Conspiracy Grows In Italian Parliament, Allegations of Population Control by Political Anti-Vaxxer

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many subjects to the forefront: our reliance on oil, manufacturing in China, the need for digital dollars, the frailty of our global supply chain, and our lack of preparation to deal with the outbreak.

However, perhaps the strangest topic online and the most unavoidable has been the conspiracy theory chasing Bill Gates and his foundation’s efforts to produce a Covid-19 vaccine. The accusations range from him directly being the cause of the pandemic, to being the head of an Illuminati like circular cabal bent on controlling the world through microchips, and now an insidious plan to depopulate the planet of billions of people.

Where we Came In

We are a blockchain news site, while we absolutely love discussing technologies that may appear to border on fantasy, it has never been our intention to dive into the realm of conspiracy and allegations. However, while this conspiracy began for us as a simple write up on a cutting-edge Microsoft crypto mining patent, the story was bigger to some people than we ever could have imagined and has now taken on a life of its own.

In an effort to put this story to bed once and for all, as far as we are concerned, we have decided to look a little more closely at the allegations and perhaps shed some light, for some, on why they may be getting carried away with their perceptions of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and their effort to combat the coronavirus.

The Devil’s Patent

In March 2020, Microsoft filed a patent with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) for a new system that proposes using sensors, not microchips, to detect and calculate the amount of energy and time spent on a pre-determined activity, like engaging with an advertisement. The sensors apparently are capable of gauging both physical and brain activity and convert that sum into data which can be used by computers to solve computational problems and create new blocks.

What we did not really pay attention to, at the time, was the peculiar patent number of the Microsoft technology – WO/2020/060606. This number, however, did not slip past the Oscar-winning Russian director, Nikita Mikhalkov. A devout Christian, Mikhalkov immediately noticed that the last few numbers of the patent seemed to include the devil’s number, “666” in the application.

Appearing on Russian TV, Mikhalkov said, “The 060606 part is somewhat alarming. You probably understand this, right? Is this a coincidence or an intentional selection of such a symbol, which in the Apocalypse of John is called the ‘number of the beast’ – the 666.”

While Gates has been commended by most for his proactive efforts, Mikahlkov has claimed that the coming COVID-19 vaccination distributed by the Bill Gates Foundation will be a trojan horse for a microchip, in an insidious scheme to enslave the world.

The Oscar-winning director is so confident in his claims that he went on to name Herman Graf, the Head of Russian bank Sberbank, as a co-conspirator, and his arguments have been convincing enough for former Tennis champion and now Russian politician Marat Safin—who has shown public support for the director’s theory.

The Obvious Possible Explanation

Perhaps unknown to both Mikhalkov and Safin, is that patent filing numbers are simply generated according to the guidelines of the World Intellectual Property Organisation. And both of these men do not ever contend with Microsoft’s US patent number, which was published in the United States as US20200097951. We assume it is because there are no numbers linked to biblical prophecies or ‘Satan’ in this filing. 

The first numbers ‘2020’ simply represent the year, and the rest is simply the order it was filed in. Not too much to this one. 

Plandemic and the Anti-Vaxxer Virologist

A week ago, a clip from a soon to be released documentary called ‘Plandemic’ went viral on YouTube before being removed. The clip featured a disgraced virologist named Dr. Judy Mikovits accusing a sinister corporate-controlled “circular cabal” led by Bill Gates himself, of creating the coronavirus pandemic.

Mikovits is adamant that this group she refers to as a “circular cabal” is led by Microsoft Founder turned philanthropist Bill Gates and she even goes on to accuse Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of burying her research which allegedly proved that vaccines weaken people’s immune systems and made them more vulnerable to the coronavirus.

In the viral clip from Plandemic, Mikovits insists that her research was buried and she even goes as far as saying that wearing a mask actually activates the coronavirus. She alleges that Dr. Fauci, who is the face of the Trump administration’s outbreak containment efforts, has censored her warnings to the public. Unfortunately, a little fuel was added to this fire when Trump himself began to publicly question the origins and spread of COVID-19, suggesting it was man-made.

The Obvious Possible Explanation

Prior to the clip of Plandemic being released, Mikovits had already authored and published a book entitled the ‘Plague of Corruption’ which frames herself as the brave whistleblower being held at bay by an Illuminati-like ‘deep state’ organization.

Mikovits has received a lot of support, unfortunately, due to her training as a virologist. But in her excuses regarding her lack of legitimate support, she and her following have consistently failed to mention that her research has never been successfully replicated in other laboratories—meaning it has failed the scientific research standard of peer review. This is basically the reason why anyone’s research would be disregarded, and another point many do not want to contend with is that Mikovits does appear to have a notorious anti-vaxxer history and her research also appears to be driven by her agenda allowing her to draw the conclusions she would like to see. If this were not the case, her research would have held up. But it didn’t.

Mikovits down. 

Italy Calls for the Arrest of Bill Gates

The most recent in the line of allegations came less than a week ago, this time by Italian politician Anna Cunial who took to the house floor to call for the arrest of Bill Gates as she believes he is on a mission to depopulate the world by up to 15%.

Cunial alleges that Gates has been working on depopulation and dictatorial control plans on global politics, aiming to obtain control over agriculture, technology, and energy. Cunial’s allegations appear to fit in with Mikovits’ own accusations, alluding to a powerful deep-state government that Gates himself controls. She subscribes to the claim circulating on social media, that Gates owns the “patent” for the SARS-CoV2, a virus that wasn’t even discovered until January 2020. The theory goes that this entire pandemic is just to create a need for a vaccine from which Gates will subsequently profit.

Cunial points to  Event 201 which took place in Davos Switzerland, and officially served as a simulation for the prevention and control of such a pandemic. She quotes Bill Gates from the day of the simulation, who she claims said, “If we do a good job on vaccines, health, and reproduction, we can reduce the world population by 10-15%, only a genocide can save the world.”

Cunial goes on to put an unsupported, by anyone of substance, spin on some of the Gates Foundation’s achievements, “With his vaccines, Gates managed to sterilize millions of women in Africa. Gates caused a polio epidemic that paralyzed 500,000 children in India, and still, today with the DPT vaccines, Gates causes more death than the disease itself.”

The Obvious Possible Explanation

First, let’s dispel the myth that Italy is out for the arrest of Gates. No, the Italian authorities have not been as compelled as the red-eyed Youtube users and underground chat scene to take up arms against the philanthropist. 

While Cunial’s argument was lengthy and quite articulate on the Italian parliament floor, and she did cover all her bases mentioning everything from the Bilderberg Group to Monsanto GMOs—Cunial’s argument seemed to really fall down when she kept returning to Gates’ motivations as simply being to control-everything.

She is especially disturbed and perplexed with Gates’ ability to have predicted the pandemic after only spending a decade speaking to the most intelligent minds the world has to offer on the subject. It seems for his accusers, Gates’s most significant and obvious flaw has been his long campaign to prevent these diseases and to continue to pursue vaccines for diseases that really should no longer exist and have a larger impact on the third world and developing nations. 

The reality at this point is that Cunial has never seen a vaccine that she liked, and so far she has not published or provided any hard evidence for her accusations, which may sound powerful when spoken but really falls apart quite quickly when any actual research goes into them. She claims money and control to be his main motivations, “The Italian contribution to the International Alliance against the coronavirus will be 140 million Euros of which 120 million Euros will be given to Gavi Alliance the no-profit created by the Gates Foundation. This is just part of the 7.4 billion funds by the EU to find a vaccine against coronavirus which will be used.” 

Again lets layout these motivations for the alleged evil of Bill Gates logically—yes, Cunial is actually saying that Gates is in pursuit of money and control?

Unless you have been living under a rock since the 1990s, you are probably aware that Gates is the founder of a little company called Microsoft and this has made him incredibly rich. In fact, rich beyond our, and definitely Cunial’s, narrow comprehension. 120 million Euros is definitely a lot of money, but not really to someone who has over 100 Billion USD and change, and is still earning exponentially. Gates and his family for generations upon generations will never ever be in need of money. 

Additionally, there are a lot of easier ways to make money than selling vaccines, which have to go through very extensive testing and regulatory requirements. Vaccines also do not even have anything close to the profit margins of other non-essential medications like a Viagra or even a basic health supplement.

As far as global control goes, again perhaps Cunial has not visited an actual office in the last 30 years, but Microsoft’s technology is more than likely the glue that holds most offices together. Gates does not need to infiltrate us with his technology, we are already on board. If he wanted to infiltrate us, he could do it the next time Windows tells you it’s time for an update. 

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