Kozminski Techblog

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The time for the final blog has come, it means that I would like to finish my career as publisher with my head held high. In order to achieve what I want, I need to create a topic, which will be interesting. I came up with the idea that I want to tell you about my recent story about BONK and how I made money just for having NFT’s on the Solana’s projects.

I have been making some money in crypto for a few years, especially working in the NFT sphere. I don’t want to tell all the details, but for the last 2 years I started to work with Solana. I have a lot of NFTs and 5 days ago I received a lot of Bonk’s coins worth about 50$ on that moment. Now let’s find out what the BONK is.

Since the beginning of January till the 5th of January, BONK is up 4335.25% in the last 6 days. It is the first meme cryptocurrency on the Solana blockchain and was responsible for the price increase of the SOL token last week. Few days ago I have sold my coins for 550$ of pure profit.

Solana has been hit hard by its association with Alameda research and the collapse of leading crypto exchange FTX. Price and trading volume have plummeted since FTX filed for bankruptcy.

Huobi exchange, MEXC Global, and Bybit also announced the listing of the token due to increased interest from investors. BONK has been compared to crypto memes like Dogecoin and Shiba Inu, which rose significantly in the bullish market.

However, the interesting announcement has occurred, which may lead to an increase of BONK’s price. The developers behind Solana-based meme coin BONK burned their allocation of 5 trillion BONK tokens early Friday, in a bid to stem the token’s bearish momentum.

After the token burn event, which saw nearly $1 million worth of BONK removed from circulation, BONK’s circulating supply shrunk 5% to 94.16 trillion, per data from Solana block explorer Solscan.

So what is a token burn and why did they do that? The main purpose of token burn is to reduce a cryptocurrency’s supply. As many theories and assumptions go: it can lead to an increase in the prices of the asset.

Solana has been saved from deadlock so far, thanks to Bonk, which makes me glad, because recently SOL to USD price was almost 8$.

Resources: https://decrypt.co/118545/developers-burn-5-trillion-bonk-as-solana-based-meme-coin-slides

https://www.block-chain24.com/news/novosti-gamefi/bonk-povyshaetsya-bolee-chem-na-4000

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Nowadays you can’t imagine children’s life without gaming. It can be a mobile game, console or computer, it doesn’t matter. The main problem is many of us don’t recognize how serious it can it may affect physiological and mental health. When the first game have appeared, nobody was able to predict that gaming can cause addiction. How can it be? It’s not drugs or alcohol, when you have a specific physical addiction, however, any addiction is dangerous and we shouldn’t turn a blind eye to this problem.

In fact, any civilized country has run into a problem of gaming addiction. Researches and reviews have showed up with an incredible statistics where 3-4% of gamers have been addicted to video games. You may not pay enough attention but it means that we have around 50-60 millions of people worldwide, who suffer from gaming and who need help.

Not so long ago WHO (World Health Organization) has officially classified Video Game Addiction as a mental health disorder. It’s a pattern of gaming behavior (“digital-gaming” or “video-gaming”) characterized by impaired control over gaming, increasing priority given to gaming over other activities to the extent that gaming takes precedence over other interests and daily activities, and continuation or escalation of gaming despite the occurrence of negative consequences.

It’s really early to distinguish the whole list of negative consequences because this kind of disorder has appeared not too long ago, but we can name these: sleep deprivation, insomnia and circadian rhythm disorders, depression, aggression and anxiety.

Psychotherapy was recognized as the best gaming addiction treatment. Working with psychologist or psychiatrist can help you not only to get rid off some mental disorder, but also to establish relations with your family and friends.

That is why you don’t have to spend all of your time online. Enjoy your life and be careful with your mental health, because it makes you as a human.

Resources:

Gaming Addiction Report 2022

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/the-health-effects-of-too-much-gaming-2020122221645#:~:text=Gaming%20has%20also%20been%20associated%20with%20sleep%20deprivation%2C%20insomnia%20and,the%20strength%20of%20these%20connections.

https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/addictive-behaviours-gaming-disorder#:~:text=Gaming%20disorder%20is%20defined%20in,the%20extent%20that%20gaming%20takes

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This is my blog #3. The second one was absolutely not very good, I would even say not good at all. Therefore, looking back to the first blog (about “The Matrix”), I have understood that readers like more opinion and expression than some boring abstruse text. It’s been really hard to choose topic, because many of them I don’t find attractive at all, that is why I decided to introduce some kind of variety in our common unremarkable life.

As far as I know, the majority of students are sharing some technological innovation news here, but as for me, the main purpose of blog is to react and express your point, so the following message is completely based on my personal life and opinion.

With the emergence of technologies, it’s become easier to work, develop, recover, relax and share information, but every innovation has it’s downsides. Now I would like to talk about how people started to spend all their own life over the internet. It may seem that I am old man, who is trying to teach to how to live, but I am getting older and starting to understand that time is priceless. For now, looking at my young cousins, who are playing on the iPad at the age of 3 years old, I feel scared and sorry for them, because they will not be able to experience that wonderful childhood that we had.

I am 19 years old and, at the age of seven, my first phone was a push-button one LG ( not the most suitable thing to boast). I remember how my friends and me were playing football outside (not FIFA as we all play today), playing some different IRL games. It’s been really good time and I think that I can compare these two types of childhood, because for example when I was 13 or 14, the smartphones became the common thing.

So what is the point? You never can experience that spectrum of emotions by playing some computer games. You never can replace that live chat vibe by chatting on Discord. So I propose to spend your youth walking down the streets with your friends, laughing and speaking, realizing and enjoying that this is the best time of your life.

I am waiting for your points of view in the comments.

References: the photo https://aginginplace.org/technology-in-our-life-today-and-how-it-has-changed/

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About couple decades ago, nobody of us would not even think that trains and railways could reach such a outrageous speed, but the 21 century is the time of fast developing technologies. All the areas of technology are growing rapidly every day and there is no premise that something is going to change. The first observed movement of high-speed trains began in 1964 in Japan under the Shinkansen project. With the new levels of technologies, the ability to create the faster trains or railways becomes much more easier. But now let’s talk what is going on with the railways in Germany and how they decide to progress in this sphere.

Deutsche Bahn DB recently issued a request for the appointment of Siemens and Alstom to develop the next-generation high-speed railway, with the aim of entering service after 2030.

The high-speed rail currently operated by DB is reported to be the ICE3 train, which entered service in the 1990s.

According to DB’s tender requirements, the new generation of high-speed rail has a top speed of more than 300 kilometers per hour (another report says 350 kilometers), a length of more than 400 meters and the capacity to carry 950 passengers. .

In addition, the new generation of high-speed rail must also have a higher level in terms of energy efficiency and safety.

According to the requirements, Siemens and Alstom will carry out the conceptual design. In the second half of 2023, Deutsche Bahn will officially hold a tender for the development, construction and certification of the new models, which will be open to other manufacturers.

One of the hugest concerns in the Germany “Siemens Mobility” came up with the statement “Through the holistic approach of this partnership, the specific needs of the operator as well as passengers will be aligned with state-of-the art technologies.”

The president of the DACH region at Alstom did not stand aside and added: “In Germany we have tremendous development expertise, also and especially in the high-speed sector, and we know the German market very well.”

Resources:

DB to work with Siemens and Alstom on next generation of high-speed trains

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICE_3

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Высокоскоростнойназемныйтранспорт#:~:text=Впервые%20регулярное%20движение%20высокоскоростных%20поездов,связана%20единой%20высокоскоростной%20железнодорожной%20сетью.

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I think that everybody watched or at least heard something about the famous american “The Matrix” franchise. This trilogy was created and written by the Wachowskis, the first part was released in 1999 year. The first film is considered as one of the best in 20th century and even throughout the history of film industry. This franchise is also known for the incredible at that moment visual effects, that were some kind of innovation in industry. The main plot describes a future in which reality perceived by humans is actually the Matrix, a simulated reality created by sentient Machines in order to pacify and subdue the human population while their bodies’ heat and electrical activity are used as an energy source.

So the most important questions: “Will AI really conquer the Earth?” “How can we avoid it?” “Is this world real?”.

To answer these questions you need to understand what is the Matrix. So the Matrix is a substitute for reality, where computer gives a false life, proving that he has adopted their worst traits very well. Artificial intelligence began to rule the sloppy human civilization. In essence, people themselves are to blame: they have turned from personalities into “users”, from an independent biological species into batteries, a raw material appendage of gadgets. Now one can only marvel at the brilliant perspicacity of the directors who foresaw the development of the situation, which we can see 23 years later.

I keep my opinion unchanged: the humanity is not so stupid to lose control of our planet. But you can not except that we are living not in the illusion, because if we are, we wouldn’t have guessed.

Nowadays I can associate the Matrix with the people, who are being imposed with some narratives, that are used to control your mind, to make you a slave in the system. “It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth” – the famous Morpheus’ speech.

The science fiction film that someday can become a documentory one, makes us to think what the reality is, makes us to choose whether you would like to stay blind or open your eyes.

Wake up, Neo!

Resources:

https://matrix.fandom.com/wiki/The_Matrix

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_(franchise)