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Coronavirus Could Cost the Global Economy Trillions on a SARS Baseline

Using estimates of the economic damage caused by SARS and current rates of coronavirus infection, COVID-19 could cost trillions. Official figures show coronavirus is about 33% as deadly as the 2002-2003 SARS epidemic. So far it’s infected 6,800% more people. Chinese authorities downplayed the epidemic’s impact on the economy

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EY Open-Sources Tech It Says Slashes Cost of Private Ethereum Transactions

Accounting multinational EY has released blockchain technology that it claims greatly reduces the cost of private transactions.In an announcement on Thursday, the firm said the third-generation of its zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) tech for the ethereum blockchain – originally dubbed Nightfall – is now available in the public domain (the documentation

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