Something that perhaps isnโt clear is that, if this location works out (other locations are still in the running), SpaceX will still be paying an annual amount that increases tax revenue for Grimes County by ~25% and will be by far the biggest source of revenue for the county.
Taking into account taxes paid by SpaceX employees and contractors, Terafab will far exceed ALL revenue that Grimes County currently earns!
The reason SpaceX asked for this, which is standard practice for massive capital investments, is because Terafab will have a large number of extremely expensive machines for making chips. Property tax on these crazy money machines would put us at a serious competitive disadvantage relative to other chip fabs in the world.
@dsonoiki Because being gay is different from being in a heterosexual marriage with children. Without even passing judgment, there is a difference and that difference matters. Weโre electing people that will shape the future of the country.
I wouldn't wish a full-scale outage on my worst enemy, so I wish you the best in getting Sui restarted and stabilized. Let us know if you nee help.
For readers' benefit, Algorand is on consensus version 41, and here's a selection of "major" upgrades:
- 12 versions of the Algorand Virtual Machine
- Peer-to-peer & hybrid networking modes
- Consensus incentives for block proposers
- Dynamic lambda block time flexibility
- PQ state proofs with Falcon signatures
- LogicSig opcode budget pooling
- Arbitrary data storage in application boxes
Sui is down right now. Again. Second time this year.
Solana: 7+ major outages, 3 full days of total downtime since launch.
Ethereum: rolled back the entire chain once because the right people lost money.
Algorand: zero downtime since 2019. Not one second.
But sure, tell me again how market cap reflects technology.
When I was in my 20โs I was on a TV show. When Karen Bass was in her 20โs, she was training in terrorist tactics and guerrilla warfare with communists in Cuba. Back when the LA Times was still in LA, and used to tell the truthโฆ
Algorand has now processed more than 3.43 billion transactions.
According to data on @chainspect_app, the @Algorand blockchain has now processed over 3.434 billion transactions since launch.
At the same time, $ALGO is seeing an increase in ecosystem attention, perhaps driven by @AlgoFoundation's discussion of the network's quantum-resistant capabilities.
NYT editor in 2010: "Women are now more educated than men and earn about the same as men after adjusting for hours worked et cetera. How should we respond?"
NYT staff: "That sounds like a crisis! We need to increase our mentions of sexism by 500% over the next decade!"
NY Sen Gillibrand to Duffy, yesterday: โIโve never been on a private jet."
Albany Local News Station, 2014: "New York Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand rank 1 and 2 in the Senate last year when it comes to tax dollars spent on charter plane flights."