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The Rules for Early-Stage Cleantech Venture Capital Investment in 2021

GreenTechMedia

Think thin-film solar and biofuels, the two “big bad bets” that Shayle Kann, partner at Energy Impact Partners, identified in a 2020 Interchange conversation. That led, in turn, to a major drawback from big VC firms, with early-stage funding for climate tech companies falling to about $418 million in 2013.

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The Bitcoin Blockchain Helps Hold A Botnet From Being Taken Down

Mearth

The botnet Akamai analyzed makes use of the computing assets and electrical energy supply of contaminated machines to mine the Monero cryptocurrency. The system is secure as long as sincere nodes collectively control more CPU energy than any cooperating group of attacker nodes.