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THE Papua New Guinea  Electoral Commissioner, Simon Sinai as custodian has been called to extract the ballot boxes kept in five containers at the Mendi police station and move them to a neutral counting venue to allow peaceful counting.  Incumbent Governor of Southern Highlands William Powi made the call after the counting of the regional seats have been disrupted and halted for three consecutive times, delaying the whole counting process.  In a media statement Mr Powi made the call to protect the province from violence and destruction as he sees a possible outbreak of violence in Mendi as the regional candidates continue to disrupt the counting.  He said security forces withdrew yesterday due to frustrations over continuous stoppage and delays in counting.  He called on the Electoral Commission to intervene and save  all the health services, the education, business and lives of the people by retrieving the five containers kept at the Mendi police station and bring it to a closest neut

Papua New Guinea’s Governor for New Ireland Province Sir Julius Chan has blamed the leaders for the current trend and behaviour of people to attack each other and the divides among others. Sir Julius highlighted this when  congratulating Prime Minister James Marape for his re-election during the first sitting of the 11th parliament yesterday (Tuesday 9th of August 2022). He says as elected leaders it’s their mandate to move out of these behaviours and carry the country forward. ”Mr Speaker our people are attacking each other, they are killing each other, our people divided as they have rarely been divided in the past and though I am ashamed to say it, there are those amongst us leaders, who have encouraged this behaviour and we must change that. ”We are sometimes the cause of it but don’t just live with it, we got to correct ourselves, leave those things behind.  ”Am not here to cast any blame on anyone, but it’s time to move beyond those behaviours and move this nation forward,” said

We have discussed how expensive and power consuming are GPUs and ASICs in our last point. Affording those thousand dollars giant mining rigs and expensive electricity is surely not in everyone’s capacity. There are only three strong winners in the cryptocurrency world: The Creators of the cryptocurrency who mine a million coins using just a home PC because due to no competition, the mining difficulty is negligible. The Rich who can afford expensive GPUs and ASICs to create gigantic mining rigs and who can afford to pay electricity bills as high as $1 million a month! The Criminals who know how to steal electricity or hijack computational power. 2.24 2.23 2.22 2.21 2.20 2.19 2.18 2.17 2.16 2.15 2.14 2.13 2.12 2.11 2.10 2.9 2.8 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 The example of ordinary bitcoin users who do mining (having no significant GPUs or ASICs) by participating in mining pool websites (users combine their hash rates to mine as a network) is that of an “Ant