The end of Faucethub?

If you are, as most of us in the market are, a user of Faucethub, then you've surely heard about this already. Faucethub is going through major changes. FaucetHub will be discontinuing the majority of it's services and undergoing a rebranding, as effective from the 10th of this December.

The reason for this is regulation requirements. Crypto has taken off in the last couple of years and made its way into the eyes of regulatory bodies of various top tier countries. These organizations are instructed by their respective countries governments to implement rules and guidelines for all financial companies to enable them to monitor, control, and predict the monetary movement of citizens in the country. For many years crypto was not considered as to how "money" is treated or regulated, which allows us to operate the platform legally without regulation requirement. Unfortunately, this is very soon, no longer the case. This applies to micro wallets, as well.

I strongly recommend you all head over to Faucethub, and read this: [UPDATD 23/11/19] FaucetHub.io - The end of the faucet industry as we know it.

Scary stuff, on so many levels. I've moved everything over to Cointiply, at least I now they are secure for a while more.

Cointiply. The number ONE faucet.

Google picks Finland for new data center

 Google is about to invest 600 million euros, about US$670 million in a new data center in Finland, the company announced on monday.

 The new server farm will be located in Hamina, where the tech giant previously opened a data center in 2011. The new data centre will be located on the premises of the former Summa paper factory lot, just like the first data centre in Hamina that Google opened in 2011. This brings Google’s total investments in Hamina to 1.4 billion euros..

The Mountain View, California-based company currently has 58 data centers around the world. In Europe, it has invested more than 4.3 billion euros in five such facilities since 2007 and its accrued capital expenditures for the first quarter came to $4.5 billion, comprising spending on data centers, servers and office facilities.

 The expansion in Finland comes as Google is pushing into video gaming with its new streaming service Stadia, which will allow players to access the action through the web without expensive consoles or personal computers. Stadia runs through the company’s YouTube video-streaming platform and requires the data-center network to function. Google’s Hamina complex will be powered by renewable energy acquired from three new wind farms in the Nordic nation, it said last year.

Way to go, Hamina!