/biz/ - Business & Finance

This news came out today and was stated in another thread but I feel like this deserves it's own thread.

From this: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/top-5-global-utility-edf-joins-hedera-governing-council-301236850.html

ctricité de France S.A. (EDF), a top five global utility firm1 serving customers worldwide, has joined the Hedera Governing Council and will run a Hedera network node. As a recognized global leader in combating climate change, EDF has undertaken to produce increasingly low-carbon electricity and achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. The Hedera network's computational efficiency as a proof-of-stake decentralized public network aligns with this goal and makes it the ideal platform on which to deploy energy use cases.


"EDF is the 19th Council member, joining a growing network global enterprises and organizations, including Avery Dennison, Boeing, Dentons, Deutsche Telekom, DLA Piper, eftpos, FIS (WorldPay), Google, IBM, LG Electronics, Magalu, Nomura, Standard Bank Group, Swirlds, Tata Communications, University College London (UCL), Wipro, and Zain Group. EDF is the first council member from the energy industry."

source: https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2021/03/172855-electricite-de-france-s-a-joins-hedera-governing-council/

Hedera Hashgraph is the only crypto that is
1. 100% proof of stake
2. Not prone to forking

It further has a fixed fee of $0.0001 USD.

Eftpos Australia will have their node fully operational in 1 week:

cheduled - Hedera will be upgrading Mainnet to v0.12.0 (release notes: https://hedera.io/release-notes)) on Friday, March 12th 2021 at 18:00 UTC. We will also add two additional nodes, Standard Bank node 16 (0.0.19) and eftpos node 17 (0.0.20) bringing the total node count to 18/18.

Eftpos Australia will make everyone in Australia hold a HBAR wallet for micropayment reasons.

This is huge. Potential for 1000x easily. Easily.