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2009 marked the beginning of an unprecedented bull market for both Bitcoin and the U.S. stock market, which has continued almost unabated since. However, there are constant rumblings of a crash, and the noise has lately increased. Not only due to stocks, a new COVID version and increased interest rates are driving firms to pay more to borrow money. This has prompted a decline in global markets. Cryptocurrency markets have been affected by this, along with worries of increased regulation. How likely is it for the stock market to crash? Taking cryptocurrency out of the equation, the mounting conjecture that a collapse is inevitable is based on sound reasoning. In the United States, the inflation rate was much higher than projected in June. There is currently a debate on lifting the debt limit due to the government’s ongoing issuance of bonds and accumulation of debt. Of course, the continuing pandemic relief effort justifies this. Government stimulus programs are being implemented, although other indicators, like the price of U.S. stocks, show that the money being spent is not necessary. The real estate market in the United States is also booming, and the Federal Reserve has previously voiced worry that investors are growing more irresponsible, citing the interest in-joke stocks and cryptocurrencies as examples. Speculation that a collapse is imminent due to all this money flowing into the economy is well-founded. Crypto value shall rise – a myth or reality? The debate over cryptocurrency value rise is expected to continue for some time to come. Stablecoin regulation has been of particular interest to U.S. authorities. Stocks continue to rise even though COVID-19 refuses to go away, supported by an unprecedented level of government backing. Now that quantitative easing programs have been discontinued, there is a slight fear of a stock market meltdown. Is it possible that crypto might suffer if the stock market collapses? If this is the case, bad news for Bitcoin (BTC) could be in store: There are indications that Bitcoin and stock prices have a significant association. Which cryptos to consider for a volatile-proof future? Looking for the most significant cryptocurrency investment in 2022 but unable to discern the excellent from the poor and ugly? This article examines eight top-rated volatile-proof crypto projects to keep a watch out for. The Best Cryptocurrencies to Invest in are – 1. Lucky Block Lucky Block is a new and intriguing cryptocurrency enterprise introducing blockchain technology to the multi-billion dollar lottery industry. It makes Lucky Block lotteries accessible to players all around the globe securely and transparently. 2. Dogecoin One of the most affordable cryptocurrencies in 2022 is Dogecoin, which now trades for less than $0.20 per unit. 3. The Graph “Indexing” is the specialty of the Graph project, which promotes the use of bitcoin and blockchain technologies. 4. Ethereum ETH is a well-known cryptocurrency that has established itself as the world’s de-facto platform for smart contracts. With a market value of $2 billion, the project has risen to a record high of nearly $4,000 per token. Conclusion Rather than complaining about the inherent volatility of cryptocurrencies, we should prepare for it. Cryptocurrencies tend to dip from time to time, but it’s normal.

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The importance of set pieces in football (or soccer in the US) has been on the rise in recent years: now more than one quarter of all goals are scored via set pieces. Free kicks and corners generally create the most promising situations, and some professional teams have even hired specific coaches for those parts […]

Bitcoin is up by about 15% from $38,000 to now $44,500 as Russia sanctions its own citizens in response to EU, US and UK sanctioning Russia. Russia’s invading president Vladimir...

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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday announced that it has expanded its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog with a zero-day recently identified in the Zimbra email platform.

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Quantum 6, 649 (2022).

https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2022-02-10-649

The characterization of open quantum systems is a central and recurring problem for the development of quantum technologies. For time-independent systems, an (often unique) steady state describes the average physics once all the transient processes have faded out, but interesting quantum properties can emerge at intermediate timescales. Given a Lindblad master equation, these properties are encoded in the spectrum of the Liouvillian whose diagonalization, however, is a challenge even for small-size quantum systems. Here, we propose a new method to efficiently provide the Liouvillian spectral decomposition. We call this method an Arnoldi-Lindblad time evolution, because it exploits the algebraic properties of the Liouvillian superoperator to efficiently construct a basis for the Arnoldi iteration problem. The advantage of our method is double: (i) It provides a faster-than-the-clock method to efficiently obtain the steady state, meaning that it produces the steady state through time evolution shorter than needed for the system to reach stationarity. (ii) It retrieves the low-lying spectral properties of the Liouvillian with a minimal overhead, allowing to determine both which quantum properties emerge and for how long they can be observed in a system. This method is $textit{general and model-independent}$, and lends itself to the study of large systems where the determination of the Liouvillian spectrum can be numerically demanding but the time evolution of the density matrix is still doable. Our results can be extended to time evolution with a time-dependent Liouvillian. In particular, our method works for Floquet (i.e., periodically driven) systems, where it allows not only to construct the Floquet map for the slow-decaying processes, but also to retrieve the stroboscopic steady state and the eigenspectrum of the Floquet map. Although the method can be applied to any Lindbladian evolution (spin, fermions, bosons, …), for the sake of simplicity we demonstrate the efficiency of our method on several examples of coupled bosonic resonators (as a particular example). Our method outperforms other diagonalization techniques and retrieves the Liouvillian low-lying spectrum even for system sizes for which it would be impossible to perform exact diagonalization.