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- Cashless is king: 2 Reno tech startups assist businesses with contactless payments
Liao and Epp didn’t have to look far. In March, the co-founders moved over the hill to Reno, and got accepted into an accelerator, the InNEVator spring 2021 cohort, at the University of Nevada, Reno Innevation Center. “Reno was the perfect place to move our business and relaunch our platform because there were less COVID restrictions in Nevada,” Liao said. “And Nevada has no personal or business income taxes, so that’s an added benefit.” – Northern Nevada Business Weekly - Small increase in earthquake risk: it’s Lake Tahoe’s fault
According to Dr. Graham Kent, director of the Nevada Seismological Laboratory and State Seismologist, the increased risk is not necessarily cause for concern, but cause for caution... In fact, Northern Nevada is so riddled with fault lines that the Sierra Nevada is growing — very, very slowly. Back in 2012, the Geodetic Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno clocked the range at about half an inch every decade. – Nevada Appeal - The Mayor of Reno Is Betting Big on the Blockchain
The project attracted more favorable notice from some, including a 21-year-old undergraduate from the University of Nevada-Reno named Theodore Clapp. He was thrilled, and surprised, to see his mayor “interested in this obscure altcoin that I loved,” he says. He emailed her after seeing a tweet about Tezos, and she responded immediately. He was soon installed as the head of Reno’s Blockchain Board on Innovation (a board of one, for now; he is seeking other members to join him). – WIRED
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