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Lioncoin: The Leader of New Generation of Digital Currencies

 Lioncoin: The Leader of New Generation of Digital Currencies   Business On November 1st ,2008, Bitcoin was born after a man who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto boldly proposing the Bitcoin model in the aftermath of the financial crisis. Nowadays, the acceptance level of Bitcoin is growing. On September 9th, 2014, eBay- American electric business tycoon,announced its payments arm Braintree began to accept Bitcoin as payment; The travel rental community Airbnb and the car rental service provider Uber also announced that they would begin to accept the virtual currency. In Beijing, a restaurant in Chaoyang Dayuecheng also introduced the Bitcoin payment service, so that consumers can pay by transferring a certain amount of bitcoins to the store's account after they have finished their meal. It's like bank transfers. The restaurant settled a meal worth RMB650 with 0.13 bitcoins. The age of digital currency, led by Bitcoin, has crept in. Even if  people have not really felt bitcoin tra

Webster Library: Exploring new ways of knowledge sharing

 Webster Library: Exploring new ways of knowledge sharing   Education,Recreation & Leisure,Consumer Concordia University's new Webster Library, a new standard in academic and institutional libraries has opened its doors just a week ago after five years in the making… With newer, more dynamic methods of knowledge sharing dominating mainstream lifestyles, the Webster library, designed and realised by Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux Architectes, is a  major expansion and renovation project aimed to create a landmark on campus, a central location to boldly integrate digital technologies and anticipate changes inherent to the next generations of libraries. The main challenges were concerned with the redeployment and optimization of existing spaces to increase the seating capacity from 1,500 to 3,300 seats, the redefinition of service areas [counters, offices, consultation] and use [reading areas, collaborative work], the maximization of stack space for books and the enhancement o