Bill Gates Internet Explorer end jokes: "Microsoft ran out of microchips after having vaccinated everyone."
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is aware of the conspiracy theory that claims he has implanted microchips in people who have been vaccinated against coronavirus.
So much so that on Wednesday he allowed himself to joke about it on Twitter saying that the company had to close Internet Explorer because it "ran out of microchips" when vaccinating everyone.
Gates responded to a tweet published by The Daily Show that said: "Wow, Bill Gates encourages everyone to get vaccinated, and a year later Internet Explorer dies. Coincidence?".
Bill Gates Internet Explorer end jokes
The conspiracy theory to which the tycoon alludes claims that the interest of health institutions in vaccinating the population against the coronavirus responds to a secret Gates plan to implant microchips in people en masse to somehow control them through 5G networks.
A Reddit spokesperson has told The Verge that the rumour originated on 4plebs, an archive managed by the 4chan community before it jumped to Reddit and became a popular theory and a joke.
Since then, this has found a speaker in artists as it has been repeated as M.I.A. and Kanye West in the USA and Miguel Bosé in Spain.
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This week, Microsoft has closed Internet Explorer, the browser launched in 1995 that has become obsolete after being overtaken by browsers such as Google's Chrome and Apple's Safari.
Thus, Microsoft Edge will replace Internet Explorer as the default browser for Windows users.
The move has sparked a wave of nostalgia on the internet about the browser, which became famous for its crude interface and slow response times last decade.
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Bill Gates on cryptocurrencies and NFTs: “They are based on the theory of the dumbest”
In a TechCrunch talk on climate change, echoed by CNBC, Bill Gates has been at ease with the crypto ecosystem now that the fall of bitcoin and the rest of digital currencies seems unstoppable.
For him, both cryptocurrencies and NFTs (non-fungible tokens) are “100% based on the theory of the dumbest”, referring to the idea that overvalued assets will increase in price when there are enough investors willing to pay for them.
Gates referred to the popularity of NFTs ironically with their true value: "Digital images with monkey faces are going to make the world a lot better," he said.
The fact that the price of bitcoin is going down is no longer a novel phenomenon. Looking back, it is verified that the fall of bitcoin in 2022 is already more than 50%.
At the time of writing, the price of bitcoin today is, according to CoinMarketCap, 20,328.63 euros, and there have been times when it has fallen below the 20,000 barriers.
This means that, since last Monday, June 13, 2022 (when Celsius and Binance announced the suspension of withdrawals - in Celsius they have not been resumed -), bitcoin has fallen by 20.4%.
The crisis affects not only bitcoin, but also the rest of cryptocurrencies, among them, the second by market capitalization, Ethereum.
The digital currency created by Vitalik Buterin has lost 67.8% so far in 2022: from 3,314.52 euros, which was the price of Ethereum on January 1, 2022, to 1,066.81 euros as of this writing.
The 'playpen' of Celsius, or the contagion effect of bitcoin, has also greatly affected Ethereum, which has gone from a value of 1,381.17 euros to 1,066.81 euros, implying a decrease of 22.8%.
Bill Gates is not, as has been proven, a fan of cryptocurrencies, but there are other wealthy characters who are.
This is the case of Elon Musk, Joey Dorsey and Michael Saylor, whose companies, Tesla, Block and MicroStrategy respectively, are estimated to have already lost almost 1.5 billion euros due to the fall of bitcoin.
