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Recognition…Hunter Kerhart for the New York Times

Hoping to catch up with the growing demand for fast delivery of goods amid the pandemic, airports are building new hubs for air freight companies.

Since the pandemic began almost a year ago, 15,000 fewer people are arriving and departing from the Cincinnati / Northern Kentucky International Airport, known as CVG, every day. However, the four runways carry a record amount of air cargo – almost 4,000 tons per day. Keith Schneider writes for the New York Times that a new construction project will become the center of Amazon Air’s national air transport network.

The new facility, which is located on 640 hectares along the southern border of the airport, is due to open in the fall. It will offer a 798,000 square meter sorting center, a seven-story parking structure and acres of freshly poured concrete for 20 aircraft.

The new building is a signal of Amazon’s influence as the largest online retailer and its commitment to fast delivery. Both have helped create a wave of air cargo construction at airports across the United States.

  • FedEx, the world’s largest air freight company, has just opened a 50-acre project at Ontario International Airport in Southern California.

  • Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, the second largest air cargo airport in the US after Memphis International Airport, is planning new facilities for cargo and parcel handling and sorting worth US $ 500 million.

  • Chicago Rockford International is building a 90,000 square foot cargo facility. As soon as the airport opens in spring, it will start another 100,000 square meter freight project for DB Schenker, Emery Air and Senator International.

“Freight traffic is now driving new demand in airports,” said Rex J. Edwards, industry analyst and vice president of Campbell-Hill Aviation Group, a consulting firm in Northern Virginia. “That’s the development of business now.”

Recognition…Nicholas Albrecht for the New York Times

Of the existing 18.5 million Bitcoin, around 20 percent – currently valued at around $ 140 billion – appear to be in lost or otherwise stranded wallets, according to cryptocurrency data company Chainalysis. Wallet Recovery Services, a company that helps find lost digital keys, said it received 70 requests a day from people seeking help recovering their wealth, three times as many as a month ago.

The unusual nature of cryptocurrency has left many people locked out of their Bitcoin fortune due to lost or forgotten keys. They had to watch helplessly as the price rose and fell sharply and could not benefit from their digital wealth.

Bitcoin owners locked out of their wallets speak of endless days and nights of frustration as they tried to gain access to their wealth. Many have owned the coins since Bitcoin’s inception a decade ago when no one trusted that the tokens would be worth anything.

The dilemma is a stark reminder of Bitcoin’s unusual technological foundations that set it apart from ordinary money and give it some of its most vaunted – and riskiest – properties. With traditional bank accounts and online wallets, banks like Wells Fargo and other financial firms like PayPal can provide users with the passwords for their accounts or reset lost passwords.

Bitcoin doesn’t have a company that provides or stores passwords. However, the structure of this system did not take into account how difficult it is for people to remember and secure their passwords.

“Even sophisticated investors have been unable to manage private keys at all,” said Diogo Monica, co-founder of a start-up called Anchorage, which helps companies manage the security of cryptocurrencies. Mr Monica founded the company in 2017 after helping a hedge fund regain access to one of their Bitcoin wallets.

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