markhuggins

My (admittedly sketchy) memory of Wave was that it felt like a tech demo rather than an end user app. There's probably a market for it as -a-service in the modern cloud world managing distributed interaction.

Date is confusing with a timezone (UTC or otherwise) and the doco makes no such suggestion.

The Parquet datatypes documentation is pretty clear that there is a flag isAdjustedToUTC to define if the timestamp should be interpreted as having Instant semantics or Local semantics.

https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/blob/master/Logical...

Still no option to include a TZ offset in the data (so the same datum can be interpreted with both Local and Instant semantics) but not bad really.

A quick read seems to me to state that no, the Basel crowd did not give banks an OK to hold 2% in Bitcoin. On the contrary they've added a new rule that states it needs to be <1% (and even then should be risk weighted at 1250%).

BIS (https://www.bis.org/bcbs/publ/d545.pdf) This states that banks should in the normal course of business hold less than 1% and must report anything higher, 2% is when an additional 'penalty' applies.