2020-8-28 14:00 |
Andrew Yang's "Data Dividend" and the EU's GDPR are not enough to put users back in control of their data. origin »
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Coinspeaker ETH Options Data Shows Ethereum Price Can Hit $500 in SeptemberThe recent ETH options data shows that Ethereum can hit a price of $500. There is enough liquidity and there are obvious calls for this feat to be achievedETH Options Data Shows Ethereum Price Can Hit $500 in September
2020-8-18 16:46 | |
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The Bitcoin market tumbled in the early hours of today, and some people were even worried that the top coin could plunge further into the $8k range if the dynamics don’t adjust soon enough. Pundits are gazing into the market data to find possible triggers of the fresh dip in just a few weeks after […]
2020-6-16 23:28 | |
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Bitcoin has been subjected to unprecedented turbulence throughout the past few months, declining to lows of $3,800 before rocketing to highs of $10,500 This volatility hasn’t been enough to thwart large market players from foraying into the digital asset Macro investor Paul Tudor Jones has been one of the first traditional investors to publicly profess his interest in BTC, but data shows that he isn’t the only one on Wall Street who is buying Bitcoin […]
2020-5-29 02:00 | |
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Data suggests that large buyers – sometimes referred to as “smart money” – have been in full Bitcoin accumulation mode over the past couple of months, with the number of proverbial “whales” hitting multi-year highs just in the past week.
2020-4-24 10:00 | |
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the top regulator in the United Kingdom, has just admitted to accidentally revealing the confidential information of around 1,600 individuals — yet it still thinks it is competent enough to regulate cryptocurrencies.
2020-2-26 12:10 | |
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Even if the virus doesn't grow to become a global pandemic, its economic ramifications may be enough to cause a recession in China, World Bank data suggests. This may lead to a domino effect that results in a global slowdown.
2020-2-10 18:30 | |
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There is now enough data to link Bitcoin and crypto price movements to easily quantifiable network parameters. Bitcoin’s Transactions Show Highest Correlation to Prices Transaction counts, active addresses, and price action show a connection for some coins, which explains heightened activity during rallies.
2020-1-18 18:00 | |
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Over the weekend, the bitcoin price spiked to as high as $8,200 prior to the highly anticipated weekly close. Despite it being the first strong breakout since November 2019, there was not enough buying demand to push it to higher levels.
2020-1-13 17:37 | |
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Facebook has been on a crusade to try and prove to the world, and especially the USA, that it is competent enough to launch its own stablecoin cryptocurrency, Libra. Privacy scandals and data hacks have led many to think the social media giant is not up to the task – and then it had its payroll […] The post Facebook Can’t Even Look After Its Hard Drives, How Can It Launch Libra? appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2019-12-19 20:04 | |
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Americans have had enough of companies monetizing our personal data. Smart companies will react.
2019-12-12 18:30 | |
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Special thanks to Justin Drake and Jinglan Wang for feedback In 2014, I made a post and a presentation with a list of hard problems in math, computer science and economics that I thought were important for the cryptocurrency space (as I then called it) to be able to reach maturity.
2019-11-25 04:03 | |
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Crypto analyst Willy Woo said that very few coins are good investments, as data from CoinMarketCap has shown that only the top 40 out of the 4987 listed coins are liquid. Part of the crypto community remained skeptical, saying that few coins have been around long enough to be able to compete with Bitcoin, Ethereum, […] The post Prominent analyst says only the top 40 cryptos are liquid appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2019-11-13 16:59 | |
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Special thanks to the Gitcoin team and especially Frank Chen for working with me through these numbers The next round of Gitcoin Grants quadratic funding has just finished, and we the numbers for how much each project has received were just released.
2019-10-30 04:03 | |
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If you think that virtual reality is something that relates exclusively to the field of games and entertainment, then you are deeply mistaken. Goldman Sachs predicts that by 2025, the VR industry will grow up to $ 80 billion.
2019-9-5 13:23 | |
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Another month, another Facebook data breach. As reported by TechCrunch, security researcher Sanyam Jain was able to locate an online database containing phone numbers linked to user IDs for over 419 million Facebook users.
2019-9-5 01:10 | |
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Special thanks to the Plasma Group team for review and feedback Current approaches to layer 2 scaling - basically, Plasma and state channels - are increasingly moving from theory to practice, but at the same time it is becoming easier to see the inherent challenges in treating these techniques as a fully fledged scaling solution for Ethereum.
2019-9-2 04:03 | |
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By CCN Markets: The Dow Jones bounced over 1% on Wednesday, and not even an epic Trump rant was enough to spoil the stock market's party. Wall Street enjoyed stellar retail figures from Target and Lowe's, alongside robust new home sales data and demand for crude oil.
2019-8-21 19:16 | |
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Data protection regulatory agencies from around the world have joined the growing list of those who wish to examine and investigate Facebook’s cryptocurrency project. According to a joint press release on August 6, 2019, the information provided by Facebook isn’t transparent enough and request that the company provide robust information regarding data privacy protection.
2019-8-7 11:45 | |
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StockX — a popular online marketplace for sneakerheads and streetwear aficionados to trade apparel — is the latest company to fall victim to a massive data breach affecting millions of its users.
2019-8-5 12:27 | |
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Almost two years after a major data breach hit Equifax, the company has finally agreed to a global settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). As per the proposed terms of the deal, the consumer credit reporting agency will shell out as much as $700 million to settle with federal agencies and 50 US states and territories.
2019-7-23 09:37 | |
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The U. S. SEC has taken some steps to provide clarity to blockchain companies, but it’s widely believed that the agency has not been active enough with respect to providing regulation. Now the securities regulator is apparently interested in engaging an “enterprise-wide data subscription for blockchain ledger data.
2019-7-6 04:00 | |
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In this day and age, carrying your wallet, passport and mobile phone inside the inner pocket of your jacket is simply not enough to protect your assets. Thankfully, there’s a company called Tarriss which offers products designed to secure both your digital cash and personal data.
2019-6-28 13:20 | |
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Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is sharding different from sidechains or Plasma? All three architectures seem to involve a hub-and-spoke architecture with a central “main chain” that serves as the consensus backbone of the system, and a set of “child” chains containing actual user-level transactions.
2019-6-14 04:03 | |
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Remember when it was revealed in January that Facebook used to pay teens and gather mobile app usage data from them through an app? Well, the company shut that program down after a huge backlash, but the app’s sorta making a comeback.
2019-6-12 08:33 | |
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If you need to back up your data for work, school, or play, there are loads of hard drives out there waiting to be filled to the brim with your precious files. And I’ve got some good news for you: they’re getting cheaper and smaller – like Seagate’s offerings for 2019.
2019-6-7 14:29 | |
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By CCN: A major data breach has rocked Quest Diagnostics, exposing the personal details of nearly 12 million patients in the process. The incident, which was reported in a public filing, occurred on May 14 after centralized third-party billing company American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) informed the diagnostic testing company about “potential unauthorized activity” on a “web payment page.
2019-6-4 01:15 | |
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You can’t buy loyalty, but if you’ve got enough money, you can buy sensitive corporate information from disaffected office workers. At least, that’s the finding from UK infosec firm Deep Secure, which today published its ‘What is the Price of Loyalty’ report.
2019-5-29 17:33 | |
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We tend to think of the moon as the archetypal “dead” world. Not only is there no life, almost all its volcanic activity died out billions of years ago. Even the youngest lunar lava is old enough to have become scarred by numerous impact craters that have been collected over the aeons as cosmic debris crashed into the ground.
2019-5-18 12:00 | |
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Trigger warning: specialized mathematical topic Special thanks to Karl Floersch for feedback One of the more interesting algorithms in number theory is the Fast Fourier transform (FFT).
2019-5-14 04:03 | |
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In a handful of oil fields in the Great White North, natural gas, an otherwise wasted drilling by-product, is being put to work. But it’s not being used to well more oil; it’s being used to mine bitcoin.
2019-5-8 20:07 | |
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Lightning Labs just released an alpha version of its Lightning Network wallet. The desktop application is now compatible with Bitcoin’s mainnet and it leverages Neutrino (the protocol, not the analytics company acquired by Coinbase) to give users a lightweight option to “control their own funds,” as opposed to running a full node or trusting a third party to play custodian.
2019-4-24 01:38 | |
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They’re doing it in British Columbia, Quebec, Manitoba, Alberta and Labrador — bitcoin miners in Canadian provinces are taking advantage of the country’s cool climate and abundant supplies of hydroelectric power.
2019-4-17 20:52 | |
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Bitcoin (BTC), the most popular virtual currency has been outperforming traditional stock markets in the last few months. According to data provided by OnChainFX, since January 1, Bitcoin’s price grew 37%.
2019-4-14 20:20 | |
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Home surveillance cameras appear to have a darker edge to them, and may be utilized to collect and distribute data in a way that consumers aren’t taking seriously, an April 11, 2019, New York Times report details.
2019-4-12 19:00 | |
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Astronomers today published the first ever images of a celestial phenomenon we’ve long known to exist, but were unable to capture: a black hole. And it’s thanks, in large part, to the algorithms created by Katie Bouman.
2019-4-11 06:32 | |
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New announcements around Bitcoin’s Lightning Network have been coming almost nonstop lately, with new exchanges, wallets and other services popping up seemingly every day.
2019-4-8 18:21 | |
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Apple, Amazon, and Google have done a great job educating users that voice is here! Voice recognition has been getting better over the years but, finally, over the last few years, is good enough to be viable in various environments.
2019-3-29 19:02 | |
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UAE Banks Federation (UBF) and Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) have joined forces to host a fintech forum with a focus on discussing how cryptoassets are changing the global financial services sector.
2019-3-18 02:00 | |
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Hodl Hodl, a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency exchange, has announced that it is launching a prediction market on Bitcoin. Slated for launch in the spring of 2019, it would be the first Bitcoin-based prediction market to go live on Bitcoin’s mainnet.
2019-3-9 00:16 | |
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The cash-grab brings the Singapore tech firm’s valuation up to $14 billion, according to press reports. Singapore-based ride-hailing firm Grab has packed its war chest with $1. 5 billion in fresh equity financing from Soft Bank’s Vision Fund this week.
2019-3-7 00:31 | |
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As QuadrigaCX’s legal counsel descends on the courtroom in Halifax, Nova Scotia, for another round of legal proceedings, the court monitor’s third report on QuadrigaCX’s finances — specifically its revelation that the exchange’s cold wallets are empty — lays out some hopeful avenues for fund recovery — and some frustrating dead ends.
2019-3-5 20:20 | |
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After a week of community discontent, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has decided to sever its business relationship with Neutrino employees who previously worked at the notorious Italian malware/software provider Hacking Team.
2019-3-5 19:09 | |
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Coinbase’s Director of Institutional Sales, Christine Sandler, said in an interview last week that, in part, the exchange acquired controversial software firm Neutrino because its prior blockchain analysis providers were selling customer data.
2019-3-5 23:58 | |
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When Coinbase acquired Neutrino for an unspecified amount in February 2019, the news looked like business as usual: A cryptocurrency juggernaut had made another acquisition.
2019-3-1 17:19 | |
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Puffing on Juul pods is just as effective for reducing specific tobacco-related biomarkers as complete abstinence from smoking. That’s the conclusion from landmark study data released Saturday during the U.
2019-2-27 23:12 | |
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Most people are desperately seeking financial freedom in their life. Sadly financial freedom remains a dream to them or an elusive theory that forever escapes them. The biggest problem around financial freedom is some magic formula or some secret success model that they believe exists, they spend an endless amount of time, effort and even resources in obtaining this magic formula or the secret success model.
2019-2-15 22:51 | |
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Announced at the end of January, Bitfury’s production-ready suite of Lightning Network products and services, Peach, appears to offer everything a developer, user or merchant could want from a Lightning implementation.
2019-2-9 23:59 | |
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Announced at the end of January, Bitfury’s production-ready suite of Lightning Network products and services, Peach, appears to offer everything a developer, user or merchant could want from a Lightning implementation.
2019-2-12 23:59 | |
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It happened: Bitcoin is now an Ethereum token. Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC), an ERC-20 token with a 1-1 peg to bitcoin, went live on the Ethereum network on the final day of January, “the first token that makes Bitcoin compatible with the Ethereum chain,” its architects say.
2019-2-2 00:04 | |
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Worried that BlackRock might change bitcoin's supply? Let me explain why that's not possible.
The following is a guest post by Jakub Ondrasek, CEO at Clore AI. Tech innovations such as AI, cryptocurrency, quantum computing and VR are redefining modern life. Most consumers don’t know how much high-performance computing power is needed to fuel such changes.
Bitcoin investors are up on average more than the average American yearly salary.
A look at current regulation changes taking shape in Europe that could threaten Bitcoiners' ability and right to self custody.
Verifying an implementation of a novel modular inversion algorithm using a proof assistant. How guaranteeing Bitcoin cryptography is handled correctly is done.
Need to explain BTC’s rally and significance for the future? CoinMarketCap’s Jonathan Isaac has some useful talking points.
The fixation on the least reputable aspects of the industry obscures the real progress being made in areas like DePIN, stablecoins and DeFi, says Mahesh Ramakrishnan.