2020-6-25 09:50 |
Ex-Ripple CEO Chris Larsen says the U.S. is losing the digital-currency arms race against China because its regulators only focus on Bitcoin and Ethereum origin »
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With the May 2020 Bitcoin (BTC) halving out of the way, block rewards have dropped to a measly 6. 25 BTC. Miners are gobbling up more efficient hardware to ensure they stay profitable. Crypto mining manufacturers consistently roll out advanced hardware that delivers greater efficiency.
2020-6-17 21:43 | |
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In August 2019, BeInCrypto published an article about the ‘arms race’ that was emerging among state-backed stablecoins. Since then, the competition has only grown more intense. BeInCrypto investigates in this special report.
2020-6-12 22:01 | |
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The U.S. Department of Defense can’t afford to lose the global military blockchain race to Russia and China, warns a new private sector whitepaper.
2020-5-21 17:11 | |
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Crypto sleuthing firm Elliptic has added 87 new tokens to its analytics offering, expanding its reach to 97% of digital assets by trading volume.
2020-5-21 16:00 | |
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In the lead-up to the next bitcoin halving event in May, some bitcoin miners are looking at leveraging what some describe as “surplus energy” to make operations even more cost-effective.
2020-4-27 17:00 | |
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Max Boonen, CEO of market maker B2C2, looks at recent trends in crypto market infrastructure.
2020-1-26 12:00 | |
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Chinese mining ASIC producer Canaan plans to roll out machines based on 5-nanometer chips in Q1 2020
2019-12-27 21:22 | |
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China is looking to use a blockchain-based digital currency to surpass the U. S. dollar in global dominance. However, its claimed transaction speed is raising eyebrows. An arms race of stablecoins will soon be upon us as the geopolitical climate heats up.
2019-12-7 16:34 | |
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On another down day, we're talking U.S. warnings on digital assets, a brief history of troubled but systemically important stablecoin "Tether", and a look at the arms-race in blockchain mining technology.
2019-12-6 19:41 | |
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Brian Kelly, the founder of Brian Kelly Capital, suggested that the anti-cryptocurrency regulatory moves by China caused Bitcoin to take a drop substantially. We are in the midst of a ‘digital arms race,’ he claimed.
2019-11-25 11:15 | |
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In a Reddit AMA, the co-founders of Brave said that the battle for privacy was an arms race they can win thanks to the company’s ability to innovate quickly. The launch of Brave 1. 0 invited many questions from the Reddit community, most of which focused on Brave’s mechanisms for securing data and preventing tracking.
2019-11-16 18:45 | |
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There has been a steady growth in interest for cryptocurrencies and blockchain from governments, regulators, and enterprises. Now, the U.S. Federal Reserve is showing it too does not want to be left out after posting a job for a retail payments manager that will facilitate innovations research around digital currencies, stable coins, and distributed ledger […] The post Federal Reserve Crypto Job Post Suggests US Won’t Lie Down in Bitcoin Arms Race appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2019-11-6 22:20 | |
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Bitcoin miners around the world are clearly optimistic about the future of cryptocurrency. A series of huge mining operations have come to light in past weeks, with the most recent being a 240 percent expansion of the UK-based Argo Blockchain company.
2019-10-31 14:20 | |
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These days cameras have become the de facto differentiation factor between phones. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when this became the battleground for handset manufacturers, but we’re currently deep in an arms race for photography supremacy.
2019-10-21 18:27 | |
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One of the Directors of VanEck, the New York-based investment firm, has gone from defending Tether (USDT) to calling on the US to embrace Bitcoin and distributed ledger technology in the face of a burgeoning arms race.
2019-10-14 14:15 | |
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B2C2's Max Boonen discusses the convergence of high-frequency trading and the crypto market in the second of a three-part series.
2019-9-21 12:40 | |
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Max Boonen of crypto OTC firm B2C2 dives into the role, benefits and potential risks of high-frequency trading in crypto markets.
2019-9-9 12:40 | |
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It’s about remembering the people who were there in the beginning. All the cryptocurrency in the world traces its origins to raw mathematics — if you can solve complicated math problems faster than anyone else, then you stand to profit.
2019-8-26 10:28 | |
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Elon Musk scored another major victory in his quest to usher in the Age of Artificial Intelligence today when Microsoft announced it would plunk $1 billion into his visionary OpenAI project. As Tesla preps to launch robotaxis and Neuralink prepares to start human testing, it’s shaping up to be a massive 2020 for artificial intelligence research.
2019-7-22 21:08 | |
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Coinspeaker Max’s Corner: Apple and Facebook and the (Not So) Great Crypto Arms RaceThis edition of Max’s Corner examines the recent steps that Facebook and Apple have taken to enter the crypto space and the potential effects those steps could cause.
2019-6-13 23:08 | |
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The IEO arms race is getting tighter: Bittrex International has just announced its next initial exchange offering, the Standard Tokenization Protocol. The continuing popularity of the crowdfunding model across multiple exchanges is proving to be a significant source of new capital for the cryptocurrency industry.
2019-6-5 02:53 | |
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As of May 2019, over 20 US states have introduced bills seeking to regulate data privacy, data security, or some combination of the two. While many of these bills agree in spirit (i. e. privacy good, data collection and usage bad), the various bills are decidedly more divergent as to how to accomplish these objectives.
2019-5-25 19:00 | |
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A recent analysis on the future of warfare indicates that countries that continue to develop AI for military use risk losing control of the battlefield. Those that don’t risk eradication. Whether you’re for or against the AI arms race: it’s happening.
2019-5-21 00:16 | |
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With phones getting endlessly more powerful, it sometimes feel like a pointless arms race. Like, what do we need all that juice for? Faster scrolling on Instagram? 3D GIFS? Fucking Animoji? Well, with its beefed up ROG phone, ASUS has an answer: gaming.
2019-5-2 18:54 | |
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Medical Care has always been a front-line, mission-critical, use case for emerging technologies with fast and furious adoption turning into almost an arms race.
2019-4-29 14:31 | |
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Coinspeaker Max’s Corner: Cryptography of the Present, Past, and FutureThis edition of Max’s Corner takes a look at some recent developments in cryptography, Mastercard’s quest to find unicorns, and the emerging quantum cryptography arms race.
2019-4-9 21:17 | |
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In a world where Bitcoin mining is increasingly competitive, mining equipment can quickly go obsolete. As hashrate increases, the difficulty of successful block creation soars, thereby making it less profitable to secure the network.
2019-3-29 20:11 | |
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The escalating arms race between India and Pakistan reached a dangerous pinnacle on Wednesday as India deployed a ballistic space missile. Using an anti-satellite weapon dubbed ‘Mission Shakti’, India’s military forces successfully shot down a low-orbit satellite.
2019-3-27 13:26 | |
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The escalating arms race between India and Pakistan reached a dangerous pinnacle on Wednesday as India deployed a ballistic space missile. Using an anti-satellite weapon dubbed ‘Mission Shakti’, India’s military forces successfully shot down a low-orbit satellite.
2019-3-27 13:26 | |
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A millisecond makes millions of dollars worth of difference. Connexus Cloud and institutional investors are laying the foundations for institutional involvement in cryptocurrency. The post Market Data Could Be The Next Crypto Arms Race appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2019-3-19 22:16 | |
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Much to the ire of cryptocurrency advocates, the general public tends to conflate blockchain – which is the tech underlying cryptocurrencies – and the digital assets themselves. Despite their strong connections, the two technologies are separate in many ways, and many analysts believe that as the general public becomes more interested in blockchain, they will.
2019-3-10 22:30 | |
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Developers building public blockchains are faced with slowly losing the war against Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASICs). ASIC-resistant developers are facing an eternal “cat and mouse” chase in which some have claimed they may have already lost.
2019-2-28 06:00 | |
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Since it came to life in early 2009, Bitcoin has begun disrupting the world of finance. Over the years, this decentralized digital currency came to mean different things for different people.
2019-2-18 18:30 | |
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The Doomsday Clock is 2 minutes from nuclear midnight. President Donald Trump announced Friday that the United States would be pulling out of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, giving rise to fears of a new atomic arms race between the former Cold War rivals.
2019-2-4 17:48 | |
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There are plenty of individuals out there in the blockchain space, specifically analysts and experts in the field that believe that any kind of crypto-based adoption and integration into business and daily life will only be possible with the work of major multinational corporations.
2018-11-20 01:38 | |
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The arms race between hardware wallet manufacturers is showing no signs of abating. Every new device must be more secure, robust and impregnable than its predecessor to claim the bragging rights and earn the shekels of the crypto rich, to whom nothing but the best will do.
2018-11-18 00:20 | |
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Fundamentals suggest that network usage of XMR is currently on the decline, but protocol upgrades and consensus algorithm changes bring XMR to the forefront of the privacy coin arms race.
2018-10-26 14:01 | |
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Bots Vs Scambots: 2018 Cryptocurrency Arms Race Since the existence of internet, there have been numerous scam bots reported, with the most notorious one being the infamous 419 Nigerian prince scam, which offered victims a large sum of money for covering the huge administration fees on international transfers for foreign dignitaries. With the emergence of […]
2018-10-8 21:41 | |
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About 8 years ago, in 2010, GPU entered the mining stage and outperformed CPU, leading to stock shortages at some point. In 2018 we are facing a new global trend: ASIC miners, which first appeared in 2013 and have been gaining popularity ever since, are the latest word in crypto mining.
2018-9-15 17:31 | |
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As a handful of states scramble for the first draw in a pro-blockchain regulatory arms race, the CEO of Malta-based, “regulation-ready” cryptocurrency exchange ZBX has claimed the Maltese government’s plans may be forging a crypto-utopia like no other.
2018-9-3 19:00 | |
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Quantum computing has ushered in a new area of information technology. An international arms race to develop quantum computers has steadily grown more competitive and more critical. China reached the early pole position by unveiling the world’s first quantum communication landline connecting Beijing with Shanghai like no two other cities in history.
2018-9-1 15:30 | |
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The blockchain arms race has continued to gather pace as titans in the finance and technology industries strive to stay ahead of their competition by developing cutting-edge blockchain solutions. The latest companies to apply for blockchain patents are technology powerhouse IBM; the leading US crypto exchange, Coinbase; and financial services company Capital One. IBM’s patent […]
2018-8-20 19:00 | |
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Barclays Bank is the latest in a long line of companies that have filed blockchain-related patents as they seek to gain an edge on the newest technology frontier. The London-based financial services giant filed the two patents with the U.
2018-7-21 16:00 | |
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An Ethereum blockchain-powered platform Buglab aims to strengthen information security by transforming the process of finding vulnerabilities into challenges — or “contests” — for certified cybersecurity testers.
2018-7-2 12:37 | |
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