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IOTA Price Prediction for 2019 – What is IOTA’s Future Outlook?

IOTA was started to provide distributed ledger technology for the machines and internet-of-things (IoT) space where small connected devices regularly share data. Because these machines and devices are generally specialized to be low power and perform only specific functions IOTA does not use a traditional consensus mechanism like proof-of-work or proof-of-stake nor does it use […] The post IOTA Price Prediction for 2019 – What is IOTA’s Future Outlook? appeared first on CaptainAltcoin. дальше »

2019-3-15 00:15


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Ethereum’s New Serenity Protocol Lowers the Cost of Running Staking Nodes

Ethereum’s new Serenity update, which will enable the network to transition from a Proof-of-Work (PoW) to a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus model, has been generating a lot of hype in 2018. Apart from addressing the problem of scalability, the new chain also drastically reduces the cost for running a staking node in Ethereum 2. дальше »

2018-11-22 21:57


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Cryptocurrency Miners May Have to Pay More for Electricity in Chelan County

There is little doubt that cryptocurrency mining is extremely power intensive, with particular emphasis on coins that still rely on the Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus mechanism. Recognizing this, Washington State’s Chelan County Public Utility District (PUD) has proposed a rate hike for mining enterprises within the region. дальше »

2018-11-18 17:00


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Bank of Canada: Proof-of-Work Beats Alternative Consensus Systems

Canada’s central bank has championed proof-of-work (PoW) algorithms as part of a new research paper on Blockchain consensus. ‘Irretrievable Sunk Costs’ In its Staff Working Paper released this week, Bank of Canada (BoC) said PoW, used by Bitcoin, held more promise than alternative proof-of-script (PoS) algorithms found in various altcoins. дальше »

2018-7-25 18:00


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PoWx Seeks to Change Bitcoin Mining with “Optical PoW”

Nonprofit organization PoWx has launched this week with the goal of boosting the idea behind proof of work (PoW) through more innovative algorithms. The company is seeking to decentralize Bitcoin mining and make it more accessible to consumers through a new technology that executives have dubbed “optical PoW” — a new type of hardware that utilizes a more advanced and energy-efficient form of laser technology as the cornerstone of mining. дальше »

2018-7-14 01:04


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The Genesis Files: With Bit Gold, Szabo Was Inches Away From Inventing Bitcoin

As his Hungarian parents had fled post-war Soviet regime to settle in the United States, Nick Szabo came to call the Californian Bay area of the 1990s his home. Here, he was among the first to frequent the in-person “Cypherpunk” meetings organized by Timothy May, Eric Hughes and other founding members of the collective of cryptographers, programmers and privacy activists centered around the ’90s mailing list of the same name. дальше »

2018-7-13 17:16


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