Результатов: 518

Data Breach Report From Instagram Raises Concerns About Upcoming Facebook’s Digital Currency

Facebook, the most popular social network in the world, has been affected by different data leaks over the last years. This has harmed users and individuals that had data stored on their platform. Now, the security researcher Anurag Sen discovered that there was a public Amazon Web Services (AWS) database that had the information of […] дальше »

2019-5-21 18:33


Фото:

Who are the creators of AI-generated art — programmers or machines?

Two years ago, engineers released DeepBach, a neural network that generates Baroque anthems almost indistinguishable from Bach’s, but still nobody can decide if it’s really music.   DeepBach is so skilled at replicating Bach that more than half of those surveyed had attributed its computer-generated melodies to the man himself — despite music students and professionals making up 25 percent of respondents. дальше »

2019-5-8 19:08


FinCEN back on the bitcoin beat with civil penalty for peer-to-peer trader

After first issuing cryptocurrency guidance back in 2013, enforcement by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has been out of the headlines in recent years. Now the bureau of the US Department of the Treasury is back on the bitcoin beat and taking action — dishing out a hefty fine to a prolific bitcoin trader accused of wilfully violating the Bank Secrecy Act by failing to register as an exchange. дальше »

2019-4-25 16:00


Blockstream’s Samson Mow and Monero’s Leader Talk About Tron’s Controversies in the Space

Justin Sun, the CEO and Founder of Tron (TRX), has been involved in different controversies over the past years. During the last episode of Magical Crypto Friends, Riccardo Spagni, Charlie Lee, Whale Panda and Samson Mow, talked about Justin Sun and how he promoted and developed the Tron Network. Justin Sun Criticized By Crypto Figures […] дальше »

2019-4-14 18:14


Фото:

Facebook may soon let you chat with friends on mobile without Messenger

Five years ago, Facebook began encouraging users to use its standalone Messenger app to chat with their contacts, instead of using the built-in feature in the social network’s mobile apps. It appears that it’s now looking to bring messaging back to the primary Facebook app experience – which indicates a change in strategy for keeping users engaged on the platform App researcher Jane Manchun Wong tweeted a screenshot of a Facebook feature in the works, which shows a new tab for messaging people right within the social network’s app. дальше »

2019-4-12 10:48


Romaine Lettuce Is Being Blockchain Technology, Thanks To The IBM Food Trust Network

Romaine Lettuce Can Now Be Tracked With Blockchain Technology, Thanks To The Addition Of IBM Food Trust Network Blockchain technology has come a long way in the last ten years. Though it originates in the cryptocurrency industry, many people have recognized the benefits that come from having an honest and transparent distributed ledger, especially when […] дальше »

2019-4-12 23:20


Who Will Win in the Race for Processing Speed: Command Chain Protocol vs The Lightning Network

There was one issue with Bitcoin when it was first proposed in 2008 by Satoshi Nakamoto:  it couldn’t scale. Ten years later and Bitcoin has the same scalability problem. Throughout its existence, it hasn’t managed to go beyond processing more than seven transactions per second; which was enough in the beginning. дальше »

2019-4-10 19:21


Andreas Antonopoulos Says If Fungibility Is Not Fixed Bitcoin Could Be Attacked

Andreas M Antonopoulos seems to be worried about the delays that fungibility proposals and improvements on the Bitcoin (BTC) network could harm the space. During a conversation with Diar, Antonopoulos discusses how Bitcoin needs to face some challenges even after becoming widely known in the last years. Bitcoin Needs To Be Fungible There are several […] дальше »

2019-4-9 21:11


Фото:

22-year-old gets 2 years in jail for illegally selling hundreds of thousands in Bitcoin

A 22-year-old man in the US has been sentenced to two years in prison for selling hundreds of thousands of dollars in Bitcoin through an unlicensed money transmitting business. Jacob Burrell Campos, who had been in custody without bail since he was arrested in August last year, was also forced to forfeit $823,357 in illicit profits. дальше »

2019-4-9 13:04


Bitcoin Killer? What’s New And Old With BitTorrent Inventor Bram Cohen’s ‘Chia’

If you ask its official website, Bram Cohen’s Chia project is the first “enterprise” digital currency. Forget Ripple, Stellar, or the host of stablecoins launched over the past couple years. It’s Chia – the “green” crypto project developed in answer to the question of Bitcoin’s high resource usage, which is the first enterprise-grade cryptocurrency. дальше »

2019-4-3 11:30


Brand New Study Shows BTC’s Lightning Network (LN) is Suffering From Trust Issues

Over the course of the past few years, many crypto experts had been saying that the Lightning Network [LN] was the scaling solution that the Bitcoin ecosystem had been desperately waiting for. However, as soon this “second-layer payment protocol” started to garner more and more attention globally, a number of security flaws in relation to […] дальше »

2019-3-30 21:28


Фото:

Analysis Shows Lightning Network Suffers From Trust Issues Exacerbated by Rising Fees

Over the last two years, the Lightning Network has been touted as the scaling solution for the Bitcoin Core (BTC) network. However, the solution has been heavily criticized for its lack of security, and on March 28, Bitcoin Unlimited’s chief scientist Peter Rizun wrote an interesting evaluation of the Lightning Network’s “dirty little secret. дальше »

2019-3-30 03:10


Фото:

Op Ed: With Bitcoin, Anarchy Is the Point, Not the Problem

Last week, there was a panel at SXSW that was effectively a debate on the merits of permissioned blockchains versus permissionless systems like Bitcoin. I listened to the entire audio of the panel discussion, after Programming Bitcoin author Jimmy Song tweeted it out the other day, and I thought he did an awesome job of pointing out the key value proposition of Bitcoin and why it is not worth comparing to permissioned systems. дальше »

2019-3-23 17:29


Фото:

Bitcoin scammer boasts $760,000 payday through dark web domain squatting

A scammer is claiming to have made 200 BTC ($760,000) through ‘typosquatting’ criminal dark web sites on the Tor network, over the past four years. Typosquatting is a form of cybersquatting – basically sitting on websites under someone else’s brand – that specifically targets users who incorrectly type a website address into their web browser to lead them to a spoof site. дальше »

2019-3-21 20:45