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The panic over lethal automated weapons systems is unfounded, and could be dangerous
Killer robots sound pretty scary. But we might be overlooking a few key aspects about their benefits, or at the very least, we’re looking at them the wrong way. To get more specific, I’m talking about lethal autonomous weapons systems (or LAWs), which are autonomous military robots that are designed to find and engage with specific targets based on their programming. дальше »
2018-11-24 11:55 | |
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‘NIPS’ AI conference renamed after 30 years over complaints of sexism
The board organizing the conference on Neural Information Processing Systems – one of the world’s most noted events for researchers working on artificial intelligence – has changed the acronym used for the event’s name after attendees complained that the name contributed to an atmosphere of sexism. дальше »
2018-11-22 10:26 | |
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Researchers create ‘master key’ fingerprints that can fool biometric databases
Researchers from New York University have created a set of master fingerprint keys that can be used to spoof biometric identification systems. While the database of fingerprints used by the researchers had a chance of falsely matching with a random fingerprint one out of 1000 times, the master prints they generated had the power to falsely match one out of five times. дальше »
2018-11-15 22:57 | |
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Microsoft launched a cloud-based blockchain development kit
Big tech is getting in on blockchain in a big way. Microsoft has launched a cloud-based blockchain development kit powered by Azure. “This kit extends the capabilities of our blockchain developer templates and Azure Blockchain Workbench, which incorporates Azure services for key management, off-chain identity and data, monitoring, and messaging APIs into a reference architecture that can be used to rapidly build blockchain-based applications,” Microsoft blockchain engineering lead Marc Mercuri said. дальше »
2018-11-15 21:15 | |
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Microsoft launches cloud-based development kit for blockchain
Big tech is getting in on blockchain in a big way. Microsoft has launched a cloud-based blockchain development kit powered by Azure. “This kit extends the capabilities of our blockchain developer templates and Azure Blockchain Workbench, which incorporates Azure services for key management, off-chain identity and data, monitoring, and messaging APIs into a reference architecture that can be used to rapidly build blockchain-based applications,” Microsoft blockchain engineering lead Marc Mercuri said. дальше »
2018-11-15 21:15 | |
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Crypto Experts Agree: It’s Not Wise to Compare Bitcoin (BTC) to Centralized Payment Systems
Bitcoin is the largest and most popular virtual currency in the cryptocurrency market. It can be used to process transactions of $1 million dollars or more or even $1 dollars’ transactions. However, the miners have to pay the same price for processing a very small payment or large transactions. For example, back in September, $193 […] дальше »
2018-11-14 18:54 | |
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Japanese Cybersecurity Company Partners With ConsenSys to Detect Vulnerabilities on Smart Contracts
On November 8, 2018, Global cybersecurity firm NRI Secure Technologies (NRI ST) in collaboration with Ethereum-focused development studio ConsenSys has launched a new product dubbed Blockchain Security Monitoring Service. дальше »
2018-11-11 00:00 | |
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Bank of America Patent Application Reveals Tamper-Proof Storage for Private Keys
Bank of America has filed for yet another blockchain-related patent, a document published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office has revealed. The patent, titled “Systems and devices for hardened remote storage of private cryptography keys used for authentication,” was filed on September 16, 2018. дальше »
2018-11-2 18:00 | |
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Wall Street Learns to Hodl
After ten years of watching from the sidelines, Wall Street is dipping more toes into the crypto world. Bank of America is the latest legacy financial institution to test the waters. On Tuesday the bank was awarded a patent for “systems and devices for hardened remote storage of private cryptographic keys used for authentication” in […] The post Wall Street Learns to Hodl appeared first on Crypto Briefing. дальше »
2018-10-31 19:48 | |
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Op Ed: Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption Is Neither Frivolous Nor Excessive
As the CEO of Hut 8, one of North America’s largest cryptocurrency miners and the world’s largest publicly traded cryptocurrency miner, I’m often asked questions about energy consumption in the mining of cryptocurrency. дальше »
2018-11-1 23:35 | |
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Korean Crypto Exchange Earns Key Government Cybersecurity Certification
South Korean cryptocurrency exchange GOPAX has become the first blockchain company to attain K-ISMS certification, the official standard in Korea for information security management systems. дальше »
2018-10-30 23:51 | |
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Op Ed: In Defense of Bitcoin: A Response to Nouriel Roubini
Rhetorical style should never distract from the content of someone’s arguments. So when I heard that Nouriel Roubini testified to the U. S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem, I decided to peruse his testimony and reflect on it. дальше »
2018-10-24 19:38 | |
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Op Ed: Why Satoshi Nakamoto Deserves a Nobel Prize
Alfred Nobel died with regrets. After making a fortune off of explosives, he indicated in his will that his fortune should be used to make a prize awarded each year to those who “conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. дальше »
2018-10-23 23:22 | |
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Roubini Faces Off With Coin Center’s Van Valkenburgh at Senate Hearing
Nouriel Roubini, an economist best known for his predictions of the 2008 housing bubble, and Peter Van Valkenburgh, Coin Center’s director of research, testified before the U. дальше »
2018-10-12 18:06 | |
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Unlocking the Full Potential of IoT Farming - [BTC Media Sponsor]
You don’t need to be an agriculture expert to see the writing on the wall. Current farming methods just aren’t working anymore for most farmers of the world. There are 2 billion smallholder farms managing fewer than five acres (PDF). дальше »
2018-10-9 20:10 | |
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We need to build AI systems we can trust
Today, artificial intelligence (AI) systems are routinely being used to support human decision-making in a multitude of applications. AI can help doctors to make sense of millions of patient records; farmers to determine exactly how much water each individual plant needs; and insurance companies to assess claims faster. дальше »
2018-10-6 11:30 | |
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Digital Advertising & Blockchain, BAT & More
This year has seen the price of cryptocurrencies fluctuate massively and yet blockchain is one of the most popular new and upcoming technologies. There are many people who believe that blockchain based platforms could completely change major industries. дальше »
2018-9-29 21:30 | |
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SEC Charges Forex Broker for Illegal Securities Swaps Involving Bitcoin
In what seems like the first coordinated strike from government agencies, the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have taken action against a securities broker for violating federal laws in connection with security-based swaps funded by bitcoin. дальше »
2018-9-29 22:29 | |
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Blockchain Project Ontology Partners With 4Stop for Identity Authentication Services
Public blockchain project Ontology is collaborating with 4Stop to perform identity authentication services on its distributed trust collaboration platform. 4Stop’s systems will now be used by the platform for completing Know Your Customer (KYC) procedures on its ecosystem. дальше »
2018-9-28 20:19 | |
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Panasonic, Leica, and Sigma will share lenses for future cameras
It’s been a wild few weeks in the photography world. Fresh after Nikon and Canon announced their first serious mirrorless camera systems, now Panasonic, Leica, and Sigma, are teaming up on a mirrorless lens system of their own. дальше »
2018-9-26 22:55 | |
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eCash Founder David Chaum Makes Bold Promises with Elixxir Blockchain
Over 30 years after creating eCash, a predecessor of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies which spawned the Cypherpunk movement of the 1980s, Dr. David Chaum is back in the public eye with a claim of having invented “the world’s fastest cryptocurrency. дальше »
2018-9-22 23:59 | |
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FOAM: The Consensus Driven Map of the World
Maps and addressing systems have been the foundation of our lives that have had a significant contribution to shaping the way one commutes. Maps have been an integral part in setting up global business and commerce from pre-colonial days and continued to do today. дальше »
2018-9-21 23:00 | |
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Battle of the Privacycoins: Verge Offers Little Privacy and Nothing Unique
Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited. дальше »
2018-9-18 19:50 | |
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Battle of the Privacycoins: Why Monero Is Hard to Beat (and Hard to Scale)
Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited. дальше »
2018-9-15 20:21 | |
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Report Recommends That Blockchain Should Not Be Used for Voting
A new report from the U. S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine says internet voting systems should not be used currently. The organization is also advocating for the use of paper ballots in all U. дальше »
2018-9-10 13:00 | |
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Decred Price Analysis: Alterations to blockchain governance
Decred (DCR) provides an intriguing governance & network decision-making alternative to the clunky, informal systems used by traditional PoW powerhouses Bitcoin and Ethereum. The network's hashrate and transaction volumes have improved over the last six months, and despite bearish price movements DCR has not fallen as far from its all-time highs as the majority of other alt-coins дальше »
2018-9-9 21:33 | |
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Battle of the Privacycoins: Why Dash Is Not Really That Private
Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited. дальше »
2018-9-7 00:27 | |
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Winklevoss Twins File New Patent For Virtual Asset Storing
The famous twins, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, have filed for a new patent in storing virtual assets in a secure manner. The Winklevoss IP, LLC patent, named “Systems and methods for storing digital math-based assets using a secure portal,” this includes a new method which allows the division of a virtual asset account “into a plurality or private key segments”. дальше »
2018-9-6 15:30 | |
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IBM Introduces 'World Wire' Payment System on Stellar Network
IBM has launched a blockchain-based payment system called Blockchain World Wire. According to IBM, the new payment network uses digital currency on Stellar's blockchain to "clear and settle cross-border payments" in near real time. дальше »
2018-9-6 23:49 | |
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How to mine Zencash
What is ZenCash? A decentralised blockchain platform, ZenCash is a privacy-centric network which can be used for public, private, and anonymous transactions, communications, and publishing. The platform works on the zk-SNARKs, domain fronting, and TLS integration to ensure that the users’ digital assets, communications, and publications are protected. дальше »
2018-8-18 09:22 | |
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San Francisco judge orders bail payment in Bitcoin
A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered a cyber-criminal to pay their bail charges in Bitcoin, inadvertently stimulating cryptocurrency mainstream adoption. The Daily Post – a local Palo Alto newspaper – reports Martin Marisch has been charged with hacking the well-known video games company Electronic Arts, responsible for popular titles like FIFA, The Sims, and Battlefield. дальше »
2018-8-17 15:20 | |
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The Democratic Republic of Congo’s electronic voting machines worry security experts
The technology company, Miru Systems Co. , have growing concerns about the South Korean manufactured electronic voting machines in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s upcoming 2018 general elections. дальше »
2018-8-2 10:44 | |
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Status (SNT) To Add FOAM Blockchain Proof of Location Geospatial Features To Its App
Earlier this week, Status (SNT) announced that it will partner up with FOAM to integrate the latter’s geospatial functionality into its Ethereum-based mobile operating system. SNT is a mobile operation systems designated for the Ethereum network, while FOAM is open standard used to identify a use’s location on the Ethereum network. The news was first […] дальше »
2018-7-31 18:58 | |
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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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BlockLicense ICO
BlockLicense is a decentralized ecosystem that enables fair licensing, pricing and distribution of creative content and aims to liberate creators from intermediates. BlockLicense has licensing, pricing and attribution at its very core by embedding relevant information to the backbone of digital files without altering their behavior. дальше »
2018-7-23 12:13 | |
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Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad
Coin holder voting, both for governance of technical features, and for more extensive use cases like deciding who runs validator nodes and who receives money from development bounty funds, is unfortunately continuing to be popular, and so it seems worthwhile for me to write another post explaining why I (and Vlad Zamfir and others) do not consider it wise for Ethereum (or really, any base-layer blockchain) to start adopting these kinds of mechanisms in a tightly coupled form in any significant way. дальше »
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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STARKs, Part I: Proofs with Polynomials
Special thanks to Eli Ben-Sasson for ongoing help, explanations and review, coming up with some of the examples used in this post, and most crucially of all inventing a lot of this stuff; thanks to Hsiao-wei Wang for reviewing Hopefully many people by now have heard of ZK-SNARKs, the general-purpose succinct zero knowledge proof technology that can be used for all sorts of usecases ranging from verifiable computation to privacy-preserving cryptocurrency. дальше »
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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Notes on Blockchain Governance
In which I argue that “tightly coupled” on-chain voting is overrated, the status quo of “informal governance” as practiced by Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Zcash and similar systems is much less bad than commonly thought, that people who think that the purpose of blockchains is to completely expunge soft mushy human intuitions and feelings in favor of completely algorithmic governance (emphasis on “completely”) are absolutely crazy, and loosely coupled voting as done by Carbonvotes and similar systems is underrated, as well as describe what framework should be used when thinking about blockchain governance in the first place. дальше »
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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Op Ed: Addressing the Threat of Cryptomining Malware
One major class of attacks to hit the hacking landscape recently is cryptomining. While cryptomining on its own supports a good cause when being done consciously, it also allows nefarious actors to make a lot of money fast, and, with the sheer number of cryptocurrencies available to mine, it is becoming a popular choice for attackers. дальше »
2018-7-18 23:18 | |
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Promoted: The Future of Online Shopping Is Powered by Spl.yt — A Decentralized E-Commerce Protocol
As a rapidly growing business sector, e-commerce continues to open up new avenues for exploring, comparing and purchasing products worldwide. Spl. yt, a smart contract protocol, aims improve the e-commerce system for buyers and sellers by automating functions currently performed by “middlemen” marketplaces like Amazon, eBay and Alibaba. дальше »
2018-7-16 19:45 | |
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Blockchain Auditing and the Industry’s "Knowledge Gap"
The advent of smart contracts has long drawn interest for its potential to revolutionize business agreements. There’s just one problem, and it’s one that has affected many spheres of the cryptocurrency space: a knowledge gap. дальше »
2018-7-13 19:12 | |
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Tkeycoin DAO ICO
TCD Corporation (formerly Holding BR) is an IT company engaged in the development of modern solutions for the economic and public spheres of activity. Since October 2017, TCD Corporation has been designing and developing a new cryptographic decentralized platform - "Tkeycoin DAO" for payment systems, banking and financial sector. дальше »
2018-7-12 22:56 | |
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International Coalition Set to Tackle Cryptocurrency Tax Crime
In a bid to fight the threat of cryptocurrency tax crime, the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has joined with tax authorities from Australia, Canada, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom to form the Joint Chiefs of Global Tax Enforcement (J5), according to a press release. дальше »
2018-7-4 23:36 | |
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Op-Ed: Challenge of Mining Centralization Unveils Bitcoin’s Elegant Design
Last year, growing problems of Bitcoin mining centralization came to light with the controversy of an AsicBoost scandal. As a largely centralized hash rate began to threaten the software’s magical property, concerns were raised that incentives at the crux of Bitcoin’s game theory had broken away. дальше »
2018-6-29 16:42 | |
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NEURON ICO
NEURON is a pioneering international decentralized payment system that operates independently from regulators and existing payment systems. lely by participants in the system. NEURON’s own currency, NER, allows cross-border payments to be conducted with a minimum commission. дальше »
2018-6-28 17:51 | |
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Merck Considers Using Blockchain to Fight Counterfeit Med Proliferation
Pharmaceuticals giant Merck is seeking a patent for a way to use blockchain in order to track goods as they move through the supply chain. That distributed network could then be used to store information verifying the authenticity of the item. дальше »
2018-6-26 00:15 | |
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