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An article restricting proof-of-work cryptocurrencies has made it back into a draft of MiCA after it was reportedly scrapped. origin »
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U. S. Senator Elizabeth Warren criticized Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies yesterday in a Banking Senate Subcommittee hearing. In the hearing, Warren criticized the energy consumption that Bitcoin and other proof-of-work (PoW) cryptocurrencies need to operate.
2021-6-11 23:30 | |
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In a bid to save the Ethereum mining community, a group known as the Ethereum Genesys Foundation (EGF) successfully hard forked the chain to continue Proof-of-Work (PoW) mining. With the ETH 2. 0 upgrade well underway, the switch to Proof-of-Stake (PoS) would render miners redundant.
2021-5-1 15:20 | |
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Privacy-focused digital currency, Firo, formerly known as Zcoin, suffered a 51% attack in the early hours of 20 January. Taking to Twitter, the team behind Firo notified traders about the attack and aThe post Firo is latest proof-of-work coin to suffer 51% attack; 306 blocks rolled back appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-1-20 18:30 | |
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Adam Back, a cryptographer, and CEO of Blockstream, the company specializing in blockchain-based infrastructure, is a supporter of the proof-of-work system on which Bitcoin continues living up to this day.
2020-6-6 12:41 | |
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Adam Back, the Bitcoin (BTC) pioneer and creator of the Proof-of-Work (PoW) system that was highly used in the Bitcoin mining algorithm, has launched a controversy by comparing Ethereum (ETH) with the no longer existing biotech startup Theranos.
2019-11-27 22:00 | |
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Monero Outreach, one of the main Monero workgroups, has released a statement on Coinbase's views on Proof-of-Work, which was written by Security Engineer, Mark Nesbitt. In a blog post titled, 'A RespoThe post Monero outreach hits back at 'arguably inappropriate' conclusions of Coinbase study appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-11-14 16:30 | |
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Korea Blockchain Week 2019, Asia’s largest blockchain weekly event to take place on September 27th to October 4th. Nick Szabo, who invented the phrase and concept of “smart contracts” in 1994, along with Dr.
2019-9-2 18:27 | |
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Korea Blockchain Week 2019, Asia’s largest blockchain weekly event to take place on September 27th to October 4th. Nick Szabo, who invented the phrase and concept of “smart contracts” in 1994, along with Dr.
2019-8-28 10:30 | |
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By CCN: For whatever reason, people believe that Amazon’s acceptance of Bitcoin or lack thereof will be a significant milestone for cryptocurrency. The company has never accepted it, which has given rise to several business models, including Purse.
2019-5-17 08:48 | |
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Bitcoin is an open-source protocol that anybody can interact with. It is getting attention and attracting participation in different ways, whether it is through speculation, investing and sending money, all the way to contributing to what’s underneath the hood.
2019-1-16 01:14 | |
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Charles Hoskinson is best known today as a co-founder of both Ethereum and IOHK, where he leads the research, design and development of Cardano. But before these projects, there was Bitcoin.
2018-11-20 23:08 | |
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More than a year later after Bitcoin UASF, Blockstream CEO and inventor of Bitcoin’s proof-of-work technology, Adam Back, recalled the event as ‘an emphatic’ victory’ for users. Who Was in Charge of UASF? Remember UASF? The movement to get users to run full-nodes and support SegWit? Yes, the one with the cool-looking hats.
2018-10-24 03:00 | |
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Bitcoin, in its nine years of existence, has steadily gained traction, defining itself as a new digital gold. Early adopters of this technology have shown excitement for the potential of this inflation-proof sound money.
2018-7-14 00:48 | |
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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.
2018-7-13 17:16 | |
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According to data from EOS Authority, EOS has finally acquired the minimum votes required for its network to go live. After EOS failed to launch its platform on its projected launch date of June 2, a live-stream vote was called, where users voted “Go” to launch the blockchain network.
2018-6-15 03:10 | |
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South Korea just ruled that bitcoin is a legally recognizable asset, which is good news for investors, but not such good news for convicted criminals that had managed to hold onto their cryptocurrency in the past.
2018-6-11 18:04 | |
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The Labour government said the bill will give owners of bitcoin and other digital assets greater legal protection.
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer appointed Tulip Siddiq as the City Minister, a role that oversees financial services including crypto.
Taiwan's crypto advocacy body, the Taiwan Virtual Asset Service Provider Association, has been formally established and the founding meeting held with 24 cryptocurrency-related entities.
The exchange could return as a FIU-registered firm after paying the fine, the report added.
This is the third test for the Province's new tool to combat money laundering.
The Federal Reserve continues to pilot a central bank digital currency, but will not issue one without executive branch and Congressional support, the report said.
India's most controversial crypto tax, the 1% TDS levy deducted at source, should be lowered to 0.01%, according to the findings of a new study.