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Power Ledger has purchased a 250 kW photovoltaic system to launch a blockchain-based data management and settlement system
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Russia’s national power grid company Rosseti is testing a system for electricity bill payments based on a distributed ledger by Waves.
2019-12-11 23:57 | |
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Japan’s second-largest power utility is extending its trial of a blockchain system for trading renewable energy certificates
2019-12-9 16:33 | |
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Special thanks to Justin Drake and Jinglan Wang for feedback In 2014, I made a post and a presentation with a list of hard problems in math, computer science and economics that I thought were important for the cryptocurrency space (as I then called it) to be able to reach maturity.
2019-11-25 04:03 | |
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There are many use cases for bitcoin but the primary one is to cut out centralized banks. The banking system as we know it is on the verge of collapse, but that is not all. They also have the power to ditch their customers with impunity as Sequoia partner Roelof Botha just found out.
2019-11-18 11:00 | |
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What looks like a simple internet meme, “OK, Boomer,” may be behind a transformational trend that has been building up over several years as the younger generations slowly take over the position of power, otherwise known as cryptocurrencies.
2019-11-14 15:21 | |
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When Satoshi Nakamoto penned the Bitcoin whitepaper 11 years ago, almost to the day, the goal was clear: Replace the existing centralized financial system with a currency of logic, not power. TraditioThe post Bitcoin's demand seems stronger with every weakening fiat appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-11-1 17:00 | |
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Central bankers and finance ministers are set to come together for the World Bank annual meeting, and the IMF has some strong advice for them: regulate digital currencies or watch your monetary monopoly lose power.
2019-10-18 22:00 | |
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Bank of England Governor Mark Carney has thrown his weight behind Facebook’s global cryptocurrency project dubbed Libra. The has opined that blockchain-based virtual currencies have the power tix the challenges associated with traditional payments systems, reports The Star on October 15, 2019.
2019-10-17 01:00 | |
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WCIT is the signature event of the World Information Technology & Services Alliance. This year it was Armenia’s turn to be at the center of the IT world map. The consortium of ICT associations from 83 countries claims to represent 90% of the industry.
2019-10-11 16:56 | |
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D-Wave today announced its next generation “Advantage” quantum computer system. It’ll pack a whopping 5,000 qubits and myriad improvements to processing speed and power. And the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico will be among the first to have access.
2019-9-25 01:14 | |
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Power Ledger, a blockchain-based energy trading platform, has launched the first trial of its technology in a rural area. In collaboration with the Shire of Wongan-Ballidu in Western Australia, the project will connect ten commercial sites to trade energy with one another on the blockchain.
2019-9-11 20:11 | |
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You can’t really discuss the topic of cryptocurrency mining without getting into issues surrounding the concept of centralization. One of the greatest aspirations of cryptocurrency communities is to decentralize the monetary system and create “trustless” transactions.
2019-9-2 14:11 | |
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Netflix is reportedly testing an all-new recommendation system that harnesses the power of employed biological neural networks – that’s humans if you insist on dumbing it down. Dubbed ‘Collections,’ the new system works like every collection of anything did before about 10 years ago – people sort it out so you don’t have to.
2019-8-24 00:28 | |
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The blockchain revolution starting with Bitcoin had a great impact on the world, not just because it highlighted the importance of a decentralized financial system, but mainly because it highlighted how distributed systems can put power back in the hands of consumers.
2019-8-23 12:30 | |
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There are several measurements of the health of the bitcoin network. Hash rate is probably the first that comes to mind but daily volume is another indicator of how successful the system has been.
2019-8-20 14:00 | |
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Power Ledger announces test completion of a peer-to-peer system with promise for post-FIT surplus power in the Japanese city of Osaka
2019-8-14 20:13 | |
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Regulators across the globe and in the United States are taking a tougher stance on Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies ever since the news broke that Facebook would be launching a crypto asset of their own, sparking widespread outrage and concern.
2019-8-10 04:00 | |
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The German bank Commerzbank has recently developed a new blockchain-based technology that will be used in order to make automated payments between self-driving trucks. The system, which aims to take humans completely out of the equation, will be used to allow automated trucks to pay for their charging power without needing any human interaction. According […]
2019-8-9 01:04 | |
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nWay, a leading video games developer and publisher and creators with titles such as Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid, Legacy Wars, and others have introduced a new blockchain-based monetization system.
2019-8-7 23:00 | |
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Another project is leaving NEO for a new blockchain. nOS, which hopes to launch a virtual operating system for decentralized applications, has chosen ARK’s modular blockchain framework to power its platform.
2019-7-30 18:39 | |
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In a bid to deliver a truly decentralized and highly secure platform for its users, nOS has adopted the ARK blockchain network. The nOS virtual operating system provides web apps with a highly functional solution to implement innovative business models as well as a decentralized app store.
2019-7-30 12:28 | |
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Coinspeaker ARK’s Blockchain Technology Selected to Power nOS Virtual Operating SystemBy adopting ARK’s flexible yet powerful blockchain technology as a foundation, nOS is able to deliver a truly decentralized platform for users.
2019-7-30 10:00 | |
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Gominer Token is a Peer-to-Peer token that has a sophisticated level of security for a multi-functional digital currency and for all future use expansion. The token is created to help our user to interact and expand the way of their earning in Cloud mining.
2019-7-28 17:33 | |
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The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance has released an index of sorts devoted to macro data about Bitcoin, all of it relating to electricity consumption. Tree Huggers Take Solace Historically, one great objection to Bitcoin has been its perceived large-scale energy consumption.
2019-7-6 20:35 | |
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Cloud system admins are bringing home impressive salaries -- and with the training in these nine courses, featuring over 32 hours of content, you can begin to understand, use and even master this critical platform.
2019-6-27 14:00 | |
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By CCN Markets: Facebook has too much power to engage with a cryptocurrency, a United States senator has warned, days after the social media giant launched Libra. Sherrod Brown, a Democratic senator from Ohio, told Bloomberg TV that the public has increasing concerns around the social network.
2019-6-22 16:38 | |
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Vectorium Islands are places where the collectivity can produce renewable energy and cryptocurrecy. Those Islands produce power energy value combining wind, solar and waste by a virtuous ecosystem regulated by blockchain and Artificial Intelligence.
2019-6-18 01:23 | |
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Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is sharding different from sidechains or Plasma? All three architectures seem to involve a hub-and-spoke architecture with a central “main chain” that serves as the consensus backbone of the system, and a set of “child” chains containing actual user-level transactions.
2019-6-14 04:03 | |
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On May 15, 2019, Bitcoin Cash (BCH) implemented a system upgrade designed to support a number of scaling solutions. Shortly after the fork, there appeared to be a power struggle between miners looking to recuperate lost BCH, which became spendable after the upgrade.
2019-6-8 06:00 | |
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The iconic camera brand that originally entered the cryptosphere with its KODAKCoin has now launched Kodak Services for Business, which will offer storage for sensitive documents for businesses and government agencies and relies on blockchain tech to provide efficiency and security.
2019-6-7 19:18 | |
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Blockchain technology is finding new use cases around the world, and South Korea is taking advantage of its features in a new announcement by Energy Daily. According to the publication, the Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) has decided to sign a contract involved two domestic power suppliers. In this contract, KEPCO outlines their plant to […]
2019-6-5 04:29 | |
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South Korea’s top power provider has signed a contract with two domestic power suppliers to create a blockchain-based system for Renewable Energy Certificate transactions
2019-6-4 16:19 | |
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One of the biggest names in the smart contracts and blockchain audit sector, CertiK announced today, May 14 that it has successfully completed a formal security audit of Terra. Terra is famed for designing an algorithmic stablecoin that will power the next generation payment system on the blockchain.
2019-5-15 10:39 | |
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Electronics company HTC has announced that it is launching a smartphone to bring crypto and blockchain technology to a wider audience in Q3 2019. According to a press release shared with Bitcoin Magazine, “The EXODUS 1s will be the first smartphone ever to have full node capabilities” containing the full Bitcoin blockchain.
2019-5-12 22:20 | |
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Noclone3, a Twitter user with “a passion for quantum physics, cryptocurrencies and programming” argued his position that the biggest crypto exchange platforms might not be sufficiently ready for a period when quantum computers (with increased power) will be a real threat to today's blockchain binary system. “1/ A new QRL related tweetstorm. The main thesis […]
2019-4-30 20:29 | |
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Since the whittling away of the power and stability of the gold standard in, depending on where you're from (1925 in the UK to 1971 if you're in the USA) and its replacement with a system of tethered trust in the government responsible for the issuance of the currency (Bank of England – UK and […]
2019-4-27 05:57 | |
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Quadratic voting. A democratic system well suited to cryptocurrency that aims to divorce the accumulation of power with wealth. Is it effective though? The post Quadratic Voting: Rethinking the Future of Governance appeared first on CoinCentral.
2019-4-21 19:45 | |
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Cryptocurrency space is flooded with thousands of tokens and a new one gets added every other day. The vision behind Bitcoin was to create a decentralized currency system to give power in the hands of the community, rather than a big financial institution and banks holding a monopoly over people's money. However, as the popularity […]
2019-4-9 17:49 | |
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The EOS network is making news again, and this time, it’s about its great processing power. According to a tweet sent out by Daniel Larimer, EOS smart contracts have significantly increased to a whopping 70 million actions as logged by the system.
2019-4-9 09:44 | |
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Bitcoin’s first decentralized exchange to make use of the Lightning Network’s Atomic Swaps is now in beta. Sparkswap, an exchange with backing from Pantera Capital (which announced its ambitious mission to become the most decentralized bitcoin exchange on the market in August 2018), has now opened its beta to users.
2019-4-9 23:28 | |
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Over the years, Bitcoin has gained a reputation for having a “toxic” community of users around it. This accusation is mostly thrown at Bitcoin by proponents of altcoins and those who have supported various Bitcoin hard fork attempts in the past.
2019-4-5 16:23 | |
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Special thanks to Glen Weyl, Phil Daian and Jinglan Wang for review Over the last few years there has been an increasing interest in using deliberately engineered economic incentives and mechanism design to align behavior of participants in various contexts.
2019-4-5 04:03 | |
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Cybersecurity has long battled against ransomware. Scammers that use general hacking are a lower level of threat, but the use of ransomware puts computers at risk of being completely shut down. This kind of software being integrated into a network has the power to completely ruin a system, and LockerGoga is taking full advantage. LockerGoga […]
2019-3-27 01:58 | |
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What Is ILCOIN? Developed by ILCoin Dev. Team, ILCoin is an advanced cryptocurrency integrated with SHA-256 encryption and Proof-of-Work (PoW) technology. The cryptocurrency seeks to power a new, global digital currency-based economic system where members of the system can generate earnings or spend trade and store the ILCoins and in doing so, benefit themselves while growing […]
2019-3-12 10:30 | |
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A poor and densely populated country stuck at number 137 worldwide in the economic prosperity rankings, with a per capita GDP of just about $2,000 – this would be the perfect proving ground to show once and for all that left wing economics can successfully turn the fortunes of a struggling people around, and give the world an alternative to its failing capitalist system.
2019-3-11 15:00 | |
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Yesterday, USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) – a group that oversees USB standards – announced the USB4 protocol, which is capable of handling data transfer speeds up to 40Gbps – that’s four times more than USB 3.
2019-3-5 11:01 | |
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Bither Platform (BTR) is a Three-layer and multi-mining project that is an answer to the energy consumption problem in PoW mechanism, The first layer is a fully functional and secure layer with a reward system for the miners.
2019-3-2 00:03 | |
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If you consider yourself a Mac power user, then you understand much of your device's functionality comes from the apps you choose to install on it. But, the app market is a vast place, and finding the tools that are worth your time can be a challenge amidst all the clutter.
2019-2-26 16:00 | |
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In the past, say 50 years, there has been little changes in the current payment system. Technical innovation is pacing forward, but none could be seen in these payment networks. Not only the speed hasn’t brought forward any improvements, but the fees are also rather going for a hike as recently Visa and MasterCard have […]
2019-2-25 20:32 | |
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Enterprises should consider evolving their financial strategies and utilizing the power of the blockchain and stablecoins for payments.
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