2019-10-24 18:51 |
A researcher from the University of Texas at Austin said that Google’s quantum computer could be applied in proof-of-stake cryptocurrencies
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Google has recently affirmed that it was able to achieve some important breakthroughs in the quantum computing field. Now, a researcher from the University of Texas at Austin, Scott Aaronson, has told Fortune that this kind of progress could improve how the proof of stake technology works. In case you do not know, proof of […]
2019-10-24 22:37 | |
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MakerDAO, the decentralized organization that runs on Ethereum, has disclosed an enormously dangerous security flaw that could’ve allowed an attacker to steal collateral powering its Dai stablecoin with a single transaction.
2019-10-3 16:12 | |
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It turns out WhatsApp‘s ‘Delete for Everyone’ feature — designed to let you wipe texts and files you sent by accident — could still leave traces of your messages, due to a discrepancy in the way the function works on Android handsets and iPhones.
2019-9-18 15:21 | |
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Mining difficulty could be an indicator for predicting BTC prices. All three of the major bull runs in Bitcoin’s history started after mining difficulty reached its bottom, meaning the market could see robust gains this year, says crypto researcher PlanB.
2019-8-25 21:54 | |
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A second zero-day vulnerability has been publicly disclosed in the Steam gaming client by security researcher Vasily Kravets after he said he was banned from its bug-bounty program. The revelations come two weeks after another zero-day previously disclosed by Kravets and researcher Matt Nelson was disputed by Valve, Steam’s parent company.
2019-8-22 09:52 | |
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Scientists may have found a potential cure for anxiety after isolating and boosting a molecule in the brains of rhesus monkeys. Andrew Fox, a researcher at UC Davis, and co-author Tade Souaiaia from SUNY lead a team of researchers in an experimental study to determine if behaviors related to anxiety and depression could be mitigated by manipulating the amygdala, the part of the brain that controls memory and emotions linked to memory.
2019-8-15 00:58 | |
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Bitcoin could drop dramatically in the short term before experiencing a historic rise to new heights, one of the cryptocurrency industry’s best-known researcher says. Bitcoin Mimicking Gold ‘Not Surprising’ Adding his weight to the current discussion on Bitcoin’s utility versus gold, Dan McArdle, co-founder of analytics firm Messari, said the cryptocurrency could copy the precious metal’s behavior in the coming years.
2019-8-8 12:00 | |
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Last week, video conferencing app Zoom had to make a major change to its service to fix a frightening webcam vulnerability. But new evidence disclosed by security researcher Karan Lyons shows that other conferencing apps like RingCentral and Zhumu are susceptible to the same issue.
2019-7-16 09:22 | |
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Donald Trump Name Drops Bitcoin In a three-part thread, Donald Trump lambasted cryptocurrencies, even setting his sights on Bitcoin. The American leader tried to dismantle the value proposition of not only decentralized cryptocurrencies — such.
2019-7-15 12:04 | |
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A serious zero-day vulnerability has been disclosed in Zoom video conferencing app on the Mac. Security researcher Jonathan Leitschuh, in a Medium post, detailed the flaw that could let websites hijack your Mac‘s camera and “forcibly” join you to a Zoom call without your permission.
2019-7-9 10:13 | |
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At Peking University’s Institute of Digital Finance, Wang Xin, head of the research bureau at the People's Bank of China, noted that mass adoption of Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency could ramp up development of China's own national digital currency.
2019-7-9 18:49 | |
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In the biweekly call with Ethereum 2.0 developers, Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake proposed that with the code on track to be finalized by June 30, the first iteration of the 2.0 upgrade, dubbed Phase Zero, could come as early as January 3, 2020.
2019-6-19 18:33 | |
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By CCN: Dow Jones futures point to a calamitous open for the US stock market on Thursday. Reports out of China suggest that hopes of a trade deal are further away than anyone could have imagined: a terrifying 15 years.
2019-5-23 14:10 | |
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The cryptocurrency community has been quite vocal about potential attacks by quantum computers in the future. According to many theories, quantum computing will become so powerful that it might eventually break and decode modern-day encrypted algorithm.
2019-5-15 21:30 | |
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In a recent article, Kyle Torpey, a Bitcoin writer and researcher for Forbes, gives three reasons why Bitcoin price would be surging. At the same time, he wrote about the potential mass adoption over the next five years.
2019-4-24 14:02 | |
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Has Bitcoin (BTC) bottomed? This is the question that has pained crypto investors since BTC plummeted to $3,150 in the middle of December. While some, especially those subscribed to the Hyperwave theory, claim that cryptocurrencies are poised to head lower, a leading analytics researcher claims that if historical trends are followed, the bears have already.
2019-4-22 16:30 | |
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By CCN: Tesla CEO Elon Musk has made a couple of tall claims that are sure to excite the fanboys. In an interview with MIT researcher Lex Fridman, Musk claimed that Tesla is less than two years away from bringing a fully autonomous vehicle to market.
2019-4-17 02:28 | |
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Since 2018’s bear market came to life, investors have tried to determine what will revive Bitcoin (BTC) once again. According to industry researcher boutique Delphi Digital, the strength (or lack thereof) of the macroeconomy could be a boon for the cryptocurrency market moving forward, in spite of the fact that many pundits see digital assets.
2019-4-14 03:00 | |
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A pair of researchers recently developed a method for successfully conducting unsupervised machine learning that closely mimics how scientists believe the human brain works. These biologically-feasible algorithms could provide an alternate path forward for the field of AI.
2019-4-5 03:33 | |
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Felix Weiss, a crypto developer and researcher has successfully conducted a transaction on the Lightning Network (LN) using a Bitcoin ATM. However, this was just a proof-of-concept and there is still work to do to extend this to other terminals.
2019-4-1 19:36 | |
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With the crypto-winter ravaging the collective virtual currency market, proponents are looking everywhere for an escape. From institutional investors venturing into the market to increased mainstream adoption to lax government regulations, several indicators for the departure of winter and arrival of spring have been suggested.
2019-3-27 18:30 | |
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Bitcoin Trading Volumes Boom Over recent weeks, it has become more and more apparent that life has returned to Bitcoin (BTC), and the broader digital asset ecosystem by extension. Independent cryptocurrency researcher Kevin Rooke recently.
2019-3-17 07:15 | |
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Square Could Spark Widespread Bitcoin Adoption Earlier this week, Ethereum World News reported that Square, a fintech startup based out of San Francisco, had sold millions worth of Bitcoin (BTC) over fiscal 2018.
2019-3-2 09:05 | |
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Although many industry insiders talk a big game about the real world viability of Bitcoin, as it stands the cryptocurrency has seen little adoption. In fact, it has been anecdotally said that the number of brick and mortar merchants accepting BTC has plummeted, not risen over the past years.
2019-2-12 18:00 | |
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Bitcoin Likely “Massively Undervalued,” Claims Analyst PlanB, a leading cryptocurrency-friendly researcher on Twitter that has the handle “100trillionUSD” a (likely reference to his/her long-term prediction for the market capitalization of Bitcoin), recently took to his feed to claim that at the moment, BTC could be “MASSIVELY undervalued.
2019-2-4 09:00 | |
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Surprise! The craziest crypto-related story of 2019 has just become a tad zanier. According to a research piece from a leading industry researcher, QuadrigaCX, a Canadian Bitcoin (BTC) exchange in the midst of a multi-month imbroglio, could have been fibbing about its cryptocurrency holdings — and by a large sum at that.
2019-2-4 03:00 | |
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A blockchain researcher has been working on a scaling effort for the unspent transaction output set found in the Bitcoin protocol. According to Tadge Dryja’s recently published description of research, the software engineer is working on a dynamic accumulator called Utreexo.
2019-1-20 03:01 | |
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It’s one of the worst feelings in the world: You’re on an airplane, only to realize you’ve forgotten your headphones. You’re then forced to use the pair of earbuds provided by the airline just so you don’t have to spend your flight in silence.
2018-12-5 04:27 | |
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Cryptocurrency mining software could be used to steal corporate secrets according to new research from threat researcher Troy Kent. Kent, who works for Awake Security presented his research at the InfoSecurity North America Conference in New York earlier this month.
2018-12-4 13:59 | |
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Could Mining Software Be Used To Steal Corporate Secrets? During the last 6 months, cryptocurrency mining activities have experienced a strong decline after the hash rate of the Bitcoin network got reduced by 44% since its all-time high in August.
2018-12-3 21:32 | |
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Let’s face it: Facebook is not the most positive place on earth. Some comments on your Facebook posts can be more than unpleasant. But researcher Jane Manchun Wong’s new finding in the app could bring us some hope for a better experience.
2018-11-28 10:19 | |
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It may sound like science fiction, but brain-machine interfaces (BMI) will eventually come to our devices. It’s just a matter of time. The technology has been actively researched since 1969, before consumer computers even existed, when a researcher showed that monkeys could amplify their brain signals to control a needle on a dial.
2018-9-15 15:30 | |
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According to cryptocurrency researcher Dovey Wan, the decentralized prediction marketplace Augur sold around 1 million Ethereum at $0. 7 immediately following its fundraising round. If Augur had sold its Ethereum reserve on the upside, in the $1,000 to $1,500 region, the $700,000 it obtained two years ago could have been worth $1 billion to $1.
2018-9-5 16:00 | |
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Now i’m not sure if this recent Ethereum scam is genius, or just preying on gullible, but essentially what’s happened is someone has created an app for the Google Play store, that means the page for the app looks as if users can purchase single Ethereum tokens through Google Play, for the value of €335.
2018-8-22 15:30 | |
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A common mainstream media trope is that Bitcoin mining will soon use so much electrical power it could lead to an environmental catastrophe. We’ve often provided examples of how this is a false narrative, and now an independent energy researcher is saying the same.
2018-8-22 02:03 | |
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If you’re using an Android phone or have Google apps installed on your iPhone, the search giant is almost certainly tracking your location constantly – even if you’ve turned that setting off, reports the Associated Press.
2018-8-14 08:18 | |
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Until just a few days ago, the interface of the betting market Augur was compromised in a way that could have allowed attackers to replace every bit of information on the platform—and users would not have been able to tell the difference.
2018-8-9 06:35 | |
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An economic and crypto researcher at the Canda’s central bank says that the existence of CBDCs could provide better flexibility in creating monetary policies. Banking institutions from around the globe and other financial agencies have been largely promoting the idea of Central Bank-backed Digital Currencies (CBDCs). Off lately we have been seeing a lot of
2018-7-28 23:03 | |
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An economic and crypto researcher at the Canda's central bank says that the existence of CBDCs could provide better flexibility in creating monetary policies. The post Canada Backs the Idea of Central Bank-issued Crypto Amid its Potential to Bring Economic Gains appeared first on CoinSpeaker.
2018-7-27 21:12 | |
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Central bank-issued cryptocurrency could bring economic welfare gains for Canada and the U.S., according to a researcher from Canada's central bank.
2018-7-27 12:30 | |
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A worrying report was published yesterday in the online academic journal, The Conversation, warning that in the future, quantum computers might become capable of cracking cryptocurrency wallets’ private keys—giving potential hackers access to crypto users’ stored digital currencies.
2018-7-18 02:51 | |
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A worrying report was published yesterday in the online academic journal, The Conversation, warning that in the future, quantum computers might become capable of cracking cryptocurrency wallets’ private keys—giving potential hackers access to crypto users’ stored digital currencies.
2018-7-17 03:00 | |
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Wall Street market researcher Tom Lee says Bitcoin could trade at “roughly $22K” by year’s end, says even $25K per coin is still possible
2018-7-6 16:12 | |
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TheDigitalArtist / Pixabay Apple devices are infected with a bug that could enable an unlimited number of passcode attempts even on the latest version iOS 11. 3, claimed a co-founder of cybersecurity firm Hacker House – Matthew Hickey.
2018-6-25 21:37 | |
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Interest in Ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency asset, is gaining momentum once again among retail and institutional investors, as evidenced by a robust increase in its net staking inflows in the past week in tandem with recent improvements in the price of ETH.
Цена Ethereum значительно «отстала» от показателя цифрового золота с момента активации The Merge и полного перехода на алгоритм консенсуса Proof-of-Stake (PoS). Об этом пишет The Block, ссылаясь на аналитиков CryptoQuant.
Peko Wan is co-CEO of Pundi X, which has been deploying their blockchain-based point-of-sale (POS) solution and solidifying partnerships with governments, payment companies, and retailers around the world.
Система протоколов для интернета вещей (IoT, или Internet of Things) IOTA объявила о запуске тестовой сети IOTA 2. 0, которая улучшит масштабируемость и безопасность платформы. Разработчики IOTA обещают, что новая публичная сеть проекта будет экологически чистой за счет снижения воздействия на окружающую среду и потребления энергии.
Бывший комиссар Комиссии по торговле товарными фьючерсами США (CFTC) Брайан Квинтенц раскритиковал позицию SEC по отношению к эфиру, заявив, что ведомство создает путаницу в законодательстве.
Комиссия по ценным бумагам и биржам США (SEC) повторно отложила рассмотрение заявок BlackRock и Fidelity на запуск спотовых ETF на эфир.
Крупнейшая американская криптобиржа Coinbase призвала Комиссию по ценным бумагам и биржам США (SEC) одобрить заявку компании Grayscale на запуск биржевого фонда Grayscale Ethereum Trust.