2019-11-25 21:59 |
Blockchain has the potential to change the world just as the internet did, but it will take some time
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As someone who needs to communicate with family and clients scattered around the world, Internet messaging apps have been important to me for years. Once upon a time, Skype, Windows Messenger, AIM, and other such apps did the job.
2019-10-23 13:00 | |
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“I think the government should be required to have a warrant to delve into our internet activity. Even the Supreme Court did not address this, leaving all of us vulnerable to secret government surveillance of what we do on the internet.
2019-10-12 19:00 | |
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Во вторник, 17 сентября, состоялся публичный запуск бета-версии PoS-блокчейна Hedera Hashgraph с заявленной пропускной способностью в 10 000 Tps. We did it. The trust layer of the internet is here.
2019-9-17 17:03 | |
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Web accessibility is a bigger deal than you might think … Did you know that Beyonce’s website is under fire for its lack of accessibility? Or that Domino’s is fighting the Supreme Court over a website accessibility lawsuit filed by a blind customer? Lawsuits about accessibility for disabled internet users have climbed through the roof, with 2285 cases being filed in 2018 … That’s a whopping 177 percent increase over 2017.
2019-8-20 19:46 | |
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The partnership between Ripple and Moneygram was plaguing the Internet for almost two weeks when Ripple finally confirmed it on June 17. This led to massive FOMO in the community causing the price of MoneyGram stocks to soar.
2019-6-22 01:00 | |
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By CCN Markets: Jack Dorsey is all in on bitcoin. The tech entrepreneur, who is at the helm of both Twitter and Square, recognizes that cryptocurrency and the blockchain will become a “secular trend” in financial services going forward, according to an interview he did with Quartz in London.
2019-6-15 20:00 | |
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The purpose of this infographic is to visualize the size of large cryptocurrency hacks that have occurred in the past as if they all happened today. The hacks included in this infographic extend beyond exchanges, as there were other large entities that experienced cryptocurrency hacks, such as marketplaces like Silk Road 2.
2019-5-25 21:56 | |
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Microsoft is leveraging blockchain technology to create a trustless digital identity scheme, but its not launching a token or building a private blockchain to do so.
2019-5-13 18:34 | |
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Grayscale Investments is weighing in on the gold versus bitcoin debate. Its two sats? Drop the bars, buy the bits (and the dip). The Digital Currency Group off-shoot has launched a “Drop Gold” campaign that encourages investors to ditch the old asset for its digital counterpart, bitcoin.
2019-5-2 23:21 | |
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By CCN: There’s no sign of Tesla’s misfortune ending anytime soon. Billionaire Elon Musk was too busy humoring the internet even as his company ran into yet another concrete barrier. Tesla’s stock is languishing close to its 52-week low after the company’s horrible earnings that missed Wall Street’s expectations by a mile.
2019-5-1 16:37 | |
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“A statement may be both true and dangerous. The previous sentence is such a statement. ” - David Friedman Freedom of speech is a topic that many internet communities have struggled with over the last two decades.
2019-4-19 04:03 | |
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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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The idea of cryptocurrency disrupting the world financial system is not far-fetched. In fact, as crypto goes mainstream, banking as we know it today may cease to exist. Cryptocurrencies could do to banks what the internet did to the mainstream media.
2019-3-27 14:54 | |
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Bitcoin (BTC) has been pitched as peer-to-peer electronic cash, a store of value, a disruptor of traditional financial instruments, and a way to free the world from the shackles of the government’s control over current fiat monetary system.
2019-2-14 23:00 | |
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On Monday, the day before President Trump’s State of the Union Address, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg attended a performance celebrating her life at a museum in Washington — her first public appearance since December.
2019-2-12 03:12 | |
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Before he died, Stephen Hawking once said “we are all now connected by the internet, like neurons in a giant brain”. It is true, we are. The internet has had a direct impact on everyone who uses this vast “neuron like network”.
2019-2-11 15:25 | |
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A new raft of crypto and blockchain analytics tools has just been launched by search giant Google. They will provide deep data sets for the top cryptocurrencies and aim to revolutionize blockchain search as the company did for information on the internet.
2019-2-7 12:00 | |
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For an unconfirmed amount (rumored to be $126 million), Tron did acquire BitTorrent and just like that they had access to more than 170 million monthly users spread across 133 countries complete with a 22 percent upstream traffic.
2019-1-28 17:15 | |
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This is the fifth instalment of reporter Colin Harper's "Living on Bitcoin" experience in San Francisco. Find out what happened to him earlier on Day 1 , on Day 2 , on Day 3 , onDay 4 and on Day 5.
2019-1-23 01:05 | |
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A few weeks ago, a report spread on the internet regarding ConsenSys firing between 40% and 60% of the company’s staff after the bear market that affected the industry during 2018. However, the recent layoffs at the blockchain software company do not exceed 10 percent of the staff. This is according to the company’s Executive […]
2019-1-22 14:13 | |
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This is the fourth instalment of reporter Colin Harper's "Living on Bitcoin" experience in San Francisco. Find out what happened to him earlier on Day 1 , on Day 2 and on Day 3.
2019-1-19 00:10 | |
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This is the second instalment of reporter Colin Harper's "Living on Bitcoin" experience in San Francisco. Find out what happened to him on Day 1 here. I woke up on Christian’s couch stiff-necked and cotton-mouthed.
2019-1-16 22:54 | |
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Popular cryptocurrency project Brave, centered on integrating cryptocurrency with ad-free, safe internet browsing, released their 2018 stats recently. The stats and milestones showcased did imply that the project had a productive year behind it, with strong strides forward made on several fields.
2019-1-9 16:49 | |
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Per a report published on December 25, 2018, Japanese internet giant GMO has decided to call off their business of manufacturing and selling cryptocurrency mining machines. Market Slump to Blame for Declining Profits According to the report, GMO’s in-house mining business profitability took a major beating due to the declining cryptocurrency prices.
2018-12-28 09:00 | |
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A few months ago, a report related to Hal Finney being cryopreserved spread on the internet. Hal Finney was a developer that worked with Bitcoin and received the first transaction made on the Bitcoin network.
2018-12-26 23:28 | |
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At a time when cryptocurrency was synonymous with blockchain technology, IOTA proposed a modification. IOTA, as its name would suggest, aspired to be a cryptocurrency for the future of Internet of Things (IoT).
2018-12-25 13:00 | |
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While most crypto investors are shooting for the moon, Blockstream is focused on things a bit closer to Earth: in the outermost layer of its atmosphere, to be exact.
2018-12-18 00:31 | |
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The Most Important Crypto FUD You Need To Know About Over The Next 4 Weeks Fear, uncertainty, and doubt has played a huge role in crypto markets since the beginning of time. Intelligent investors need to spot potential sources of FUD before they hit the internet. That’s exactly what the team at Trading Room did […]
2018-12-5 23:21 | |
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Not too long ago (barely two decades), the internet was still a new thing. As such, it was unexplored, and nobody ever dreamed that it will become as big as it is today. Back then, people were uncertain about it, unsure of whether investing in it is worth it, but that still did not stop […]
2018-12-2 01:22 | |
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Jared Rice Sr. , CEO of the Dallas-based bank AriseBank, was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Wednesday, November 28, 2018, and charged with six counts of securities fraud and wire fraud.
2018-11-30 23:03 | |
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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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The Let’s Talk Bitcoin Network hosts several podcasts for regular discussion topics in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrency, including the popular weekly show What Bitcoin Did.
2018-11-20 22:58 | |
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The Chinese internet shopping Goliath, Alibaba, has overcome its previous struggles to win a trademark infringement case against a cryptocurrency that was blatantly sponging off its recognizable name.
2018-10-24 13:46 | |
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Following a partnership between Samourai Wallet and goTenna, which now allows users to send bitcoin transactions offline, one developer in New Zealand is staying ahead of the curve.
2018-10-18 00:36 | |
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Malware, a persistent thorn in the side of the internet’s wider community, has become an increasing concern for cryptocurrency users. A problem that comes in many forms, malicious software is leveraged by hackers to rob community members of their funds.
2018-9-18 23:37 | |
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Social media giant Twitter intends to find a blockchain solution that would help stop fake news and online scams on its platform. It’s been decades since the internet revolutionised the world.
2018-9-7 12:00 | |
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As the world went digital, so did a majority of industries, as many forward thinkers sought a technology that could revolutionize legacy systems. And while a majority of industries found success through the utilization of the internet and modern technologies, the journalism industry faltered, with “fake news,” plagiarism, and the like becoming the new black.
2018-8-29 15:00 | |
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Chart for ETC/XBT (1W) Ethereum Classic (ETC) has been fully focused on immutability and decentralization from the very beginning, but in markets like these where most investors are focused on quick returns rather than long term investments in promising technologies, concepts of immutability and decentralization did not matter much in itself.
2018-8-27 21:30 | |
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One of the key tradeoffs in blockchain design is whether to build more functionality into base-layer blockchains themselves (“layer 1”), or to build it into protocols that live on top of the blockchain, and can be created and modified without changing the blockchain itself (“layer 2”).
2018-8-28 04:03 | |
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Bitcoin is currently in danger of slipping below $6,000, and many traders fear that the top-ranked cryptocurrency may test $5,000 or even $4,000 given the lackluster sentiment that is prevalent in the market.
2018-8-14 15:38 | |
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Cryptocurrency has grown by leaps and bounds. In the book, The Internet of Money, Andreas Antonopoulos addresses the speed with which cryptocurrency is growing. He writes, “We are ahead of the curve.
2018-8-9 12:01 | |
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Ripple is facing a fresh publicity rollercoaster this week after the company announced former US president Bill Clinton would give the keynote speech at its upcoming Swell conference. Ripple: Clinton ‘Helped Shape Internet’ Swell, Ripple’s own conference which aims to connect “the world’s leaders in policy, payments and technology,” will run in San Francisco October 1 – 2.
2018-8-1 15:00 | |
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Google, which has been long known for defending freedom of internet, recently removed access to a feature that was widely used to bypass censorship; domain fronting. Activists claim Google is siding with censorship, while Google claims it was a regular update.
2018-7-29 11:30 | |
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The new 2018 Q3 Global Digital Statshot report from Hootsuite and We Are Social shows that there was plenty of change in the world of digital, social, and mobile over the past three months. There are many encouraging trends within this new data, but there are also some more worrying findings that marketers will need to monitor closely over the coming months.
2018-7-24 15:05 | |
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What’s the best that can happen? That’s the focus of Fetch. ai in the realm of artificial intelligence (AI). Episode 025 of the What Bitcoin Did podcast featured a wide-ranging conversation between host Peter McCormack and Fetch co-founder/CTO Toby Simpson about both best-case and worst-case outcomes for AI.
2018-7-20 19:38 | |
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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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Your town just decided to introduce fiber-optic Internet access. After deliberations and town halls, and careful planning by engineers, the community agrees to buy miles of cable for installation.
2018-7-9 18:51 | |
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Back in the 80s, I fancied myself as a half-decent 8-bit coder but of course, there was always someone who did it outrageously better. Like my idols in the C64 demo scene, for example, whom I eventually rubbed shoulders with.
2018-7-2 11:12 | |
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Mr. Felix Hufeld, the President of Federal Financial Supervisory Authority [BaFin], talked about Bitcoin and blockchain and compares this infancy of blockchain with the advent of the internet. He says that even Bill Gates at that time did not pay close attention to that new phenomenon. Trying to ensure that you do not fall on […]
2018-6-13 23:20 | |
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Войны, эпидемии, природные катаклизмы и хакерские атаки на жизненно важные системы, увы, в последние годы становятся фоном повседневности. Все чаще многие из нас привыкают радоваться такой простой вещи как, например, бесперебойные поставки воды и электричества.
Pipe is planning to launch a testnet at the Breakpoint conference in Singapore.
This week started a bit ugly for ICP but the price is looking strong today following a small increase from a temporal support level yesterday. However, the overall market remains bearish as it charges for gains.
Investors in the crypto markets may be prone to irrational thinking when bullishness sets in, but advisors can offer a balanced and rational investment strategy that counters the hype.
Advisors can offer a balanced and rational investment strategy that counters the hype when bullishness sets in, Onramp Invest CEO Eric Ervin writes.
Cyberpunk is a subgenre of sci-fi that explores a dystopian future with advanced technology, where the line between man and machine is blurred.
Возвращение турбулентности на крипторынок и падение стоимости биткоина вызвали всплеск интереса в интернете к ведущей цифровой валюте. По данным сервиса Google Trends, на минувшей неделе количество поисковых запросов по биткоину достигло самого высокого уровня с мая прошлого года.