2018-8-13 04:05 |
The Power is scalable blockchain environment for real-time user and companies interaction. Speed and horizontal scalability are achieved through the sharding. Public and private blockchains form a single network and unified address space. origin »
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The fact that great responsibility accompanies great power has become crystal clear in the blockchain world. While blockchains are most commonly connected with commerce, the potential impact of distributed ledgers is being discovered in fresh sectors daily.
2018-8-10 20:51 | |
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Cryptocurrencies since their arrival have been a blessing in disguise to the world of finance as well as many aspects of our lives. Customer power, freedom, anonymity and a whole lot of seemingly impossible things in the world of finance are now a reality thanks to cryptocurrencies.
2018-8-3 11:23 | |
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Cheap energy prices are sending crypto miners to the U. S. -Canadian border, turning hydropower into hash power, but the authorities are beginning to fight back. Taking Advantage of the Public Utilities Plattsburgh, a small town on the North American border has become ground zero for crypto mining.
2018-7-31 21:30 | |
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Another county in the U.S. state of Washington has blocked new utility applications from cryptocurrency mining outfits due to concerns over spiking energy demands. According to a local news source on Sunday, commissioners from the Franklin County Public Utility District (PUD) ordered the temporary moratorium to make time for a study on the effects of
2018-7-31 15:34 | |
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Lykke has signed an agreement with the Access to Information (a2i) Programme of the Prime Minister’s Office of Bangladesh for the joint development of blockchain technology to power digitized public services.
2018-7-31 13:18 | |
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AERGO is a proposed new blockchain protocol, which aims to power both public and private blockchain deployments. Based on Blocko Inc’s (Blocko) experience in providing large-scale, production level private blockchain to recognized enterprise customers, AERGO intends to be purpose-built to enable enterprise architectures based on blockchain by incorporating both new, innovative and established technical approaches to build scalable distributed database systems.
2018-7-30 18:13 | |
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The world of cryptocurrency is in a constant state of flux. As a result, the process of sorting through untold amounts of background information and data can be a laborious, time-consuming endeavor.
2018-7-30 16:47 | |
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The largest mining company in the world, the Chinese Bitmain, has decided to publish regular reports on the size of its mining operations. This is part of a broader transparency initiative which will be used to open the company up before going public later this year with the Initial Public Offering (IPO). The Bitmain In-House […]
2018-7-26 22:48 | |
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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.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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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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Computer manufacturing company HTC says it is on the verge of releasing its upcoming blockchain phone, Exodus, which was first announced in May of 2018. Chief crypto officer at HTC Phil Chen leads the company’s blockchain and cryptocurrency initiatives.
2018-7-18 19:47 | |
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CoinMirror, a Berlin-based startup, is launching the public beta of its platform for ICO investments on the Ethereum mainnet today, July 18, 2018. The platform seeks to provide investment opportunities to investors regardless of available capital.
2018-7-18 18:41 | |
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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.
2018-7-18 23:18 | |
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There are over 600 million Africans living without electricity despite an abundance of sunshine and hundreds of thousands of solar projects on the drawing board.
2018-7-17 17:41 | |
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Knowledge is power, particularly in the Information Age, where an understanding of ‘the new’ can provide an edge over the competition. In other words, increasingly profit-oriented universities are seeking to capitalize on the crypto-rush by offering the public nontechnical courses on cryptocurrencies.
2018-7-15 19:01 | |
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The New York Public Service Commission (PSC) has approved new electricity rates for cryptocurrency miners in Upstate New York. Details of the New Rates In a press release issued by the New York PSC, high-density power consumers like cryptocurrency miners under the Massena Electric Department will pay new utility rates. Cryptocurrency miners and other high-density
2018-7-14 11:34 | |
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The New York Public Service Commission (PSC) has approved new electricity rates for cryptocurrency miners in Upstate New York. Details of the New Rates In a press release issued by the New York PSC, high-density power consumers like cryptocurrency miners under the Massena Electric Department will pay new utility rates.
2018-7-14 09:00 | |
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Nonprofit organization PoWx has launched this week with the goal of boosting the idea behind proof of work (PoW) through more innovative algorithms. The company is seeking to decentralize Bitcoin mining and make it more accessible to consumers through a new technology that executives have dubbed “optical PoW” — a new type of hardware that utilizes a more advanced and energy-efficient form of laser technology as the cornerstone of mining.
2018-7-14 01:04 | |
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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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Cryptocurrency Miners To Access Customized Electricity Payment Contracts A section of New York residents will now enjoy customized electricity bills after t regulators allowed a utility company to establish new rates for cryptocurrency miners.
2018-7-14 23:39 | |
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The Bitcoin movement has brought with it a tidal wave of activity in cryptocurrency investments and trading. As a result, crypto market capitalization soared to an all-time high of around $820 billion in early January of 2018.
2018-7-13 17:51 | |
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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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Even in an industry that’s seen no shortage of grand proclamations, those words, issued by entrepreneur Charles Hoskinson in April, grabbed attention. Given the size of the claim (and its impact), it’s an assertion that sparked doubt from cardano’s more prominent competitors.
2018-7-12 09:14 | |
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Public access to information and means of communication played an important role in the development of digital technologies. Crypto currencies and Blockchain were some of the most significant and large-scale inventions of the last decades because they helped to better understand the power of the Internet and revealed new methods for management of the social […]
2018-7-12 02:25 | |
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Augur, a blockchain-based predictions platform, has opened to the general public. The platform becomes the “world’s first” decentralized prediction-market platform.
2018-7-10 19:14 | |
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Recent Bitcoin block data shows that Bitcoin’s mining pools BTC. com, AntPool and ConnectBTC, respectively mined about 25. 7 percent, 16. 1 percent and 0. 2 percent of all new blocks over the past week.
2018-6-29 23:07 | |
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Daniel Larmier, the founder and technical architect of EOS, has confirmed that he wants to scrap the platform’s current constitution and build a new one. Speaking on the EOSIO Gov Telegram Channel, Larimer claimed he has doubts about the company’s current on-chain governance model and called the existing constitution “unwise.
2018-6-28 01:44 | |
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However, allegedly another stress test is in the works with malicious intent, according to a lesser known developer named Bitpico. Since then Bitpico has continued to detail to the public that he will besiege the BCH network with his mining power and malicious nodes. On June 24 Bitpico writes, “don’t say we didn’t warn you,”
2018-6-26 10:09 | |
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A man in China had his computers confiscated by police after he stole electricity by tapping a local power grid.
2018-6-24 18:12 | |
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Far beyond the cryptocurrency market and other business applications, blockchain technology holds the key to solving several nagging issues around the world today. BANKEX is leveraging the power of blockchain technology to proffer solutions to the global clean water shortage problem.
2018-6-13 01:00 | |
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Bitmain — the largest and most established manufacturer of cryptocurrency mining chips — is considering an IPO, or initial public offering. This could potentially open the company’s books to the world and allow the stock market to assign the company real-time value.
2018-6-11 01:34 | |
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Recently I had the fortune to have received an advance copy of Eric Posner and Glen Weyl’s new book, Radical Markets, which could be best described as an interesting new way of looking at the subject that is sometimes called “political economy” - tackling the big questions of how markets and politics and society intersect.
2018-7-21 04:03 | |
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