2020-3-19 19:36 |
A stimulus check might not be enough to boost demand and likely won't prevent the stock markets from plunging further. The post Why a Stimulus Check Isn’t Enough to Stop the Dow From Crashing appeared first on CCN.com origin »
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By CCN Markets: Microsoft decided that it hadn’t flogged the dead horse quite enough yet. So, after letting it rot in the street for over a year, it has updated the Xbox 360 yet again. But why? Check the patch notes and you'll see every gamer's greatest nemesis: “minor bug fixes and improvements” Now, we […] The post New Xbox 360 Update Launches: Apparently, Microsoft Thinks It's 2009 appeared first on CCN Markets
2019-8-23 23:55 | |
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The accusation that bitcoin is nothing more than a Ponzi scheme is perhaps the oldest, longest-standing criticism of the digital bearer asset. The basic idea is that there is nothing of value here and the entire purpose of bitcoin’s existence is to enrich Satoshi Nakamoto and the speculators who bought in for a few pennies or dollars in the early days by tricking others into buying in at a higher price.
2019-6-4 19:03 | |
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Trigger warning: specialized mathematical topic Special thanks to Karl Floersch for feedback One of the more interesting algorithms in number theory is the Fast Fourier transform (FFT).
2019-5-14 04:03 | |
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If you’re lucky enough to be in Italy for Milan Design Week this year, do yourself a favor and check out the world’s first “chair designed using artificial intelligence to be put into production.
2019-4-13 03:16 | |
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Lightning Labs, the development team working to grow the Lightning Network, just released the alpha version of a new protocol called Lightning Loop. Lightning Loop is designed to give users the ability to deposit and withdraw bitcoin from their payment channels (the two-way payment gateways that allow users to send and receive funds to and from each other) without closing these channels entirely.
2019-3-22 20:32 | |
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This article is a direct follow-up from our Taproot explainer. If you haven’t read that article, you should probably do so first. If Taproot is deployed on Bitcoin, many smart contract constructions will look just like regular transactions on the blockchain.
2019-1-26 01:23 | |
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This is the third instalment of reporter Colin Harper's "Living on Bitcoin" experience in San Francisco. Find out what happened to him earlier on Day 1 and on Day 2.
2019-1-18 00:05 | |
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South Korea will test out a new blockchain voting system this month, sources close to the developments have confirmed to Bitcoin Magazine. Developed by the country’s National Election Commission (NEC) and its Ministry of Science and ICT, the distributed ledger system is based on IBM’s Hyperledger Fabric and will be used to authenticate voters and save voting results in real time.
2018-12-4 21:41 | |
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Greek lore tells the tale of Medusa — a fearsome monster who could turn mortals into pillars of stone, should they be unfortunate enough to gaze upon her. For the digital age, there’s something similar.
2018-11-19 16:10 | |
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Ripple has formed higher lows and higher highs to create an ascending channel on its 4-hour chart. Price already seems to be bouncing before hitting support, though as it found bulls at an area of interest around .
2018-11-9 07:09 | |
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Tether Limited is back in the news; this time, it has confirmed a banking relationship with a financial institution based out of the Bahamas. The issuer of the controversial USD-pegged stablecoin tether (USDT) announced its partnership with Bahamas-based Deltec Bank & Trust Limited.
2018-11-2 00:27 | |
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Uh-oh, it looks like someone forgot to include the “check to ensure there’s enough storage space before installing” feature in the October Windows 10 update. As PC World reported yesterday, Microsoft quietly published a support document indicating people who attempt to run the impending October update on Windows 10 machines could find themselves rather frustrated if they don’t have enough available storage.
2018-9-22 01:05 | |
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On July 10, 2018, news broke that cryptocurrency wallet and decentralized exchange Bancor was hit with a hack. A wallet the Bancor team used to update the protocol’s smart contracts was infiltrated, and the $23.
2018-8-3 19:24 | |
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Bitcoin Price Key Highlights Bitcoin price is testing the ascending channel support and might be due for a bounce. This is in line with a number of other inflection points that might be enough to keep losses in check.
2018-7-27 07:32 | |
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Since the launch of Windows 10 some three years ago, Microsoft has been catching flak for the OS’ updates hijacking users’ workflows and rebooting their PCs – causing people to lose their unsaved work.
2018-7-26 10:50 | |
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Special thanks to Eli ben Sasson for his kind assistance, as usual. Special thanks to Chih-Cheng Liang and Justin Drake for review. Trigger warning: math and lots of python div. foo { color: white; } div.
2018-7-22 04:03 | |
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Here is a file that contains data, extracted from geth, about transaction fees in every block between 4710000 and 4730000. For each block, it contains an object of the form: { "block":4710000, "coinbase":"0x829bd824b016326a401d083b33d092293333a830", "deciles":[40,40.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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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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Special thanks to Eli Ben-Sasson for ongoing help and explanations, and Justin Drake for reviewing In the last part of this series, we talked about how you can make some pretty interesting succinct proofs of computation, such as proving that you have computed the millionth Fibonacci number, using a technique involving polynomial composition and division.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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A classic bearish reversal pattern suggests pain ahead for the ETH/BTC pair despite Ethereum's milestone Merge event.
The Dow Jones struggled on Tuesday as Monday's huge rally slowed amid risks of a setback as states reopen without a coronavirus vaccine. The post Dow Jones Struggles as Wall Street Frets About a Coronavirus Setback appeared first on CCN.com
Investors are way too bearish on the stock market which is a screaming contrarian indicator. Stocks could be about to make another move up. The post The Dow Jones Can Shatter All-Time Highs – Thanks to One Simple Reason appeared first on CCN.com
Stocks rallied yesterday on Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine trial breakthrough, but health experts say it won't arrive in time to prevent a second wave of the virus. The post Dow Futures Fade Because Vaccine Won’t Stop Virus Second Wave appeared first on CCN.com
The Dow Jones soared nearly 1,000 points on coronavirus vaccine news that Donald Trump gushed was "staggeringly good." The post This Is Why the Dow Jones Surged Nearly 1,000 Points Today appeared first on CCN.com
Significant overvaluation and fears of a second-wave of coronavirus are making investors nervous about the stock market. The post Billionaire Investors Aren’t the Only Ones Predicting a Stock Market Crash appeared first on CCN.com
The Dow Jones took a hit on Friday as retail sales showed just how weak consumer spending has gotten in the United States. The post Dow Sputters as Devastating Data Crushes Economic Optimism appeared first on CCN.com