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Report Links 74% of Bitcoin Mining to China, Sees Threat to Network

Bitcoin, the world’s most sought-after cryptocurrency, could be at the wish and whim of Asia’s economic giant. A recent study titled “The Looming Threat of China: An Analysis of Chinese Influence on Bitcoin,” jointly researched by Princeton University and Florida International University researchers, suggests China’s mining scene has an overwhelming influence over Bitcoin, something that could invite network manipulation. дальше »

2018-10-11 00:29


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What Bitcoin Did Gets Technical with Crypto-Educator Jimmy Song

<iframe style="border: none" src="//html5-player. libsyn. com/embed/episode/id/7132345/height/90/theme/custom/autoplay/no/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/87A93A/" height="90" width="100%" scrolling="no"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> On the latest episode of What Bitcoin Did, host Peter McCormack interviews Jimmy Song, a consultant in blockchain education, to take an in-depth look at a relatively recent incident in the world of cryptocurrency and use that as an example to segue into a deeper discussion on the possible trajectories of Bitcoin itself. дальше »

2018-10-6 00:05


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How Long Can Siacoin Outrun ASIC Manufacturers?

Some people really don’t like Jihan Wu. Bitmain, which produces the inexpensive, industrial-grade chips that spoiled the home mining game, is now unwelcome in yet another crypto community. Siacoin, an online network for distributed storage, announced a protocol upgrade to “brick” the Bitmain and Innosilicon hardware which currently threaten to dominate Sia mining. дальше »

2018-10-3 18:49


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Ripple Co-Founder McCaleb’s ‘Dramatic’ XRP Sell-Offs Hot Air, Say Investors

Ripple community members were reacting September 25 after the Wall Street Journal claimed co-founder Jed McCaleb had “dramatically” stepped up a sell-off of his XRP token holdings. WSJ: Sales ‘Highlight Crypto Startup Complications’ According to the publication, McCaleb, who since leaving Ripple to start payment network Stellar has been under an agreement to only sell a certain number of tokens daily, has engaged in increased selling for “several weeks. дальше »

2018-9-25 19:00


Bitcoin devs warn of possible chainsplit following severe DDoS vulnerability

Bitcoin Core developers have issued an important statement to the entire community, as the fallout from a recently disclosed DDoS vulnerability intensifies. The vulnerability, which researchers disclosed earlier this week, made it possible for miners to sabotage the Bitcoin network by sending transaction data twice. дальше »

2018-9-21 15:29


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New Mining Manufacturer Linzhi Announces Ethereum ASIC Miner

Chen Min, the former chief chip maker at Bitcoin mining chip developer Canaan Creative, is turning her attention to Ethereum. Announcing her venture at the Ethereum Classic Summit in Seoul, South Korea, Chen’s new company, Linzhi, will focus on building cryptocurrency mining devices, and its first official products are a series of application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) miners designed specifically for Ethereum and Ethereum Classic. дальше »

2018-9-15 01:22


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DevCon 4 Will Set the Stage for Ethereum’s Next Milestone: Constantinople

Ethereum is embracing the Constantinople milestone at the end of November 2018, after DevCon4 in Prague. Constantinople is the latest Ethereum release, introduced through a hard fork, that will include five Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs):Bitwise shifting instructions (EIP 145) in the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) allow for direct manipulation of bytes on the EVM layer. дальше »

2018-9-11 18:15


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It ‘Doesn’t Work’: Cryptocurrency Community Tells airBaltic To Ditch BitPay

BHB Network CEO Giacomo Zucco publicly urged Latvian airline airBaltic to replace BitPay as its Bitcoin payment processor September 5, claiming the company’s product “doesn’t work. ” Zucco to airBaltic: Go Open Source In a tweet, Zucco — who has become known for his support of open source alternatives to overly-centralized services both within cryptocurrency and beyond — called on airBaltic to look at switching from BitPay to open-source BTCPay and Globee. дальше »

2018-9-6 21:00