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Can NFC Chips Help Secure Proof-of-Work Systems?
The mining of cryptocurrencies is often considered to be a wasteful effort. That being said, there is an option to maintain Proof-of-Work by utilizing NFC chips found in modern passports. Securing a blockchain often requires some sort of “work” to be done. дальше »
2020-5-5 00:00 | |
Nervos Mainnet Goes Live Following $72 Million Token Sale
Nervos, a proof-of-stake challenger to Bitcoin, had its mainnet go live. The release comes on the heels of its $72 million token sale. The Nervos CKB mainnet Lina just went live. The projects is attempting to solve the scalability issues faced by proof-of-work blockchains. дальше »
2019-11-16 02:21 | |
Oil Field Alchemy: How Bitcoin Can Turn Waste, Emissions into Proof-of-Work
In a handful of oil fields in the Great White North, natural gas, an otherwise wasted drilling by-product, is being put to work. But it’s not being used to well more oil; it’s being used to mine bitcoin. дальше »
2019-5-8 20:07 | |
Battle of the Privacycoins: Why Monero Is Hard to Beat (and Hard to Scale)
Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited. дальше »
2018-9-15 20:21 | |
The Genesis Files: With Bit Gold, Szabo Was Inches Away From Inventing Bitcoin
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. дальше »
2018-7-13 17:16 | |