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Blockwart Token sales from Jan 2014 to Nov 2017 This graphic shows every token sale that successfully raised at least $100k, from the beginning of 2014 through the end of November 2017. The bar chart at the bottom displays the total dollar amount raised in each month (details below). Watch the animated visualization: https://www.bgp4.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/This-is-what-4-years-of-ICO-activity-looks-like.mp4…
A flexible approach to life. DAVID NIELD 3 FEB 2018 One of the oldest and most fundamental questions in biochemistry is why the 20 amino acids that support life are all needed, when the original core of 13 would do – and quantum chemistry might have just provided us with the answer. According to new…
The Airbus Vahana flying taxi actually flew for the first time Seems like just yesterday Airbus’ Vahana autonomous electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) craft was little more than a painted concept, but now it’s actually flown, during a full-scale prototype test that lasted just under a minute, and during which the Vahana aircraft was…
Army Reserve Sgt. Charles Smalley and Sgt. Alex Katz install a Blue Force Tracker system on a tactical vehicle for the 300th Sustainment Brigade Det. 2 on Sept. 20, 2016, at an undisclosed location in Iraq. (Spc. Milagro Perez/Army) Washington — The U.S. Army is preparing to modernize its friendly forces tracking system so…
CENTER FOR STRATEGIC & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: NATO’s plans to defend the Baltic States are “inadequate” because they don’t take full account of Russia’s electronic warfare capabilities, a leading expert warns. Roger McDermott The Russians are hardly invincible, Roger McDermott emphasized at CSIS Tuesday. The story of them “shutting down” the Aegis radar…
After fitness data service Strava revealed bases and patrol routes with an online “heat map,” the US military is reexamining its security policies for the social media age. A modern equivalent of the World War II era warning that “loose lips sink ships” may be “FFS don’t share your Fitbit data on duty.” Over…
Blockwart Note: fails to say which form factor (in nm) this hardware is based on … Samsung announced a deal on Monday, Jan. 29 to manufacture ASIC mining hardware with Taiwanese manufacturer TSMC. “Mass production” of the ASIC chip has already begun in January, according to Korean news outlet The Bell. An ASIC chip,…
Blockwart Please keep in mind Tezos (as an example) has been hit with multiple class-action lawsuits alleging fraud. Around $6 bln has been raised via ICOs in 2017. Almost 37 percent of that amount was made by only 20 ICOs. Names like Filecoin, Tezos or Bancor created lots of buzz, but what happened to…
Blockwart One week ago Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko signed the Decree “On Digital Economy Development” that legalizes ICO, cryptocurrencies and smart contracts. Two months ago the Republic of Abkhazia announced its plans to raise $1 bln in an ICO. Abkhazia followed Venezuela, the first country to consider crypto as a funding mechanism, with its…
Blockwart In the golden era of advertising, finding an audience was as easy as publishing an ad in a widely circulated newspaper, running a radio or TV spot, or putting up billboards in relevant areas. With the advent of the Internet and the proliferation of new media types, however, casting such a broad net…
“One misconception in the industry in 2017 was that permissioned blockchain infrastructure would solve the problem of data privacy. This is not the case.” The following is a pitch for “zk-snarks” by startup “Chronicled” – thus not an independent review, but has some interesting points. Obviously (!) the true Blockchain technology (PoW) is permissionless,…
Tuesday January 30, 2018: Kill Code In Car http://dilbert.com/
Das Weltwirtschaftsforum fand bereits zum 48. Mal in der Stadt Davos (im Kanton Graubünden in den Schweizer Alpen) statt. Staatenlenker wie Merkel, Macron, Trump und Trudeau sowie die Elite aus der Wirtschaft müssen vor Angriffen geschützt werden. Jedes Jahr werden rund 3.000 Besucher aus Politik, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft beim World Economic Forum erwartet. Für die…
by security guru Brian Krebs, KrebsOnSecurity Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, said today it is in the process of rolling out a new service designed to help companies more quickly make sense of and act on the mountains of threat data produced each day by cybersecurity tools. Countless organizations rely on a…
Blockwart The key to Space Chain is to deploy all blockchain nodes on satellites so as to bring blockchain technology into space, adding a new dimension to blockchain’s core concept of distributed ledger by making use of space technology and advantages of space resources. As a space blockchain platform featuring data collecting, computing, application…
Jülich – Zum ersten Mal in der Geschichte kauft ein großes deutsches Forschungszentrum einen Superrechner, der nicht aus den USA stammt: Das Forschungszentrum Jülich kauft den Hochleistungsrechner BullSequana X1000 von der französischen Atos. Bislang war der Markt fest in der Hand amerikanischer Hersteller wie IBM. Nach Angaben von Atos bringt es die Maschine auf bis…
Blockwart Note: keep in mind the chairman is an IBM employee (CTO IBM ‘Open’ Technlogy), and IBM claims their “Fabric” product has something to do with Blockchain technology … (when it does not even have a hashrate, and is some form of Proof-of-Stake). The Linux Foundation started Hyperledger to bring together the widest array of…
Blockwart The first ever physical transaction may have been completed on the Lighting Network two days ago, according to Reddit user /u/btc_throwaway1337, who purchased a VPN Router through a payment channel provided by TorGuard. The Lightning Network, designed to scale Bitcoin up for a global user base, functions by opening and recording a channel between two…
Acquisition, Land, Strategy & Policy CSA MiIley Bets On ‘Radical’ Tech, Promises No More FCS CRYSTAL CITY: The Army needs revolutionary technologies from robot tanks to a long-range super-rifle, the Chief of Staff said today — and it can get them without repeating the mistakes that doomed high-tech programs in the past. By reforming the…
Blockwart Blockchain has taken a firm foothold in the financial industry as the foundational technology behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. The decentralized, encrypted technology allows for transparent tracking and proponents tout its security. Now, officials at the Department of Defense are looking closely at how they could apply it to military operations. “Blockchain is, I…
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