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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…
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…
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…
Blockwart You’ve heard of proof of work, but what about proofs of proofs of work? A complex notion, the research on “Non-Interactive Proofs of Proofs of Work,” or NiPoPoW, released in October, has received very little attention so far but is heralded as breaking through one of the major roadblocks that has stalled the widely…
Blockwart Hashrate distribution 17 JAN 2018 https://blockchain.info/pools?timespan=24hours
Blockwart Auf Grundlage einer internen Auswertung erstellen wir seit 2010 für deutsche-startups.de eine Liste mit Redakteuren, die sich auf die Trends und Neuigkeiten der Start-up-Szene spezialisiert haben. Hier ist die Liste mit Journalisten, an denen 2018 kein Startup vorbeikommt. Wer mit seinem Unternehmen schnellstmöglich Bekanntheit erlangen möchte, benötigt neben einem innovativen Produkt auch eine gut…
Blockwart A Russian cryptocurrency investor and blogger known online as Pavel Nyashin was attacked and robbed in his home in Leningrad Oblast the night of Jan. 14. The assailants stole funds worth 24 mln rubles ($425,000), according to local media. Nyashin was tied and beaten while a group of masked assailants stole a safe containing…
Blockwart A joint report by Center on Sanctions & Illicit Finance and Elliptic, a cryptocurrency forensics firm, has indicated that Bitcoin laundering for illicit drug activity is a highly centralized process. The report’s authors, Yaya Fanusi and Tom Robinson, indicate that much of illicit Bitcoin is laundered through mixers, saying: “Mixers have consistently processed…
Blockwart During a Facebook Live interview between Xapo CEO and Paypal board member Wences Casares and PayPal CEO Dan Schulman on Jan. 12, Casares explained his vision of a single “robust” Blockchain to move value globally, saying Bitcoin (BTC)’s Blockchain would likely play this role. He also predicted that BTC could become an apolitical standard…
200 gigabytes. That’s the maximum load some personal laptops will store. It’s also roughly the amount of space the bitcoin blockchain currently requires. These bloating storage requirements are a longstanding problem for the community’s efforts to keep bitcoin decentralized. But Bitcoin Core contributor and maintainer Jonas Schnelli has spent the past few years trying to…
TAO = Tokenized Asset Offering As we enter 2018, it appears that blockchain’s contribution to capital formation has only begun. An unfortunate influx of both naive and bad actors begs for regulatory scrutiny, obscuring the intentions of ethical market participants anxious to operate within an informed set of dynamic guidelines and eventual laws. In…
Kodak has licensed its name to a new bitcoin mining product, an announcement that came after the U.S. firm made waves by revealing that it is lending its name to a new photo-centric cryptocurrency. The Kodak KashMiner, as Business Insider reports, was on display at the CES tech trade show in Las Vegas yesterday. The…
Bitmain, the China-based bitcoin mining giant, has set up a new subsidiary in Switzerland. A report from Swiss-based news service Handelszeitung states that the company has based the subsidiary, Bitmain Switzerland, in Zug. The locale is the home of the “Crypto Valley,” an area where a number of cryptocurrency and blockchain startups have headquartered thanks to…
A long-standing proposal to bring “smarter” smart contracts to bitcoin’s main net has just taken one step closer to implementation. Developers have submitted a pull request for Merkelized Abstract Syntax Trees (MAST), marking the first time this smart contracts proposal has been the subject of a pull request seeking its integration into bitcoin’s code. The…
The Schnorr signatures algorithm promises to help to address one of the most pressing problems affecting Bitcoin today: scalability. Additionally, Schnorr signatures could help protect Bitcoin from certain types of spam attacks. An array of new technologies and schemes are being proposed that could help address Bitcoin’s scalability problem, such as Segwit, Lightning Network, and…
A background on the vulnerabilities: an easy-to-read description of what they are and the immediate and longer-term effects that Meltdown and Spectre will have on the services and software that we rely on. And why having a really secure platform for the 1st time ever (i.e. PoW Blockchain) is such a big deal. — TJACK…
At this year’s BlockShow Asia, Yangdong Deng, chief AI scientist of Blockchain startup Matrix, explained how inserting Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the Blockchain ecosystem would make it possible to use Bitcoin mining computational power for scientific innovation. According to Deng, the current computing power being used in Bitcoin mining operations is 8.23×10²² FLOPS floating point…
Elon Musk’s giant lithium ion battery in South Australia has responded in record time to the first power failure since it was installed as a back up power source. It comes just weeks after Musk won a $US13 million bet that he would supply South Australia with the Tesla battery within 100 days or it was free.…
“Artificial intelligence and machine learning are hot trends in computing these days, but are largely controlled by massive corporations. These corporate titans develop their own proprietary systems and software and keep it in-house.” SingularityNET raised $36 mln in one minute, completely selling out of its native AGI tokens. While this is an enormous amount…
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