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High-Powered Mining Rigs Drive Bitcoin’s Accelerating Hashrate
20.8.2019
On August 19, the combined SHA-256 hashrate between the BCH and BTC networks touched a massive high of over 91 exahash per second (EH/s). One notable contribution to today’s network hashrates is the manufacturing of next-generation mining rigs that produce a significant number of terahash....
IoT Devices Had Been Used by Russian Hackers to Breach Networks, Claims Microsoft
13.8.2019
The internet may have been the most revolutionary thing to have been discovered over the course of the last 50 years due to the profound changes it has brought to the world. That being said, it has also given rise to hackers, who spend days and nights in an effort to come up with ingenious...
Tokens Built on Bitcoin Cash Are Cheaper to Send Than Those of Rival Networks
10.8.2019
Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin technology has inspired a lot of innovation spawning a myriad of tokens representing digitized assets. There are now token creation systems on blockchain networks like Omni Layer, Counterparty, and Ethereum. Each framework comes with the cost of sending tokens...
Crypto Entrepreneur Jeremy Gardner Pitches Reality Show to TV Networks
9.8.2019
Blockchain investor Jeremy Gardner is shopping around a reality show about his life to television networks
Youtube Censorship Drives Uptake of Crypto-Powered Video Platforms
5.8.2019
If the prospect of greater privacy and financial sovereignty doesn’t lure the masses to crypto networks, perhaps the ability to speak freely will. Lately, a lot of people who couldn’t give a damn about peer-to-peer cryptocurrency have taken a shine to peer-to-peer networks that run...
P2P Crypto Lending Is on the Rise
3.8.2019
As peer-to-peer cash, it only seems logical that cryptocurrency should be deployed for P2P lending. While that application has taken time to materialize, bitcoin and other crypto assets are now increasingly fulfilling that purpose. Across the BTC, BCH and ETH networks, credit is being supplied...
Ubex Project has Signed Cooperation Agreement With YAN, SSPs From Various Parts of the World
3.8.2019
The Ubex project, as we already know, is backed with decentralized distributed registry system technologies that offer great qualities such as- unlimited data access and processing possibilities, Neural Networks, and Artificial Intelligence. With such a fantastic foundation ready, the project...
Lightning Network’s Antifraud Methods Inferior to Nakamoto Consensus, Research Shows
17.7.2019
The Lightning Network, the touted scaling solution for the BTC chain, has recently seen its capacity decrease significantly and the beta project is still best suited for a cliche of technically savvy users. Now according to an analysis by Bitmex Research, the Lightning Network’s nodes have...
Social Network Taringa! Launches Stablecoin Rewards for 27 Million Users
8.7.2019
South American social networking giant Taringa! has partnered with MakerDAO and Airtm to launch a stablecoin-powered points system for its 27 million strong user base
Edward Snowden Used Bitcoin to Pay for Servers Used in NSA Leak
28.6.2019
The servers Edward Snowden used to leak thousands of documents to journalists were paid for using bitcoin, the NSA whistleblower has revealed
Facebook Adds Senior Job Vacancy for Calibra Wallet on Careers Site
24.6.2019
Facebook has started advertising for a head of data science to work on its Calibra wallet
Study: Publicly Listed Chinese Firms Quietly Participate in Bitcoin Mining
29.5.2019
According to regional reports, a few publicly listed Chinese companies have been secretly mining bitcoin by pretending to provide cloud or web hosting services. Moreover, recent studies have revealed a growing trend of mystery miners processing the BCH and BTC networks at the same time as these...
Facebook Reveals Plans of Launching Its Cryptocurrency ‘GlobalCoin’ in 2020
24.5.2019
As per the latest reports doing the rounds since today morning, Facebook is all set to introduce its own digital currency next year. The crypto referred to as ‘GlobalCoin,’ is most likely to hit the market in the 1st quarter of 2020 officially. If everything goes according to the social networking...
How to Check Median BTC and BCH Transaction Fees
20.5.2019
Transaction fees are the cost that cryptocurrency users have to bear in order to keep the system going. Fees can vary significantly between networks and it is important to be able to check this before you decide which cryptocurrency to use for making your digital payments. Also Read: Bitcoin Cash...
Gaining Mass Adoption: Blockchain Platform Converts Users Fame Into Coffee and Clothes
17.5.2019
A decentralized platform that rewards content creators on social networks says it allows influencers to convert their fame into concert tickets, clothes and crypto #SPONSORED
Interoperability Between Different Blockchains Can Create A Network of Networks
15.5.2019
There is no doubt that in today’s technologically advanced world, blockchain and digital currency has been gaining considerable momentum. However, there are still many people who perceive blockchain technology as just a means of a secured peer-to-peer method of payments. Then others feel that...
Responsible JavaScript
3.4.2019
We just made a note about this article by Jeremy Wagner in our newsletter but it’s so good that I think it’s worth linking to again as Jeremy writes about how our obsession with JavaScript can lead to accessibility and performance issues:
What we tend to forget is that the environment websites...
[aktualita] RRTV udělila společnosti MTV Networks devět satelitních licencí, převážně pro irský trh
22.2.2019
V Praze sídlící společnost MTV Networks získala od Rady pro rozhlasové a televizní vysílání celkem devět nových licencí k provozování televizního vysílání šířeného prostřednictvím družice na dobu dvanácti let. V rámci první z nich chce vysílat program nazvaný Comedy Central, koncipovaný jako...
[aktualita] Možná kompromitace portálu technické podpory Flowmon Networks
4.2.2019
U portálu technické podpory brněnské společnosti Flowmon Networks dodávající produkty pro monitorování provozu v sítích a další bezpečnostní produkty došlo k pokusu o jeho kompromitaci. Společnost o incidenty informovala prostřednictvím emailu přímo adresovaného uživatelům tohoto portálu v pátek...
Collective #479
27.12.2018
Annual Awards 2018 * imgbb * screen.guru * Fiddly * Neural networks in JavaScript * Magic Grid * Flameout
Collective #479 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops