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Nintendo Investigated Report Of Forced Uighur Labor
1.7.2021
In spring 2020, the BBC reported that tens of thousands from China’s Uighur ethnic minority group were being forced into factory labor, having no choice whether or not to work in the global supply chain for products made by 83 global brands.Read more
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13.6.2021
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Twitch Says Being Seen As 'Sexy' Isn't Against The Rules, Creates Dedicated Category For Hot Tub Streamers
21.5.2021
After months of controversy stemming from a perceived loophole in Twitch’s attire and sexual conduct rules, the company has created a dedicated section for pools, hot tubs, and beaches.Read more
The new digital, decentralized economy needs academic validation
1.5.2021
Black sheep and white papers: In order to achieve what it promises, the crypto revolution must be led by scientists and researchers
Craig Wright’s Law Firm Granted Permission from High Court to Serve Bitcoin.org Operator Cobra
22.4.2021
On April 22, published documents stemming from law firm Ontier LLP show London’s High Court is granting the law firm permission to serve legal proceedings over copyright infringement against the owner of bitcoin.org, a pseudonymous operator called “Cøbra.” The legal...
Path Of Exile Let Streamers Bypass Long Server Wait Times
19.4.2021
During the launch of its new expansion Ultimatum, Path of Exile’s servers were having some problems over the weekend, leaving players with wait times to get in that sometimes stretched into hours. Unless, that is, you were a streamer paid to broadcast the game, in which case you got straight...
How Student Coin is Fostering Tokenization Among Academic Institutions
12.4.2021
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The past few years has been filled with talk about cryptocurrencies and how it has changed everything. Just over a decade ago, the concept that you don't need a bank to perform transactions would have been...
Different Millionaire Fights Refrigerator
1.4.2021
Sometimes, you just decide that you’ve gotta fix something, and you’re not going to rest until you’ve won a battle of wits and wills against a piece of plastic. Most of the time, though, you don’t have 80,000 people watching you do it.Read more
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20.3.2021
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Pirated Academic Database Sci-Hub Is Now On the ‘Uncensorable Web’
12.1.2021
Sci-Hub, a pirate database of academic papers using bitcoin for funding, has joined the distributed domain names network Handshake
Ticino Blockchain Technologies Association Has Been Established
10.9.2020
Lugano, 10 September 2020 – The Ticino Blockchain Technologies Association aims to promote research and support innovative companies active in the Blockchain sector, as well as to promote academic studies of this new technology, thanks to the participation of USI (University of Southern...
Bitcoin News Roundup for June 22, 2020
22.6.2020
With gold up and the price of bitcoin treading water, today we're talking academic piracy and Cambodia's blockchain plot to escape the dollar
Blackballed by PayPal, Scientific-Paper Pirate Takes Bitcoin Donations
22.6.2020
Bitcoin has been used by outlaws of all sorts, but this time the outlaw is a young scientist from Kazakhstan breaking through the paywalls of academic journals
Free Transactions Invite Systemic Attacks on Blockchains, Researchers Find
12.6.2020
EOS, Tezos and XRP have not seen high levels of intended use, according to a new report from researchers in London
‘Careless’ Users Are Ruining Ethereum’s Privacy: Paper
4.6.2020
Ethereum's account-based model makes it more susceptible to surveillance than some other protocols and users aren't helping, a research paper argues
Researchers Surface Privacy Vulnerabilities in Bitcoin Lightning Network Payments
21.4.2020
Privacy holes in the Lightning Network, a bitcoin transaction settlement layer, are leaking payment information
Academic Research Into Crypto Picks Up, But Universities Remain Hesitant to Fund
11.4.2020
Academic research into blockchain is picking up despite lag in institutional funding and reluctant scientific journals
US Intelligence Officials Are Funding Research on Dollar-Crushing ‘Black Swan’ Events
14.2.2020
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence wants to sponsor a post-doc researcher to study what would happen if the U.S. dollar lost its status as the world’s reserve currency
MIT Develops ‘Spider’ Tech to Enable More Efficient Off-Chain Crypto Transactions
3.2.2020
The researchers say their new routing scheme can help avoid congestion on off-chain cryptocurrency networks
Close to 14,000 Google Scholar Articles Mentioned Bitcoin in 2019
25.12.2019
On January 3, 2020, the Bitcoin network officially turns 11 and the technology has transformed the lives of many. Since blockchain’s inception, scholars and economists have rigorously studied and written thousands of academic papers covering the subject. In 2019, there were more than 13,700...