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Blockwart Simple: because they all are not Blockchains, just use the label … (only the PoW is “real” Blockchain – the rest are cheap copies with compromises) Mar 5, 2018 at 09:00 UTC At the beach, they say, all your troubles melt away. But that’s not entirely the case for researchers who spent part…
Blockwart The Quebec government said it is “not interested” in providing cheap electricity to Bitcoin miners via state utility Hydro-Quebec during a conference Friday, Mar. 2, Bloomberg reports. In comments during a conference in the capital Montreal, Premier Philippe Couillard implied that, unlike previous statements from Hydro-Quebec itself, “doing Bitcoin mining” without providing “added…
Blockwart “I think Proof-of-Stake is fundamentally vulnerable.” – Dahlia Malkhi [ … for whatever it is worth, I agree with her – TJACK] Is ethereum’s biggest future upgrade “fundamentally vulnerable?” That was the claim put forward by distributed systems expert and founding VMware researcher Dahlia Malkhi on Friday, who used those exact words to…
Blockwart Automobile manufacturer Porsche is exploring Blockchain apps in its vehicles in cooperation with the Berlin-based startup XAIN, Cointelegraph auf Deutsch reported yesterday, Feb. 27. In their press release published Feb. 22, Porsche stated that the company is “the first automobile manufacturer to implement and successfully test Blockchain in a car.” Possible applications for…
Blockwart Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has announced plans to launch a Blockchain-based vehicle lifecycle management system in 2020 that would provide customers with a history of their vehicle from “the manufacturer all the way to the scrap yard,” local news outlet Arabian Business reported yesterday, Feb. 27. The Blockchain project, formed in…
Blockwart Germany won’t tax bitcoin users for using the cryptocurrency as a means of payment, the Ministry of Finance has said. The guidance, published Tuesday, sets Germany apart from the U.S., where the Internal Revenue Service treats bitcoin as property for tax purposes – which means that if an American buys a cup of…
Blockwart Confronted with substantial federal funding reductions, Berkeley, California, is turning to crypto tokens as away to fund services like affordable housing. Mayor Jesse Arreguin and councilman Ben Bartlett have teamed up with San-Francisco-based investment startup Neighborly to advance an initiative that would divide municipal bonds into micro-bonds and then sell them as tokens…
Blockwart Alibaba’s T-Mall e-commerce platform is reportedly adopting blockchain technology in its cross-border supply chain through a partnership with logistics company Cainiao. According to a report by China’s news agency Xinhua Wednesday, the partnership aims to move information on goods for import and export onto a blockchain that can then track their country of…
Blockwart The Bitcoin Core client version which provides “full support” to Segregated Witness (‘SegWit’) scaling technology finally received its official release Monday, Feb. 26. A circular to the Core mailing list confirms the raft of upgrades in addition to the historic SegWit move, the forthcoming release having been announced on Github earlier this month.…
Blockwart After Verne Global, Advania is the second-largest data center provider in iceland. Icelandic information technology service Advania has confirmed with their security footage that the police have apprehended the right two men for the three burglaries at data centers in Iceland last December and January, local news outlet Visir reported Feb. 21. Visir…
Blockwart “Bitmain holds 70 to 80 percent of the market for Bitcoin miners and ASIC cards” Chinese mining hardware giant Bitmain has reportedly made higher profits in 2017 than long time American graphics processing unit (GPU) manufacturer Nvidia, CNBC reported Feb. 23. CNBC writes that according to a report published Feb. 21 from investment…
Blockwart Hard Forks from hacks system flaws are now called “ethereum improvement protocol” … when a Hard Fork is the greatest assumable accident for any DLT. One step up: Ethereum Recovery Proposal (ERP) – meaning it is a MAJOR mess. Quote: “If you want bailouts you should stick to fiat” The “world computer” is…
Washington—The U.S. Army Research Lab (ARL) has awarded a $25 million contract to a consortium of university researchers known as the Alliance for Internet of Battlefield Things Research on Evolving Intelligent Goal-drive Networks (IoBT REIGN) to develop new predictive battlefield analytics and services. As battlefields become more reliant on integrated technologies that partner cyber and…
WASHINGTON ― U.S. federal government agencies experienced a 20 percent increase in the number of data breaches last year since 2016, according to Thales’ 2018 Data Threat Report [see below]. Part of this increase is due to the growing use of commercial cloud services without the adoption of encryption or prioritization cloud computing security, the…
SpaceX, the rocket company founded by the entrepreneur Elon Musk, is keeping quiet about a plan to bathe the Earth in high-speed internet access. During a press briefing with Musk about the Falcon Heavy rocket launch last week, Business Insider asked about the project – informally known as Starlink, according to Geekwire – to no…
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Blockwart “a proxy for [Russian] Bitfury in North America” A mining company backed by Bitfury is set to become publicly listed later this month in Canada. Bloomberg reports that Hut 8 Mining Corp will appear on the TSX Venture Exchange, headquartered in Toronto, later this month. Back in December, Hut 8 announced that it…
Blockwart Note: it seems they have not fully comprehended my 2014 business plan & technology they copied (and funded). It takes more than just replicating 7nm ASICs and the rest. GMO Internet, a publicly listed IT firm headquartered in Japan, has set August as the tentative launch date for its previously announced cloud mining…
Blockwart Mainstream financial advisors are publicly propagating Blockchain this month, telling that it is a “sociological innovation” during the US Technology Tools for Today (T3) conference, CNBC reports Monday, Feb. 12. A summary of the T3 Advisor Conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, which ran Feb. 6-9, demonstrates the significant U-turn in attitudes from advisors…
T-Mobile in Times Square, NYC Blockwart T-Mobile is a subsidiary of the $60bn-plus Telekom in Germany. T-Mobile has been quietly toiling away on an enterprise blockchain solution for months, and it looks primed to make a big reveal soon. The telecom giant’s interest in blockchain was most recently advanced after the company was prominently mentioned…
Blockwart An Icelandic lawmaker has suggested imposing a new tax on bitcoin mining companies. Speaking with Associated Press, Smari McCarthy of the Icelandic Pirate Party floated the idea during an interview about the country’s global position as a hub for bitcoin miners. Iceland has long played home to an ecosystem of bitcoin miners, thanks to the…