Month: February 2018

One Face, One ID: A Blockchain Solution to Secure Identity Management

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Throughout history, identity authentication and verification has always remain a chief source of concern to many, and a full-blown nightmare to most. From physical impostors to virtual masqueraders by way of identity peddlers, pretending to be someone has been one of the most devastating crimes against humanity. Disclosure: This is a Sponsored Article The internet … Read more

Report: Crypto Miners Bought 3 Million GPUs Last Year

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More than 3 million graphics cards have been sold to cryptocurrency miners in 2017, with sales reaching $776 million, a new report revealed. According to a major manufacturer, prices of GPUs will continue to increase in 2018, despite expectations of decreasing demand in the mining sector.   Also read: AMD Increases GPU Production to Match … Read more

What Is Zcoin?

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Even though Bitcoin will remain the world’s leading cryptocurrency for some time to come, there are a lot of competitors to take note of. Zcoin is one of the altcoins bringing more privacy to the cryptocurrency ecosystem as a whole. Its private financial transactions are enabled by the Zerocoin Protocol. What is ZCoin Exactly? On the … Read more

New Blockchain-Based Platform to Collectively Build AI Apps

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Accenture reports that artificial intelligence (AI) could become the fuel of economic growth at global scale. By 2035, companies may change the way work is performed with AI implementations. As a collection of technologies that can understand, act, and learn, AI-based apps can perform on their own when given the right data. Trained properly, they … Read more

What Is Request Network?

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Combining the best of cryptocurrency, blockchain, and commerce has not been done on a large scale so far. Request Network is one of the projects designed to do so, although building a decentralized network for payment requests will not be easy. Now is a good time to see what this project is all about. The … Read more

Digital Currency Group Welcomes Bitcoin-Friendly Bank to the ‘DCG Family’

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This week the ‘bitcoin-friendly’ financial institution Silvergate Bank sold 9.5 million shares that raised a sum of $114Mn USD during the common stock sale. Some of the capital injection was provided by the venture capital firm Digital Currency Group who welcomed Silvergate Bank into the company’s growing list of partners and subsidiaries. Also read: Indians Look … Read more