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Monero, a leading privacy-centric cryptocurrency, has undergone a hard fork in recent days – producing a new Monero chain in addition to the now renamed ‘Monero Classic’. The fork was initiated to protect Monero against mining centralization, as Bitmain had developed ASIC units purpose-built for mining XMR tokens. Also Read: “Private Digital Money” Better than State-Issued, … Read more
Today’s Bitcoin in Brief provides some leisurely Sunday reading for anyone who has a life to live outside of crypto. We curate the best stories from the past 24 hours and condense them into a daily digest so you can stay in the loop in less time than it takes to boil a kettle. In … Read more
Hard fork complete for Monero as the privacy-oriented altcoin spurns Bitmain’s new ASIC miners. #NEWS Go to Source Powered by WPeMatico
On April 3, 2018, the Chinese based firm Bitmain Technologies had launched it’s latest miner the Antminer E3. The new pre-manufactured mining rig processes the hashing algorithm Ethhash, the PoW consensus protocol for the Ethereum network. Lately, Bitmain has been releasing a bunch of new products including the Antminer X3 which mines Cryptonight algorithms for … Read more
Lavenir is the latest addition to the cryptocurrency world that is going to begin its ICO on April 4th and conclude on May 4th. It is all set to bring a new revolution into the market by digitizing the lending process. Lavenir, the newly launched cryptocurrency lending platform is going to launch its ICO on … Read more
Higher education is the industry more likely to crypto mine or be cryptojacked than four other surveyed industries combined, new report shows #NEWS Go to Source Powered by WPeMatico
Privacy coins are meant to be private. That’s their raison d’être. Strip away the privacy, and they simply become altcoins, and dangerous ones at that, with the potential to deanonymize their users and expose their secrets. A number of recent reports have cast doubt on the privacy features offered by coins such as zcash and … Read more
ASIC-resistant Monero releases code for update that will change its PoW to block any ASIC miners’ ability to mine the altcoin #NEWS Go to Source Powered by WPeMatico
Edward Snowden suggests Bitcoin may not be the ultimate currency of the future. #NEWS Go to Source Powered by WPeMatico
The world’s most famous whistleblower, Edward Snowden, gave a dynamic, wide-ranging interview to Peter Van Valkenburgh during Blockstack Berlin 2018. Mr. Snowden discussed ongoing issues of privacy and cryptocurrency, his preferences, and revealed how bitcoin helped him in his most historic hour. He also took the opportunity to chide growing crypto tribalism, calling out maximalists, … Read more
