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Iranians feeling the squeeze from U.S. sanctions targeting the Islamic Republic's ailing economy are increasingly turning to such digital currencies as Bitcoin to make money, prompting alarm in and out of the country.
Jul 18, 2019
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Computer Sciences
A kit made from everyday objects is bringing the blockchain into the physical world.
Jul 10, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
Bitcoin has landed front and center in the ongoing debate over benefits of cryptocurrencies and impact on the environment.
Jul 08, 2019 weblog
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers have conducted the first analysis of Bitcoin power consumption based on empirical data from IPO filings and localization of IP addresses. They found that the cryptocurrency's carbon emissions measure up to those ...
Jun 12, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
The cryptocurrency Bitcoin is known for its massive energy footprint. Now, researcher Alex de Vries, from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in the Netherlands, suggests that renewable hydropower production cannot supply the large ...
Mar 14, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
Extracting a dollar's worth of cryptocurrency such as bitcoin from the deep Web consumes three times more energy than digging up a dollar's worth of gold, researchers said Monday.
Nov 05, 2018
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Energy & Green Tech
Bitcoin's burgeoning electricity demands have attracted almost as much attention as the cryptocurrency's wildly fluctuating value. But estimating exactly how much electricity the Bitcoin network uses, necessary for understanding ...
May 16, 2018
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Internet
Nothing comes for free, especially online. Websites and apps that don't charge you for their services are often collecting your data or bombarding you with advertising. Now some sites have found a new way to make money from ...
Dec 19, 2017
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Energy & Green Tech
(Tech Xplore)—We heard in early studies that Bitcoin used much energy. Digiconomist can take us down memory lane when an investigation into the energy consumption of the Bitcoin network was conducted by Karl J. O'Dwyer ...
Nov 28, 2017 weblog
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Business
(Tech Xplore)—Business watchers are looking to blockchain technology as transformational but easier said than done.
Aug 11, 2017 weblog
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Security
A reaction to the 2008 financial crisis, Bitcoin is a digital-currency scheme designed to wrest control of the monetary system from central banks. With Bitcoin, anyone can mint money, provided he or she can complete a complex ...
May 24, 2017
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Internet
Blockchain technology is not just useful for creating digital currencies such as Bitcoin or developing new financial technologies.
May 10, 2016
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Internet
The good news: the Bitcoin network had not reached the widely predicted saturation point as recently feared. The bad news: The spam that caused the problem is suggesting to some Bitcoin watchers that saturation is not that ...
Mar 05, 2016 weblog
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