Business
The bitcoin market now exceeds $1 trillion with its price rising tenfold in a year, but focus is shifting towards the massive power requirements needed to sustain the online currency.
Mar 17, 2021
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Business
Twitter chief Jack Dorsey on Friday put out word that he and rap mogul Jay-Z are creating a fund devoted to making bitcoin digital money "the internet's currency."
Feb 13, 2021
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Business
Taken as a share of the market price, the environmental costs of mining the digital cryptocurrency Bitcoin are more comparable to the climate damages of producing beef than gold mining costs, according to analysis published ...
Sep 29, 2022
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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
China's electricity-hungry bitcoin mines that power nearly 80 percent of the global trade in cryptocurrencies risk undercutting the country's climate goals, a study in the journal Nature Communications said on Tuesday.
Apr 6, 2021
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Business
A trio of economists and financial analysts, two from Yale University and the other the University of Chicago, has conducted a case study of a nationwide cryptocurrency experiment to better understand why such a monetary ...
Computer Sciences
Blockchain is the technology that underpins cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. Fundamentally, the blockchain is simply a ledger, a digital record of transactions associated with a digital currency, a Bitcoin, for instance. ...
Oct 2, 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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Software
IMDEA Software researchers Gibran Gómez, Pedro Moreno-Sánchez and Juan Caballero have created an open-source automated tool to track the financial relationships of malicious entities that abuse Bitcoin technology, tested ...
Dec 13, 2022
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Computer Sciences
A computer science engineer at Michigan State University has a word of advice for the millions of bitcoin owners who use smartphone apps to manage their cryptocurrency: don't. Or at least, be careful. Researchers from MSU ...
May 5, 2021
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