Business
Facebook's ambitious plan to create a financial eco-system based on a digital currency faces questions from lawmakers, as it's shadowed by negative comments from President Donald Trump, his treasury secretary and the head ...
Jul 16, 2019
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Computer Sciences
MIT researchers have developed a new cryptocurrency that drastically reduces the data users need to join the network and verify transactions—by up to 99 percent compared to today's popular cryptocurrencies. This means a ...
Jan 24, 2019
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Internet
A team of researchers at Pyrofex Corporation recently introduced Casanova, a leaderless optimistic consensus algorithm suited for use in a blockchain. Rather than producing a chain, Casanova produces blocks in a directed ...
Security
Illicit cryptocurrency mining has been surging over the past year, in part due to a leaked software tool from the US National Security Agency, researchers said Wednesday.
Sep 19, 2018
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Security
Right now, your computer might be using its memory and processor power – and your electricity – to generate money for someone else, without you ever knowing. It's called "cryptojacking," and it is an offshoot of the rising ...
May 8, 2018
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