Q&A: What is bitcoin?
Bitcoin has carved out a name for itself as the world's most popular cryptocurrency since arriving on the scene ten years ago.
Business
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The flipside of the Bitcoin: How blockchain could underpin sustainable energy
There's a lot of buzz about distributed ledger technology, commonly known as "blockchain", being the future of financial and legal transactions, but it also has the potential to help tackle a far trickier problem… climate ...
Environment
Sep 28, 2018
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Energy-intensive Bitcoin transactions pose a growing environmental threat
A study published in Energy Research & Social Science warns that failure to lower the energy use by Bitcoin and similar Blockchain designs may prevent nations from reaching their climate change mitigation obligations under ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jul 31, 2018
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Engineers develop capabilities for more secure blockchain applications
Vanderbilt engineers have successfully developed and validated the feasibility of blockchain-based technologies for secure, confidential sharing of patient medical records in a case study that demonstrates how blockchain ...
Security
Jun 26, 2018
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Anti-theft sticker protects your valuables without revealing their location
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Streamr have developed a prototype adhesive ID tag based on blockchain technology, which enables valuable goods to be protected without revealing their location. Possible applications ...
Engineering
May 24, 2018
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Bitcoin more vulnerable to attack than expected
Calculations by University of Twente researchers show that Bitcoin is more vulnerable to attack than people had always assumed. If some Bitcoin users were to form a group that controls 20 percent of the currency's computing ...
Internet
Apr 23, 2018
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Hollywood's first blockchain movie: an end to piracy?
A few years behind Wall Street, Hollywood is turning to the technology behind cryptocurrency bitcoin to distribute movies in a development hailed as the beginning of the end for piracy.
Internet
Mar 30, 2018
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Switzerland at epicentre of cryptocurrency revolution
Switzerland has become a global hub for cryptocurrencies and the blockchain technology they are built on, with investors flocking to the wealthy Alpine nation to get in on the virtual action.
Internet
Mar 29, 2018
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Africa's young professionals embracing 'gospel of bitcoin'
In a sleek new high-rise in Uganda's capital, an enthusiastic lecturer described his financial success with the cryptocurrency bitcoin while his earnings were projected on a screen.
Internet
Mar 23, 2018
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Lithuania plans hackathon to mint digital collector coin
Lithuania's central bank on Tuesday said it wants to issue the world's first digital collector coin to mark this year's centenary of the Baltic state's independence.
Internet
Mar 6, 2018
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