Month: March 2016

Craig Steven Wright to Confirm Identity as Satoshi Nakamoto?

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There has been a long list of figures who the press and online commenters have speculated are Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of Bitcoin. At one point, when Newsweek claimed Dorian Nakamoto, an unnamed individual left a cryptographic message stating, “I am not Dorian Nakamoto.” Many argued this in-and-of-itself does not prove Satoshi left the message. Read […]

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MS Excel 2016 Will Have Native Support for Bitcoin Currency Format

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In a nod to the growing popularity of Bitcoin, Microsoft Excel – the most popular and widely used spreadsheet program in the world, will provide native support for the cryptocurrency’s format within the program. The Microsoft Office software suite, a collection of various programs which altogether makes for the most popular and widely used office […]

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How GPU-Powered VR Is Guiding UCLA’s Top Surgeons

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The University of California, Los Angeles is now home to one of the world’s most advanced surgical environments, thanks to Surgical Theater’s new medical Virtual Reality (mVR) technology. And you can get a peek at it at our GPU Technology Conference next month, in Silicon Valley. Led by Alon Zuckerman, an expert in advanced flight […]

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Blockchain Under Financial Stability Board’s Scanner

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The Financial Stability Board has discussed and reviewed distributed ledger or blockchain technology in a wider meeting covering its priorities in 2016, during a discussion in Tokyo over the past two days. The Financial Stability Board (FSB), a common platform that sees the coming together of senior policy makers from central banks, ministries of finance […]

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2016 Cloud Day

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On March 31, 2016, during Intel’s Cloud Day event, the company announced new technologies, investments and industry collaborations aimed at making it easier to deploy agile and scalable clouds. They will allow businesses to deliver new services faster and drive revenue growth. The company also unveiled new solid state drives optimized for cloud and enterprise … Continued

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Intel Makes Move to the Cloud Faster, Easier

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NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v4 product family delivers the foundation for modern, software-defined clouds. New Intel® SSDs, including Intel’s first 3D NAND drives optimized for cloud and enterprise workloads, deliver fast, dependable data access. Collaborations with leading cloud software and solution providers, new industry programs help accelerate businesses’ access to enterprise-ready, easy-to-deploy cloud … Continued

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Bitcoin Price Down Amid Fundamental Concerns

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Bitcoin price hovers above $410 as the market comes face to face with its options. Buy today and risk betting on the reward-halving rally too soon, or sell now to buy into the post-Classic(TM) relief rally later. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? […]

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The Energy Efficiency of Bitcoin

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In a recent article on Vice’s technology news feed, Motherboard, author Sebastiaan Deetman explores the energy efficiency of Bitcoin. The article begins with a brief and fatalistic assertion regarding the environmental impact of mass migration to Bitcoin (or a similar energy intensive cryptocurrency). Another Vice Motherboard contributor, Christopher Malmo, is quoted as saying, “Adopting Bitcoin as […]

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Cornell Study Recommends 4MB Blocksize for Bitcoin

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A new study by the Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts (IC3) at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute authored by Christian Decker, Ittay Eyal, Andrew Miller and Emin Gün Sirer, among others, found that bitcoin’s blocksize could currently scale up to 4MB without affecting decentralization. According to the recently released position paper, On Scaling Decentralized Blockchains, 4,000 […]

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Russia’s Presidential Advisor Dismisses Bitcoin as “Fiction”

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Known for his outspoken and firm stance against bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, German Klimenko, Russian President Putin’s newly appointed counselor and advisor on the internet has now called the cryptocurrency an Internet meme that went viral. He further dismissed acceptance of the cryptocurrency in other parts of the world as “fiction”, claiming that the bitcoin is […]

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A View from the Cell of Ross Ulbricht

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It has been a tough couple of years for Ross Ulbricht and his family. In mid-2015, Ross Ulbricht learned his fate for his involvement in Silk Road (which was futilely appealed). The Silk Road, as readers may remember, was an online black market that featured everything from guns to drugs to counterfeit documents for sale. His […]

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