Wicked, it seems that there is an epidemic of fake volume, and that it comes from China primarily. One way to see which crypto coins are NOT scams is to look at the source code dev statistics, here are some nice stats.
A large number of UCL academics have yesterday started a large scale strike lasting for many weeks. These people are sacrificing their salary [UCL will cut their pay down] and there is a strong support for the strike. The strike is organised on the premises that our employer, UCL, are? cutting down their pension contributions or ending guaranteed income schemes …
In November 2017, users have lost 300 M$ in Ethereum due to a bug in Parity wallet multisig features. At this moment the history repeats with ViaCoin: There is a serious bug in Windows ViaCoin 2.8.3. wallet found here and available since April 2017. As a world premiere, here is the solution! How to Recover Coins …
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If you read recent media reports about future of bitcoin, you wonder what is going on. For sure it is NOT clear which software or which blockchain we will be calling the “true” or “real” bitcoin in the future. Here is a selection of citations, all very recent, and all about the fork expected to …
Our trip took place 29 Sept 2017. Some 32 UCL students participated. Students have explored the past in order to find role models for the future. Due to large numbers, we have split into two groups for a guided Bletchley Park tour, and also had assisted at two bombe demonstrations. …
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In the recent crazy wave of ICOs we hear every day that investors should be warned and there are lots of scams or that it is unlikely that ICOs can deliver. So the question is how do you tell apart a “good ICO” from a bad one? It is a difficult question, but let us …
Almost exactly 3 years after this, bitcoin network went down to less than 50% dominance, and has nearly lost its capacity to process payments normally. Bitcoin in Crisis This can be seen on the following graph for the last 12 months. The curve does not go down to zero anymore. It can no longer keep with …
A proportion estimated to be as high as 70% of bitcoin mining chips used worldwide has a backdoor which allows one to trace the miners. In addition there is a malicious remote shutdown attack which could be triggered by a MITM attacker.
Silvio Micali, one of the most brilliant computer scientists on this planet has just re-invented democracy or blockchains or finance or law order and public authority and few other things, with his ALGORAND system. And some other brilliant crypto innovators are also doing the same thing: see DFINITY. Possibly this is what we really want, a …
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Schneier wrote: 8,761 classified CIA documents […] 2012-2016 […]it sounds like this cache of documents wasn’t taken from the CIA and given to WikiLeaks for publication, but has been passed around the community for a while — and incidentally some part of the cache was passed to WikiLeaks. […] extraordinary collection […] several hundred million lines …