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Crypto is Now Worth 1 Trillion Dollars and Why -Strangely- It Makes A Lot of Sense to Compare Bitcoin to Gold
Yes, the market cap of all crypto currencies combined has reached 1 Trillion US dollars, see also top line ticker here. I have predicted this 3 years ago, after the market collapsed, and now it is a fact: we are past 1T$, however much market cap valuations of this kind are highly questionable. Unrealistic inflation …
An Anomalous Differential Attack on a Block Cipher
In this attack a differential propagates with difficulty for some 20, 40 and up to 64 rounds. We can say that the propagation encounters some “friction”, because the non-linear functions do not always behave as the attacker would like them to behave. Everything looks normal and this is what happens for all block ciphers all …
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Hacking a Linux PC at a Close Distance without Being Connected to a Network
The attack allows the attacker to execute arbitrary code on another PC running Linux. The exploit is possible due to an extremely serious vulnerability in Bluetooth stack inside Linux. The attacker literally can run an application of his choice on the other PC. The exploit was found by Andy Nguyen, a security researcher at Google. …
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Celebrating the Birthday of Marian Rejewski at ‘Ecole Normale Supérieure, rue d’Ulm, Paris
A small ceremony took place on 16 August 2020.
Crypto Mining At Nasdaq
Two stocks related to crypto mining exploded on Nasdaq in the recent days. RIOT is worth 5x the price of March and has doubled since July 2020, and MARA had quadrupled since July 2020 (which was followed by a correction). At the same time there are countless indicators which indicate that we are in an …
China is Banning TCP/IP
Arguably an open free and neutral Internet network has never existed and it was all a cynical game of telcos, pretending to obey a bunch of public standards and apply international treaties, in order to expand their monopolistic empires abroad and steal business from other telcos. This world of deception, which also has enabled intelligence …
An Important Event in UK Crypto Policy
No UK is not going to be a puppet of China or Russia. Instead, a deal is being negotiated with Japan. It was already agreed that The two governments would not force their companies to hand over encryption keys which are used to protect proprietary corporate technology and information. It was also agreed that data …
Huge Win for Europeans, Americans and Human Rights at Large – Against Facebook and other Data Hungry Internet Giants
Max Schrems, an Austrian lawyer and privacy rights advocate, has been fighting in courts since 2011 against Facebook and other abusive corporations whose business model is stealing our data and our lives and our businesses, against our will and against our interests, and to transform us into slaves and puppets, in a mass-surveillance based stalker …
On Tiny Size of Prediction Markets
It may seem that small size of current prediction markets makes them prone to manipulation and it is easy to dismiss what these incredible tools indicate. For example the market seems to indicate that Trump will lose his election. However think twice. They are still likely to be right. It is not because prediction markets …