On March 29, 2018, the United States Patent and Trademark Office published an application in the name of Intel Corporation, which puts the famous microprocessor company back in the spotlight of crypto mining. “BITCOIN MINING HARDWARE ACCELERATOR WITH OPTIMIZED MESSAGE DIGEST AND MESSAGE SCHEDULER DATAPATH” is the name of the promising patent. A technology with an exciting…
In early 2017 China was the biggest and most influential market for bitcoin worldwide, as the bulk of both mining and trading was conducted in the People’s Republic. Since then, much has changed as global bitcoin adoption and changes in regulations — both in China and in neighboring jurisdictions — have led to a shift…
The life-cycle of blockchain startups is fraught with legal uncertainty and their volatility makes them particularly prone to claims for compensation both in and outside of the courts. As this new frontier of investing keeps expanding, litigation monitoring could be a useful metric for investors when doing due diligence on crypto assets and used as…
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This week the entire cryptocurrency market hit a year low and closely scraped going under the $250 billion mark. Source: CoinMarketCap Many speculate that the reason for this week’s dip is due to the Bitcoin futures, but the impact the futures have on the greater market remains a mystery to most. Most coins within the…
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The long-awaited Tron [TRX] test net has officially launched. Watch on #Periscope: #TRON testnet is launched! #TRX $TRX https://t.co/3G7jginnr5 — Justin Sun (@justinsuntron) March 31, 2018 Justin Sun, Tron’s founder, announced the test net launch via periscope, shown above. It happened just a little over an hour ago, and it is the first major step…
Welcome to Day 14 of Crypto Madness – Semi-Finals Round 2! We at cryptocurrencynews.com, CCN, are pleased to bring the fans the ICO showdown. Today’s competitors: Sapien ICO vs. Truegame ICO. It’s our second and final round of semi-finals. Who will make it to the finals? Vote for your favourite to push them forward! Check out Day 13…
This article is a first stake in the ground towards a practice of token engineering: the theory, practice and tools to analyze, design, and verify tokenized ecosystems. The first section of this article relates token designs to other fields and explains why “engineering”. The rest of this article is an attempt to draw us closer to…
This article is a first stake in the ground towards a practice of token engineering: the theory, practice and tools to analyze, design, and verify tokenized ecosystems. The first section of this article relates token designs to other fields and explains why “engineering”. The rest of this article is an attempt to draw us closer to…
This article is a first stake in the ground towards a practice of token engineering: the theory, practice and tools to analyze, design, and verify tokenized ecosystems. The first section of this article relates token designs to other fields and explains why “engineering”. The rest of this article is an attempt to draw us closer to…
What hasn’t cryptocurrency taken over yet? For one thing, vehicles, but this may not be the case for long. Vehicle manufacturer Ford Motor Company wants to use cryptocurrency technology to infiltrate cars so that they can communicate with each other while driving. Bitcoin.com reports that Ford has been granted a patent which will allow the…
