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Qtum prepares for version 2.0 in its first hard fork upgrade
Qtum is preparing for its first hard fork since its inception back in September 2017. The system upgrade is focused on the underlying technology…
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Brave’s R&D team debuts privacy-preserving distributed VPN
Brave, the company behind the eponymous browser, presented the world's first distributed virtual private network (VPN). The new form of VPN has no central…
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Ripple’s Xpring aims to make XRP the internet of money
Xpring, an initiative by Ripple, is launching a platform to provide tools, services and programs for developers to easily build applications with payment gateways…
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New Ethereum ASIC dominates GPU mining performance
Canaan unveiled a new Ethereum ASIC that’s more than 5-times more efficient than commercially available GPUs. This doesn’t bode well for small-scale miners and…
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What is Proof of Work?
If you solved a really complicated math problem all by yourself, you’d obviously want credit for it. This is the central idea behind “proof…
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ProgPOW author steps down as Core Scientific CTO, vows to implement algorithm on Ethereum
Kristy-Leigh Minehan, the author of ProgPOW, stepped down as CTO of Core Scientific to focus on ensuring the disputed algorithm gets implemented on Ethereum…
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Ethereum miners increase network capacity by 20% in response to congestion
Miners have expanded the gas limit on Ethereum by 20 percent over the last 10 days, helping address congestion and highlighting an innovative network…
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NEO joins Microsoft-created .NET Foundation as first blockchain member
NEO joined the Microsoft-created .NET Foundation as a member, the first blockchain organization to do so. It seems the project’s newest executive, Microsoft veteran…
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EOS.IO successfully upgrades to version 1.8 in first consensus hard fork
EOSIO successfully implemented its first ever consensus hard fork in its v1.8 upgrade. The new version brings “major enhancements” to the blockchain in hopes…
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