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Technician in Italy Used Airport’s Computers to Mine Ethereum in Italy: Report
1.11.2020
Using the airport's computers allowed the miner to avoid the cost of electricity needed to mind crypto, the report said
South African Regulator Raids Home of Key Members of an Alleged Crypto Ponzi Scheme
27.10.2020
A South African regulator along with the country’s police have reportedly seized electronics devices and computers belonging to two principal members of Mirror Trading International (MTI), an alleged bitcoin Ponzi scheme. The raid at Clynton and Cheri Marks’ home on October 26...
39 Shirts – Leaving Mozilla
6.10.2020
In 2001 I had just graduated from a small town high school and headed off to a small town college. I found myself in the quaint computer lab where the substandard computers featured two browsers: Internet Explorer and Mozilla. It was this lab where I fell in love with Mozilla — a browser that...
No, a quantum computer won't instantly reward you with 69,000 Bitcoins ... yet
9.9.2020
The latest quantum computer may not help unlock lost Bitcoin — at least, not yet
Research: New Malware Employs Tor and Bittorrent To Steal Bitcoin and Ether
4.9.2020
A new trojan called Krypto Cibule uses infested computers’ power to mine cryptocurrency, steal crypto wallet files, and redirect incoming digital assets to a hacker address. The malware rides on the Tor network and the Bittorrent protocol to perform attacks, according to an extensive report...
Triple-Entry Bookkeeping: How Satoshi Nakamoto Solved the Byzantine Generals’ Problem
3.8.2020
In 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto essentially solved the infamous computational issue called the “Byzantine generals’ problem” or the “Byzantine Fault.” Throughout the history of man, people used ledgers to record economic transactions and property ownership. A ledger is often...
Newly Discovered Botnet Infected Up to 5,000 Computers with a Monero Miner
22.7.2020
Cisco researchers estimate the botnet may have earned its owner $5,000 worth of monero since it started operation four months ago
Mac Users Beware — New Ransomware Targets Apple Computers
1.7.2020
EvilQuest ransomware is launching attacks against macOS users through infected installers
Breaking Bitcoin: Crypto Proponents Discuss Honeywell’s 6 Qubit Quantum Computer
22.6.2020
On June 19, 2020, the massive industrial firm Honeywell told the public the company is now running a quantum computer that effectively leverages six effective quantum bits, or qubits. Honeywell’s machine is two times more powerful than the quantum computers designed by IBM and Google. With...
IT Contractor Stole $38,000 of Crypto While Fixing Company's Computers
12.6.2020
A man hired to fix a business’s IT systems for $1,700 was jailed for 20 months after stealing $38,000 of cryptocurrency he found while in the company network
New Quantum Model for BTC Predicts Bottom in 2021 Before 2022 Bull Run
3.6.2020
New Bitcoin model based around quantum analysis predicts a potential BTC price drop as low as $2,000 before the next bull-run proper starts in 2022
[aktualita] Planet Computers chystá Astro Slide 5G Transformer, smartphone s HW klávesnicí
30.3.2020
Společnost Planet Computers se dostala do povědomí svými smartphony s hardwarovou klávesnicí Planet PDA a Cosmo Communicator. Zatímco předchozí produkty měly zavírací konstrukci s klávesnicí a display uvnitř (Cosmo přidal malý 2" display i na vnější stranu), tak připravovaný Astro Slide...
Talking Digital Future: Artificial Intelligence
28.3.2020
Does quantum supremacy’s achievement remain a theoretical dream of a distant future, or is the day of the quantum revolution not so far away?
Talking Digital Future: Quantum Computing and Cryptography
19.3.2020
Does quantum supremacy’s achievement remain a theoretical dream of a distant future, or the day of the quantum revolution not so far away?
Thousands of These Computers Were Mining Cryptocurrency. Now They’re Working on Coronavirus Research
19.3.2020
CoreWeave, the largest U.S. miner on the Ethereum blockchain, is redirecting the processing power of 6,000 specialized computer chips toward research to find a therapy for the coronavirus. These graphics processing units (GPUs) will be pointed toward Stanford University’s Folding@home,...
Just Dropping Some Type Links
3.3.2020
I've had a bunch of tabs open that just so happen to all be related to typography, so I figured I'd give myself the mental release of closing them by blogging them. How's that for a blog post format for ya: whatever random tabs you've had open for far too long.
Times New Roman is popular on...
Uses This
30.1.2020
A little interview with me over on Uses This. I'll skip the intro since you know who I am, but I'll republish the rest here.
What hardware do you use?
I'm a fairly cliché Mac guy. After my first Commodore 64 (and then 128), the only computers I've ever had have been from Apple. I'm...
Experienced Traders Prefer to Trade on Desktop Computers, New Study Reveals
11.1.2020
Smartphones, laptops or desktop computers: Which devices do experienced crypto traders prefer to trade on?
Will Google’s Quantum Supremacy Break Bitcoin in 2020?
9.1.2020
The crypto space would not be the same with the invention of quantum computing in the tech industry
Meet the Multi-Cryptocurrency PoS Device Eletropay
7.1.2020
On January 5, Bitcoin.com’s Executive Chairman Roger Ver introduced a bitcoin cash (BCH) point-of-sale (PoS) merchant solution created by the startup Eletropay. The crypto PoS device manufacturer aims to make cryptocurrency payments simple and secure “without the need to use mobile...