February 5, 2020
Want to take back your online privacy? 7 easy steps to stop Facebook and others from spying on you
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February 5, 2020
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BlockPGP: A new blockchain-based PGP management framework
Blockchain provides a trusted infrastructure to manage PGP keys server. Credit: Yakubov et al.
Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), one of the most widely used cryptographic standards, enables safe end-to-end encr..
This post explains the solution using stock price data. But you can eventually use Bitcoin data or other cryptocurrency data to do the same calculations. This is a framework for predicting future values regardless of data input.
Dubai’s free port the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC) plans to launch Crypto Valley within the desert as the world’s largest ecosystem for cryptographic, blockchain and distributed ledger technologies – in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Gartner Inc., the world’s leading research and advisory company, predicts that by 2023, organizations using blockchain smart contracts will increase overall data quality by 50 percent, and trim data availability by 30 percent.
By Marc Crouch Crypto-what? If you’ve attempted to dive into this mysterious thing called blockchain, you’d be forgiven for recoiling in horror at the sheer opaqueness of the technical…
Ethereum Classic had a flying start to the decade with a massive upsurge in its price this January. It indeed shed light once again on the project and we’ve been hearing people hinting that ETC is back in the race. There are a ton of contributing factors and in this post, ChangeHero will give you an outlook of Ethereum Classic and reasons for the buzz around it.
For the freshmen, Ethereum Classic is a decentralized platform that processes smart contracts — applications which run only when certai..
January 30, 2020
Giving cryptocurrency users more bang for their buck
Spider, a new cryptocurrency-routing scheme, splits each full transaction into smaller “packets” that are sent across different channels at different rates. Credit: Chelsea Turner, MIT
A new cryptocurrency-routing sch..
Photo by Alex Holyoake on UnsplashShopify, InBev & Reebonz Go Blockchain / Dfinity’s Open Social Network / Stablecoins Are Evolving FinancesJanuary 29, 2020
We’re closing out the first month of 2020 looking towards an exciting Q1 2020 for the landscape this year. Let’s keep the pace moving with all the recent happenings of the blockchain, DApps & DLT landscapes. Dfinity unveiled an open social network called LinkedUp to rival LinkedIn. Six major central banks collab on digital currency Bank for ..
If you have been active in blockchain space for a while, you must have heard about oracles. If you haven’t…
What is an oracle?Oracle is something that reports external data to a blockchain.
Blockchains are deterministic systems. This means that all of the data in the blockchain must be verifiable at any moment. Hence, they can’t rely on external data, which can change at any time.
How oracles enable Smart contracts to access external dataThis problem is solved by an entity called ‘Oracle’, which..