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The Rise Of Ripple
The Rise Of Ripple
Fri, 5th Jan 2018 13:58WASHINGTON (Alliance News) - Riding on the mania that is causing mammoth gains in the price of different digital currencies, Ripple and its native currency XRP has risen to be the second biggest crypto asset by market capitalization. The XRP coin or Ripple that is based on the Ripple protocol surged dramatically in 2017, according to Coinmarketcap data, eclipsing Bitcoin's jump of over 1,300%.Ripple's market capitalization, based on coins in...
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Canadian Business Seeks to Recycle Heat Generated by Cryptocurrency Mining
Canadian Business Seeks to Recycle Heat Generated by Cryptocurrency Mining
A Canadian entrepreneur has sought to recycle the heat generated through bitcoin mining by growing plants and fish suited to the temperatures produced by cryptocurrency mining rigs by utilizing an aquaponic system. Also Read: Bitcoin Pushes Canada Toward State Crypto Coin Canadian Entrepreneur Recycles Heat From Cryptocurrency Mining to Grow Food Bruce Hardy, a Manitoba-based entrepreneur, has sought to repurpose the...
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Hallelujah! Swiss Church to Accept Bitcoin Donations
Hallelujah! Swiss Church to Accept Bitcoin Donations
Jeff Francis · January 19, 2018 · 8:30 am ICF Church, an evangelical church in Zurich, Switzerland, is set to begin accepting Bitcoin donations from its parishioners. The common assumption with most churches is that they’re conservative and are beholden to time-honored traditions. While this is often true in many regards, a number of churches are actually quite keen on adopting the latest innovations that technology has brought to bear....
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How a Reddit Email Vulnerability Led to Thousands in Stolen Bitcoin Cash
How a Reddit Email Vulnerability Led to Thousands in Stolen Bitcoin Cash
Image: GizmodoBeginning over two weeks ago, reports have trickled in on Reddit community “r/btc”—the de facto hub for supporters of bitcoin rival bitcoin cash (BCH)—of accounts being compromised by a new and worrying attack vector. What may have read to skeptics as infighting between two contentious factions was confirmed today as a genuine and novel hack that allowed malicious parties to access their targets’...
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Millions of PCs Targeted by Cryptocurrency-Mining Malware
Millions of PCs Targeted by Cryptocurrency-Mining Malware
Malware is increasingly developing an appetite for cryptocurrency mining. One newly discovered strain has tried to infect millions of Windows machines, all in an effort to siphon their computing power and possibly sell it for mining purposes. The operation has been going on for over four months, and may have targeted around 15 million machines or more, security firm Palo Alto Networks said Wednesday. To spread the malware, the hackers...
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Cryptocurrency soars with values increasing by up to a million percent a year
Cryptocurrency soars with values increasing by up to a million percent a year
A cryptocurrency expert spoke on the AM show last year. Credits: Getty/AM Show. As bitcoin continues to lead the boom in digital currency, other forms of cryptocurrency are surging in value. Newshub's guide to bitcoin A list of top performing cryptocurrencies created by an expert and posted to Twitter shows that in the past year, some forms of digital currency have increased in value by a staggering million...
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Singapore wary of issuing digital currencies to public: MAS chief
Singapore wary of issuing digital currencies to public: MAS chief
THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is largely avoiding the issuance of digital currencies to the public, with the managing director of the central bank noting the risks associated with doing so. Ravi Menon, managing director of the MAS, said on Monday: "I'm not sure that's a good idea. I'm not ruling it out, but I can't see why you'd want to do that, because that completely disintermediates the banks." Speaking to...
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