Some modern cryptocurrencies are not as popular as Bitcoin, Ethereum and other leaders, but still worth the attention of gamblers. Dogecoin is a quite new but promising crypto which is gaining attention especially in 2020. The fact there are even Doge casinos proves this crypto has a lot of advantages and is useful for...
Blockchain company Blockstream announced the expansion of the bitcoin network data transfer service between space satellites to the Asia-Pacific region, as well as the addition of support for the Lightning Network. The Blockstream Satellite service was launched in beta mode in August 2017. The project is an attempt to use rented space satellites to...
Chris Hadfield, one of NASA’s most experienced astronauts, believes that blockchain technology can play a role in the development of the solar system – from installing nodes on satellites to tracking mining on the moon. He spoke about this in an interview with Forkast. A retired Canadian Air Force colonel and former ISS commander...
Blockchain is a continuous sequential chain of blocks containing information built according to certain rules. Blockchain as an eternal digital distributed log of economic transactions that can be programmed to record not only financial transactions as a cryptocurrency, but almost anything that has value. But such a definition does not give a sufficient understanding...
Cryptocurrency is virtual money that, unlike fiat money, has no physical expression. The unit of such a currency is “coin”, which means “coin” in English. The digital currency is protected from counterfeiting and duplication, and its quantity and emission are strictly limited, for example, for the largest cryptocurrency Bitcoin (BTC), the maximum amount is...
Mining or “mining” any cryptocurrency can be considered a long-term investment, no matter what kind of coins you work with -,, or with another type of digital money. You just need to pay the so-called hash rate on a specialized Internet site, after which you will receive a small part of the “mined” coins...
Recently, the computer industry has shown increasing interest in the idea of ​​distributed computing in peer-to-peer, loosely coupled networks called the Grid. Such networks, uniting various computing centers and computers of enthusiasts, have long been successfully used to solve scientific problems that require enormous computing power, for example, in space exploration, to search for...