If hackers felt like it, they could split bitcoin in two. It wouldn’t even be that hard, according to research from 2017. Thanks to insecure technology underpinning the internet, someone with the right credentials could exploit the Border Gateway Protocol…
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AMD Cites ‘Absence’ of GPU Sales to Crypto Miners in Q1 Estimate
Graphics card maker AMD announced its “highest profitability in [seven] years” Tuesday, but expects its revenue to drop next quarter due at least in part to falling demand from cryptocurrency miners. The company brought in $1.42 billion in revenue last…
CoinDesk’s State of Blockchain Report Q1
Article by CoinDesk After reaching historic highs in 2017, cryptocurrencies languished across multiple fundamental metrics in this year’s first quarter. Unease permeated the industry, mostly from regulatory uncertainty and pull-back after a year of parabolic growth. To shed light on…
First Bitcoin Smart Contracts Sidechain Now Secured By 1 in 10 Miners
The first bitcoin smart contracts sidechain just reached an early milestone. To be revealed Monday at CoinDesk’s Consensus 2018 conference, RSK, the startup that built the long-anticipated technology, touted as a way to bring ethereum-style smart contracts to the world’s…