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Gavin Andersen, a software developer who gained prominence from having worked for the development of Bitcoin, recently stated that for the past two years, the most interesting things for him were built on Ethereum.In a tweet posted by the IT expert on January 1st, Andersen elaborates that he found CryptoKitties,
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For all of bitcoin’s promise of being the world’s first decentralized, peer-to-peer cryptocurrency, 65 percent of the total hash power resides in China, according to a recent report by CoinShares Research. Source
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Russia’s national power grid company Rosseti is testing a system for electricity bill payments based on a distributed ledger by Waves. Source
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The new dynamic in the litecoin market offers a lesson in the emerging economics of the fast-growing cryptocurrency and blockchain industry, which relies on networks of computers to confirm and record transactions, using a combination of incentives. Key inputs include the speed and efficiency of the data-mining computers, local electricity
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According to Reena Suri, executive director of ISGF, households will be able to set prices, track energy trades and settle surplus solar energy transactions in real time through smart contracts executed on a blockchain. That's made possible by smart meter systems integrated with Power Ledger’s platform. Source
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The 21st century world is connected, but not centered. These are both good things. Connections link people, cultures and ideas. Indeed, all the great advances in human history have been the result of social and economic networks.Without the trade routes of the Indian Ocean, the Islamic world would never
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The deputy secretary of the U.S. Treasury has raised the specter of a not-so-distant future when private digital currencies have stripped some of the power from governments. Policymakers will take a "hard look" at that, he said. Source
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The Lviv branch of Ukrainian Railways has been caught red-handed diverting company electricity to mine bitcoin. Source
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The world is slowly, but very surely, turning its attention to climate change, and to the human activities that are having the largest impact. The recent U.N. General Assembly on Climate Change broached these topics in detail, looking at how politics, economy and human activity need to change in order to
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Australian blockchain energy firm Power Ledger has partnered with a local energy retailer to roll out its technology in South Australia. Power Ledger’s blockchain-based software will allow Australians to pool their excess solar and battery storage to a Virtual Power Plant for greater control and management over their energy.Commercial
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