Is Bitcoin Mining Destined for Data Centers?

For many, Bitmain’s recent announcement of the realization of a major data center in northwestern China served as a reminder of the level of mining centralization in Bitcoin. Although the Beijing-based company will not own the entire complex, and the whole facility will not necessarily be dedicated to bitcoin mining, in theory over half of all hash […]

SEC Panelists on “Astonishing” But “Not Very Sexy” Blockchain: Achieving Network Effect Will Produce Winners

Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is recognized as amazing to some and potentially valuable to many others in the financial services sector, according to various panelists in the Fintech Forum of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), held November 14. However, while DLT is probably “game changing” in terms of improving transactional efficiency, it is […]

Colu Announces Colored Coins and Lightning Network Integration

Colu, an Israeli provider of blockchain-based technologies, has built a version of Lightning Labs’ code that is compatible with Colored Coins. This would allow for the peer-to-peer (P2P) transfer of digital assets with effectively no verification time, a higher transactions-per-second (TPS) rate and almost no fees. Colored Coins is an open source Bitcoin 2.0 protocol […]

Dragon’s Tale – Adorn the Great Wall and Hit the Jackpot

Dragons’s Tale was the first Bitcoin Casino Role-play-game in the Bitcoin Gambling Industry. It is also one of the leading casinos in the industry. The gameplay in Dragon’s tale is extremely addicting since you can go around an amazing 3D virtual world finding the most awkward casino games you can imagine. One of these incredible games […]

Singapore Unveils New Blockchain Project

The blockchain is often touted as one of the most revolutionary staples of modern technology. Institutions from banks to governments have attempted to “exploit” its technology in the hopes that they can digitize and record their data in real-time to keep it safe from security breaches and related issues. The next spot on the map […]

UK Government Considers Rerouting Traffic To Thwart DDoS Attacks

The United Kingdom is planning to set a very dangerous precedent when it comes to Internet traffic. Various ISPs are asked to protect computers from falling victim to hackers. That in itself is a positive development, but they want to achieve this by rewriting internet traffic standards. Disguised as an effort to reduce spoofing, it […]