Science and Technology : Congressman Calls To Ban U.S. Dollar In Response To Plea For Bitcoin Ban

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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Russians held for 'mining bitcoin' at top nuclear lab

AFP

Moscow (AFP) - Engineers at Russia's top nuclear research facility have been detained after they attempted to mine bitcoin on its computers, Russian news agencies reported Friday ...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/russians-held-mining-bitcoin-top-nuclear-lab-171942451.html

Several employees at the Russian Federal Nuclear Centre in the city of Sarov have been detained after making "an attempt to use the work computing facilities for personal ends, including for so-called mining," a spokeswoman for the centre said

 

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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Numeraire, The Cryptocurrency Powering The World Hedge Fund
In 2017, Numerai released a new API that allows people around the world to submit predictions from machine learning models to power our hedge fund


Richard Craib
Founder of Numerai

... Every user on Numerai has an opportunity to stake NMR tokens on their predictions as a way to express the confidence they have in their model. If their predictions are good, they earn money and their NMR is returned; if their predictions are poor, their NMR is destroyed ...

 

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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WorldViews
Cryptocurrency mining in Iceland is using so much energy, the electricity may run out

By Rick Noack

The value of bitcoin may have stumbled in recent months, but in Iceland it has known only one direction so far: upward. The stunning success of cryptocurrencies around the globe has had a more unexpected repercussion on the island of 340,000 people: It could soon result in an energy shortage in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...m_term=.6a951a7ae8ea&wpisrc=nl_evening&wpmm=1

Iceland's Svartsengi power plant. (HS Orka)

 

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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Microsoft Just Hinted at Support for Bitcoin Over Crypto-Forks


Mike Brown
Inverse

Microsoft has waded into the cryptocurrency debate. The tech giant, which supports Bitcoin for its online store, released a blog post on Monday detailing its plans to develop decentralized identity systems using the blockchain.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-just-hinted-support-bitcoin-145400695.html

Internal experiments have yielded good results.

 

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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(Here’s a primer on what the blockchain is.)

Bitcoin experts suggest you stay away

Rick Newman
Columnist
Yahoo Finance

... "If you don’t have a basic understanding of what you’re getting involved with, then it’s probably not the best time for you to engage,” Perianne Boring, president of the Chamber of Digital Commerce, said at the recent Yahoo Finance All-Markets Summit. “Today, it’s really more appropriate for a more sophisticated investor” ...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-experts-suggest-stay-away-135336132.html