ASIC server arms race keeps rising as Core Scientific binges on servers
Core Scientific is planning to increase current capacity by threefold by purchasing over 58,000 ASIC hardware miners from Bitmain.
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Recent SolarWinds security breach may be greater threat to humanity than COVID-19
It is likely that the recent SolarWinds hack will become known as the worst cybersecurity breach in United States history—affecting the most sensitive government networks and critical U.S. infrastructure.
Poor business model, not COVID-19 behind Hyperblock early struggles
A vendor has taken Hyperblock to court, alleging the owner concocted a scheme to keep them from paying the debt for electricity it consumed.
Trezor warns of phishing attack targeting users
The company said the attackers claim a user’s wallet has been disabled, before redirecting to a clone site to steal their credentials.
Marathon to buy 10,000 new ASIC miners
The NASDAQ-listed block reward mining firm recently announced purchasing 10,000 next-generation Antminer S-19j Pro miners for its Hardin, Montana data center.
Bitcoin SV Academy launches
The Bitcoin SV Academy launches offers all the online learning resources you need, no matter what sector of the BSV ecosystem you'd like to join.
How to create artificial life inside Bitcoin
Connor Murray examines the history of the claim of Bitcoin’s Turing-completeness, and then creates artificial life that lives inside of Bitcoin forever.
sCrypt launches Script-level debugger as a service
Developers can inspect exactly which higher level sCrypt code correlates to which Bitcoin opcodes which should enable experimentation, functionality and less bugs, Joshua Henslee writes.
New research paper claims to describe how BDos attack can cripple blockchain
Researchers at Cornell Tech and the Technion Israel Institute of Technology claim to have uncovered a fresh way to execute a denial-of-service attack (DoS) on a proof-of-work blockchain network.
European Commission invites bids for blockchain pre-commercial procurement
The PCP tender process is inviting interest from suppliers who can provide research and development into a government blockchain system.
Bitcoin script is Turing Complete: sCrypt’s ‘Game of Life’ is Proof
Contracts platform sCrypt has published code to a Bitcoin Script version of Conway's Game of Life, as a demonstration that the language is Turing Complete.
Titan Pool launches in North America
Titan Pool seeks to connect regional BTC miners together by offering them the same operational efficiencies that miners in other regions enjoy.