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Crypto currency market
Editorial 2 May 2022

Nanostrategy

Bitcoin is a financial system, and it doesn’t matter whether systems on the network ‘want’ a transaction; it only matters whether something can be legally processed and enforced.

wifi bar
Editorial 26 April 2022

The King’s Wi-Fi

The GSE cohort needed to crack the ‘King’s Wi-Fi’ and using AirSnort, Aircrack-ng, WEPCrack, etc., we could break into the network before being discovered as a demonstration of a pen-testing exercise.

Mobile phone with webpage of American technology company Ripple Labs Inc. on screen in front of logo. Focus on top-left of phone displa
Business 1 April 2022

BTC v Ripple in proof-of-climate-change dust-up

The co-founder of ‘crypto’ token/commodity Ripple wants BTC to shift to a Proof of Stake consensus mechanism, apparently because he believes the hobbled BTC tech is still not hobbled enough.