Computing

Having successfully sold two million BTR tokens ahead of schedule at the pre-ICO, international project called Boosteroid starts ICO on October 23. The key difference between Boosteroid and other startups is that it will be implemented regardless of the ICO results: the computing facilities are already being build.

The international project Boosteroid starts ICO on October 23 and intends to squeeze giants of computing power rental market such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft.

Saïd Business School, at the University of Oxford, has announced the launch of a new digital open enrolment programme on FinTech that will cover topics ranging from Blockchain technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to crowdfunding and quantum computing.  

RvT token technology can enable provable cybersecurity controls, putting device security on the Blockchain.

SONM, the world’s first decentralized, blockchain-based platform, uses a fog computing structure  to make huge amounts of processing power cheaper and easily accessible for general purpose computing.

1728 Individual Participants Contribute in “Democratized” Funding Model

Bitcoin mining is regulated by a difficulty factor which determines how hard it is to mine one block of bitcoin. Recently the difficulty factor was just above 520,000,000,000. Coinidol.com investigates the effects of this rise on the Bitcoin mining activities.

South Korea takes another step toward becoming the leading country to adopt Blockchain technology and cryptocurrency. Samsung launches a new blockchain-based cloud computing platform called Nexledger.

In 2016 a new illegal industry emerged in the bitcoin ecosystem. Ransomware, a malicious program with the ability to encrypt a file or lock the user out totally from a computing device. Hackers invented a way of blocking user access to very important servers and demanding a ransom of bitcoin in exchange for an unlocking key.