May list If you feel a paper should belong to another category, or that we missed a relevant paper just let us know. Participation is most welcome! Categories: Attacks and defenses Blockchain-general Ethereum Financial Internet as a Service (IaaS) Internet of Things (IoT) Mathematical Mining Proof of Work (PoW) alternatives Attacks and defenses AdaptiveRead more
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This post aims at being a list of most of the blockchain-related scientific papers published each day. Our main sources are the two arXiv categories cs.CS and q-fin, as well as cs.MA. We will publish a new post per month, containing the papers of that month. The aim is to update at least weekly theRead more
Dear all, As we are not aware of any daily updated repositories for scientific blockchain papers, we have started building one. Our main sources are the two arXiv categories cs.CS and q-fin. We have created some categories, and papers appear under one category only. We hope to update this list daily. This is the linkRead more
With the price of cryptocurrencies bouncing back, interest is reawakening in crypto mining, not least with a range of coins offering viable alternatives to mining Bitcoin. Which simply begs the question, where do you start? If you want to get a mining rig together of your own, and get the necessary software for it, whatRead more
Disclaimer: this article is not, in any way, investment advice. It is merely an analysis of one of the many potential factors which may be relevant to the rises and falls in the price of altcoins. — In economics, probably one of the biggest motivations and challenges is to predict how the market will behave,Read more
In theory, you can get to the nub of Bitcoin mining with a piece of paper and a pencil. Appreciating things have moved on a little since it was posted, this 2014 article at Gizmodo https://gizmodo.com/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and-paper-1640353309 not only looks at the mathematics behind mining Bitcoin, but how to sit there and puzzle things out theRead more
After a difficult year, the price of the leading cryptocurrency – Bitcoin – is enjoying a huge resurgence at the time of writing, with its price jumping up to just over $8,000, having tumbled to below $4,000 at the end of 2018. This has been welcome relief to those who have invested in Bitcoin miningRead more
Cryptocurrencies have already found and established their place in the market. There is increasingly ongoing research on them, which gives this technology a very promising future. Currently there are two main choices for earning cryptocurrency: ASIC mining and GPU mining. In this article we summarise the reasons and advantages behind each method and compare theirRead more
Money has always been evolving alongside humanity. Commodity money, where the actual coins are made of a valuable material like gold, goes back as far as about 700 BC. Representative money may be even older, as a token representing some valuable material is used for trading, instead of the actual material. Representative money was usedRead more
After an almost unremittingly rough 2018, and quiet start to 2019, Bitcoin markets have recently seen demand sustain the sudden rise in price that took BTC back above $5,000 at the start of the April. Indeed, the last few days have seen a couple of positive news stories push prices back towards the $6,000-mark theyRead more
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