Our robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin BTC every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you whats been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As de Beauvoir used to say: The long and …
Google plans to implement new limitations in its Chrome web browser after discovering certain ads overuse CPU and data resources, costing users device battery life and money. Announced in a post to the Chromium blog on Thursday, Google’s restrictions target…
Nvidia has been accused of under-reporting sales of graphics processors for cryptomining in an effort to distance itself from the volatile market. An amended complaint [PDF], filed this week in California by aggrieved investors, accuses Nvidia of trying to p…
US Cyber Command has uploaded North Korean malware samples to the VirusTotal aggregation repository, adding to the malware samples it uploaded in February. The first of the new malware variants, COPPERHEDGE, is described as a Remote Access Tool (RAT) “used b…
Storj Labs, which in March launched decentralized storage network Tardigrade, is releasing an app to allow users of QNAP’s network-attached storage devices to generate cryptocurrency revenue from their unused hard disk space and bandwidth. Tardigrade consist…
Reuters Social Capital CEO and Virgin Galactic Chairman Chamath Palihapitiya said the economy is “completely divorced” from the stock and bond markets.In a CNBC interview Tuesday morning, Palihapitiya said the Fed has acted as the “principal…
Over the last few weeks all eyes in the crypto world have been glued to the halvening, a nigh-religious moment in the blockchain realm. Every once in a while, the amount of new bitcoin mined — distributed to miners, the folks with fleets of computers powering…
Google Chrome will start blocking heavyweight ads in August. Stephen Shankland/CNET To improve battery life, network usage and website speed, Chrome will delete ads that consume too many computing resources, Google said Thursday. Google will begin experimen…
There are three possible thresholds an ad can hit to be blocked: 4MB of network data, 15 seconds of CPU usage in any 30 second period, or 60 seconds of total CPU usage. I really like the basic idea here, but fundamentally would this change any behavior? That…
Since the first Bitcoin block was generated back in 2009, there have been three halving events. Taking place once every 210,000 blocks mined, or approximately once every four years, a Bitcoin halving cuts the current miner block reward by 50%. The first Bitco…
