Crypto

2022-06-28T10:34:05+02:00

Two interesting pieces on the dangers and uselessness of blockchains: Bruce Schneider responding to comments made by Matthew Green on a letter written by academics and …

2021-09-28T15:22:29+02:00

Fascinating photography in this series: “China Says Goodbye to Crypto Mining” Dozens of cryptocurrency mining centers were shuttered last month in Southwest China’s Sichuan …

2021-05-20T09:35:52+02:00

In a press release, NVIDIA announced that is apparently starting to change their GPUs to reduce their Ethereum hash rate and hence try to prevent them from being used for crypto …

2021-03-07T17:51:24+01:00

Some more interesting articles and quotes critical of the newly popular non-fungible tokens (NFT): In a blog post on medium user everest pipkin claims that the “current ecological …

2021-03-07T09:51:57+01:00

Vox published an article about the recent deal between the financial services company Square and the steaming music service Tidal. They note that a possible outcome of the deal may …

2020-11-17T18:55:09+01:00

Bruce Schneier wrote a great opinion article on aspects of thrust in blockchain technologies and “the idea that blockchains can somehow eliminate the need for trust persists”. What …