Most of us will be dead by then. Projected to happen in the year 2106, Bitcoin will suddenly stop running based on the code its network of users is running today. Users won’t be able to send bitcoin to others; miners securing Bitcoin’s global network will no longer serve a […]
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It’s alive! Cardano has successfully hard forked to its major upgrade, Shelly, which introduced proof-of-stake to the network Source link
As is the case with millions of other households at present, in recent months my house has been getting more use than ever. Given the ongoing coronavirus and semi-self-imposed quarantine, we’ve been cooking and eating all three meals a day at home, our son finished his kindergarten school year from […]
The ongoing battle between the co-founders at Bitmain has now essentially hard forked the world’s largest bitcoin miner manufacturer into two different operations and supply chains for making its flagship AntMiner equipment. Wu Jihan, the co-founder who ousted his rival co-founder Micree Zhan Ketuan last year, registered a new entity […]
Hard Times: ‘It’s Like They’re Trying To Kill Us’ By Matthew Vernon Whalen, ScheerPost.com. July 18, 2020 Hard Times: ‘It’s Like They’re Trying To Kill Us’2020-07-182020-07-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/draper-correction-facility-e1595085108699.jpg200px200px Above photo: Draper Correctional Facility dormitory. File photo from Montgomery Advertiser / Albert Cesare. Recent interviews with Alabama prisoners and officials paint grim picture of overcrowding, […]
Privacy coin Zcash has successfully hard forked in the planned network update “Heartwood.” With the update, miners can receive coinbase transactions right to a private address, in addition to other new features. The hard fork occurred on July 16 at 10:58 UTC at block height 903,000, according to the Electric […]
“Hard Road Of Hope” Shows West Virginia Is A Mirror Of The United States By Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance. June 30, 2020 “Hard Road Of Hope” Shows West Virginia Is A Mirror Of The United States2020-06-302020-06-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/hroh_20cover-e1593559197123.jpeg200px200px Eleanor Goldstein is a remarkable person. She is an artist, writer, poet, composer, performer, […]
The UK’s most senior civil servant Sir Mark Sedwill has been reportedly at odds with Boris Johnson’s chief adviser Dominic Cummings, and was suggested by sources as a likely scapegoat for a spate of failings amid criticism of Downing Street’s handling of the coronavirus crisis. The UK’s most senior civil […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The coronavirus epidemic has dealt a huge blow to the global economy, provoking global recession, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday. “The epidemic dealt a severe blow to the global economy. Trade, the work of enterprises, and cooperation ties seemed to have stumbled upon a wall […]
President Donald Trump went postal on Twitter Monday morning over the threat he claims mailed ballots pose to the integrity of U.S. elections—but his family seems to have never gotten the message. The commander in chief fired off another social media fusillade against the practice of submitting ballots through the […]
Thank you Bulleit Bourbon and the TipsFromHome Initiative for partnering with Half Full on the Bartenders At Home cocktail video series. What inspired you to create this cocktail? “We could all use a hard reset right about now. I also wanted to create something tasty that the home bartender could […]
Trail partners Ethereum and Ethereum Classic are soon to split ways, highlighted by the latter’s successful “Phoenix” hard fork Sunday night. Executed at block 10,500,839 on May 31, the backwards-incompatible network upgrade makes Ethereum Classic fully compatible with Ethereum. That is, until the larger blockchain swaps its consensus algorithm in […]
Workers prepare takeout orders in Houston on May 1. For more than two out of three unemployed workers, jobless benefits exceed their old pay, researchers say. That can raise awkward questions for workers, bosses and policymakers. Mark Felix/AFP/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mark Felix/AFP/AFP via Getty Images […]
Binance is forced to “technically” support last week’s hard fork of the Steem blockchain, according to the crypto exchange’s CEO, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao. In a statement on the company’s official blog Sunday, CZ said that, while the exchange is “very much against zeroing other people’s assets on the blockchain,” to […]
Bittrex really didn’t want to get involved in the war that’s currently raging within the Steem community. Richie Lai, co-founder of the U.S.-based crypto exchange, posted an announcement late on Wednesday saying his firm would return – reluctantly, it seems – million of dollars worth of disputed cryptocurrency back to […]
A new analysis being reviewed by the White House shows southern states that moved too quickly to relax social distancing guidelines face significant risk for a resurgence of the coronavirus over the next several weeks. In several cases, counties will see hundreds of additional cases by June 17. The study, […]
The Steem blockchain has just split, or hard forked, controversially seizing the tokens of key community members who opposed TRON’s recent acquisition of the ecosystem’s biggest dapp, Steemit. At 14:00 UTC on Tuesday, Steem implemented hard fork 0.23, significantly codenamed “New Steem,” shunting some of the former Steem “witnesses” – […]
Dr. Max Lazarus, a medical resident at a hospital on Long Island, N.Y., is one of some 130,000 medical residents in the U.S., many of whom have found themselves on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. Max Lazarus hide caption toggle caption Max Lazarus Dr. Max Lazarus, a medical […]
Ohio voters drop off their ballots last month in Dayton. The state’s Republican secretary of state has gotten pushback from within his own party for wanting to expand absentee voting during the pandemic. Megan Jelinger/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Megan Jelinger/AFP via Getty Images Ohio voters drop […]
Germany’s chancellor has lamented what she says was irrefutable proof of a Russian “hacking attack” on her Bundestag office, adding that she is working day and night to fix relationships with Moscow despite the “painful” incident. Chancellor Angela Merkel addressed the hacking allegations while speaking to MPs on Wednesday. “I […]
Construction workers among a crowd at a counter demonstration against a student rally, being held in the wake of the Kent State shootings. ( Leo Vals / Stringer) The ‘Hard Hat Riot’ of 1970 Pitted Construction Workers Against Anti-War Protesters by Angela Seratorre/Smithsonianmag.com In the days after May 4, 1970, […]
Get a giant hard drive from the Filecoin team stuffed with data on climate, the world’s literature or the human genome and get ready to earn some crypto. “I think people don’t fully appreciate the enormous logistics involved with moving data at a massive scale,” Ian Darrow, head of operations […]
www.pinterest Appreciating Nurses’ Vital Role in Health Care and Research May 2020/National Institute of Nursing Research Every May, we celebrate National Nurses Week to express our gratitude for the incredible work nurses, including nurse scientists, do every day as the largest component of the health care workforce. However, this year […]