Above Photo: In this June 13, 2020, file photo, United States Military Academy graduating cadets, wearing face masks, march to their socially-distanced seating during commencement ceremonies in West Point, N.Y. (ASSOCIATED PRESS) We Have To Promote Non-Military Careers For Our Youth Seventy-six years after the U.S. dropped atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I am reminded of my own mindset during the Cuban missile crisis when American President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev were threatening a nuclear confrontation. I remember feeling that my life would soon end, clearly embracing a comprehensible existential threat even at the age of […]
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The U.S. Army has tested a recent modification pack of Stryker combat vehicles called network lethality. In a statement presented by the Army Operational Test Command said that new capabilities were recently tested in the Stryker Anti-Tank Guided Missile (ATGM) vehicle here by Soldiers of the 2nd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division. During operational testing conducted by the 8th Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, Soldiers validated the effectiveness of the Stryker’s Modified Improved Target Acquisition System (MITAS) under realistic combat situations against a dynamic opposing force, the statement said. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – Through networked lethality, crews can now pass images […]
JPMorgan Blockchain Lead Christine Moy has been promoted to lead the bank’s Ethereum-based Interbank Information Network (INN). Source link
On Thursday, Silvus Technologies has announced that it had received a contract from the U.S. Army to provide StreamCaster radios to the Integrated Tactical Network as part of Capability Set ’21. Silvus has won a contract valued at as much as $3 million from the U.S. Army to provide the first commercial mobile ad hoc network (MANET) radio deployed at scale in the Army’s Middle-Tier Integrated Tactical Network. As part of Capability Set 21 Critical Design Review, Silvus radios were selected to connect key command and control nodes due to both their self-organizing network designed to operate in multiple spectrum bands […]
Encryption startup NuCypher has finished distributing its network’s native token, NU, to over 2,000 prospective node operators who staked more than $125 million worth of ether (ETH) during the month of September. NuCypher’s system will hit Ethereum’s mainnet on Oct. 15. Primarily marketed as a solution for developers building decentralized applications (dapps), NuCypher helps firms encrypt data before they upload it to decentralized storage networks, while also retaining control over who can read the data once its uploaded (using an advanced form of flexible cryptography called proxy re-encryption). On the other side, participants who run the network’s nodes earn fees in […]
Facebook booted three troll networks linked to Russian intelligence and the St. Petersburg-based troll farm involved in meddling in the 2016 election. Nathan Gleicher, Facebook’s head of security, told reporters in a press conference that the three networks mainly focused on audiences and issues outside of the U.S. presidential election but that the company had suspended them now out of an abundance of caution because they “could pivot to support a hack-and-leak operation” in the future. While Facebook hasn’t seen any evidence that Russia’s intelligence services planned to use the suspended networks to amplify hacked content in a hack-and-leak operation, the […]
Long-time Trump ally and former Fox News regular Joe diGenova lashed out at the conservative-leaning network on Wednesday, claiming Fox News “fears George Soros” and wondering aloud what the liberal philanthropist “has on” Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott. For more than a week now, right-wing media outlets and pro-Trump pundits have railed against Fox News for an on-air segment that featured multiple hosts shutting down Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich just as he began a conspiratorial rant against Soros—who has long been the target of anti-Semitic tropes from the right. After Gingrich asked if the topic was “verboten,” the discussion […]
While so-called “DeFi degens” are busy bidding up the price of food-themed tokens, on the other end of crypto’s DeFi spectrum two teams working on the most popular implementations of Bitcoin’s Lightning Network have been busy pushing out new features. This week, both Lightning Labs, which maintains the Lightning Network Daemon (LND) implementation of the Lightning Network, and Blockstream, which maintains the c-lightning implementation, updated their tech stacks. Read more: What Is Bitcoin’s Lightning Network? For Lightning Labs, the update comes to its Faraday suite with the addition of an automated accounting feature to make bookkeeping easier for node operators and Lightning […]
A provider of an ecosystem for the “sharing and rental economy,” ShareRing will join China’s government-backed blockchain initiative. Source link
The report builds from Downing Streets expectations of a 3-year delay to its 5G rollout and comes after the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) announced the ban in July this year. The UK government’s ban and removal of Huawei from national 5G networks by 2027 will risk a severe delay in the country’s 5G rollout targets, an independent report from research and analysis firm Assembly said on Wednesday. The report, commissioned by Huawei Technologies, found that such measures could cost the UK economy £18.2bn and the countries competitive lead in 5G. British mobile operators had made “significant” progress […]
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Oasis Network, a privacy-centric data-sharing network, said it will integrate Chainlink’s price feeds into its network. Source link
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/106369/08/1063690823_0:100:1920:1180_1200x675_80_0_0_3cd98dfc078ab69bbfa9fdcd1cd795cb.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/society/202008251080277641-russian-national-charged-with-allegedly-introducing-malware-into-us-companys-network/ A Russian national was arrested on August 22 for allegedly introducing malware into a US company’s network. Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov, 27, was charged with one count of conspiracy to “intentionally cause damage to a protected computer,” according to a Department of Justice (DoJ) press release. He was arrested in Los Angeles and made his first initial appearance in federal court on Monday. The complaint and statements made in court claim that Kriuchkov conspired with associates from around July 15, 2020 to August 22, 2020 to recruit an employee of a company to introduce malware into […]
The news channel’s media critic Brian Stelter says CNN will have live “fact-checks” for the RNC, leaving many to wonder where those fact-checks were during the respective Democratic event. Warning about a possible “stream of disinformation” at the RNC, scheduled to take place from August 24 through August 27, Stelter promised CNN will “fact-check” and “cut away” from the event as needed. He also blasted rival Fox News network for their coverage of the Democratic National Convention and their conservative bias. “There is an asymmetry in our media…where Fox is off there on the right in ways that other networks are […]
Tether has adopted Ethereum scaling solution OMG Network amidst record demand for settlement space on the “world computer.” “The integration [between Tether and OMG Network] will result in a reduction of confirmation times delivering faster payments while fees will be reduced without compromising on-chain security,” Tether Inc. said in a blog Wednesday. OMG Network can handle thousands of transactions at a third of the cost of Ethereum as a Layer 2 solution for Ethereum that batches transactions before settlement, OMG Network CEO Vansa Chatikavanij said in a statement. Tether – now the third largest cryptocurrency with a market capitalization of $13.1 […]
Reports suggesting that the Trump administration is urging Tel Aviv to block China from the development of 5G infrastructure in Israel emerged in late May, falling in line with Washington’s confrontation with Chinese tech giant Huawei over its alleged connections with Beijing intelligence. Israel and the United States are close to signing a so-called Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that suggests Tel Aviv would refrain from using Chinese technology in building up the country’s 5G infrastructure, The Jerusalem Post reported, citing unnamed US government sources. “We’re optimistic that Israel will take a clean approach to 5G and choose to only allow trusted […]
Matic wants its incubator fund to incentivize promising DeFi projects to build on its scalable sidechain, rather than directly onto Ethereum itself. Source link
The A&E TV network has seen its viewership dive bomb after dropping its popular cop-based reality show ‘Live PD.’ Though the woke move decimated its prime time audience, the channel insists the decline is only “temporary.” Some six weeks after A&E shelved the show – which followed on-duty police officers on patrol in real time – the network’s prime time viewership has tanked by 49 percent, according to Nielsen ratings data first reported by the Wall Street Journal on Friday. Its total daily average viewership collapsed by more than a third. Though the network labeled the drop as a “temporary hit […]
The U.S. Army has reported that Army Futures Command (AFC) is using rapid prototyping to integrate tactical network systems, which will enhance functionality of the Soldier-worn Integrated Visual Augmentation System, onto combat and tactical vehicles. The details were given in a 23 July media release, to announce that Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) provides Soldiers with improved situational awareness capabilities as they fight, train and rehearse missions. IVAS capabilities include a digital display to access information without taking eyes off the battlefield, thermal and low-light sensors, rapid target acquisition, aided target identification and augmented reality. The Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, […]
Despite multiple employee deaths from the coronavirus and dozens of positive test results, telecom giant Dish Network Corporation, and one of its prominent subsidiaries Sling TV, have charged ahead with office reopenings with no potential end to the pandemic in sight. As a result, employees are terrified and disillusioned. “If I get the coronavirus because I had to be in the office during the pandemic and someone in my family dies as a result, will Sling cover the burial or cremation expenses?” one exasperated employee asked the company during a recent meeting with company brass. In a virtual meeting last week […]
Switzerland’s licensed crypto-first bank SEBA and Corda-based Digital Asset Shared Ledger (DASL) announced a new partnership on Wednesday letting the bank offer asset securitization services on Corda’s public network. Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent operating subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which invests in cryptocurrencies and blockchain startups. Source link
The British government has announced that starting next year, telecommunications companies would be banned from buying Huawei equipment for the U.K.’s 5G network. Existing Huawei equipment will need to be removed by 2027. Leon Neal/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Leon Neal/Getty Images Months after approving some limited involvement by the Chinese technology giant Huawei in constructing the U.K.’s next-generation wireless data network, British regulators reversed course Tuesday. Beginning in January, U.K. regulators will implement a ban on telecom operators buying Huawei equipment. Existing Huawei 5G equipment will need to be removed from the U.K.’s 5G network by 2027. The decision […]
14 Jul, 2020 11:48 Follow RT on British telecoms companies will be banned from buying Huawei 5G components starting from the end of this year, the UK media secretary said. The firms also must get rid of all of their Huawei gear by 2027. Follow RT on Source link
CNN has become the absolute worst cable news network. Anyone who remembers what it was like just ten years ago knows it is barely recognizable today. Former staffers and producers appear to agree. FOX News reports: TRENDING: WOW! NBC Guest Doctor Who Was Suffering from Coronavirus in Hospital in TV Interviews — NEVER HAD CORONAVIRUS! (VIDEO) CNN called out by former staffers; ex-producer says network has shown ‘lack of self-awareness’ in Trump era A former CNN producer accused Don Lemon of hurting the network with a “divisive” and “boring” show, telling Fox News that his former employer has shown “a lack […]
NIH launches clinical trials network to test COVID-19 vaccines and other prevention tools NIH News Release The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has established a new clinical trials network that aims to enroll thousands of volunteers in large-scale clinical trials testing a variety of investigational vaccines and monoclonal antibodies intended to protect people from COVID-19. The COVID-19 Prevention Trials Network (COVPN) was established by merging four existing NIAID-funded clinical trials networks: the HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN), based in Seattle; the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN), based in Durham, N.C.; the […]
Kyber, a decentralized exchange (DEX), is preparing to share trading fees with KNC token holders. Launched Tuesday, KyberDAO will let users stake KNC and earn yields in more KNC, proportional to their stake. Yields won’t actually kick in for about two more weeks, but participants will need to participate in voting in the week prior in order to start accruing earnings. A growing trend in decentralized finance (DeFi) has been for users with significant holdings to earn returns by contributing those assets to DeFi applications that need liquidity. Launched in 2017, Kyber has always been designed as a DEX that connects […]
Lithuania has followed its neighbor Latvia’s lead to ban five RT channels based on “recommendations” from the country’s Foreign Ministry, but offered the same bogus and bizarre excuse for the decision. Indeed, officials in Vilnius were no more creative with their reasoning for the ban than those in Riga last month, as they came up with the same faulty logic to justify their censorship. Announcing the ban, the regulator said it was being handed down because RT is headed by Russian journalist Dmitry Kiselyov, who is under EU sanctions. In actual fact, Kiselyov has nothing to do with RT and heads […]
Sixteen Twitter accounts tied to a network of fake accounts designed to spread false information about Middle Eastern countries were suspended Monday after The Daily Beast sent Twitter the results of an investigation into the network. Twitter said the accounts were suspended for violating their platform manipulation policy. The network used fake personas to plant more than 90 opinion pieces in 46 different publications. The publications were largely conservative outlets including Washington Examiner, Newsmax, and American Thinker. The pieces espoused pro-United Arab Emirates beliefs and were tough on Iran, Turkey, and Qatar. Members of the network created fake credentials to give themselves more credibility, and […]
Savvy attackers might be able to “loot” bitcoin from others by way of the Lightning Network if users aren’t careful, a new cybersecurity report warns. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem computer scientists Jona Harris and Aviv Zohar have taken a closer look at a “systemic” Lightning Network attack that could lead to loss of funds. The attack, which they describe in their new paper, “Flood & Loot: A Systemic Attack on the Lightning Network,” preys on Bitcoin congestion. The problem with the Bitcoin blockchain is that it’s slow to settle payments and it only supports a few transactions per second. The […]
In late February, the British government announced that it would give Huawei a limited role in building the UK’s 5G infrastructure, despite previous US warnings that the move could potentially compromise US-British intelligence sharing. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to start excluding the use of Huawei technology in the country’s 5G network this year “in a major about-turn”, The Telegraph reports. The newspaper referred to a report by the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)’s National Cyber Security Centre which claims that US sanctions against Huawei has had a “severe” impact on the firm and will prompt the Chinese telecom giant […]
Now that President Donald Trump has finally said that he’s “all for masks” amid a massive surge in coronavirus cases, Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy on Thursday wondered why wearing a mask to slow the spread of COVID-19 ever became politicized. “For some reason, over the last couple of weeks, a month, masks have become political,” the Fox host remarked during an interview. If he wants to identify that mysterious “some reason,” he needn’t look any further than his own colleagues. Since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. months ago, Fox News hosts and guests have repeatedly […]
The latest venture from CNET founder Halsey Minor looks a lot like an attempt to recreate the legacy monetary system on a blockchain. Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent operating subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which invests in cryptocurrencies and blockchain startups. Source link
Hundreds of Facebook profiles said to be part of a “violent anti-government network” linked to the loose-knit “boogaloo” movement have been permanently deleted, the latest in a wave of mass bans targeting the political right. Some 220 accounts, 106 groups and 28 pages were scrubbed from Facebook on Tuesday, the company said in a statement, alleging they were tied to a “dangerous organization” that had carried out real acts of violence. Ninety-five accounts on Facebook-owned Instagram also got the boot. “This violent network is banned from having a presence on our platform and we will remove content praising, supporting or representing […]
Iran’s first and largest mobile operator, the Mobile Telecommunication Company (MCI), is expected to initially provide the service in parts of the capital. Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi, Iran’s telecoms minister, has announced that he asked the national mobile operator MCI to roll out a 5G broadband connection in the country’s capital, Tehran. He said that the next generation of mobile broadband Internet will become available in at least five locations in Tehran by the end of August or in early September. Jahromi also tweeted that a laboratory for testing the 5G network will be unveiled in two weeks. The Iranian government announced […]
Matic Network announced Sunday that the first iteration of its staking solution was now live. Launched in stages, direct staking will initially be restricted to the Matic Foundation, the non-profit behind the Ethereum-based scaling solution, which will stake tokens on users’ behalf, the company said in a press release. The Matic Network is a dapp-ready sidechain designed to take some of the heavy lifting off the bottleneck-prone Ethereum network. It claims it can handle anywhere between 4,000 to 10,000 transactions per second – on par with the likes of EOS and TRON that bill themselves as scalable alternatives. Matic is keen […]
Bitcoins stored on the Liquid Network were temporarily able to be seized by network moderators Thursday night. The potential vulnerability in the Bitcoin sidechain’s security parameters was discovered by Summa founder James Prestwich. Liquid – a network developed and overseen by Blockstream and meant to move bitcoins around more quickly than the Bitcoin blockchain – moved 870 bitcoins that had been stuck in a queue since June 11 waiting to be processed. Occurring Thursday at 17:19 GMT, the transfer used a less-secure two-of-three emergency multisig rather than the 11-of-15 typically used for such transactions. The funds were potentially seizable for about […]
UnionBank of the Philippines has built out a network it says will make it easier for people without access to financial services to receive money from abroad. The bank – the country’s tenth largest by assets – announced on Tuesday that it’s launching 11,000 cash-out remittance counters across the archipelago, including in rural or remote areas where citizens may have access to banking services. The counters provide points of contact with the bank’s financial services ranging from smartphone app to full remittance hubs. For the effort, UnionBank said it was extending an existing partnership with Coins.ph, a regulated Philippines-based company using […]
ParaFi Capital, a San Francisco-based investment firm focused on blockchain and decentralized finance, has invested in Kyber Network ahead of its planned Katalyst upgrade. Announced Friday, the two entities have also formed a new partnership that will see them work to prepare for the launch of KyberDAO with the intention of increasing adoption of Kyber’s on-chain liquidity protocol. KyberDAO is planned as a community platform for the decentralized governance of the network. Coming at a time when decentralized finance, or DeFi, is booming, the investment from ParaFi was made in the form of an undisclosed direct purchase of Kyber Network Crystals […]
Prosecutors in St. Petersburg are looking for two defendants in the ‘Network’ case to be given up to nine years behind bars. Yuly Boyarshinov, 28, and Viktor Filinkov, 25, are accused of being part of a terrorist organization. According to investigators, Kazakhstani national Filinkov and Russian citizen Boyarshinov have been members of the ‘Set’ (meaning Network) anarchist terrorism community since 2016. In 2017 and 2018, several alleged members of the group were arrested in Penza and St. Petersburg, including these two men. The prosecution alleges that they had planned to carry out terrorist attacks during both the 2018 FIFA World Cup […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107611/15/1076111510_0:160:3072:1888_1200x675_80_0_0_9134553a2ef1f9869e64597e78e9f7cd.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Oleg Burunov. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/science/202006161079632368-china-reportedly-delays-launch-of-its-final-navigation-network-satellite/ Beijing started to develop the BeiDou navigation system back in the 1990s in an effort to compete with the US-run Global Positioning System (GPS). A spate of “technical problems” in the rocket carrier has prompted China to delay the launch of the last of its BeiDou-3 satellites into orbit, the state-run Xinhua news agency reports. The deficiencies were reportedly found during a routine check before the rocket’s lift-off slated for later this month from a launch pad in the south-western province of Sichuan. The satellite is part of the BeiDou navigation system, […]
The head football coach at Oklahoma State, Mike Gundy, has faced online wrath after being seen in a t-shirt bearing the logo of a conservative TV network, prompting calls for his firing and a star player to boycott the team. OSU coach Gundy sparked controversy on Monday, appearing in a photo online wearing a One America News (OAN) shirt, a right-of-center media outlet which often voices staunch support for US President Donald Trump. It wasn’t long before the wardrobe choice – on a private fishing trip, no less – landed Gundy in trouble, with star running back Chuba Hubbard vowing to […]
SIMBA Chain, a blockchain-as-a-service company with deep ties to the Department of Defense, has two years and $1.5 million to research and develop a blockchain for supply chain logistics for the U.S. Air Force. The South Bend, Ind., firm said on Monday it has entered Phase II of its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) USAF project with a renewed mandate to investigate blockchain’s military supply chain value propositions. It has also gained a new partner: Boeing. SIMBA CEO Joel Neidig said his firm will “stand up” a node running Hyperledger Fabric at Oklahoma’s Tinker Air Force Base – a hub for […]
Decentralised storage network provider Filecoin announced the launch of the ‘Incentivized Testnet’, the final phase of testing for its decentralized storage network, on Wednesday. In a press statement emailed to CoinDesk, the firm said that this precedes its expected main network launch this summer. Developed by Protocol Labs, Filecoin’s storage network aims to provide a safeguard against the risk of a single point of failure for data storage by using a decentralised network. Filecoin was also behind one of the major ICOs in 2017 when it raised more than $257 million. According to the firm, the top 100 miners globally as […]
The Network In Defense Of Humanity Demands Justice For George Floyd By The Network in Defense of Humanity June 10, 2020 The Network In Defense Of Humanity Demands Justice For George Floyd2020-06-102020-06-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/jiustice-for-george-floyd-from-rallylist-e1591806942835.jpg200px200px Above photo: Justice for George Floyd from RallyList. Note: The Network in Defense of Humanity is the U.S. Chapter of the Network of Intellectuals, Artists and Social Movements in Defense of Humanity. They describe themselves and their work, writing: “The Network constitutes a movement of action and thought against all forms of domination towards writers, artists, poets, scientists, lawyers, and academics, religious, athletes, students, and social movements, in order to […]
As coronavirus is changing everyone’s lives, making it harder to go outside or interact with friends and family, people are leaning more than ever on digital video platforms to live a “normal” life. That includes Bitcoiners who are fine-tuning the organization of hackathons in the virtual realm. Several times around the globe, German lightning research startup Fulmo has put on the event Lightning Hack Day, where developers gather to hack and share new exciting ideas to further the network or the lightning-related projects they’ve been working on. With coronavirus making it unwise (and even legally restricted) to travel and gather in […]
After facing a heavy load of transactions earlier this month, bitcoin’s (BTC) network has returned to a more normal level, recent developments suggest. The total amount of fees paid to miners was 80 BTC as of Tuesday, down from its 11-month high of 201 BTC on May 21, according to the data provided by the blockchain intelligence firm Glassnode. It was at 57 BTC on May 3. The percentage of miner revenue from fees has also pulled back to 9.4% from the 28-month high of 21% registered on May 20. “The fall back in transaction fees are related to a normalized […]
IBM has become a shareholder in we.trade, the trade-finance platform jointly owned by 12 European banks, signaling further consolidation across the enterprise blockchain space. Ciaran McGowan, we.trade’s CEO, said the deepening relationship with Big Blue will help the platform in its next phase of global expansion. “Now we’ve got a very strong partnership with IBM for scaling globally and we are working closely together on Asia, Africa and Latin America,” McGowan said. We.trade has the distinction of being the first enterprise blockchain consortium to go live, which happened back in early 2018. The platform was formed by a group of banks […]
IOV Labs, which builds platforms secured by bitcoin’s hash rate, launched Wednesday a light client for the Lumino Payments Network, its smart contract-compatible rival to the lightning network Lumino Light Client will run on mobile devices via integrated wallet apps, according to the Gibraltar-based firm. Light Client comes nearly a year after the firm formerly known as RIF Labs unveiled Lumino. Based on IOV Labs subsidiary RSK’s Rootstock sidechain, Lumino secures smart contracts and ERC-20 compliant tokens via the bitcoin network in what IOV Labs called a “layer three solution.” Before Lumino, Gabriel Kurman, an RIF strategist said 10 full nodes […]
HDBank has signed up to a blockchain network from Contour with the aim of bringing trade finance into the digital realm. The Vietnam-based bank is the latest financial institution to join Contour’s network with a view to streamlining the issuance of letters of credit with the use of a blockchain and smart contracts, local media reported on Tuesday. Contour is a blockchain trade platform built on R3’s Corda tech and designed to streamline transaction settlement processes. It rebranded from Voltron in late January 2020, naming R3’s Asia chief Carl Wegner as CEO in the run-up to a full commercial launch of […]
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 at Filecoin, told CoinDesk in an interview. The Filecoin Foundation is inviting anyone to join its “mission to improve the internet,” Darrow said in a press statement. The new program is called Filecoin Discover, and it is seeding the file storage network early with what Filecoin calls “verified datasets.” This data […]
The Polkadot network is “very near launch,” founder Gavin Wood told attendees of the Ready Layer One (RL1) virtual conference on Wednesday in a sneak peek of the Ethereum co-founder’s new network. Wood, who wrote Ethereum’s technical paper in 2014, created Polkadot with the intention of allowing users to send transactions across blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum in what is commonly referred to as making them interoperable. Like Kusama, Wood told RL1 attendees Polkadot will roll out in five or six stages, beginning with a “chain candidate” launched by the Web3 Foundation. The candidate operates as a de facto genesis […]