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Here’s how Binance Coin performed in Q1 2019

Apr26
by on April 26, 2019 at 3:18 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Binance Coin (BNB) is the cryptocurrency offspring from one of the world’s largest virtual currency exchanges, Binance. The token was launched in July 2017 as an ERC20 token based on the Ethereum blockchain, in its initial coin offering (ICO) it raised over $15 million for Binance. Binance as a cryptocurrency exchange was launched in early 2017, it was the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange desk (by trading volume) by April 2018 the following year. Binance Coin is primarily used to pay for services and fees when trading other cryptocurrencies or digital assets on Binance itself. Using BNB often grants the trader…

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One mining pool controls a dangerously dominant share of BitcoinSV’s hash rate

Apr26
by on April 26, 2019 at 2:56 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


The integrity of Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BitcoinSV) remains in question, as one group of cryptocurrency miners approaches control of the network‘s hash rate. Calvin Ayre’s CoinGeek has become BitcoinSV’s primary mining pool. Right now, data shows it controls 46 percent of the total computing power on the network. CoinGeek has also mined 52 percent of BitcoinSV blocks over the past day. If CoinGeek’s hash rate does end up exceeding 51 percent by itself, it will mark the third time in six months. The impending struggle comes just one week after an odd series of “block reorganizations” rocked the BitcoinSV network to a standstill that…

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Why we’re living in a dark age of technological distraction

Apr26
by on April 26, 2019 at 2:20 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Podium


Are you reading this during a work meeting? While you’re having dinner with a group of friends? Are you driving? Or is there a movie playing in the background? Even in the off chance you’re focusing exclusively on a digital device, this probably isn’t the only tab you had open. You’re getting other notifications as you read this sentence, and you’re thinking about jumping to the next article in sequence, or switching to another of your heavily-frequented apps. That’s because we’re living in a “dark age” of technological distraction. The technologies that have granted us such productivity, communicative potential, and…

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How BMW is innovating its business to build cars for the future

Apr26
by on April 26, 2019 at 2:18 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Events, Insider, TNW2019


The BMW marque is synonymous with German build quality and engineering prowess. It didn’t earn that respect overnight; BMW has been manufacturing and innovating automotive  components for over 100 years. Take the BMWi series for example; they’re produced using a variety of recycled materials, use electric and hybrid drive trains, and are put together in a factory that is powered entirely by renewable energy. One of the company’s latest innovations though, isn’t on its cars at all. Innovate by any means necessary In fact, it’s a business innovation called the “BMW Startup Garage.” Sure, it might sound less interesting than…

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