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Bitcoin whale moves gooch-tingling ONE BILLION DOLLARS

Sep06
by on September 6, 2019 at 8:22 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


A cryptocurrency whale has moved a ball-twisting 94,504 BTC (worth over one billion dollars) — paying just $700 in Bitcoin network fees. 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 94,504 #BTC (1,018,147,922 USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallet Tx: https://t.co/VWb8slswa8 — Whale Alert (@whale_alert) September 6, 2019 Twitter-based transaction monitor @whale_alert signalled the transfer earlier today, which was included in Bitcoin block #593468. For now, it appears cryptocurrency exchanges do not control these wallets, as those addresses are (typically) flagged by the @whale_alert service and other blockchain explorers. Bitcoin from the largest non-exchange address on the move (or…

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Facebook wants to combat deepfakes by making its own

Sep06
by on September 6, 2019 at 7:02 am
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With algorithmically-generated fabricated videos, otherwise called deepfakes, on the rise, Facebook is teaming up with Microsoft and seven academic institutions in the US for a Deepfake Detection Challenge. The contest — meant to develop technology for detecting deepfakes and prevent people from falling prey to misinformation — is expected to from late 2019 until spring of 2020. But training an algorithm to single out doctored videos isn’t an easy task, as it requires massive datasets of deepfakes. Which is why, the social media giant said it will use paid, consenting actors to create a library of deepfake videos in order to…

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