blockchain

If you ever read headlines from large, business focused news outlets, you've probably heard that JP Morgan Chase just created their own "cryptocurrency." But, referencing advice from the executive director of DC-based policy research and advocacy group Coin Center, Motherboard points out that...

Razer just launched an application called "Softminer" that "utilizes your idle GPU processing power to supplement distributed network needs for the mining process." They stop short of detailing what the program actually "mines," but instead of rewarding you with cryptocurrency like a regular...

According to a report by VentureBeat, RobotCache's ambitious blockchain-based gaming storefront is making significant progress. Despite being in early access, the company claims to have signed on 700 games from 22 publishers. Interestingly, publishers are supposed to get a 95% sales cut from the...

Even with a major decline in cryptocurrency value, "blockchain" is still a hot buzzword among investors and companies. But MERL Tech followed "43 blockchain use-cases" closely, digging up a variety of positive-sounding press releases, white papers, and promises of large financial gain. However...

Forbes reports that U.S. investors can now use blockchain tokens to acquire pieces of a luxury student residence called "The Hub" in South Carolina. The site claims this is "the first tokenized REIT in the U.S," and says that investors can buy a chunk of the estate for a little as $21,000. While...

AMD is touting their product stack's ability to lead in Blockchain technology as they are the only company able to supply compute platforms with both blazing fast GPUs and CPUs. AMD partners have complete plug and play blockchain compute solutions, including software and upgrades. Blockchain...

As promised earlier this year, HTC launched their first blockchain phone. In many ways, the Exodus 1 resembles your typical HTC Android flagship, with a 6" 1440x2560 display, a Snapdragon 845 paired with 6GB of DDR4x RAM, a 3500mAh battery, 12MP + 16MP front facing cameras, IP68 water...

VentureBeat reports that Otoy is using a gamer GPU "cloud" to collaboratively render graphics on the cheap. RNDR harnesses over 14,000 GPUs that would normally be sitting idle in PCs, and connects them using "cloud, blockchain, and cryptocurrency technologies," The company claims the whole...

Sony is officially jumping on the blockchain bandwagon. The company announced that it intends to integrate blockchain technology into their current DRM scheme for "electronic textbooks and other educational content, music, films, VR content, and e-books" and possibly more. We've noted that...

"Blockchain" is a hot buzzword in the business world, and some companies are trying to cash in on the hype. However, a new report by the National Institute of Standards suggests that blockchain can't necessarily solve all the problems people are throwing it at. Relative to traditional storage...

West Virginia has enabled blockchain secured voting through a smartphone app for service members serving overseas. The state has one of the highest rates of military service per capita and the postal service in some parts of the world is so bad that military service members couldn't vote in the...

Walmart and Sam's Club will work with IBM to start using blockchain to track suppliers of fresh, leafy green crops in real-time as the products are transported from the farm to the store. This is being done to better combat food safety incidents such as outbreaks of Salmonella or E. coli...

We have talked about blockchain smartphones in the past a bit. And today HTC is announcing its first blockchain phone, the EXODUS, this year. HTC says, "Our vision is to expand the blockchain ecosystem by creating the world’s first phone dedicated to decentralized applications and security...

Reuters Graphics has published a visual guide entitled Blockchain Explained. If you are not up to snuff on what exactly blockchain is, this is actually a very good starter pack that even your grandmother is likely to understand....did I mention it has lots of pictures? A blockchain is a...

I have stopped facepalming long enough to tell you that Newswire.ca is reporting that the upcoming game, Dungeon Defenders II, will feature a new form of monetization called Loot. Now that the shock from how clever that name is has passed, I can tell you that Loot, is a blockchain protocol, and...

I've been trying to wrap my head around how Blockchain is supposed to revolutionize the world apart from Bitcoin. Is there a video or tutorial out there that will help me understand Blockchain on a level where I can speak about it in an interview or understand how my business can utilize...

Hunter Energy in Australia is bringing one of their coal-powered power plants out of mothballs to help establish a wholesale energy zone for blockchain projects/companies. Not many blockchain operations exist in Australia because of their high electricity prices, but this plant is coming back...

Earlier this month we brought you news that Twitter was cutting off ICO and cryptocurrency ads and now MailChimp is joining in and doing the same. MailChimp isn't totally against blockchain and the like, but you can't use their platform anymore to pump the latest ICO. As more social media joins...

New Snowden documents reveal that the NSA has been tracking Bitcoin users since 2013. The documents show that that the NSA used methods to directly siphon internet traffic using a program code-named OAKSTAR, as well as a sham internet anonymizing service called MONKEYROCKET. ZeroHedge has a good...

Researchers at RWTH Aachen University in Germany claim to have found 274 links to child pornography while investigating what financial data has been stashed within the blockchain according to a report from PCMag. in a paper that was presented at a conference earlier this month, in which the...

Blockchain is getting lots of press these days with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies gaining popularity, not to mention word of banks and other institutions developing blockchain technology as well. However, Sierra Leone and blockchain are in the news for a first of its kind use of blockchain...

Microsoft is stepping into the brave new world of the blockchain and is contemplating using it for digital identities. The thought behind this is to increase privacy, security and control of identities. This also tags onto their partnership in the ID2020 initiative. However, it's Microsoft so...

In a report yesterday, blockchain start up "The Prodeum Project," whose goal was to "revolutionize the fruit and vegetable industry" with Ethereumhas apparently absconded with millions of investor dollars. Upon exiting with the investors money, the website went offline, ad was replaced with one...

Moving on from blockchain soy, we now give you blockchain tuna! (Sorry, the trout reference, it was too hard to pass up.) No one gives a damn about trout, but overfishing tuna has become a big deal. In all seriousness, this is all about bait to plate. As long as I can still get my super...

Most of what all we hear about blockchain technologies is swirling around the cryptocurrency market nowadays, but there have been many other applicable areas of documentation where it can be applied. One of those got a bit of recognition today as Reuters has noted that the world's first...

Great Britain’s biggest Internet and telecoms provider British Telecommunications PLC (BT) has secured a patent for its proposed cybersecurity system for Blockchain protection in late October. Based on the patent, one use case involving the patent is the so-called “majority control attacks” or...