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Slowly but surely, artificial intelligence continues to make inroads in the financial sector. There are many areas of this industry which could benefit from an AI-first approach. Amanda is one of those new projects well worth keeping an eye on. This AI loan assistant combines the best of artificial intelligence and blockchain technology. It is the flagship p…
We have never seen so many optimistic Bitcoin price predictions than during the past few months. It seems everyone is very bullish on Bitcoin right now, and Michael Novogratz has made one of the bolder statements in this regard. In his opinion, there is no reason why the Bitcoin price couldn't surpass US$40,000 by the end of 2018. That is a pretty optimistic…
China will always remain a crucial area when it comes to the future of technology. Baidu, best known for its search engine, is also experimenting with autonomous vehicles of all kinds. In a recent announcement, Baidu announced that it plans to put a driverless bus on China's roads by 2018. The company's venture into the autonomous car industry is already und…
Interest in mining cryptocurrency has skyrocketed lately. This has caused a major wave of sales of PC graphics cards, which has actually driven up the price of many mid-range cards. Mining with a GPU may even turn a profit if one has access to cheap electricity. However, this process is known to damage graphics cards and affect their longevity. People consid…
We have seen multiple versions of Bitcoin ransomware over the past few years. It feels like a new one comes out almost every week, regardless of how successful it is. SpongeBob, the children's cartoon character, is not something most people would associate with malicious software, but that may soon change. There is now a SpongeBob ransomware in circulation,…
Given the recent popularity of cryptocurrency ICOs, it was to be expected some things would be unclear to a lot of people. One of the most recurring questions is why all of these ICOs try to prevent US citizens from participating. There are many different reasons as to why this is the case, even though the countermeasures can be bypassed quite easily. ICOs a…
Criminals are flocking to botnets as of late, due to how much damage these nefarious creations can cause. Rakos, a rather prominent type of malware, is currently being used to build a very powerful botnet. So far, there are several thousand bots in existence. Although the numbers are not alarmingly high, this new botnet is more than capable of executing powe…
There has been a lot of focus on both Stellar and Ripple over the past few days. Although both networks cannot be labeled as traditional cryptocurrency networks by any means, the technology is of great value to financial service providers. However, it is a bit unclear what the difference is between Stellar and Ripple are exactly. As it turns out, there are d…
There are so many different projects to keep track of in the cryptocurrency world, it becomes hard to get acquainted with everything. The Ethereum Virtual Machine, also known as EVM, is quite a nifty project a lot of people tend to overlook. It is quite important to understand what this project is all about, as it provides some interesting benefits to Ethere…
Cryptocurrency enthusiasts were not surprised to find out various central banks and governments want to issue their own digital currency in the future. In the United States, this initiative is known as Fedcoin. The idea was first proposed in 2014 by JP Koning. Fedcoin will not necessarily be a threat to bitcoin anytime soon, yet it is worth looking at what t…
Cryptocurrency enthusiasts will often hear how miners have to provide more powerful hardware to keep up with the mining difficulty. To some people, this may sound strange, as the mining difficulty doesn't become more difficult in the traditional sense. The difficulty is a unit of measurement designed to indicate how difficult it is to find a hash below the g…
There has been quite a lot of controversy regarding Bitmain's ASICBOOST technology over the past few days. This technology allows the company to use a flaw in the bitcoin mining protocol to gain a competitive advantage over their competitors. However, there are some some claims ASICBOOST only works with a specific type of scaling proposal. It is time we dive…
