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Tencent: Porn Sites Are Adopting Javascript Miner of Coinhive to Mine Monero

Oct 9, 2017

Other than income from clicking ads, some porn site operators in China have found new ways for their wallets. Recently, a report from Tencent exposed that many websites in China have embedded JavaScript to mine crytpocurrency, or XMR to be more specific. Coinhive service is employed witho...

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Deciphering of Bytom’s Data Structure

Aug 11, 2017

Author: Guo Guanghua, developer of Bytom, worked at ARRIS Group for years, former Java developer at Crypape Inc. One of the developers of CITA-Inter-Enterprise Trust Automation and smart digital draft system ZhongChao Smart Card Research Institute. Contributed code to P...

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CTO’s Read: Mainstream Blockchain Architectures’ Analysis by Antshares’ Erik Zhang

Feb 15, 2017

The original text is written by Erick Zhang in Chinese on Chinese site of 8btc. (see article). Erik Zhang, the brain behind Antshares. Contact him: erik@antshares.org      Antshares Whitepaper. I.A General-knowledge lesson on Blockchain Since the inception of Bitcoin in 2...

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China company to build world’s first “Blockchain Farm” with IOT data

Jan 19, 2017

Zhongnan Construction (SZ:000961) announced that the company plans to contribute 297 million yuan(~43 million USD) to set up Zhongnan Constrcution Blockchain Agricultural Company in Shenzhen. Along with Beidahuang(SH:600598), the new branch company will set up a joint company to bui...

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WINGS picks Chandler Guo to access Chinese exchanges, Ethereum Classic community

Dec 9, 2016

Drafting Chinese angel investor in Bitcoin and Ethereum startups, Chandler Guo, onto the WINGS Foundation’s Board of Advisors will widen the platform’s access network across the East-West crypto market including to connect some of the world’s top digital currency exchanges.   ...

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How A Mysterious Miner Could Decide Bitcoin’s Future

Oct 20, 2016

Bitcoin's "most professional mining pool" has become its most controversial. Following months of debate over how to scale bitcoin's transaction capacity, the conversation has become newly contentious as progress on much-hyped solutions continue to face the kinds of delays that perhaps should be...

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A Safe Hard Fork is the same as a Soft Fork:Ending the Soft/Hard Fork Debate

Oct 16, 2016

Original By: Jiang Zhuo’er This post was translated from the Chinese version originally posted on 8btc. The scaling debate has turned into a big ugly hairball in which the technical ideas, politics, and profit motives of all the players have become tightly entangled together, making it d...

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Dispelling some myths about Bitcoin, from a Bitcoin fan

Jul 16, 2016

Many people who don’t know much about Bitcoin, or who have a poor grasp on economics, have severe misconceptions about Bitcoin. I do not attempt to dispel those myths here because many others have already done so. Rather, I’d like to dispel a few myths that are pervasive in many people who a...

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What we learned from designing an academic certificates system on the blockchain

Jun 3, 2016

Over the past year, we have been working on a set of tools to issue, display, and verify digital credentials using the Bitcoin blockchain and the open badges specification. Today we are releasing version 1 of our code under the MIT open-source license to make it easier for others to start expe...

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How The Bitcoin Protocol Works

May 25, 2016

An increasing number of businesses and consumers are now considering bitcoin, a new type of currency that offers a potential global-encompassing digital payment method. With this growing acceptance, it's important to learn the essential components of this platform designed to change how we buy and...