Blockchain & crypto news from India
In a post titled “This is what the future holds for cryptocurrencies”, the World Economic Forum has surveyed the dark past of crypto and indicated the course that can shape its future. The WEF is an international NGO and lobbying organization founded by engineer and economist Klaus Schwab in 1971, and based in Geneva, Switzerland….
Want to join the Web3 revolution? Set up your wallet, get some Bitcoin or Ether and welcome onboard. A little wallet tucked on the browser’s tool bar is bringing about the next great revolution in the world wide web, or loosely called, the internet. Not everyone is impressed though, and least of all, the founder…
The Head of Strategy at Google, Richard Widmann, has called Google Cloud the Layer Zero for Web3. He said this at the Mainnet 2022 crypto-summit in Newyork City which had in attendance crypto-leaders, developers, builders and investors. Widdman hinted that Google’s ideological leaning is related to Crypto’s core values of open-source development and decentralization. While…
In 2022, Kaspersky Solutions detected 40,788 new modifications of miners. According to Kaspersky Security Network data, in the African region, the number of home users affected by crypto miners in Q2 of 2022 decreased slightly compared to the previous quarter. However, the possibility of a surge in crypto mining attacks persists and could be directly…
In the new world of Ethereum 2.0, there are no more stacks of GPU rigs and meshes of wires burning costly coal and oil. Proof of work still is the engine behind bitcoin, but Ethereum, which also promises to be the global computer of the world, is now cleaner, quieter and smarter. What makes POS…
The Bellatrix Upgrade is reported to be scheduled for today, September 6, 2022. According to a Cointelegraph report, 74% of Ethereum nodes – servers that validate and find new blocks – are ready for the merge. “The era of a more sustainable, eco-friendly Ethereum” is how the Ethereum organization describes the upcoming great event when…
The relatively young high-performance blockchain network, TechPay Coin, wins the ‘world’s fastest blockchain’ award. TechPay Coin’s network achieved past remarkable throughput levels of 300,000+ TPS besides an absolute minimum of 500 milliseconds transaction Time-to-Finality. The group of TechPay Coin received the award at Crypto Expo Asia 2022 held in Singapore between June 22 and 23,…
Cryptocurrency has evolved in frontier markets such as Argentina, where an unsteady financial system and decisive government intervention in the country’s economy have pushed many Argentines toward decentralized cryptocurrency. The country’s national currency, the peso, is already highly volatile and subject to a raft of financial controls. As a result, the currency is increasingly demanding…
Heavy Investor Bill Miller says that cryptocurrencies other than BTC will not give him high returns as Bitcoin is going to give… Why?
The birth of the internet can be traced down to Berners-Lee, a computer scientist at European researcher CERN. He was able to lay down the foundation of the web with three fundamental technologies and the first web page editor/browser was introduced – (“WorldWideWeb.app”): HTML: HyperText Markup Language, the markup or formatting language of the Web;…