Ethereum Classic Climbs 124% in 2 Weeks, Hashrate Spikes, KRW Captures 20% of ETC’s Trade Volume
Roughly six years ago in July 2016, an Ethereum hard fork was used to address the infamous DAO hack. This specific fork saw the chain split into two factions, and a new crypto asset called ethereum classic was introduced to the crypto community. For years now both chains have co-existed using the same proof-of-work (PoW) consensus algorithm, and with The Merge coming up, speculators assume Ethash PoW miners will transition to ethereum...
Ripple CEO Discusses Potential Outcomes of SEC Lawsuit Over XRP
Ripple’s chief executive has shared his views on possible outcomes of the lawsuit brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over the sale of xrp, which the regulator claims to be an unregistered securities offering. Ripple’s CEO Discusses Implications of SEC Winning the Lawsuit Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse discussed the lawsuit brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over XRP earlier this month...
Pirates Liberate Games From Battle.net To Send Message To Activision Blizzard
When videogames first began hitting the market more than 40 years ago, budgets were low, expectations were low, and customers were easily pleased. Today’s market has taken all of that and turned it on its head. Fueled by the type of budgets available to filmmakers and faced with massive competition, the videogame business abandoned its bedroom-coding roots long ago. In many respects, that’s clearly a good thing but in others, not so...
GeoComply Expands VPN ‘Piracy’ Detection By Blocking Residential IP-Addresses
VPN services are a useful tool to protect internet users’ online privacy. In addition, they can also help to bypass geographical restrictions. The latter can be helpful if people want to access the content library of a streaming service in another country. While this often goes against the terms of service, some VPNs openly advertise this feature. Blocking Geo-Pirates This ‘geo piracy’ issue isn’t new. Netflix famously started...
Use this nifty Unix tool to process text on Linux
Use this nifty Unix tool to process text on Linux Jim Hall Thu, 07/28/2022 – 03:00 1 reader likes this 1 reader likes this Unix has always excelled at processing text, and Linux is no different. And the tools to work with and transform text files still exist on all Linux systems. Like other computer systems, early Unix printed on paper, using a typewriter-style printing device. These printers provided limited formatting options,...
