BTC Hashpower Swells: Bitcoin Network Touches 185 Exahash, Hashrate Climbs 18,400% Since 2016
During the last week, the Bitcoin network’s hashrate has jumped to a record high of 185 exahash per second on March 14, 2021. The hashpower has relentlessly continued to rise, climbing a whopping 18,400% in five years since January 21, 2016. Bitcoin Price Jumps Over 1,500% in a Year, Hashrate Climbs 18,400% in Five Years The price of bitcoin (BTC) touched an all-time high (ATH) reaching $61,782 per BTC on March 13, 2021. It happened...
Rare Crypto Faucet and DeFi Apps Launch on xDai Chain
PRESS RELEASE. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, March 19th 2021 – Affinity Design – Rarify Apps just launched a new deFi application only possible on layer 2 tech. After only a week since the claiming app debut, the price of Rare Coin soared well over 1000 USD on the Honeyswap DEX after the app garnered over 3 thousand daily active claimers. This was all possible due to xDai chain’s speed and low fees that let users claim a small fraction of...
‘Pirate’ IPTV Provider and Reseller Hit With $31m Copyright Lawsuit
US broadcaster DISH Network has built a reputation for going in hard against companies and individuals who offer unlicensed access to its channels. Over the years the company has gone after card-sharing (IKS) operations but more recently its focus has been on ‘pirate’ IPTV providers that offer DISH programming to the public at a cheap price. These cases rarely end well for the entities targeted by DISH, with courts happy to hand down...
Pex Asks Copyright Office for a DMCA Exemption to Find Pirated Content
Section 1201 of the DMCA prohibits the circumvention of copyright controls without permission. This restriction prevents the general public from bypassing DRM protection on many types of content. There are some important exemptions to this rule, with phone jailbreaking as a well-known example. These are reviewed every three years by the U.S. Copyright Office, which generally puts copyright holders on the defense. This year, however,...
Facebook’s ‘Red Team X’ Hunts Bugs Outside the Social Network
The internal hacking team has spent the last year looking for vulnerabilities in the products the company uses, which could in turn make the whole internet safer. Powered by WPeMatico
