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Bitcow
@bitcow Sep 27, 2017, 11:16 PM UTC

Will national central banks’ cryptocurrencies be the end of Bitcoin & friends?

By Bitcow “In the beginning God created the cryptography and P2P. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of Satoshi was hovering over the wa…

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Bitcow
@bitcow Aug 31, 2017, 12:32 PM UTC

Hashflare will NOT honour current sha-256 and script mining contract conditions

In a surprising move, Cloud mining company Hashflare, announced this today thay they will not honour current Bitcoin and Litecoin mining contract conditions. Current sha-256 (Bitcoin) and Script (Lit…

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Bitcow
@bitcow Aug 30, 2017, 10:47 PM UTC

Colombian Central Bank begins testing distributed ledger technology

Colombia's "Banco de la Republica", the country's central bank has agreed to start testing R3's distributed ledger software Corda. "It is in our interest to evaluate the benefits of this technology f…

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Bitcow
@bitcow Aug 27, 2017, 3:27 PM UTC

The era of blind faith in algorithms must end..

TED published this amazing talk by Cathy O'Neil questioning the political, economic and social effect of algorithm based decisions. You must see it here "weapons of math destruction"

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Bitcow
@bitcow Aug 23, 2017, 9:27 PM UTC

Trezor Segwit Giveaway

TREZOR #SegWitParty Giveaway

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Bitcow
@bitcow Aug 22, 2017, 3:00 PM UTC

Bitcoin Cash is now the longest chain

Currently ahead by 5 blocks, bitcoin cash is currently longer than the origina Bitcoin chain. what do you think are the implications of this?

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Bitcow
@bitcow Aug 18, 2017, 1:41 PM UTC

SURBTC llegó a Peru

Esta semana SURBTC, una startup chileno que sirve como puerta de entrada o salida al mundo de las cryptomonedas conectando tu cuenta bancaria tradicional con la posibilidad de comprar o vender Bitcoi…

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Bitcow
@bitcow Aug 15, 2017, 2:32 PM UTC

Bitcoin's blockchain now available via satellite in 2/3 of the planet

Blockstream announced today they are developing a satellite broadcast system for Bitcoin's blockchain to be available in every corner of the world via sattelite. No internet connection needed. You ca…

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Bitcow
@bitcow Aug 3, 2017, 4:49 PM UTC

Free Standford course material: Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies

Stanford University has made available the course material for free at https://crypto.stanford.edu/cs251/

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Bitcow
@bitcow Aug 2, 2017, 11:17 PM UTC

2017 Global Cryptocurrency Benchmarking Study

Earlier this year the University of Cambridge' Centre for Alternative Finance with the support of Visa published the Global Cryptocurrency Benchmarking Study. In 114 pages Dr Garrick Hileman & Mi…

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