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China Power Outage: 40% Bitcoin Hash Rate Reduction There was a power outage at a province in China, causing a 40% reduction in the Bitcoin hash rate because the miners were taken offline. This is a warning sign reminding us that too much of the network is dependent off of China, and shows us...

Winding Tree Whitepaper A Practical Application of Blockchain for the Travel Industry Using blockchain technology to enable a fair and competitive travel distribution market Winding Tree is a decentralized travel distribution network. It is built on top of Ethereum platform and owned by the...

Yes, cryptocurrencies are decentralized, but exchanges are not! In a stock market, securities are held by a custodian bank and your cash is stored in your bank account, but cryptocurrency exchanges acts like the custodian of funds. This puts cryptocurrency exchange users at a very high level of...

Decentralized storage means there are no central computer to take offline, which addresses the problems typically seen with centralized servers. Let's compare Sia and Storj, two popular cryptocurrency projects focused on decentralized storage solutions. Sia - Simple Decentralized Storage Sia...

Storj A Peer-to-Peer Cloud Storage Network Shawn Wilkinson Tome Boshevski Josh Brandoff James Prestwich Gordon Hall Patrick Gerbes Philip Hutchins Chris Pollard Abstract A peer-to-peer cloud storage network implementing client-side encryption would allow users to transfer and share data...

Mysterium Network Project Ethereum-Based Decentralized VPN There is a war on our privacy going on. As Internet users we are being restricted in ways we are allowed to use services and applications due to censorship employed by various agenda groups such as governments, media corporations...