IoT Startup: The Ethereum Computer is Going to Change Everything
The German startup Slock.it which specializes in Ethereum blockchain data and focuses on the Internet of Things (IoT) has announced over their blog they are creating a new device. Stephen Tual the Co-founder and COO of Slock.it told the world via their blog, “we’re building the Ethereum computer and it’s going to be awesome.” Much like the 21inc computer....
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Bitcoin startup 21 Inc. is releasing its first ever consumer product - a tiny, Linux-operated computer that is both a bitcoin miner and allows users to buy, sell and rent products for Bitcoin. 21 Inc. has developed a diminutive $400 computer that is equipped with a WiFi adapter, a 128 GB SD card that includes the factory-installed copy of the Bitcoin blockchain and a custom version of Linux, the 21 Bitcoin OS, preinstalled. It also features a custom energy-efficient mining chip built-in to the device and a micropayments server. 21 Inc. has already developed a mining chip for smartphones,....
21 Inc has announced that consumers can now use bitcoin to purchase the 21 Bitcoin Computer – its signature developer tool. Credit cards can also be used on the startup's new 'buy' page, and the firm says it has put in place the
21 Inc has announced it will begin accepting pre-orders for the 21 Bitcoin Computer, its first consumer product, on Monday. Retailing for $400, the 21 Bitcoin Computer will include a custom mining chip, a datacenter backend and a custom Linux-based operating system. The product, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal, is expected to ship in November. In statements, CEO Balaji Srinivasan laid out the broad vision for the product, which he hopes to one day be "available by default on every new computer". Srinivasan wrote in a blog post: "We want to make it possible for you to turn....
The bridge allows users to transact Ethereum native assets at faster speeds with lower cost and store them directly on-chain. On Wednesday, Psychedelic, a Web 3.0 development studio building solutions for the Internet Computer, launched Terabithia, a cross-chain contract communication and asset mirroring protocol. Beginning with the Internet Computer (ICP) and Ethereum (ETH), users will have the ability to mirror and use any ETH tokens, fungible and nonfungible, on the Internet Computer blockchain and vice versa, effectively turning ICP into a layer-two scaling solution for ETH.The....
Bitcoin is often likened to the Internet, and arguably for good reason. The currency is a new, permissionless technology, championed by a small group of computer experts that say it will change the world in ways we can't yet even imagine. That's just how people talked about the Internet in the early nineties. However, as with bitcoin, the hype has been accompanied by doom-mongering and naysaying. Here are seven smart and stupid things people said about the Internet that have relevance for how we think about bitcoin today. Let's start with the stupid, because, hey, they are more fun. 1)....