Bitcoin’s Cosmic Threat: Beware the Magnetic Field
The Earth is exposed to magnetic field disruptions or changes. Solar winds carry a magnetic field with it which sometimes break through the Earth’s magnetic field, causing disruptions on our planet. Another phenomenon affecting magnetism is the flipping of north and south poles. Alarmingly, the rate of Earth’s magnetic field flipping is now increasing.....
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The CEO of the Electronic Transactions Association (ETA), which can boast giants such as MasterCard, Paypal and Amazon among its members, believes that, while the technology has yet to fully mature, bitcoin could one day offer advantages for the payments industry. Jason Oxman told the Wall Street Journal that the industry is undergoing profound change, with the arrival of new mobile payment systems and services that are backed by numerous technological advances in the field. Oxman indicated that he is enthusiastic about the rise of mobile transactions, biometric authentication and other....
PRESS RELEASE. Hoo Smart Chain will open registration globally for the Cosmic Origin Project a grant and rewards program for decentralized application developers. The Cosmic Origin Project will provide incentives in forms such as, TVL Basic Rewards, Cross-chain Capital Hub Rewards, Game-fi/NFT Volume Bonus, and HOO Staking Bonuses in accordance to various project metrics. Providing sustainable support for developers. Hoo Smart Chain aims to build a visual blockchain and become a metaverse platform, and to embrace the potential of blockchains.
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Channel jamming has emerged as a potential attack vector for Bitcoin’s Lightning Network. But does it pose a real threat?
The way that you pay with your credit card will start to change starting October of 2015. EuroPay, Mastercard, and VISA (EMV) are pushing a new standard in the United States, one that has already been adopted outside of the states for some time. Swipe-and-sign transactions, which rely on a magnetic strip, will be replaced by a microchip. The microchip is superior to the magnetic strip because the magnetic stripe contains unchanging information that can be used to execute additional transactions; in contrast, if the microchip's transaction information were "swiped," the data is not viable....