Bitcoin And Nuclear: The World’s Most Feared Technologies Can Actually Save It
Humanity must produce an excess amount of energy in order for forward progress — but with increasing demand, how can we achieve this?Much has been written about how intermittent renewables like wind and solar negatively affect grid stability and often need government subsidies to produce positive financial returns on investment (ROI). Less well understood, but even more important, is the fact these intermittent renewables reduce our global net energy surplus when compared to the coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear energy sources they replace. In other words, our current technologies....
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Ukraine’s government-owned nuclear power plant picked a firm to build a massive data center in Rivne for cryptocurrency mining operations. After a bidding process, Energoatom chose Kyiv Energy Construction Company to handle the nuclear plant crypto mining project. Nuclear Power Plant Operator Expects to Launch the Data Center in 2022 According to official documents, the data center will be based in the Rivne nuclear power plant, after the construction firm got 8.92 million Hryvnia ($317,620) in funding. The only competitor in the bidding was Ukrenergobudproek. However, they allegedly....
"The fact that we have nuclear power means that it's very inexpensive power," Suarez said.
The topic of crypto-ransomware is still fresh in the minds of consumers and enterprises all over the world. Security experts have revealed the inner workings of the Nuclear exploit kit, which keeps making waves despite attempts to shut down its original servers. It appears the creators of this kit prefer to use DigitalOcean to spread their malware to unsuspecting users. What Makes The Nuclear Exploit Kit Tick? As most people are well aware of, most types of crypto-ransomware are spread to computers through so-called exploit kits. Although Angler is the most common EK in that regard,....
Can blockchain technology de-escalate nuclear tensions? Researchers at the Centre for Science and Security Studies at King’s College London have turned to analyzing "non-political" solutions for the problem of nuclear disarmament.The researchers' new report notes that the multilateral nuclear order consolidated around the United Nations' Non-Proliferation-Treaty, or NPT, has been consistently beset by problems of international cooperation, reinforced by the asymmetry between the nuclear and non-nuclear weapon states.The latter, referred to as NNWS, are signatories to the treaty, but....