Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin use enormous amounts of energy to secure their network. But why are cryptocurrencies so power-hungry and more importantly what are the alternatives? Much of the hardware used to perform the calculations uses highly specialized computers running Linux collaboratively in “farms” although there are many crypto “mining” apps which are Windows based…
If you write apps, whether it be native Windows development, or perhaps targeting a broader market encompassing mobile devices, cryptocurrency is an area of incandescent growth and potential opportunity. Like the white-hot-topic of AI, cryptocurrency is a new frontier, and…
We have discussed Blockchain technology in our “Everything You Need To Know About Blockchain” article. In that article we have learned about:
ImmutabilityDistributionHow trust issues can be resolved with BlockchainBlockchain in the financial industryHigh…
Blockchain is a term utilized to represent distributed ledger technology. Blockchain is used to build a storage system for data in a distributed and immutable mode. So there are key features we need to mention.
Immutability– this means that once data is written to a blockchain data storage or ledger, it cannot be changed – so it’s there forever. For instance, in a…
