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WPA2 which is perhaps the main security method used to protect WiFi has been shown to be vulnerable to a newly discovered attack called "Key Reinstallation". This attack exploits nonce reuse

Utility: The state of being useful, profitable, or beneficial. Currently, the "marketcap" for all cryptocurrency projects is over $130 billion. I'm using air-quotes there because we don't really

DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE: DO ME A FAVOUR INTRODUCTION If many sources are to be believed, the story of money's origins is pretty clear-cut. It evolved out of necessity, with pre-money societies relying on

On March 29th I made the conclusion that the 2.5 years long downtrend of BTS had ended. Look at where the pointer is. Amazing, isn't it. I'm pretty proud :-) As a proof here's my article about it. It looks

It's my pleasure to now let everyone know that we are working on a BitShares Blockchain Foundation. The official web page can be found on bitshares.foundation The foundation starts with 3 major

around 1 hour ago BitShares network halted due to unknown reasons. Witnesses and Developers are debugging at the moment and working on a fix What does that mean for you Do NOT Withdraw to your wallet at

The Year 2017 has seen Blockchain technology threaten to overcome major industries including finance, communication and social media. Social media alone has seen the several high profile decentralization

It's not that LBRY is decentralised and distributed. Not that there's incentivised participation. Also not that content creators get almost all of the revenue, or that it's all-in-one. Not even that it's

Teaser Understanding why people will buy STEEM is a mind bending exercise in economic and social theory. All value is perceived value, and people will buy anything they perceive will have more value in

I want a coffee and I want to pay in crypto-currency! One of the earliest use cases cited for crypto-currencies was their ability to replace mainstream payment networks like Visa and Mastercard. Illustrating

Dear readers, after a "short" introduction round in my first post I want to seize the moment and familiarize you with my little darling, the so-called cryptocurrencies. But don't be deceived

I've been recently consulting on blockchain decided to have some skin in the game with a basket of my own cryptocurrencies. There is a lot of information around on short term trading (which is fabulous

It could reduce bandwagoning and equalize rewards over the whole spectrum of topics and communities. The reward pool for each tag should be in direct proportion to the total weights of votes per tag. Each

I think it is time for BitShares to learn from its younger sibling Steem and adopt some crucial security features: time-locked savings and recovery accounts. These are features that I have quickly come

Yesterday I showed you how to get free bytes with Bitocoin. Bytes is the native currency of Byteball. Today I’ll tell you about another crypto you can get for free with Bitcoin. The free crypto is lumens

We'll start with the most important part first, free crypto. The crypto in question is called Byteball. It’s distributing 98% of all its native currency, called bytes, to Bitcoin holders that prove their

If you join the ICO with $100, you can buy 100$ later on with just $16. If I understand correctly, you get tokens called OBITS.WARRANT according to the amount with which you participate in the GetGame

One of the hardest challenges a cryptocurrency community can face is prolonged price decline and constant selling pressure. Such a period is a self-enforcing and lethal cycle. Gamblers exit -> price

Intro For some time I was looking for a desktop/laptop app to write posts for Steemit. A month or so ago I tried a couple very quickly, but didn't get any of them to do what I wanted, ie make it super

Preamble: This article is meant for absolute beginners. If requested, I could also write a more detailed (and serious) post about the whole idea behind FLOSS another day. The term FLOSS stands for free/libre