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Another major hardware producer may venture into the GPU market very soon. Motherboard manufacturer Asrock is reportedly going to offer new products for cryptocurrency mining in April. Currently, the company enjoys strong demand from crypto miners for its motherboards. Mining equipment shipments boosted its sales in 2017. Also read: GPU Producers Fear Drop in Demand from Crypto Miners Asrock May Offer Miners an Alternative Hardware manufacturer Asrock is reportedly planning to enter the video cards market as soon as next month. The company may introduce its own graphics processing unit…

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Introducing a blockchain-based digital marketing solution that understands what customers want, what brands need & what smart cities are capable of. We have entered a new era in commerce that is driven by people, centered on value and enabled by blockchain. Pingvalue is a human-centric open platform that redefines how commerce and society converge through an innovative socio-economic model. Over the last few decades, mass marketing has turned shopping into an overwhelming chore and kept customers at an arm’s length from businesses. Thanks to blockchain and smart cities, Pingvalue’s new…

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The price of cryptocurrencies across all markets has been dropping in value quite a bit over the past 48 hours. BTC/USD markets started tumbling on March 5, after the price reached a high of $11,650 during the evening trading sessions. Following the peak, the value dropped to $10,600 on March 6 losing $1,000 in value. Further, the next day on March 7 after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) warned about unlawful trading platforms, BTC/USD values slid once again losing another 20 percent. Also Read: Japan’s SBI Holdings Claims 40%…

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The moment that the Neurocontrol community has been waiting for is finally here. Neurogress has made its source code publicly available, proving once and for all that their vision and technology are the real deal. Neurogress is a decentralized platform of neural control systems based on AI-driven software and user-driven algorithmic training, which allows for the control of electronics, software, and hardware to feel more natural than ever before. Neurogress’ mission is to build a smart environment based on neurocontrol, which will support a variety of different neurointerfaces and is…

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This week the popular wallet provider Bread (BRD – formally Bread Wallet) announced the release of its new update  — fully integrated bitcoin cash (BCH) support. Now Bread users can claim, send, receive, and store BCH alone or alongside BTC holdings. Also Read: Japan’s SBI Holdings Claims 40% Stake in Hardware Wallet Company Bread Wallet Enables Full Bitcoin Cash Support for iOS The firm Bread announced on March 7 that the wallet company has added full BCH support for its iOS mobile wallet platform. This past August when the BCH chain…

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Mainstream cryptocurrency adoption is one of the biggest problems which this sector faces today. Coinbase’s newly announced cryptocurrency index attempts to tackle this issue. Although the cryptocurrency market cap is near an all-time high, there has yet to be real moves toward widespread adoption. So far, many traditional investors have been quite adamant in not joining the cryptocurrency and blockchain space as an investor. This hesitation may be due to the risk and volatility of this asset class or the unreliability/safety which exchanges provide. Offering a Solution Coinbase is making…

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This month a law firm called Polsinelli LLP published a study called “Cryptocurrency Class Action Lawsuits: A New Frontier” which explains that initial coin offerings (ICO) will spark a large number of litigation proceedings against cryptocurrency projects and businesses. Also read: New Study Looks at the Cost to Mine BTC Across the Globe ‘ICOs May Be Fodder for Lawsuits’ A group of researchers from the law firm Polsinelli LLP published a paper that claims lawsuits surrounding ICO projects will likely grow exponentially in the future. Polsinelli researchers Michael Foster, Mark Olthoff, and…

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ORS has an ambitious vision for the future… to empower 1 billion new (small) entrepreneurs by 2014, enabling them to compete with big corporations thanks to Artificial Intelligence and blockchain technology. Headquartered in New York, ORS Group develops innovative solutions that optimize and automate complex business processes. Trusted by blue chip companies, global brands like Pirelli, Rothschild, and EY, and even government agencies like Italy’s Ministero della Difesa (Ministry of Defense), ORS has delivered customers over $10 billion in revenue growth and higher margins annually. Bitcoinist recently had the opportunity to sit…

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Besides helping language learners, students and everyone else find the exact definitions of words, dictionaries also sometimes serve as time capsules that reveal what new ideas become important part of human society at what times. With roots in the anarchist and cyberpunk sub-cultures, many bitcoin advocates may feel the scene doesn’t need anyone’s seal of approval but it’s still nice to get such recognition and validation. Also Read: How the Marshall Islands Sovereign Cryptocurrency Came About Look It Up Merriam-Webster, the prestigious American dictionary founded in 1831 and today owned…

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Courts, financial regulators, legislators and governments around the world are struggling to fit bitcoin into their existing frameworks. Different legal definitions for the disruptive innovation that is cryptocurrencies can have profound ramifications for the instruments in each jurisdiction such as what agencies will regulate them, under what laws, and how users will be taxed, if at all. A new ruling by a US federal court now tilts the scales towards viewing them as commodities, but that is not likely to be the final word as American lawmakers have yet to…

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