Computing

SONM, the world’s first decentralized, blockchain-based platform, uses a fog computing structure  to make huge amounts of processing power cheaper and easily accessible for general purpose computing.

1728 Individual Participants Contribute in “Democratized” Funding Model

Bitcoin mining is regulated by a difficulty factor which determines how hard it is to mine one block of bitcoin. Recently the difficulty factor was just above 520,000,000,000. Coinidol.com investigates the effects of this rise on the Bitcoin mining activities.

South Korea takes another step toward becoming the leading country to adopt Blockchain technology and cryptocurrency. Samsung launches a new blockchain-based cloud computing platform called Nexledger.

In 2016 a new illegal industry emerged in the bitcoin ecosystem. Ransomware, a malicious program with the ability to encrypt a file or lock the user out totally from a computing device. Hackers invented a way of blocking user access to very important servers and demanding a ransom of bitcoin in exchange for an unlocking key.

iEx.ec presented a working demo of the world’s first distributed cloud computing network at the European Ethereum Conference EDCON this week. The French startup, founded by Gilles Fedak Ph.D and Haiwu He, Ph.D, certified experts in distributed computing, aims to be first to market with a new technology that uses blockchain smart contracts to redesign cloud computing.

Golem, the first decentralized global market for computing power, developed in Poland, has announced that its Golem Network Token (GNT) crowdsale will begin on November 11, 2016.