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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Bitcoin has overtaken on energy costs Tajikistan
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on: October 06, 2017, 08:06:02 PM
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The aggregate energy spent on the production of crypto-currency bitcoin exceeded the energy costs of quite large countries. For energy costs, bitcoin has already outstripped, for example, Tajikistan.
How much electricity does bitcoin consume?
DigiEconomist charts show that to date, the total energy consumption for the extraction of only one of the crypto-currencies - bitcoin - is 14.6 terawatts-hours. By the way, Ethereum consumes three times less - only about 5 TW. Well, Tajikistan consumes slightly less than bitcoin - 13 TW.
And what about other countries?
Well, if you continue the list of comparisons, then, for example, compared with the energy costs of Belarus, this is only half the amount. Or only 10 times less than electricity consumption in Ukraine. Well, 70 times less than the energy consumption of the whole of Russia.
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Georgian company promises to make payments by crypto currency easier
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on: October 06, 2017, 03:55:25 PM
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Crypto currency today is fashionable and promising. Just come to a regular store and buy something for it can be a challenge. Although, recently, several projects appeared at once, which set as their goal the maximum simplification of this procedure. Among already well-known projects, you can name such as Monaco, Tenx and Token card. The main idea is to give the user the opportunity to exchange crypto-currencies for ordinary money, which are then debited from bank cards when paying for purchases. But all these solutions have the same drawback - you need to expect the delivery of cards from a few days to a month. It seems that the closest thing to the solution of this problem was managed to pick up the Georgian company VISO, which was not limited only to cards, but created an entire payment ecosystem. It includes bank cards, purses, own exchange and SMART terminals for outlets. As a "bridge" between the crypto currency and conventional money, its own VITO crypto currency is used. The company offers regular plastic cards, virtual cards and HCE cards for making contactless payments. That is, the buyer can receive a card in a few minutes after opening a purse. According to the developers, none of the existing projects has such a service.
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Singapore announced three prototypes of payments on the blockroom
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on: October 06, 2017, 03:50:54 PM
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The Central Bank of Singapore has revealed new details about its research on the use of detachment in the field of finance. The Central Bank and the Singapore Financial Regulator (MAS), in conjunction with the Singapore Banking Association (ABS) trading group, today introduced a new set of prototypes based on distributed registry technology, which is the second stage of "Project Ubin", launched last year to study the issue of creating a tokenized version of the Singaporean dollar.
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / how do you buy bitcoin?
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on: October 05, 2017, 05:40:34 PM
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There are many ways to buy bitcoins, and some of them are available in almost every country in the world. At your service are gift cards, bitcoin-ATMs, local traders, brokers and stock exchanges.
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Conference of blockades in Croatia
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on: October 05, 2017, 05:20:53 PM
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Conference blockade in Croatia. October 14 in Rovinj, Croatia, will be the 1st Blockbuster Conference in South-Eastern Europe, as reported by the official website of the organizer. Among the speakers are Tadei Slapnik, Secretary of State of the Prime Minister of Slovenia; Anton Golub, co-founder of Lykke; Danny Goh, co-founder of Innovatube and Nexus FrontierTech; Terence Tse, Professor of Business School COTRUGLI and University of Cambridge; Ivan Bielayak, from GoDaddy Belgrade; Manuel Alonso Coto, a professor at the COTRUGLI business school and an employee of the education department at IE Business School; and other representatives, enthusiasts and entrepreneurs. The main topics will be smart contracts, securities, accounts, digital currencies in the field of blockbuster.
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Crypto help for victims of the hurricane
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on: October 05, 2017, 05:17:10 PM
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Crypto currency to help the victims. The charitable organization, based in Antigua, asks to help the victims of the hurricane Irma with crypto currency, news.bitcoin reports. Antigua suffered from the hurricane Irma, which destroyed almost 90% of the buildings on the islands. Calvin Iire, who founded his charitable foundation, said that they accept donations in the crypto currency. He also told the crypto community that no matter what the corner of the planet, there would be a donation, you need to send a copy of the receipt, and the Calvin Airy Foundation will add the same amount to the money that they have already collected. In recent days, crypto currency plays a vital role in such cases.
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Legalization bitcoin
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on: October 05, 2017, 04:56:28 PM
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when will legalization bitcoin? why this does not happen? are there any countries that have legalized bitcoin? or already somehow now it is possible to legalize the income received from Bitcoin?
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Are there prospects for the development of bitcoin in Venezuela?
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on: October 05, 2017, 04:53:57 PM
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In the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the popularity of crypto-currency is rapidly gaining momentum, in particular - bitcoin. What facts have influenced the attitude of Venezuelans to digital market products? The main source of replenishment of the state budget in Venezuela are petrodollars. A long period of time, the cost of oil is reduced. Accordingly, the rate of the bolivar, the national currency, is falling. According to the IMF data for 2016, inflation in the country was 500%. In 2017, the depreciation of the bolivar continues. Not only did the low material level become even lower, so also political instability was added. Most often, when the amount of scarce savings is negligible, they try to invest in the same American greens. So it is impossible on the territory of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, because the current legislation prohibits the import of American dollars. Regional bitcoin news tells how Venezuelans actively visit local crypto-exchange platforms, register and convert their assets into a leading type of digital money. A group of Venezuelan activists developed a violent activity. They regularly hold thematic conferences, where they talk in detail about the digital market and the prospects of bitcoin. The goal of enthusiasts is the maximum promotion of information on crypto-currencies in the public at large.
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Tokens (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] æternity blockchain ∞ GET AE TOKEN ∞ [PoS x PoW | Smart Contracts]
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on: September 02, 2017, 02:44:07 AM
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Everyone, I am happy to announce that we have successfully deployed the AE distribution smart contract on the Ethereum testnet (Kovan). It includes 99% of all AE to be created before mainnet launch. Please follow this link to check your AE balance. BTC contributors -> we are preparing a tool ("key translation tool") that will let you convert your BTC wallet to an ETH wallet and is pretty simple to use. We are currently deploying it at GitHub and share it with you soon. There are a few other tools for advanced users (like "csv-generator tool") that we will make available in the next few hours. Our main goal is to be 100% sure that the contract is functioning correctly and everyone is getting exactly what they are owned. If you experience any issues, please send a mail to info@aeternity.com so that it is certain that your problem comes to our attention. Include as much details as possible. I will keep you updated, as always. Regards, Vlad Very Exciting!
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] VOXELS (VOX) | The Official Coin of Virtual Reality and Voxelus Platform
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on: March 31, 2017, 08:05:20 PM
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Hello everyone, I encourage everyone to ask any serious questions and they will indeed be answered just as always. I think the Voxelus group and Martin have been very clear on what's been developing and the time it takes. I highly recommend reading Martin's blog posts. They are very informative and come direct from Martin so they provide you the best information possible with the happenings of Voxelus and Voxels. As you can see Martin is not a bitcointalk thread user so I'm happy to relay the information as it's passed down and I can relay legit questions to him as well.
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