

Saturday, March 10, 2018 View in Browser | Forward to a Friend Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, presented a new scaling solution for Plasma during a recent crypto community conference in Paris; Plasma is a system of smart contracts aimed at improving the ”computational potential of the world’s second-largest blockchain”; although the idea has not been tested, one of its use cases is protecting cryptocurrency exchanges from large-scale hacks; "The main benefit here is that basically the amount of data that clients need to process goes down by a lot," Buterin explained - Link ISPs caught deploying cryptocurrency mining hardware; Egyptian internet providers have been using Sandvine technology to inject browser based mining malware; the same technology has been used in Turkey and Syria to inject surveillance malware; researchers at Citizen Lab found that the Egyptian ISPs were using a scheme called AdHose to mine Monero; while many hackers spread mining malware, this is the first instance of a government doing it - Link Microsoft urges ”dialogue” regarding blockchain security issues; Microsoft has published a white paper aimed at providing policy recommendations for blockchain security; the Redmond-based computer firm also encouraged cooperation between industry actors and regulators, to ”better understand the risks and align incentives to improve”; Microsoft says that this would prevent cyberattacks - Link Washington port considers $7M cryptocurrency mining lease; the Port of Walla Walla is reportedly mulling a land-use agreement with a company that wants to develop a blockchain facility; the lease would create 20 jobs and bring an estimate $7M - $10M in investments; the proposal includes an option to purchase 40 acres of land; this comes as crypto mining costs are increasing due to its massive energy demand - Link The House Financial Services Committee schedules hearing on crypto and ICOs; the hearing will take place on March 14th at 10AM and is to be live-streamed on the committee website; details are sparse but the hearing is titled ”Examining the Cryptocurrencies and ICO Markets”; this comes as ICOs have attracted widespread attention in the past 12 months - Link AI researchers adopt blockchain technology to share medical data; Dexter Hadley, physician and compute biologist, is building a blockchain-based system to allow people to share their medical records securely and easily; Hadley is intending to use it to detect breast cancer using an AI algorithm; Hadley’s team joins a growing number of start-ups that use blockchain to share medical scans, genetic data and hospital records more effectively - Link Wemerge project announces new blockchain incubator; the group announced its first ”MergeSpace” incubator during an event in Malaysia; the incubator will be based in Shenzhen, but future centers will be based in the US, India and Singapore; Wemerge is a blockchain project that aims to bring together blockchain experts, angel investors and top management with MNC experience; the group will have 1M beta testers within 2018 alone - Link Forward this to your friend Did we miss anything or do you have any suggestions? We know that many of our readers are smarter and more informed than we are – so please reply and let us know when we miss something! Copyright crypto tickerr © 2018. All rights reserved



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