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  Polygon Allots $100 Million For Expansion Of Blockchain ‘Supernets’

  bitcoinist.com - Jet Encila

  Polygon has unveiled a $100 million budget for a new blockchain network dedicated to Web3 development.The network, dubbed Supernets – …

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  Greenchains: Can blockchains save the environment?

  VentureBeat - Tim Wagner, Vendia

  Carbon emissions, as a key driver of environmental change, are coming increasingly under scrutiny by government regulators and in the court of investor opinion. Recent moves by the Biden administration to limit greenhouse gasses and by the SEC to force all public companies to disclose even low …

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  EOS Network Foundation battles on the frontlines of the blockchain revolution

  VentureBeat - Reuben Jackson

  After being on the sidelines for over four years, EOS Network, the third-generation “lightning-fast” blockchain network, is back. The network was quite literally resurrected by its own community — yet another testament that decentralization is indeed “power to the people.” The both famous and …

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  How Can Blockchain Change The Entertainment Industry

  Forbes - Josh Wilson

  Blockchain technology is lined up to have a lasting positive impact on numerous areas in and around the film and TV industry. In 2021, funding to blockchain startups gained a 713% rise YoY to reach $25.2 billion. So far blockchain has been utilised to great success as an effective digital ledger for …

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  It has long been a concern that quantum computers could one day undermine Bitcoin and other crypto mining networks, but how realistic is that threat?

  coindesk.com - Ollie Leech

  Quantum computers are special machines that can perform certain calculations significantly faster than everyday computers – known as “classical …

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  In order to ensure bitcoin blocks are discovered roughly every 10 minutes, an automatic system is in place that adjusts the difficulty depending on how many miners are competing to discover blocks at any given time.

  coindesk.com - Andrey Sergeenkov

  As the name implies, bitcoin mining difficulty refers to the degree of difficulty involved in discovering new bitcoin blocks through mining. Because …