Despite Hacking Fears, Election Day Has a Mostly Smooth Start

Russia’s meddling in the 2016 United States presidential campaign season and election sparked an unprecedented push to secure election infrastructure. The effort was imperfect, and states are still dogged by a lack of federal election funding, but a relatively smooth Election Day thus far indicates […]

Bitcoin mining has suddenly become far more lucrative – but maybe not for long Bitcoin

Since the introduction of ASIC devices back in 2012, mining bitcoin has become increasingly challenging but the cryptocurrency has now experienced its biggest mining difficulty decrease since June. As reported by Coindesk, Bitcoin’s mining difficultly dropped by 16 percent to 16.787tn this week marking the […]