I have not been posting crypto updates here for a while. However, I have been following up the situation closely, and I have tons of saved links. What has happened recently? Amount of crypto currency users has also reached 300 million, and Bitcoin owners around 100 million. Bitcoin network transferred wealth over 3 trillion dollars
so I have nextcloud running on top of ubuntu 18.04.5 and it notified me that I have old php7.2 that should be soon upgraded. I went to update it, but the newer version was not available on the default repositories, so I needed to find it from somewhere else. That was easy (Thanks Ondřej!) and
Crypto currency update I will follow in this post the same structure that I used last year when I looked at what had happened in the bitcoin and crypto currency world. Let’s then go ahead and make a summary about last year – the year 2019. Price was going up The price of the bitcoin
Decentralized and anonymous crypto currency is the future Usage of cash is declining all around the world as electronic payments are becoming more convenient and cheaper. In the western developed world, the credit card has already been dominating for a long time. However, the less developed world is now jumping ahead to mobile payments and
I have been running Nextcloud (15.07) installation on Ubuntu 16.04 server, but today I decided to update the OS to 18.04. After ‘do-release-upgrade’ (where I accepted all maintainer config files) the Nextcloud server was showing screen with the following text: * @author Joas Schilling * @author Jörn Friedrich Dreyer * @author Lukas Reschke * @author
Bitcoin is not good for terrorists or criminals Bitcoin is, in the public perception, a traditional form of finance that eludes governments and law enforcement all over the world. Media outlets tend to call the digital currency “impossible to trace”, even though all transactions are publicly listed on the blockchain in real-time. Cybercrime is a
Masternode scams I was writing my previous blog post about mining through a stake when I noticed some coins that were promising huge returns with masternodes. Hundreds of percents or even over one thousand percent. See a few tier 2 nodes in the screenshot below from ginplatform.io. These nodes were completely missing from the Stakingrewards
How to get interest on crypto currencies? Earlier on this blog, I covered cryptocurrency mining using your own machine and in cloud services. Now, let’s have a look at mining through just owning Cryptos. Mining through ownership is not possible for all crypto coins. In general, it is possible for crypto coins that are based
Crypto currency update This post is mainly a look back for the year 2018, but I will start it from the end of 2017 as there was a remarkable point. Price was going down The price of the crypto currencies rose like a rocket in year 2017, reaching the peak in December. At that moment
DNS query encryption for OpenWRT Once we are in the DNS topic I couldn’t notice that also those queries can be encrypted today. DNS over Http (DoH) standard was accepted just a few days ago. DNS over TSL (DoT) bit earlier. Both standards will encrypt DNS queries so that their content cannot be seen outside,