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Researchers at Stanford have discovered a revolutionary new way to mine bitcoin: ‘It is essential to empower real people’

A team of researchers from Stanford University has found a unique way to mine bitcoin that could have a massive impact on the perceptions of the cryptocurrency.

According to its website, Pi Network was designed in part to make the process of mining bitcoin significantly less energy-intensive.

Cryptocurrency mining is a controversial practice in part because it remains largely unregulated. It uses massive amounts of power that frequently comes from dirty energy sources such as gas and coal as well as massive amounts of water to help keep its server banks cool and functional.

Scientists Warn Against Creation of Mirror Life That May Cause an Extinction

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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about the potential dangers of mirror life.
Links:

https://theconversation.com/mirror-life-forms-may-sound-like…ent-246013
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-024-01627-z.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-023-01411-x.
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https://youtu.be/0MRGJNKACYs.
https://youtu.be/L1wkR-92Rys.
#chirality #biology #mirrorlife.

0:00 Mirror life?
0:40 Chirality and handedness of molecules and why it’s important.
2:40 Recent advances in biochemistry.
3:45 New technical report warns science.
4:50 All life is handed.
6:00 What this could do in theory.
7:45 Conclusions and additional propositions.

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Hacker breaks into crypto wallet and recovers $2,000,000 in ‘high-stakes’ hack

One hacker has managed to recover over $2,000,000 for a man who forgot the password to his crypto wallet by breaking into the physical device in a ‘high-stakes’ hacking attempt.

Even in its infancy cryptocurrency was worth a lot of money, and it’s surprisingly easy to lose it all with one simple mistake.

Horror stories of people accidentally throwing away hard drives with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Bitcoin are more than enough to scare anyone away, and this particular video shows how close of a call it can be to recover otherwise simple information.

Strange RNA Based Structures Point at The Origins of Life (Biomolecular Condensates)

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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a major discovery in regards to the origins of life on Earth and the idea known as RNA World Hypothesis.
Links:
https://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/fulltext/S1097-2765(24)00738-X
https://www.nature.com/articles/nrm.2017.7
https://theconversation.com/cells-have-more-mini-organs-than…als-239558
https://www.cell.com/biophysj/fulltext/S0006-3495(20)307…all%3Dtrue.
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https://youtu.be/DOUTF2cH4Ao.
https://youtu.be/UMJYVYX1VPg.

0:00 Intro to origins of life 1:00 Difference between eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells 2:15 Organelles without membranes that make no sense 3:00 Disordered proteins that form strange structures 5:00 Examples of biomolecular condensates 6:40 Recent discoveries and what it led to 8:20 Bacteria have them too! 9:10 RNA World Hypothesis connection 9:50 Recent discovery provides important evidence 11:10 Conclusions and what this means.

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Texas seeks to regulate cryptocurrency mining on ERCOT grid

The Public Utilities Commission of Texas (PUCT) on Thursday adopted a rule requiring virtual currency mining facilities in the region maintained by the Energy Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) to register with the commission. In these registrations, the PUCT seeks each facility to share its location, ownership information and demand for electricity.

Cryptocurrency mining, in which computers crack codes in order to verify crypto transactions, has been on the rise in Texas for the past few years, specifically after China banned the practice in May 2021. The state itself was luring miners to set up shop here, offering relative regulatory freedom at first. But in the last year, Texans have been speaking out against the mines, which operate scores of their large computers at all hours of the day. The computer usage, coupled with the fans required to cool down the hard-working machines, can use up a lot of power and make the kind of noise that residents say make them sick.

Scammers exploit tiny typos to trick people into sending money to their crypto wallets

A team of cybersecurity researchers at Stony Brook University has uncovered a new way for scammers to steal from unsuspecting cryptocurrency users. They have posted a paper to the arXiv preprint server describing the new crypto scam and how users can protect themselves.

Cryptocurrency is a type of digital currency run on a secure online platform. One example is Coinbase. Crypto currency is stored in a crypto wallet. In this new study, the team in New York reports that scammers have found a way to get people to redirect crypto payments away from intended recipients and toward wallets held by the scammers.

The researchers call the scam typosquatting. It involves setting up Blockchain Naming Systems (BNS) that are similar to those used by well-known entities. It exploits the use of simple word-based addresses rather than the complicated and hard-to-remember letter and digit codes commonly associated with crypto wallets.

Trump’s AI Plans Could Change Everything: Inside The Next AI Revolution

🚀 Q: How might Trump’s administration impact AI development in the US? A: Trump aims to make America “first in AI” by dismantling Biden’s policy framework and reducing government regulation, potentially leading to skyrocketing growth in AI, cryptocurrencies, blockchain, Web3, and augmented reality.

🔓 Q: What’s J.D. Vance’s stance on AI development? A: Trump’s potential VP J.D. Vance supports open source AI and decentralized power, aiming to prevent large tech companies from steering regulation and allowing smaller innovators to compete.

Dude, Where’s My Quantum Computer? Is the Field Stuck in Limbo?

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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about recent discoveries about quantum computers.
Links:
https://journals.aps.org/prapplied/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.22.034003
http://cjc.ict.ac.cn/online/onlinepaper/wc-202458160402.pdf.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.03236
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn8907
https://qiskit.github.io/qiskit-aer/stubs/qiskit_aer.QasmSimulator.html.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.00936
Previous videos:
https://youtu.be/Jl7RLrA69pg.

https://youtu.be/dPqNZ4aya8s.
#quantum #quantumcomputing #quantumcomputer.

0:00 Quantum Doom.
2:15 Recent quantum claims by Google and IBM
3:30 Why it’s so hard and what issues have to be solved.
4:50 No real world application?
6:30 Potential use: quantum internet.
8:00 Optical quantum computer that does something different.
9:50 Cracking encryption.
11:15 Conclusions and what’s next?

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