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In a surprising move, the network’s share of Bitcoin Unlimited jumped by more than 10% in the past 24 hours, rising from around 20% to more than 30%, the highest any alternative client has ever achieved. PayPal is giving out $500 worth of Bitcoi n Bitcoin Unlimited Gains More than 30% of the Network’s Share –  image from nodcounter The significant increase coincides with the sudden arrival of 100 Bitcoin Unlimited nodes earlier this week. Although there were suggestions these nodes are fake, it now appears more likely that someone, probably a miner, has switched to Bitcoin Unlimited. Current Bitcoin Unlimited Node Count –  image from nodecounter A new pool has indeed joined with a small amount of hashrate, the Canoe pool. They appear to have left BW.com, which has seemingly lost hashrate, but we cannot currently confirm. Another miner is meant to leave BW.com. Chandler Guo has  stated  he will take out his hashrate form BW.com to form his own ...

Softbank , the owner of Sprint, may soon approach T-Mobile US owner Deutsche Telekom for a merger proposal. One concession the Japanese conglomerate might cede is control of the combined company, sources to  Reuters  say. The meeting has not happened as FTC rules bar such communications between rivals as  the 600MHz spectrum auction is set to go on through April . Back in 2013, it was  Softbank that led a failed merger  attempt between the two service providers.  AT&T tried to buy T-Mobile in 2011 . Both transactions faced intense regulatory scrutiny. Enter the presidency of Donald Trump, one seemingly concerned less with antitrust laws, and a new age of business in the telecom industry.  AT&T  and  Verizon  have been picking up media properties while T-Mobile CEO John Legere has suggested that he would be open to  a power play of service companies . An overall stronger T-Mobile that has grown its user base by the mi...

As Donald Trump’s first three weeks in office come to a close, critics are pointing out that his iconic slogan, “Make America Great Again” is starting to look more and more like an attempt to bring American society back to the 1950s. What most people haven’t realized yet is that his vision of turning back the clock also applies to America’s nuclear arsenal. Just this past week, CQ Roll Call  reported  that a blue-ribbon Pentagon panel urged the Trump administration to make the U.S. arsenal more capable of fighting a “‘limited’ atomic war.” According to the report, “The Defense Science Board … urges the president to consider altering existing and planned U.S. armaments to achieve a greater number of lower-yield weapons that could provide a ‘tailored nuclear option for limited use.’” The strategy behind limited nuclear use sounds deceptively simple. You need to escalate a conflict just  enough  to end it. As the theory goes, using low-yield nuclear weapons aga...

Golem ’s initial coin offering  raised $8.6 million dollars  in just 29 minutes, making it the third largest  ICO  behind  Ethereum .  After last night’s 100% run, the momentum has carried its market cap to rank 11 th  on  CoinMarketCap  at a whopping $32 million. Golem now sits ahead of  Factom  and  Steem , poised to break the top 10, later this month. Experts expect the price to rise substantially as more exchanges gain access to Golem Golem Super Computer Fundamentally Golem is a decentralized supercomputer, with ability to connect through the cloud computers to computers around the world. Through Golem, users will be able to buy and sell processing power on the open market for purposes such as scientific research, graphics rendering, data analysis, cryptocurrency mining among other things. Decentralized Computing Market “If you have a powerful gaming computer that you aren’t using all day, or a PC that you leave at th...

A study came out this week that revealed  that only one in ten people still use a new app after one week. That number drops to about four or five out of 100 using it after 30 days. Retention rates are higher in some areas, like North America. They’re also higher on iOS than on Android in general. Android’s new Instant Apps feature could dramatically change these numbers when people try out apps without actually installing them. Word around the digital grapevine indicates that Supercell  isn’t developing a game this year. The mega popular developer released Clash Royale in 2016. 86% of the company was also purchased by Tencent for $8.6 billion. In short, it was a busy year. The team plans to double down and improve their current selection of games for now. However, a new game is scheduled for release in early 2018. Early this week, Prince’s music became available on streaming sites . Prince had previously removed his music from streaming sites in 2015 and only gave th...

If you’ve ever wondered what devices your fellow Android Authority buddies are using, or if all those polls about buying new flagship phones and updating to Nougat are accurate, then have I got the data just for you. We’ve had a little dig through the anonymous usage statistics that Google Analytics collects for the site, and it reveals some rather interesting trends. Broadly speaking, there’s a love for Marshmallow, Google, Samsung, and OnePlus out there, and our dear readership is right on the cutting edge of mobile tech. I wouldn’t have expected anything less. First up, what sort of devices are you lot using the most to browse the site? It’s not really a surprise to see that the vast majority of your viewing is done with a smartphone, which clocks in with a 62.2 percent share. A notable 32.2 percent chunk are still using either PCs or laptops to scope out the latest news and reviews, which leaves tablets on a somewhat surprisingly small...

Executive Brief The US regulation of digital currencies is out of date, impractical, and damaging to a potentially lucrative economy. The lack of unity in state regulations has created an unworkable system that makes the operations of Fintech (Financial Technology) companies complicated and confusing. A unified and clear regulatory policy would clear these muddy waters and benefit the digital currency industry, and have a positive impact on the American economy as a whole. Read the full story below.  The US Once Led the Bitcoin Revolution Every country is feeling their way through this relatively new digital currency, but America was initially proactive in the digital currency industry. For example, the US Senate was the first to conduct hearings on Bitcoin in 2013. The IRS was the first to release information on taxes in relation to Bitcoin, and FINCEN (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network) was the first crime agency to make any reference to the digital curren...

After buying up digital currency transfer company PayCash, Daimler has signaled it may use digital currency to build up its presence in Africa. DAIMLER: ‘CLEAR SIGNAL OF FURTHER AFRICAN GROWTH’ The continent is providing huge demand for transport networks, yet businesses are continually faced with financing problems, the vehicle giant  told  industry magazine Autconomy this week. “We are already present in over 30 marketplaces in Africa and are still expanding both our product range and our service operations network,” said a spokesperson. “This is a clear signal that we expect further growth in Africa.” The scale of under access to financing means in developing economies is staggering. Two billion individuals and 200 million companies lack suitable support, Autconomy says, giving a clear advantage to digital currency-based alternatives, which businesses can use to cut out hungry middlemen. When Daimler  quietly purchased  Luxemburg-based digital cu...

Eric Lombrozo, a Bitcoin core developer, believes that bitcoin is about monetary independence and freedom, instead of offering a centralized settlement network which already serves because the backbone of today’s international economic environment. During the last two years, various bitcoin communities, analysts and specialists have debated on the characterization of bitcoin, especially whether bitcoin demonstrates the qualities of a settlement network or virtual gold. Since the preliminary deployment of the bitcoin network, Bitcoin core creators and different abilties in the open source improvement community of bitcoin have focused on strengthening security measures to remove the presence of a government in the bitcoin network and ensure the network itself will not be compromised in the future. The prioritization of safety rather than flexibility and capability as seen in opportunity failed blockchain initiatives allowed bitcoin to prosper and evolve into a decentralized...

We’ve all been there before. You’re either at the gym or out and about listening to your favorite music with your Bluetooth  headphones , and then suddenly the music stops. Crap. You forgot to charge your  headphones  or thought there was more juice left. One option is that you could pack a portable charger in your gym bag or plug them into your car charger. But that doesn’t help keep your expensive  headphones  protected. That’s where the  Mophie Power Capsule  comes into play. Design: Mophie  is well known for providing some of the best high-quality portable chargers for numerous devices, whether they are cases or the good ole’ charging blocks. The Power Capsule is a bit different as it provides a case for your  headphones , while making sure that you can charge your  headphones  or fitness trackers on the go. As a fan of high-quality products, I became more and more enamored with the Power Capsule as I used it. The matte fe...

Known as "Mr. Trash Wheel," this floating device sucks up plastic from polluted harbors. Baltimore’s harbor is cleaner than it has been in decades thanks to two anthropomorphic trash wheels pulling debris from its waters. Mr. Trash Wheel and Professor Trash Wheel, the latter of which was installed in December, are solar- and hydro-powered trash interceptors based in Baltimore's Inner Harbor, clearing debris before it enters the Chesapeake Bay. Over a million pounds of trash has been pulled out of the water by Mr. Trash Wheel since it was installed in May 2014. The trash wheel’s creator, John Kellett, worked on the harbor for years and saw garbage floating on the water every day. A sailor and engineer, he approached the city and offered to take a stab at cleaning up the harbor. He built a pilot trash wheel and installed it in 2008. No one had ever tried to stop the trash before and the task seemed daunting. Kellett quickly realized he’d have to go bigger. The pilot wh...

The powerful and user-friendly CoinVert makes use of an isolated and highly secure system to give users everything they need 24/7 for instantly exchanging 20 major cryptocurrencies with more added each month. The platform prides itself on having a fee between 0.1% while providing better exchange rates than all major competitors like ShapeShift or Changelly. CoinVert.io was conceived in 2015 and launched in May 2016 as an instant cryptocurrency exchange platform. Currently Bitcoin, Litecoin, Monero, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, ZCash, BitCrystals, BitShares, Dash, DigixDao, Dogecoin, Factoids, Lisk, MaidSafeCoin, Namecoin, Nxt, Peercoin, Steem, Counterparty and Ripple can be exchanged instantly and securely. CoinVert keeps customer privacy in mind, no account or personal information is requested to complete an exchange. The digital exchange platform never stores client data. “We launched the service over a year ago with a very clear aim: to always have the lowest fee in the whole marke...

The  Galaxy S8  has been leaked in all its glory by now, new software being the exception, so the countdown until the announcement is in full swing. At this point, the devil is in the details, with interested buyers and diehard fans alike yearning for specific information and the time of the sales commencement in their region or part of the world. Twitter member  @mmdj_china , known for his  Galaxy C5 Pro photo leak , brings new information about the Chinese variants as well as US sales commencement of the next Galaxy. From Twitter, the leakster says that all Galaxy S8 Chinese variants, both the S8 and S8 Plus, will feature 6GB of RAM and have a minimum of 64GB (128GB maximum) onboard storage out of the box. Chinese buyers can expect to pick up either Galaxy S8 in the 15th week (which puts Chinese sales commencement in the third week of April). As for the US Galaxy S8 sales release, the States will see the handset go on April 14th (one day earlier than  the rum...

The  Mi Mix  smartphone felt like  an experimental phone  when it launched, because its party trick was something very few manufacturers have done. That is, it had an almost bezel-less front display that covered 91% of the whole front face of the phone. But  Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun  is feeling bullish enough about the concept phone to announce that a 2nd generation Mi Mix is being developed. Lei Jun announced via his Weibo page that  Xiaomi  will be collaborating with French designer Philippe Starck for the development of the  Mi Mix II , which will probably try to follow the bold design aesthetics seen in the original model. See the beauty of the Mi Mix below, if you don’t remember it. We doubt that you’d forget such a stunning piece of technology. To remind you, the Mi Mix sported an unorthodox 6.4-inch bezel-less display with FullHD (1080p) resolution and an unusual 9:17 aspect ratio. That was powered by a robust Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 p...

Arsene Wenger has been in charge at Arsenal since 1996, but last won the Premier League in 2004 Arsene Wenger says he will definitely be managing next season, whether at Arsenal "or somewhere else". Wenger, 67, was speaking at the end of one of the most turbulent weeks of his two-decade tenure as Gunners boss. After Wednesday's  5-1 Champions League defeat  by Bayern Munich, several ex-players said they believed  his time in charge was coming to an end. The Frenchman's contract expires at the end of this season and he said he would decide on a new deal in March or April. "No matter what happens I will manage for another season. Whether it's here or somewhere else, that is for sure," Wenger said on Friday. "If I said March or April it is because I didn't know. I do not want to come back on that. "I am used to the criticism. I think in life it's important to do what you think is right and all the rest is judgement. I am in a publ...