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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Bitcoin Mining"”.
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Bitcoin Mining under the South African income Tax Act: a case for a common treatment
… regime. The progenitor of modern crypto assets, Bitcoin, is dissimilar to other listed financial instruments per the definition insofar as it is more properly construed on the facts as a real right, rather than a complex of personal rights, involving an issuer and a holder. Moreover in the …
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An analysis of the bitcoin blockchain cryptography
Bitcoin is a virtual currency that was first introduced in 2009. The Bitcoin mining process relies on the hashing function SHA-256. There are strong indications that the Bitcoin mining process was exploited in 2010, only a year after its initial release [9]. This raises significant questions over …
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Topics in Power Usage in Network Services
… energy efficiency of the popular cryptocurrency Bitcoin. We begin by examining the current corpus of literature and defining the key terms we need to proceed. Then we propose a technique for improving the energy consumption of servers by moving them into a sleep state and employing a low powered …
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Natural resource management following institutional shifts: case studies from agriculture and bitcoin
… wells. In Chapter III, the private adoption of bitcoin is found to influence the seemingly unrelated oil industry. Bitcoin mining creates a market for flared natural gas, which alters the regional distribution of returns to drilling. A model of bitcoin miners is developed, which is supported by …
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LACE: An Interactive Cluster of Tablet Computers and Kinetic Sculpture to Educate General Audiences on Distributed Blockchain Technologies
… the work of blockchain creation and the mining process. Finally, we evaluate the LACE project's effectiveness to teach audiences through a detailed questionnaire at the 2022 Accelerate Festival in Washington, DC. We found that 73% of visitors agreed they were able to learn something new …