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Toshendra Kumar Sharma

How To Get Started With Bitcoin Mining?

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have received a lot of media attention over the course of the last year due to the astronomical rise in prices in the cryptocurrency markets. This has led a lot of young investors to invest in cryptocurrencies and look at other ways to acquire the various digital…

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Toshendra Kumar Sharma

Is Bitcoin a Hoax?

The excitement and hopefulness surrounding Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in January 2018 have turned to disappointment and panic as the price of Bitcoin has gone down by over 60%. A Lot of new investors had entered the market and invested in Bitcoin when it was at its peak price at around…

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Toshendra Kumar Sharma

Can a Blockchain Be Queried Like a Normal Database?

Blockchains have enormous potential to reduce counterparty risk and make useful applications more secure and decentralized. That is because Blockchains have been engineered to be completely tamper resistant. All of the nodes running on the network have to agree on one universal ledger that is…

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Toshendra Kumar Sharma

What is STEEM and How does it work?

When it comes to the blockchain, there has been a lot of hullabaloo about its viability and potential. But, with time, we are witnessing some practical application of the same. Plenty of examples show the practicality of Blockchain. Here I will be highlighting about STEEM. It is a liquid currency…

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Toshendra Kumar Sharma

How To See Data Science Intersecting With Blockchains?

Data Science is one of the hottest industries in technology right now and is seeing lots of innovation in its various subdomains like Descriptive analytics, Diagnostic analytics, and Predictive analytics. Recent estimates by IBM research have put the growth in Data Science related jobs at around…

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Toshendra Kumar Sharma

Top Blockchain Based Social Networks

In the digitized world where everything exists in the virtual world, protection and security of data is a primary concern. Social media has become very popular these days so much so that we have most of our information available on the internet. From getting connected with people to doing…

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Toshendra Kumar Sharma

What determines the viability of Blockchain?

When it comes to stabilizing the current economic system, then we have to take into consideration various aspects of transactions, contracts, and their record-keeping. Although we have a well-defined system for the same which is now digitized and is expected to run full-proof. Despite such…

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Toshendra Kumar Sharma

What is the Komodo BarterDEX?

Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum and Monero which are the established projects in the cryptocurrency space have received a lot of media attention over the last several months. This has caused the media frenzy to overlook some very innovative smaller projects, like the Komodo platform. While…

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Toshendra Kumar Sharma

What is the COCO framework? How is Ripple different from Bitcoin?

Microsoft has released the Confidential Consortium, also called the COCO framework to make the Ethereum or Bitcoin blockchain actually usable for businesses. The COCO Framework brings a much-needed scalability upgrade to Ethereum and boasts of handling more than 1000+ transactions per second.…

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Toshendra Kumar Sharma

What is Blockchain Gaming?

When it comes to technology, we have to admit the fact that it is highly dynamic. Every day we hear about some new, developments in this domain and the recent one is Blockchain. This technology has given us some revolutionary changes which are bound to change the future course of action of various…

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Toshendra Kumar Sharma

What type of applications are emerging in Blockchain?

If I make a claim here that blockchain is the most promising technology of the future, then I won’t be saying it wrong. Starting off in 2009, blockchain technology has garnered the attention of the people and the nations across the globe. For all the good reasons, it is defiantly the…

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Toshendra Kumar Sharma

Blockchain Based Quora: A Reality or a Myth

As blockchain technology matures, more and more traditional businesses are trying to harness its power. The benefits that blockchains offer – namely decentralization and security – benefit all existing modes of business. Quora is one of the leading online platforms for asking questions…