The EU is preparing to discuss cryptocurrency regulation at the G20 meeting in March.
http://blog.webhits.io/could-we-see-eu-wide-cryptocurrency-regulation-in-the-future/
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Could We See EU-Wide Cryptocurrency Regulation in the Future?
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How judo is Michelin-star chef's secret ingredient for success
Thierry Marx is a popular French chef but attributes a big part of his success to his passion for judo.
http://blog.webhits.io/how-judo-is-michelin-star-chefs-secret-ingredient-for-success/
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Could We See EU-Wide Cryptocurrency Regulation in the Future?
The EU is preparing to discuss cryptocurrency regulation at the G20 meeting in March.
from WebHits.io Blog http://blog.webhits.io/could-we-see-eu-wide-cryptocurrency-regulation-in-the-future/
How judo is Michelin-star chef's secret ingredient for success
Thierry Marx is a popular French chef but attributes a big part of his success to his passion for judo.
from WebHits.io Blog http://blog.webhits.io/how-judo-is-michelin-star-chefs-secret-ingredient-for-success/
JD.com Launches New Accelerator Focused On Blockchain And AI
JD.com, one of China’s largest e-commerce companies, has launched a new accelerator program called AI Catapult that focuses on blockchain and artificial intelligence startups. Based in Beijing, AI Catapult will start with an inaugural roster of companies that include Bluzelle, a blockchain startup based in Singapore providing database services, Bankorus, a leading Chinese robo-advisory provider, […]
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Crypto VC Firm Digital Currency Group Invests $114 Mln In Pro-Crypto Silvergate Bank
Cryptocurrency venture capital firm announces investment in pro-crypto Silvergate Bank. #NEWS
http://blog.webhits.io/crypto-vc-firm-digital-currency-group-invests-114-mln-in-pro-crypto-silvergate-bank/
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JD.com Launches New Accelerator Focused On Blockchain And AI
JD.com, one of China’s largest e-commerce companies, has launched a new accelerator program called AI Catapult that focuses on blockchain and artificial intelligence startups. Based in Beijing, AI Catapult will start with an inaugural roster of companies that include Bluzelle, a blockchain startup based in Singapore providing database services, Bankorus, a leading Chinese robo-advisory provider, […]
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Crypto VC Firm Digital Currency Group Invests $114 Mln In Pro-Crypto Silvergate Bank
Cryptocurrency venture capital firm announces investment in pro-crypto Silvergate Bank. #NEWS
from WebHits.io Blog http://blog.webhits.io/crypto-vc-firm-digital-currency-group-invests-114-mln-in-pro-crypto-silvergate-bank/
Texas Issues Another Cease-and-Desist over Alleged Crypto Fraud
Texas’ securities regulator has ordered yet another cryptocurrency investment firm to halt services over alleged fraud and securities violations.
http://blog.webhits.io/texas-issues-another-cease-and-desist-over-alleged-crypto-fraud/
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Texas Issues Another Cease-and-Desist over Alleged Crypto Fraud
Texas’ securities regulator has ordered yet another cryptocurrency investment firm to halt services over alleged fraud and securities violations.
from WebHits.io Blog http://blog.webhits.io/texas-issues-another-cease-and-desist-over-alleged-crypto-fraud/
China's new economic guru is trying to stop a trade war
As trade tensions escalate between the US and China, one of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s most trusted advisers is paying a visit to Washington.
from WebHits.io Blog http://blog.webhits.io/chinas-new-economic-guru-is-trying-to-stop-a-trade-war/
MWC 2018: How Brits are at the cutting edge of conversation
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Mobile World Congress is open for business, and the brightest business minds from around the globe have descended to chart new paths across the technology landscape.
The coming days will witness cutting-edge conversations around hot topics like 5G, blockchain and the Internet of Things — the outcomes of which will help set the direction for the industry in the coming year. It’s here that British experts are actively staying ahead of the curve, shaping those discussions and sharing their insights and technology.
We’ll be updating this article every day with the latest trends from MWC 2018 and examples of dynamic British companies forging ahead in these areas. Read on below for what we’ve learned so far. Read more…
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from WebHits.io Blog http://blog.webhits.io/mwc-2018-how-brits-are-at-the-cutting-edge-of-conversation/
Mark Hamill may just have tweeted his way into a 'Guardians of the Galaxy 3' role
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Usually, decisions about who gets cast in a film take place behind the scenes.
Obviously there are rumours and reports that circulate, but for the most part the whole process is done behind closed doors.
Not always, though.
This is 2018, after all, pretty much everyone is on social media, and speaking to people on Twitter is the new speaking to people in person.
This time, it started with a simple request.
@JamesGunn, could you do me a huge favour and find a role for @HamillHimself in Guardians 3? The awesomeness of it might end me, but I’m willing to risk it. Thanks 🙂👍
— Ian Fee (@IanFee) February 25, 2018 Read more…
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Oscars 2018: The 'other' best picture race
Do you remember which movie won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2017? Me neither. (Ok, not true, it was “The Salesman.”) But if you want to hold your own around the water cooler in the run up to the awards on March 4, you’re going to need to stay on top of this most fickle of Oscar races.
from WebHits.io Blog http://blog.webhits.io/oscars-2018-the-other-best-picture-race/
Modern Heelys that scream '90s nostalgia
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Razor has created their own version of ‘heel wheels’ for the kids of this generation. Turbo Jetts, unlike Heelys, fit over your sneakers. These updated rideables are also motorized, so you can actually jet away. Read more…
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Brahma OS is the Decentralized Value Operating System Based on Blockchain Tech
Bitcoin Press Release: SINGAPORE – The advent of blockchain technology is provoking a revolution of the Internet of Value. In the blockchain world, Ethereum, NEO, EOS and other blockchain-based computing platforms exploit land to run applications. On this land, a variety of application chain of different functions spring up, for example: Rebo network for cross-border payment, CVC with the function of authentication and Distributed File System IPFS. However, in the world of the blockchain, there is a lack of infrastructure with multiple functions which offer a variety of decentralized services. Brahma OS aims to fill that void.
What is Brahma OS?
Taking the widely used mobile Android system as an entry point, Brahma OS builds an underlying architecture of blockchain applications and ecosystem based on Ethereum. As the core of connecting end-users and blockchain networks, Brahma OS offers users services like decentralized authentication, network transmission, storage, app store, asset management, and transaction, also making Brahma OS highly scalable. Through the Brahma OS SDK interface, developers can quickly expand decentralized service components.
Why use Brahma OS?
The operating system as the interface of the user and the computer manages the scheduling, operation, and processing of the computer hardware resource. On the other hand, it also provides the user with a friendly human-machine user interface. In order to offer and utilize computer resources more efficiently, the virtual operating system and the cloud operating system service complement each other.
As operating systems become more centralized, the infrastructure on which they operate is accordingly more centralized. For instance, as brute-force password cracking can pose threat to the identity authentication method based on the “username + password”, people have proposed various two-factor authentication solutions such as Google auth dynamic password, fingerprint authentication, and access control cards. Although two-factor authentication enhances user security, the master key used for authentication is stored on a central server. Once the authentication server is out of order or once the master key is stolen, it will pose a systemic risk and expose user privacy.
The problems described above about centralization of identity authentication also exist in application services such as network transmission, central storage, app store and transaction payment.
In dealing with the trust problem in centralized services, Rebo, CVC, IPFS have solved some service and function trust issues in a real system through the blockchain technology. However, the design ideas for Brahma OS are different. Brahma OS provides users with application services based on blockchain technology from the platform layer and operating system level. In the early planning of the Brahma OS system, Brahma OS will be based on the Android system to provide users with blockchain application components. Using blockchain technology, Brahma OS will solve the trust problem from the operating system platform. From this, Brahma OS is more like a blockchain virtual machine system.
In the future planning, Brahma OS will be deeply integrated with the hardware to give birth to a new smartphone operating system in the world of the blockchain. The network communication chip of Brahma OS and the contact chip of Brahma OS will become a brand new communication protocol which can support many mobile phone hardware manufacturers.
What kind of blockchain services does Brahma OS provide?
In the initial implementation of the Brahma OS system, Brahma OS will provide users with the following blockchain decentralized services by building a sandboxed environment for Native DApp and removing Android’s centralized service components.
To protect user privacy, Brahma OS provides users with identity authentication services based on blockchain addresses and user portraits, and offers privacy protection for user communications, calls and storage through elliptic curve public key algorithm and through Hash algorithm. As the storage and the transmission of data are encrypted, only users with a private key can have access to it. Therefore, there is no risk of data leakage in Brahma OS.
As for blockchain asset management, users can achieve ETHs and various ERC20 tokens management through the asset management components offered by Brahma OS without an extra wallet.
In terms of building an autonomous connected networks, Brahma OS dissociates both the meta-network and the “router” from existing network protocols and expects to build a peer-to-peer OS network that ensures encryption of communication data through protocol confusion from the data transmission level and build an autonomous, connected network from the configuration of the routing role.
In terms of decentralized storage services, Brahma OS offers a functional interface invoking other decentralized cloud services, including services from IPFS, Sia, Storj among many others.
In addition, Brahma OS will provide developers with a rich SDK interface and privacy API for developers to expand blockchain applications. As the DApp software on Brahma OS becomes abundant, a centralized DApp Store market will be established in the future to promote the ecological autonomy of Brahma OS through token support incentives. The appearance of more and more valuable apps like decentralized games will bring unprecedented value to developers and users of Brahma OS.
Brahma OS technical architecture
Brahma OS technical architecture is hierarchical. The entire system is decomposed into a number of higher and lower logic layer like Chain, Runtime, Framework. Taking into account compatibility issues of native Android applications, we separate virtual machine to completely isolate the runtime environment of Android App and DApp. In this way, we can increase security controls of Android App and prevent system crashes.
The current status of the development work on Brahma OS is well underway. In the development planning, the Brahma team has detailed milestones for each stage. In the third quarter of 2018, the team plans to complete the replacement of the Android centralization service and Brahma OS will connect to the Ethernet network for the first test users to operate on the system prototype.
In the Blockchain world, if the blockchain platform such as Ethereum, NEO and EOS are regarded as land, and the networks like Rebol, STEEM, and IPFS as houses of different function, the Brahma OS is a beautiful multifunctional district enabled by a decentralized virtual operating system!
About Brahma OS
Brahma OS is an operating system that hosts decentralized networks by enabling the deconstruction of existing services and the use of a wide range of decentralized services and components to ensure that users can safely and easily access services on the blockchain and application.
For more information on Brahma OS
Official Website: http://brahmaos.io
Telegram Channel: https://t.me/BrahmaOS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/brahma_os
Medium: https://medium.com/brahmalabs
Bitcointalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2992872
Contact: Lynn
Press contact: brahmabrm@gmail.com
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Russian spies reportedly tried to make it look like North Korea hacked the Olympics
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Hackers weren’t just out to cause mischief at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Officials in the U.S. now believe Russian spies to be the source of a Feb. 9 hack that occurred during the event’s opening ceremony. More troublingly, the perpetrators of the hack apparently tried to make it look as though it was all the work of North Korean agents.
A Saturday report from the Washington Post notes that analysts believe the hack was a retaliatory action against the International Olympic Committee.
In Dec. 2017, the IOC formally suspended the Russian Olympic Committee from participating in the following year’s Winter Olympics events. Russian athletes with no previous drug violations and a history of submitting to testing were allowed to compete under the “Olympic Athletes of Russia” (OAR) banner, but their home country’s flag and national anthem were banned. Read more…
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BitConnect Faces Class Action Lawsuits
The former cryptocurrency lending platform BitConnect has been hit with a series of class action lawsuits by users who claim to have had their money stolen by the disgraced company. Litigation began at the end of last month, after a group of six BitConnect investors filed a suit with a U.S. district court in West Palm Beach, Florida. The group is alleging that the BitConnect exchange platform was a “wide-reaching Ponzi scheme”, and is claiming to have lost $771,000 by using the exchange.
Welcome to Wonderland
The lawsuit contains lyrics from “Welcome to Wonderland” from the Broadway musical “Wonderland” and states: “Sure enough the crypto-Wonderland created by BitConnect was too good to be real”. The Businesses’ closure in January 2018 revealed a Ponzi scheme, numerous securities laws violations, and thousands of investors who lost [more than] 90 percent of their holdings.
The plaintiffs in the action lawsuit are claiming to have lost from $11,500 to $200,000, with the total amount lost equating to $771,000. The filing seeks damages for all “class members,” who are defined as being any BitConnect investor and the group are asking to sue on behalf of investors nationwide.
The lawsuit was filed by David Silver, of the Florida law firm Silver Miller and aims to help the group “seek compensatory and equitable relief rescinding their investments in BitConnect and restore them the assets and funds they were fraudulently induced into investing.” BitConnect stands accused of violating state and federal securities laws and engaging in deceptive trade practices.
The BitConnect lending program involved users exchanging their Bitcoin for the site’s native digital currency BitConnect Coin (BCC). The BCC coins would generally be lent out, and investors would collect any interest accrued from their loans. However, it has emerged that the high interest rates promised by the lending site were too good to be true. The class action complaint filed at the federal court in West Palm Beach alleges that, “things at BitConnect weren’t what they seemed to be.” According to the plaintiffs, the individuals behind the site promised a 1% compounding daily interest, and monthly returns of 40%, regardless of the market performance.
Interestingly, in addition to suing BitConnect, the lawsuit also names a group of prominent marketers and social media personalities who promoted the lending program and may have benefited financially by coercing others into signing up to the program. Glenn Arcaro, Trevon Brown, Craig Grant, Ryan Hildreth, and CryptoNick have all been specifically named in the lawsuit.
A Ponzi Scheme
The second lawsuit filed in connection with the failed cryptocurrency investment scheme, was filed on behalf of Brian Page, a resident of Kentucky, and names BitConnect International, BitConnect LTD, BitConnect Trading LTD and Ryan Maasen as defendants.
In the suit which was submitted at the end of last month, Page accuses BitConnect of operating a Ponzi scheme, and is seeking to recoup losses incurred when the price of the BCC token decreased dramatically. Prior to the news in January that the exchange was shutting down its lending and exchange platform, BCC traded at a price of approximately $300, which fell below $7 soon after the announcement.
The suit filed on behalf of Mr Page cites: BitConnect’s claims that it would provide a monthly return of 40% and a 3,000% return over the course of a year. The filing also cites an issue with the disclosure made by BitConnect, that investors may not see a return on their deposits, stating:
“Not listed is that disclosure was a risk BitConnect could unilaterally shut down its lending platform, convert all of people’s investments into BCC, tank the market for BCC by eliminating any future value of BCC, and close up shop.”
In addition, the suit also claims that Ryan Maasen acted as an unregistered agent for BitConnect, and profited by misleading investors with regards to any potential returns they could earn.
Another lawsuit has been filed against BitConnect in Florida, which makes it the third such legal action to be initiated in the state and the fifth overall in the U.S.
A group made up of a number of Florida residents filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of the Middle District of Florida on Feb. 7, while further suits have been filed in Kentucky and Minnesota.
Similar to the previous lawsuits, various entities connected to BitConnect are named as defendants, with BitConnect director Glenn Arcaro and promoter Ryan Maasen are among those listed. The plaintiffs are seeking a jury trial, and are hoping to receive damages that would repay investors, and help cover the costs of the trial, if successful.
The suit alleges that BitConnect committed fraud by wildly exaggerating the possible returns that users of the site would see. In addition, the plaintiffs also allege that the defendants violated trade and securities laws in Florida, and sold unregistered securities in the state.
The Beginning of The End
The team behind BitConnect has been difficult to track down as the official company site did not list any contact details or provide any information about the team. In fact, detailed information on the project was difficult to come by as the firm didn’t even issue a white paper.
Despite this, the lending platform was still able to attract a significant amount of funds and began to warrant the attention of regulators in a number of different locations. At the end of last year, the United Kingdom’s Registrar of Companies announced that Companies House sent a warning threatening to shut down the operation.
The authorities in North Carolina and Texas have also moved in to halt the site’s activities and have issued cease-and-desist letters warning the company that it isn’t authorized to sell securities in their states. Last month, the Secretary of State for North Carolina issued a temporary cease and desist order against BitConnect, while the Texas State Securities Board (TSSB) ordered the firm to cancel its token sale scheduled to take place on January 10. BitConnect was preparing to offer tokens with 100% annual returns, which led the TSSB to qualify them as unregistered securities.
After finally being tracked down by the authorities and having its assets frozen as a result of the lawsuit filed by Brian Paige, BitConnect terminated its lending business, and announced that it would cease operation of its lending and exchange programs. The announcement also blamed the regulators and “continuous bad press,” for the decision.
As a result, the value of the BCC token began to plummet and has fallen from its valuation of $2.6 B on January. 6, to its current market cap of approximately $30m. The sudden loss in value has resulted in a wave of complaints being levied against the company, with the vast majority accusing the now defunct exchange of being a fraudulent service.
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from WebHits.io Blog http://blog.webhits.io/bitconnect-faces-class-action-lawsuits/
China's new economic guru is trying to stop a trade war
As trade tensions escalate between the US and China, one of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s most trusted advisers is paying a visit to Washington.
http://blog.webhits.io/chinas-new-economic-guru-is-trying-to-stop-a-trade-war/
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MWC 2018: How Brits are at the cutting edge of conversation
Mobile World Congress is open for business, and the brightest business minds from around the globe have descended to chart new paths across the technology landscape.
The coming days will witness cutting-edge conversations around hot topics like 5G, blockchain and the Internet of Things — the outcomes of which will help set the direction for the industry in the coming year. It’s here that British experts are actively staying ahead of the curve, shaping those discussions and sharing their insights and technology.
We’ll be updating this article every day with the latest trends from MWC 2018 and examples of dynamic British companies forging ahead in these areas. Read on below for what we’ve learned so far. Read more…
More about News, Mobile, Mwc, Innovation, and British
http://blog.webhits.io/mwc-2018-how-brits-are-at-the-cutting-edge-of-conversation/
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Mark Hamill may just have tweeted his way into a 'Guardians of the Galaxy 3' role
Usually, decisions about who gets cast in a film take place behind the scenes.
Obviously there are rumours and reports that circulate, but for the most part the whole process is done behind closed doors.
Not always, though.
This is 2018, after all, pretty much everyone is on social media, and speaking to people on Twitter is the new speaking to people in person.
This time, it started with a simple request.
@JamesGunn, could you do me a huge favour and find a role for @HamillHimself in Guardians 3? The awesomeness of it might end me, but I’m willing to risk it. Thanks 🙂👍
— Ian Fee (@IanFee) February 25, 2018 Read more…
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Oscars 2018: The 'other' best picture race
Do you remember which movie won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2017? Me neither. (Ok, not true, it was “The Salesman.”) But if you want to hold your own around the water cooler in the run up to the awards on March 4, you’re going to need to stay on top of this most fickle of Oscar races.
http://blog.webhits.io/oscars-2018-the-other-best-picture-race/
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Modern Heelys that scream '90s nostalgia
Razor has created their own version of ‘heel wheels’ for the kids of this generation. Turbo Jetts, unlike Heelys, fit over your sneakers. These updated rideables are also motorized, so you can actually jet away. Read more…
More about Watercooler, Mashable Video, Park, Fun, and 90s
http://blog.webhits.io/modern-heelys-that-scream-90s-nostalgia/
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Brahma OS is the Decentralized Value Operating System Based on Blockchain Tech
Bitcoin Press Release: SINGAPORE – The advent of blockchain technology is provoking a revolution of the Internet of Value. In the blockchain world, Ethereum, NEO, EOS and other blockchain-based computing platforms exploit land to run applications. On this land, a variety of application chain of different functions spring up, for example: Rebo network for cross-border payment, CVC with the function of authentication and Distributed File System IPFS. However, in the world of the blockchain, there is a lack of infrastructure with multiple functions which offer a variety of decentralized services. Brahma OS aims to fill that void.
What is Brahma OS?
Taking the widely used mobile Android system as an entry point, Brahma OS builds an underlying architecture of blockchain applications and ecosystem based on Ethereum. As the core of connecting end-users and blockchain networks, Brahma OS offers users services like decentralized authentication, network transmission, storage, app store, asset management, and transaction, also making Brahma OS highly scalable. Through the Brahma OS SDK interface, developers can quickly expand decentralized service components.
Why use Brahma OS?
The operating system as the interface of the user and the computer manages the scheduling, operation, and processing of the computer hardware resource. On the other hand, it also provides the user with a friendly human-machine user interface. In order to offer and utilize computer resources more efficiently, the virtual operating system and the cloud operating system service complement each other.
As operating systems become more centralized, the infrastructure on which they operate is accordingly more centralized. For instance, as brute-force password cracking can pose threat to the identity authentication method based on the “username + password”, people have proposed various two-factor authentication solutions such as Google auth dynamic password, fingerprint authentication, and access control cards. Although two-factor authentication enhances user security, the master key used for authentication is stored on a central server. Once the authentication server is out of order or once the master key is stolen, it will pose a systemic risk and expose user privacy.
The problems described above about centralization of identity authentication also exist in application services such as network transmission, central storage, app store and transaction payment.
In dealing with the trust problem in centralized services, Rebo, CVC, IPFS have solved some service and function trust issues in a real system through the blockchain technology. However, the design ideas for Brahma OS are different. Brahma OS provides users with application services based on blockchain technology from the platform layer and operating system level. In the early planning of the Brahma OS system, Brahma OS will be based on the Android system to provide users with blockchain application components. Using blockchain technology, Brahma OS will solve the trust problem from the operating system platform. From this, Brahma OS is more like a blockchain virtual machine system.
In the future planning, Brahma OS will be deeply integrated with the hardware to give birth to a new smartphone operating system in the world of the blockchain. The network communication chip of Brahma OS and the contact chip of Brahma OS will become a brand new communication protocol which can support many mobile phone hardware manufacturers.
What kind of blockchain services does Brahma OS provide?
In the initial implementation of the Brahma OS system, Brahma OS will provide users with the following blockchain decentralized services by building a sandboxed environment for Native DApp and removing Android’s centralized service components.
To protect user privacy, Brahma OS provides users with identity authentication services based on blockchain addresses and user portraits, and offers privacy protection for user communications, calls and storage through elliptic curve public key algorithm and through Hash algorithm. As the storage and the transmission of data are encrypted, only users with a private key can have access to it. Therefore, there is no risk of data leakage in Brahma OS.
As for blockchain asset management, users can achieve ETHs and various ERC20 tokens management through the asset management components offered by Brahma OS without an extra wallet.
In terms of building an autonomous connected networks, Brahma OS dissociates both the meta-network and the “router” from existing network protocols and expects to build a peer-to-peer OS network that ensures encryption of communication data through protocol confusion from the data transmission level and build an autonomous, connected network from the configuration of the routing role.
In terms of decentralized storage services, Brahma OS offers a functional interface invoking other decentralized cloud services, including services from IPFS, Sia, Storj among many others.
In addition, Brahma OS will provide developers with a rich SDK interface and privacy API for developers to expand blockchain applications. As the DApp software on Brahma OS becomes abundant, a centralized DApp Store market will be established in the future to promote the ecological autonomy of Brahma OS through token support incentives. The appearance of more and more valuable apps like decentralized games will bring unprecedented value to developers and users of Brahma OS.
Brahma OS technical architecture
Brahma OS technical architecture is hierarchical. The entire system is decomposed into a number of higher and lower logic layer like Chain, Runtime, Framework. Taking into account compatibility issues of native Android applications, we separate virtual machine to completely isolate the runtime environment of Android App and DApp. In this way, we can increase security controls of Android App and prevent system crashes.
The current status of the development work on Brahma OS is well underway. In the development planning, the Brahma team has detailed milestones for each stage. In the third quarter of 2018, the team plans to complete the replacement of the Android centralization service and Brahma OS will connect to the Ethernet network for the first test users to operate on the system prototype.
In the Blockchain world, if the blockchain platform such as Ethereum, NEO and EOS are regarded as land, and the networks like Rebol, STEEM, and IPFS as houses of different function, the Brahma OS is a beautiful multifunctional district enabled by a decentralized virtual operating system!
About Brahma OS
Brahma OS is an operating system that hosts decentralized networks by enabling the deconstruction of existing services and the use of a wide range of decentralized services and components to ensure that users can safely and easily access services on the blockchain and application.
For more information on Brahma OS
Official Website: http://brahmaos.io
Telegram Channel: https://t.me/BrahmaOS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/brahma_os
Medium: https://medium.com/brahmalabs
Bitcointalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2992872
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Russian spies reportedly tried to make it look like North Korea hacked the Olympics
Hackers weren’t just out to cause mischief at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Officials in the U.S. now believe Russian spies to be the source of a Feb. 9 hack that occurred during the event’s opening ceremony. More troublingly, the perpetrators of the hack apparently tried to make it look as though it was all the work of North Korean agents.
A Saturday report from the Washington Post notes that analysts believe the hack was a retaliatory action against the International Olympic Committee.
In Dec. 2017, the IOC formally suspended the Russian Olympic Committee from participating in the following year’s Winter Olympics events. Russian athletes with no previous drug violations and a history of submitting to testing were allowed to compete under the “Olympic Athletes of Russia” (OAR) banner, but their home country’s flag and national anthem were banned. Read more…
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