Tag: lightning
Jack Dorsey Continues His Crypto Evangelism as Twitter Debuts Bitcoin Emoji
In the world of Silicon Valley giants, there’s hardly anyone as vocal in his support of Bitcoin as Twitter’s boss Jack Dorsey. He...
Hang-ups, hold-ups and hurdles passing federal privacy legislation
What are the biggest points of contention impeding passage of federal privacy legislation (and 3 other security laws)? Government at any...
Minecraft Treasure Hunt ‘SatoshiQuest’ Will Cost You $1 on the Bitcoin Trail
New Minecraft server sets players on a treasure hunt to find hidden Bitcoin.
Each new life costs $1, and proceeds are pooled for the...
BitFlyer Now Offers US Users 0% Fees When Buying Bitcoin With USD
People in the United States now have another zero-fee option to buy Bitcoin (BTC) with the U.S. dollar.On Jan. 30, Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange...
EU lawmakers take fresh aim at Apple’s Lightning connector with latest e-waste push
The European parliament has voted overwhelmingly for tougher action to reduce e-waste, calling for the Commission to come up with beefed up rules...
Machine Learning Pipelines: Setting Up On-premise Kubernetes
In this multi-part series, I’ll walk you through how I set up an on-premise machine learning pipeline with open-source tools and frameworks.Prologue: Model...
PLAAS to launch FUTURES platform for farmers
PLAAS
PLAAS, the leading blockchain platform for African farmers is currently working on launching a futures platform that will create a better market for...
What is Litecoin? | A Complete Beginners’ Guide
Litecoin (LTC) is one of the oldest existing cryptocurrencies, and also one of the most valuable. For much of its existence it has...
I had a weird idea for a talk…
I just submitted a lightning talk (20 minutes) with the weirdest concept and description. It’s not a lecture and it’s just so totally...
DueDEX Review: Complete Exchange Overview
DueDEX is a new Bitcoin futures exchange that has opened their books to traders looking for another avenue to trade with leverage.
This exchange...
A comprehensive guide to OCR with Tesseract, OpenCV and Python
Introduction
OCR = Optical Character Recognition. In other words, OCR systems transform a two-dimensional image of text, that could contain machine printed or handwritten...
Menu Digitization with OCR and Deep Learning
IntroductionThis article will take you through how these companies can automate several procedures like menu digitization or invoice processing that are traditionally done...